Welcome to the Beginners Guide To Get Paid To.....
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12: Getting Your Own Site
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I know this can seem a scary and complex thing to do
this early in your Internet-Earning career to some people. You do not
need to worry though as I will take you through it step by step. Why
are we doing this now? Well in order to maximize your on-line earning
potential you need to access and generate as many earning options as
possible. I have already shown you the importance of, and the
increasing earning potential of, building your down-lines, so I can
give three reasons as to why its better to do this now than in the
future. |
Reason 1
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If
you were to focus on building a down-line at one site at time, each
advert that you run has the maximum possibility of adding just one
person to your down-line. If you listed all the sites you are a member
of, then each advert you run has a maximum possibility of gaining one
person to your down-line at all of your sites. That advert can only be
read by one person, or potential down-line member. If they can only
join one site, you gain one more person of your down-line. It that
person has access to all five sites (that's how many you have at the
moment but you will be a member of a few more soon) and they decide to
join three, then that person has become, in effect, three members of
your down-line, because they are in your down-line at three sites now,
as opposed to one with the first scenario. |
Reason 2
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At
the moment you only have the five sites to list, if you joined all of the
five I gave you links for earlier that is. When you have joined more
sites, up to however many you may eventually join, say 20 sites for
example. (to give you an idea, I am affiliated with over 200 at the
moment, although they are not all GPT sites) It is a lot easier to
build a site and then include five sites/listings within it, than wait
and have to include 20 or 200. It's a lot easier to build the site as
you acquire the content for it. 30 minutes work now and then 5 minutes
work to add new listings as you come across them, is surely a lot
better than taking 1 or 2 days (or even longer) to do this at some
point in the future. The time you will have to set aside to do this in
the future, will we be time lost earning, because you work load will
have grown by then. As your work load is light now, it makes sense to
do it before you become swamped with things to do, because you haven't
prepared for that situation. |
Reason 3
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As
I have mentioned previously, it's better to start of organized so you
save time later on. You are eventually going to be joining different
types of sites, many of them will also have the option of expanding
your earning potential by recruiting new members. So we can set up the
site ready to include all the additional sites, and different
categories mentioned. You will also be a lot busier in a little while
as the different earning options become available to you, and you will
find it very hard to set aside time to build and edit your site when
that happens. |
So lets get you started
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You
are going to start of with a free website. You may decide to upgrade,
and get a hosting package and domain name at a later date, but that is
your choice to do so. You may also decide that you wish to stick with
the free site as it meets all of your needs. Only you will be able to
make that choice, but to start with, a free site is perfect for
somebody in your position. You are going to get your site from
Freewebs, they are easy to build and they do not require any coding or
script writing knowledge to be able to build it. So lets get you
started! |
Step 1
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Once you have decided what your site will be called, go to the Freewebs homepage HERE and register a new account. |
Step 2
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Your
are going to need access to the following documents/sites so make sure
they are all open and ready. Make sure that all the sites are loaded in
tabs within the same window, as this will make it easier to move from
site to site as and when you need to, they are;
This page, your new Freewebs account - make sure you are logged in, and
the document that has your ref and banner links from the Photobucket
Paid To Read album. |
Step 3
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In your Freewebs account, choose a template that you like and would like to use. |
Step 4
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Select "Build And Edit" from the "Site Manager" tab to be presented with the following;
This
is your control panel for your site. Everything you will need now, and
in the future, to add, remove and edit content/pages will be done from
here. |
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Adding a new page |
Click "New Page" from the top of the two boxes you can see and you will see the following appear;
Make
sure the page tab is selected or you will see something different, it
should load like this by default though. Enter the name Paid To Read in
the box, important - never check the box "password protect" or your
visitors will not be able to access this page. (It should not let you
proceed with this checked as you have to have a premium account for
this feature) Then click done, you will now see the following displayed
in the middle of your screen (obviously yours will be a different
template);
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| Adding a paragraph |
Click the "Add New Paragraph" You will now see the editor, this displayed below;
When
looking at the paragraph editor you need to make sure that the
drop-down menu next to "Paragraph Type:" always displays "Paragraph
Editor", it should display this by default each time you open it. When
using the paragraph editor you can see that most of the tabs displayed
at the top are very similar to the controls used with a word processor.
There are some additional control tabs that you may not have seen
before, so we will now cover what they are and what they do. |
| What the editor menu means |
There
are now four numbers displayed in the screen-shot. These are the only four tabs that you
need to know about when adding content to your site at this stage.
