Weaver II My New WordPress Theme

weaver themeHi friends, I’ve changed the WordPress theme on this site – did anyone notice?  Here’s why I installed a new free WordPress theme: Weaver.

If you look at my Home page (this page, if you are reading this on my Home Page) you will see on the right hand side of the page, there is a separate area known as a sidebar.  In the last couple of days, I’ve added 2 banner ads for companies into that sidebar: the Semper All in One SEO Pack Plugin, and the website host I use for all my websites, Hostgator.  Update April 2012: I’ve now replaced those banner ads with Adsense areas. If you’d like to know how to do that, see Make Money While You Sleep with Adsense. Continue reading

Semper Plugins – Perfect Customer Support!

Perfect CustoSEO Tips: 5 Things Every WordPress Owner Must Knowmer Support and public relations can make a middle-order company into a high-ranking and successful company.  I’ve recently had a demonstration of that in a real life example.                                                                   Why You Need Perfect Customer Support

I have a confession to make – I’m not good at dealing with the frustration of a computer or a website that refuses to do what I want it to do.

Special Offer! For a short time you can still get The All in One SEO Plugin at the Special Discount Price of 30% off.

I installed the free SEO All In One plugin made by Semper Plugins on my websites and I couldn’t have been more pleased with it.  I installed it because it had some really good reviews from people I respected for their Internet skills and experience.  I wasn’t disappointed.

All in One SEO Pack Pro version

While I was researching on how to use SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to boost traffic to a website, I got confused by Tag Titles, Meta Tags, Titles, Tags and Descriptions.  Are they the same thing?  And what are they anyway?? Yes, frustration was building.
So, because I’d already installed the Semper All in One Plugin to handle my SEO, I did a Google search for Semper which took me to Semper Web Designs – a big mistake! Continue reading

Internet Marketing Research for Beginners

Internet Marketing ResearchIf you are a real beginner, and want to start learning about online marketing, you will find that by subscribing to the email list of one or two internet marketing websites, you will soon start to get an ever increasing number of emails flowing into your Inbox every day.

This is good when you start out on your research, because Internet Marketers always give away lots of lovely freebies with their newsletters, and a ton of very useful information as well. Continue reading

How to Organize Your Working From Home Day

To Do List If you are learning any new work activity from home, you need to be focused and organized.  When we have a job in an office or factory or anywhere other than home, other people give us work to do, or they tell us what we have to do.  We only have to worry about getting it done, not what to do, or how to do it.  They also (very helpfully) take care of making sure we actually do the work, as well.

When you are learning marketing and working from home, you have to organize your own working day.

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Using a Trainer-Wheels Second Website

This website here, My Second Million, is my blog where I’m documenting all the things I learn along my way to making money online.  I’ve also just started another website called Addiction Rehab Now which is a serious content-full information website about Addiction. I am using that second website as my Trainer Wheels website where I can try out new things.  A place where I can learn the basics olearn the basics with a Trainer Wheels Websitef how to drive a website or blog.

I already have a lot of articles written and ready to publish for that website, but I have to learn how to drive the technical side of using WordPress before I can add these articles in an easily-navigated and effective way.

This is very important if the Google web-crawlers are going to give you a good Page Rank in SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages), which is one of the things you need in order to attract visitors to your website. Continue reading

WordPress: How to Begin

wp logoSo you’ve decided you want to use WordPress for your blog – good choice!  WordPress is your blog’s Platform, but in order to have a website you can use, design and customize, you need to add a WordPress Theme.

A WordPress Theme is a Design template (software), that you add onto your WordPress platform (skeleton). A bit like using FireFox on a Microsoft Platform, or Safari on an Apple platform.

Your First Steps in Blogging:

Step 1. You have decided on a Topic (what you want your blog to be ‘About’):

Step 2. You have decided on a Domain Name for your Blog:

Step 3. You have chosen your Registrar: a company that sells and Registers Domain Names:

Step 4. You have bought your Domain Name from a Registrar company for about $12 – $15 per year.

Step 5. You have paid for a Web ‘Hosting Account’: not sure what a Host is and what it does?

Step 6. You have read the ‘How To’ tutorials supplied by your Hosting Company, and have used Fantastico option supplied by your Host, to download and install free WordPress (the latest version) onto your Domain Name (Blog) inside your Host’s website.

Note: your Host ‘hosts’ your blog.  All the data and software of your Blog is a part of your Host’s website.  They supply the bandwidth, the access, all the software, email accounts etc that allows you to use your Blog.

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