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Just want to say thanks for following the first day, and onto the second day we go, if you missed yesterdays opening to the guide, you can check it out here.
Quick update: The word document we have created will be referred to as our Site Bible from now.
Some day 1 follow up.
Yesterday I mentioned that it could be a good idea to check out the buy domains section for a cheap name to get started with, I spent a couple of mins this morning picking out some half decent names that are going cheap in the auctions right now.
That's about all I could pick up, bear in mind that I did this during my morning ritual, it's an intimate time I wanted to spend with myself, i'm sure you can do better.
What we did yesterday.
Yesterday we got our domain sorted out with some hosting, pulled some keywords and a couple of descriptions, bought a couple of fiverr gigs and slammed a wordpress install on our site, so in a sense, a whole wall of text wasn't really needed, the jist of everything we have done can be put into a sentence, how deflating.
Whats up today?
Today we're going to build out our website by installing some plugins getting some content set up and roll out the fiverr gigs – I told you it would only be a short day – it's pretty much going to be like that from here on out till day 9/10 when we count out our handful of Washingtons and raise a glass of neat water on the rocks.
We will:
Day #2.
Get started by closing everything on your PC, then open up your filezilla, your internet browser and the word document you crafted yesterday.
In google chrome I have my wordpress admin dashboard, fiverr, namepros and the front-end of my site, best to do the same to keep your workspace clear and relevant, it's truly the best option for getting things done quickly and efficiently, time is money and vice versa, the more time you spend, the less rewarding the sale becomes.
Enough of your jibber jabber.
Get into your wordpress dashboard and let's do a quick check of all the things that we require and make sure that we have them set up accordingly.
Site name and title are in Settings > General.
Add 4-5 categories based on your topic and keywords – Posts > Categories > Add New.
Done.
I assume you found a theme for your site, install it. Make sure that you have installed the required plugins, and I would add the demo settings also if that's an option for you.
Some general advice, these sites are built for content production, free magazine themes are perfect for displaying multitudes of information in one place.
Now head on over to Plugins > Add New from the wordpress dashboard menu, let's install the plugins that we require. Top right of the page there is a search form, type in “RSS Importer” and install the first option at the top left of the results, it's called Wordpress RSS Importer I believe for those that do manual plugin installs, not that there's any reason to do that.
Install and activate the plugin, click dashboard in th top left of the wordpress menu, you should now be able to go to Settings > RSS Post Importer.
Okay, let's add another plugin before we talk about the rss post stuff – rinse and repeat the plugin install phase, and this time search Yoast, and install the wordpress Yoast SEO plugin, this is good for us, it takes about 2 mins to pop your keywords and descriptions in there and it gives you a huge advantage.
Those RSS auto blogs..
Now access your rss post importer from the settings menu, and click on Add New Feed near the top of the page, here you get a basic form, for the free version of the plugin, which is all we need.
Head on over to google and do a quick search for “Topic RSS Feeds” and maybe even visit reddit to see if there is a subreddit you can grab a feed from, the news is usually pretty on point and well updated, always a good source of content.
I searched for Technology RSS Feeds, and I came up with a bunch of results from Wired, Tech Crunch and TechRadar, so I went through the categories of feeds that they had on each site and wrote them down by category into the word document we created.
Now you need to build those RSS feeds into the plugin, set the category for your feed, drop the feed URL in, click “add new feed” again and add one feed per category till you've done them all.
In the top right of the screen you'll see a “Save and Import” and “Save” we want to save our feeds, and do an import of them right now, so hit the Save and Import button, to instantly grab us some posts – this can take a while, but it's kitted out with a pretty progress bar to help you pass the time comfortably knowing your wordpress hasn't crashed.
Boom, we now have a site, with a theme and it automatically updates with content – it's already worth $50 to a huge audience that buy auto-blogs on flippa, so if your with me so far, good job, we just made bank already.
And the SEO plugin..
This is a pretty easy set up, you'll have to go through the options yourself, there is a million guides on the googles for how to set up Yoast, I don't need to write about it here.
Add your keywords and your descriptions from the word document we created, which we will now call, our Site Bible, I think we can get away with this since the religious types will be too busy discussing gay marriage and the birds and bee's.
We are done?
Yes, we are done, but first you should head over to fiverr, by now the seller should have requested a couple of things from you, mainly your site url, title, keywords and description, maybe not those exact things, but you get the point. All of those things are in your Site Bible, just copy and paste them out, get your gigs rolling and do something more entertaining with your time, I recommend Californication or even Entourage, both are quality tv series.
I will post some reference URL's up here later to flippa sales for auto blogs so you can get some idea of the value your site might currently have, after a total of around 20 mins work.
Read more: ⇐ Day 1 | Day 3 ⇒
Quick update: The word document we have created will be referred to as our Site Bible from now.
Some day 1 follow up.
Yesterday I mentioned that it could be a good idea to check out the buy domains section for a cheap name to get started with, I spent a couple of mins this morning picking out some half decent names that are going cheap in the auctions right now.