Tab 1 = You create an external hyperlink using this tab to another site or email address
Tab 2 = You create an internal hyperlink using this tab to a page within your site
Tab 3 = You cancel or "Break" a link using this tab
Tab 4 = You insert an image with this tab |
The first paragraph
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I
suggest using the first paragraph to display a short introduction or
description to the page. Now at this stage you probably have no idea
what you could write here. That's OK, for now it is not important, so I
suggest leaving this paragraph empty for now. As you start to explore
the Internet through the ads you are going to be seeing, look at how
other people have presented their sites. Have a look to see what kind
of thing works and what doesn't. This is your personal choice as to how
your site is presented but there are one or two things to bear in mind
when creating your site. I suggest that you make your pages
informative, simple and easy to read and navigate, and provide the
information that you would wish to see when considering joining
additional sites. As you wont be advertising this just yet, you have
plenty of time available to look at other sites and and use aspects of
them that appeal to you. Please note; never copy content directly,
always make your content unique even though you may want to portray the
same information. Always link to images from your Photobucket account
never direct from somebody else's site. This will increase the
bandwidth used by that site, and they will have to pay more for this
increased bandwidth usage. So click "Add new paragraph". |
The second paragraph
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This
is the one that we are going to use for your first programs listing.
Again you may not know what text or information you wish to display
with the link. Do not worry you will be able to add/create content here
later, once you have an idea of what information you wish to display.
So all you need to do for now is select which site you want to promote
in this paragraph. Once you have made you decision write the name of
the site in the "Paragraph Title" field.
Then copy the banner link for your Ref and Banner links document, for the first site/program you wish to list.
Place
your cursor in the text field and then press "enter" to move the cursor
down to the second row in the text field. This will give you the room
to insert text above the banner at a later date. You will be able to
enter as many lines of text above the banner because when the first
line has been created, you only need to press enter/return on your
keyboard, this will move the banner down and at the same time, create
you additional lines of text.
Now the cursor is on the second row click tab 4 and a small window will open as follows,
Highlight
and copy the ref link from your document containing the ref and banner
links, right click in the bottom text field and select "Paste", the
link for your image/banner will appear, as shown below,
The click "Insert" and you will see the following;
Now
all we have to do is attach a link to that banner, so that when
somebody clicks it, they will be taken to the site via you ref link. We
do that by;
Highlight and copy your ref URL, then left click on the banner and a box will appear around the as follows;
When that box is displayed click tab 1, another window will appear as follows;
Click
"Link to another website" and paste your ref link into the text field -
making sure you have deleted the http:// that was already displayed,
check the box "Open link in a new window" as shown below, and then
click "Create Link"
You will now see the banner is shaded grey;
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it, that banner is now linked to the site via your ref link. Anybody
that goes to the site by clicking on that banner will (if they join)
join under you. So we now need to save the work in order to preserve
the link. So click "Done" in the top right-hand corner of the paragraph
editor, you will now see the paragraph contains that banner. Click
"Done" again to return to your Cpanel, click "See my site" in the top
right hand corner of the screen. This will load your new site in a new
tab. From that new "Public View" of your site copy and paste the URL of
your site at the top of all your links in the Ref And Banner link
document under the heading "My site". When purchasing advertising this
is the link that you will give, so that your advert is tied to your
site. From the public view of the site, click Paid to read from the nav
bar to go to the page we have just created and you will see that
banner. If you click on that banner it should load the site in a new
tab/window. That's it, you have just created your first link. |
Now you need to know how to link text to a site
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This
works in the same way as linking an image/banner. Go back to your
Cpanel and re-load the paid to read page that we just worked on.
Add
another paragraph and type "this is a test", in the text box of the
paragraph editor. Highlight the word test, by left clicking at one end
of the word and dragging the cursor across the word. Then click tab 1
to see the link generator window, click "link to another site" copy and
paste the following URL into the "Link address :" text box, again
removing the original http:// that will already be there,
http://www.internet-earners.com/
Check
the box to open the link in a new window, then click "Create Link",
click "Done", then click "Done" again to return to your Cpanel, close
the the tab with the "Public View" of your site, return to your Cpanel,
click "Show my site" from the new tab that appears and navigate to the
paid to read page, click on the word "text" and that will take you to
my site.
So you can see that its possible
to link any word to any site. So you now have the option available to
use both text and image links when building your site. Now because you
don't want to give me a lot of free advertising!, you need to know how
to break or alter a link. So go back to that particular paragraph
editor, highlight the word "test" again and click tab number 3, that
word is no-longer a live link.
Now using
the methods above we can turn the word "text" in to an email link.
Simply highlight it again, click tab 1 but this time select "Create
Email Link" enter the email address craig@internet-earners.com into the
text box and click "create link". Then click done, click done again to
return to your Cpanel, click "see my site" making sure you have closed
the previous public view of your site. Now if you click the word test
it will open up your email screen with my email address displayed into
the "To" address field of the mail. So you can link any word or phrase
to any site or email address. Now return to the paragraph and select
"Delete" above the paragraph to remove it.
That's it, you now know how to
create pages, add paragraphs, create and break different types of
links. The next stage will help you with some ideas for the layout of
your site.
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