Getting Started

First thing I recommend is that you login to your wordpress blog and upgrade to the latest version straight away via the dashboard as wordpress are always working on new patches that fix any known threats.

Then start upgrading all your plugins as there may also be new patches that the plugin developer may of fixed that are known threats to his/her plugin that could harm your blog.

Protecting Your Plugins 

With so many plugins available free on the Internet which most of us have installed, you may be open to an attack as some plugins may have flaws in them, which an attacker could use to alter your blog in some way.

All a hacker has to do is go to www.yourdomainname.com/wp-contents/plugins/ to find out what plugins your using.  Some clever hackers will have some sort of scanner software to scan your blog for any open backdoors to gain access to your plugins.

Solution

To prevent a hacker from accessing your plugins simply setup a index.html file and upload it to your plugins folder /wp-contents/plugins/

Password Security

This one is common sense, yet most of us use the same password for all of our website logins.  It’s wise to use a different password for all your logins and have a mixture of numbers and upper and lowercase characters.

If a hacker has managed to get your password and has hacked into your hosting server and finds all your other blogs, if your using the same password to log onto all your blogs, you’ve just given the hacker full access to your entire network of blogs.

You should also change the default admin username to a different name.  Because if the hacker knows your username then he’s halfway there to getting into your site.  To do this create a new username and give it admin privileges and delete the original admin username.

Protecting Your WP-Config.php File

Your wp-config.php file within the root of your wordpress blog contents information about your database.  For example the database name, username and password.  This is a file you should protect.

All you need to do is add the following code to your .htaccess file if you have one.  If you don’t have a .htaccess file setup at your root then open up notepad.exe and add the following text:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# protect the htaccess file
<files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>

# limit file uploads to 10mb
LimitRequestBody 10240000

# protect wpconfig.php
<files wp-config.php>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>

# disable directory browsing
Options All –Indexes

I put this text into a file I call htaccess.txt on my local drive, I upload it to the root of the host, and then I rename it on the host to .htaccess and then it immediately disappears because it acts like a system file

Login Limitations 

It’s a good idea to limit how many times a user can enter in a wrong password to get access to your blog.  There is a good plugin for this called “LockDown” which will lock out users if they enter their password wrong too many times.  You can choose how many times users enter their password and also how long they’re locked out for via the options page – Click Here To Download

Hiding Your Wp-Admin Login Page 

A great plugin called “Stealth Login” can hide your wordpress login page so if your password did leak out, a hacker would have a hard time trying to find your login page.  A good use for this plugin is to prevent any malicious bots from accessing your wp-login.php file and attempting to break in.

Click Here To Download Stealth Login  

Hiding Your Wordpress Version 

By default, WordPress theme’s have a line in the header.php to display the current version of WordPress you use (can be found by viewing source).

Since anyone can find your WordPress version this way, your blog is prone to hackers until you upgrade to the latest version. To prevent displaying your WordPress version, just open your theme’s header.php file and look for the following line

<meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(’version’); ?>” />

And replace it with <meta content=”WordPress” />

To access your header.php within your wordpress dashboard, click on Appearance / Editior and then click on the Header.php file as shown below:

Some themes might already have this done for you, but it’s worth taking a look.

Protecting Your Database 

Another great free plugin is called WP-DB-Backup, which makes backing up your databases very easy and automated.  You only need to set this up once and set it to run at regular intervals.

This plugin automates the backing up of your databases and can have it sent to your email inbox.  Other than the default table created by Wordpress, you can also backup custom tables created by plugins.  In the event that your account crashes, you can easily import and restore the database with the backup.

Click Here To Download WP-DB-Backup

Change Database Table Prefix 

When installing wordpress, it uses the default “wp” prefix in your database tables which makes it easy for a hacker to hack your database tables if he managed to get in.  You can easily change the prefix to other terms that are difficult to guess using the wp-security-scan plugin.  Click Here to Download

WP-Security-Scan checks your WordPress for security vulnerabilities and suggests/provides corrective actions. The corrective actions include changing your database prefix, hiding the WordPress version number from the header and allows you to test out the strength of your password.

