AAAHHH! My Site Is Live
Hello everyone,
So last week, I learned that my website is actually live on the net. Like for real, for real. YIKES! While I am still going through my training.
I must have missed when they covered that part in the lessons. This whole time I thought that I was getting the training and learning and building my website.
This is why I was kinda taking my time a little bit with creating content. However, I wish I could've realized this sooner.
Knowing this has made me more confused and unsure of exactly what I should be doing as I go through the training and build my site.
Some of the feedback that I am getting on my site is adding some affiliate products to my content.
So does this mean that I can actually start making money? As I am building my site? What if I have my own products?
My site's niche is dental health, educating people about the importance of oral health by creating educational and informative content.
I also want to have a page for dental assistants on my site who want to take their state test to be licensed.
I want to provide them with a study guide and a mock test to help them prepare for their test, but I was told that I should write more content about different products and more reviews.
Should I be creating more content on different products and creating review articles?
Also, the feedback I'm getting is that I should create an about me page, but I already did. I accidentally put it under posts instead of a page. How do I change that?
I have been doing my work on my "siterubix," but I also have my dental health 101 dot com domain. Should I transfer my siterubix to my dot com?
If anyone could answer any of my questions I would highly appreciate it. Thank you.
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You site need be ready before you apply for affiliate programs
You would have written 20 - 30 posts and have some traffic to be able apply for affiliate programs as typically they will check your site for relevance and traffic prior approval.
For Amazon it is 10 - 15 posts. You also would have to make 3 sales in your first 180 days.
Once accepted, they've given you material and special tracking code links you can share on your site.
Essentially you are writing more informational posts so that you do not sound so salesy to Google and if there’s a solution, a detailed analysis review post for your visitors to let them make an informed decision whether to go click your links and go purchase the focused item you proposed to solve their issue.
Once they do, and in accordance with your affiliation terms and conditions, how commission payouts are tracked and paid. You need to read up how payments are made because different programs follow different rules; some pay by check others via PayPal or straight to your check account.
I would always adhere to your affiliate program terms and conditions.
Also your posts first get indexed, then ranked months later.
You can divert traffic to merchants stores or your own, totally your choice. The latter you would need install WooCommerce plugin.
You About Me is a post, so you are okay.
However, if ever need change post to page or the other way around, you may use the Post Type Switcher plugin. What is a Page or a Post? - How to Switch a Page to a Post and Vice Versa You can use the move feature found within your site manager to move you siterubix subdomain to your dot com, when you are ready. It is a simple process.
You would need wait up to 30 days (Kyle's recommendation) for 301 redirects to be completed and for the search engines. After of which you may delete the subdomain however you could keep it for longer if hosting space is not an issue
You can check Kyles training tutorial below Move On Over, My Brand Has Arrived
What if I don't actually have a product for the content I am writing, it's just like an informational/educational blog post, for example, let's say I create a post about oral cancer.
Not sure what type of product or service I would offer for a post like that.
What do you think about adding a page for the study guide and mock practice tests for dental assistants?
Thank you
Virginia
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You are in a very lucrative niche, Virginia.
If you have your own product, I advise you to start your promotion from there.
You can get insight into what people search for within your niche on Google trends and then target that keyword.
If you have a product that answers questions people search for, good.
Just create valuable content and show how your product solves the problems. I know people making a fortune from their own products even within the community here.
And you don't necessarily have to apply for an affiliate program at this stage since you need many posts and traffic to get approved, as Abie rightly pointed out.
If you want to transfer your SiteRubix website to your domain, check out this video. How to Transfer a SiteRubix Website to Your Own Domain All the best
Muslimah