- LorJob (com) – Pronounceable.
- Disposer (org) – I want this, so bid at your own peril.
- Bunch Of Brandables – Hot for this sort of thing.
- AnimalDesign (net) – Not to bad, could go in multiple directions with this.
That's about all I could pick up, bear in mind that I did this during my morning ritual, it's an intimate time I wanted to spend with myself, i'm sure you can do better.
What we did yesterday.
Yesterday we got our domain sorted out with some hosting, pulled some keywords and a couple of descriptions, bought a couple of fiverr gigs and slammed a wordpress install on our site, so in a sense, a whole wall of text wasn't really needed, the jist of everything we have done can be put into a sentence, how deflating.
Whats up today?
Today we're going to build out our website by installing some plugins getting some content set up and roll out the fiverr gigs – I told you it would only be a short day – it's pretty much going to be like that from here on out till day 9/10 when we count out our handful of Washingtons and raise a glass of neat water on the rocks.
We will:
- Basic wordpress setup from a checklist.
- Install Wordpress RSS Importer.
- Install SEO plugin.
- Install Theme
- Scout for RSS feeds relevant to our content.
- Publish RSS feeds and set up automatic blogging.
Day #2.
Get started by closing everything on your PC, then open up your filezilla, your internet browser and the word document you crafted yesterday.
In google chrome I have my wordpress admin dashboard, fiverr, namepros and the front-end of my site, best to do the same to keep your workspace clear and relevant, it's truly the best option for getting things done quickly and efficiently, time is money and vice versa, the more time you spend, the less rewarding the sale becomes.
Enough of your jibber jabber.
Get into your wordpress dashboard and let's do a quick check of all the things that we require and make sure that we have them set up accordingly.
- Permalink structure set to post name.
- Site name and title
- Categories added
Site name and title are in Settings > General.
Add 4-5 categories based on your topic and keywords – Posts > Categories > Add New.
Done.
I assume you found a theme for your site, install it. Make sure that you have installed the required plugins, and I would add the demo settings also if that's an option for you.
Some general advice, these sites are built for content production, free magazine themes are perfect for displaying multitudes of information in one place.
Now head on over to Plugins > Add New from the wordpress dashboard menu, let's install the plugins that we require. Top right of the page there is a search form, type in “RSS Importer” and install the first option at the top left of the results, it's called Wordpress RSS Importer I believe for those that do manual plugin installs, not that there's any reason to do that.
Install and activate the plugin, click dashboard in th top left of the wordpress menu, you should now be able to go to Settings > RSS Post Importer.
Okay, let's add another plugin before we talk about the rss post stuff – rinse and repeat the plugin install phase, and this time search Yoast, and install the wordpress Yoast SEO plugin, this is good for us, it takes about 2 mins to pop your keywords and descriptions in there and it gives you a huge advantage.
Those RSS auto blogs..
Now access your rss post importer from the settings menu, and click on Add New Feed near the top of the page, here you get a basic form, for the free version of the plugin, which is all we need.
Head on over to google and do a quick search for “Topic RSS Feeds” and maybe even visit reddit to see if there is a subreddit you can grab a feed from, the news is usually pretty on point and well updated, always a good source of content.
I searched for Technology RSS Feeds, and I came up with a bunch of results from Wired, Tech Crunch and TechRadar, so I went through the categories of feeds that they had on each site and wrote them down by category into the word document we created.
Now you need to build those RSS feeds into the plugin, set the category for your feed, drop the feed URL in, click “add new feed” again and add one feed per category till you've done them all.
In the top right of the screen you'll see a “Save and Import” and “Save” we want to save our feeds, and do an import of them right now, so hit the Save and Import button, to instantly grab us some posts – this can take a while, but it's kitted out with a pretty progress bar to help you pass the time comfortably knowing your wordpress hasn't crashed.
Boom, we now have a site, with a theme and it automatically updates with content – it's already worth $50 to a huge audience that buy auto-blogs on flippa, so if your with me so far, good job, we just made bank already.
And the SEO plugin..
This is a pretty easy set up, you'll have to go through the options yourself, there is a million guides on the googles for how to set up Yoast, I don't need to write about it here.
Add your keywords and your descriptions from the word document we created, which we will now call, our Site Bible, I think we can get away with this since the religious types will be too busy discussing gay marriage and the birds and bee's.
We are done?
Yes, we are done, but first you should head over to fiverr, by now the seller should have requested a couple of things from you, mainly your site url, title, keywords and description, maybe not those exact things, but you get the point. All of those things are in your Site Bible, just copy and paste them out, get your gigs rolling and do something more entertaining with your time, I recommend Californication or even Entourage, both are quality tv series.
I will post some reference URL's up here later to flippa sales for auto blogs so you can get some idea of the value your site might currently have, after a total of around 20 mins work.
Read more: ⇐ Day 1 | Day 3 ⇒