Once in a while, it is a good idea to run the inbuilt security scanner and check your blog for any security invulnerabilities.

Protect Your Blog From Comment Spam 

Spam can be a danger to your blog and its visitors. Comment spam can insert unwanted content onto your website. One way of protecting against spam is using plugins that track comments and trackbacks, running them through tests to check on whether they are spam and then refusing or approving based on the test results. Though its worth noting that this is not completely full proof and depending on the size of your blog you may even want to personally moderate commenting, or maybe even limit commenting to specific posts.

Anti-spam Plugins and additional resources on how to protect from comment spam:

Akismet

Codex on Combating Comment Spam

Codex listing of Spam Tools

Limit Self Registration Of Users 

Wordpress supports the ability for users to create new accounts for the purpose of posting. Though this registration does allow them to subscribe as well, which gives them access to reading only. Turn self-registration off in

Settings:  uncheck anyone can register

or limit your readers to the subscribe role only.

Delete the Install.php from your root directory 

After you have installed wordpress make sure you have deleted the install.php from your root directory, as anyone could run this file and cause damage to your website.

Checking Your Theme For Harmful Links 

When you are installing a free wordpress theme you have found on the Internet you need to make sure the free theme doesn’t have any harmful links that could potentially ruin your rankings with Google.

Some designers will sell footer links on these themes, which is how they make money by allowing you to download them for free, but some designers will hide the footer links so you don’t see them, which is against Googles webmaster algorithm and will harm your rankings.  Also some of this links will link to what is known as a bad neighbourhood of websites which are currently blacklisted by Googles eyes and if your linking to them, your blog will loose its rankings.

Here is a typical themes footer with links you will find on a free theme

Now if I run my cursor over the bottom of my entire footer and highlight it, I might find some hidden links just like the following in red:

Now you can guess how bad this would look in Googles eyes and what affect this would have on your blog.

So when you download a free theme make sure to check the template files for any hidden links

You can do this from within the dashboard under Appearance / Editor / Footer.php

I highly recommend you get your wordpress themes from Woo Themes

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Keeping Your Computer Clean

Its very important to make sure the computer your using to edit your wordpress blog is clean from any spyware, viruses, malware, adware, etc.  For example you could have an infection of keylogger on your pc, which will track all your passwords, and be able to hack into your wordpress blog and other websites you use.

Make sure you have an up to anti virus and firewall protection on your computer.  A very good application, which is free to use, is called “C Cleaner”, which will scan your computer for any spyware, adware and delete them. I recommend installing this and running this at least once a day if you use the Internet a lot as it will detect any infections you get from visiting websites that install applications in the background without you knowing.

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Server Vulnerabilities 

The webserver running WordPress, the database with the WordPress data, PHP and any other scripting/programming language used for plugins or helper apps could have vulnerabilities. Therefore, make sure you are running secure, stable versions of your web server, database, scripting interpreter, or make sure you are using a trusted host that takes care of these things for you.

It should also be mentioned that if you’re on a shared server (one that hosts other people besides yourself) if someone else is compromised, then it’s very likely you could be compromised too even if you follow everything in this guide. Be sure to ask your web host what security precautions they take.

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Step 1 – Find a niche

Generally I just go to Clickbank and look at the top 5 products in each category – if they have a high gravity then they’re obviously selling well so I might choose one and base a site around a particular product. I also take a look at CBTrends and take a look at the top 100 most researched/requested products.

For instance if I chose Fat Loss 4 Idiots my niche site would be based around fat loss (fat loss as opposed to weight loss as I want to keep it as targeted as possible).

Step 2 – Keyword research

I used to use Free Keyword Suggestion Tool From Wordtracker but nowadays I prefer the Google Adwords keyword tool at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal – both are good though.

Look for keywords that correspond to the product you’ve chosen.
E.g. if I chose the product ‘Reverse Phone Detective’ I could use keywords such as:

“reverse phone number look up” – according to the Google keyword tool that exact phrase was searched for 40,500 times in August. Our competition on Google is only 64,000 so this keyword should be easy to rank for.

I choose 10 – 15 long tail keywords that I can base my sites articles around.

Step 3 – Choosing a domain

I would choose a domain name with the keyword in it – for instance if reversephonenumberlookup.com (or .net) was available (it’s not) I could use that. 90% of the time I can rank on page 1 of Google for the phrase included in the domain name so it is important to choose carefully.

Step 4 – Create your site

I generally either get a free template from Open Source Web Design. and use NVU, or I use wordpress (I like the templates at Wordpress Themes and Wordpress Themes and create it like a html site (using a static page). I start by writing and adding 10-15 articles to the site – all of them based around a particular searched for keyword.

Next add in your affiliate program. One of your articles should be a good review of this product and I always have a short presell on the main site page as well.

Step 5 – Promote your site

The first thing I do is submit some articles – I usually start with about 10. I submit the majority to Ezinearticles and the rest I submit using Article Post Robot to the top 15-20 directories. Submitting GOOD articles to Ezinearticles will get you traffic and sales from the first week. Use appropriate anchor text and link to both the home page and internal pages.

The next thing I do is social bookmark the site with Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites – SocialMarker.com

Depending on the niche I might also do some forum posting with a link to my site in my sig. I find topic related forums at The largest Message Boards and Forums on the web!

Step 6 – Using Web 2.0 sites

I build a Squidoo lens, a Hubpage and a wiki at Wikidot – Free Wiki Hosting to provide more backlinks (and some extra traffic) for my site. When selling my site I always include the Squidoo lens but I don’t think you can transfer a hubpage or wiki.

Step 7 – Site maintenance

I always monitor each site closely to see how traffic and earnings are progressing. If they’re not, I submit more articles to Ezinearticles, do more forum posting, blog commenting etc. However if you’ve chosen a niche with little optimized competition you shouldn’t have to do too much to rank your site well. I also keep my Squidoo lens updated as well, because a high-ranking lens with lots of good unique content will add value to the sale. Generally I might only spend 30 minutes a week on maintaining the site.

Step 8 – Sell your site

I only sell on Digitalpoint and Sitepoint – maybe I’m only limiting myself because I haven’t tried any others but they work for me. If I’ve had a steady income for 3 months in a row (or a steadily increasing income) then my site is ready to sell. Generally I get 6-10 times monthly income (a lot more for Adsense though), which may not seem like a lot, but because the site is still quite new it’s probably reasonable.

If you wanted to keep the site longer then you would probably earn more, but I like to sell my sites in between 4-6 months.

The whole setting up the site process should only take you a day or two at most – much less if you outsource. Plus you’ll get quicker every time you do it.

Although this is basically what I do written out in the simplest of steps, it’s still necessary to have some marketing skills – good article marketing and preselling being the main ones, plus of course the ability to create a simple website.

It actually isn’t that hard though – this is all information that you probably knew, it’s just a matter of putting it into practice. If instant cash is what you’re looking for this may not be the method for you, because although you’ll have earnings from your sites you won’t get the big sale payout for at least 4 months.

Just think though – if you built one site per week or more (and kept it up week after week), in a few months time you could be earning a 6 figure income from site flipping!

I want to share with you top 25 ways to market your website

#1 – Article Marketing

Many people ignore this first method to increase website traffic. It’s as simple as article marketing. It is a simple method of creating, writing and submitting articles to various directories online such as:

* EzineArticles.com
* GoArticles.com
* SearchWarp.com
* ArticleDashboard.com
* ArticleCity.com

When you post articles to these websites you soon start to see that your website start to see some traffic from the articles you write. It will then start to increase and eventually you get more and more backlinks from more and more articles, which results in higher search engine rankings.

Simply write and submit as many high quality articles as possible and be sure to link back to the website you want to drive traffic to! The articles will drive you traffic immediately, as well as build quality incoming backlinks. The article might sometimes rank on its own in the search results and drive you some simple traffic! Try it out!

#2 – Social Bookmarking

Another way to get some immediate traffic and have this be free, is to use social bookmarking. It’s one of the most popular methods, but also one of the most underused methods of increasing the backlinks you get to your website, but also the instant traffic from the social bookmarking site itself.

Here are some of the sites I use with this method:

* Digg.com
* Del.Icio.us
* Reddit
* Fark
* Mixx
* Propeller
* Netvouz
* And many more.

You want to try to include your websites keyword in order to help boost the websites searhc engine rankings. Try it by signing up for these services and promoting your website’s pages. Try to only bookmark valuable pages of your websites. Nothing spammy or sales will get any attention on these sites!

#3 – Yahoo Answers

If you are not aware of Yahoo Answers it’s a website that allows people to post questions and you will simply answer these questions with a good response. Then when you gain enough credibility to answer questions in the best way possible you can link back to resource pages on your website and get some immediate traffic from answering questions of targeted prospects!

#4 – Blog Commenting

Blog commenting is an effective strategy for getting more visitors. You can find high traffic blogs in your marketplace and post valuable comments, adding to the value of the post and include a link back to your website, usually in the name of your post.

Do not spam and link to your website in the actual post, but write a compelling and good answer and people will click your name anyway!

#5 – Using Blog Platforms

If you are not currently owning a blog you are putting a lot of free targeted traffic on the table. A blog is so loved by Google that you might get thousands of free visitors just by having the right blog on the internet at the right time.

This blog can then funnel traffic to your website or whatever else it is that you want more traffic to, maybe a Hub that you have? Who knows? Either way, you can use blogs on these platforms.

* Blogger.com
* Wordpress.com
* Wordpress.com
* Livejournal

I highly recommend starting at least a free blog at blogger.com with your targeted keywords in them! This method has gotten me thousands of free visitors.

#6 – Squidoo Marketing

A site similar to HubPages is Squidoo. This website will allow you to create what is called a “lens” and not a “hub”. This site is very similar to hub pages in the way it operates and the ease of use, as well as the ability to rank high in Google for your target keywords.

I’ve got tons of free squidoo lenses on the internet that get free targeted traffic, which then funnels that traffic to my websites. I highly suggest you create a couple of lenses and start promoting your website with Squidoo, as well as HubPages right now!

#7 – Hub Pages

Hubpages (the website you are no right now) has over 100,000 people in its community ready to visit your hub, if it’s valuable enough to the visitor. So create a couple of hubs that help promote yourself or your website. Since the community doesn’t like spammy hubs, make sure you create a hub with genuine value, such as this hub. It has a list of resources and methods for going about getting traffic to your website.

These types of hubs seems to do incredibly well, so it’s time to start building your hubpage empire too!

#8 – Propeller

Propeller is a very high trafficed website that will allow you to post a link to your website, on which other people can vote. This means that if your content is good and targeted, odds are people will vote on your content. The more votes you get, the more traffic you will get so take advantage of this service and post only really good content!

Share your bookmarks on this site, make a few omments on other people’s content and link back to your own conent. Thousands of people have the opportunity to see your site and visit it for their needs!

#9 – Keyword Research

The most important thing when driving traffic is keyword research! If your keywords are not targeted to people who want what you offer it’s not going to be a match anyway. There are a few rules to think about when it comes to keyword research, some of the things include the amount of searches per month, and the competing pages in search engines.

Try to find keywords with 2,000 searches or more per month, obviously, and less than 25,000 competing pages in Google, where few are authority sites on the first page of the search engine you are targeting.

So let’s say you have 5,300 searches per month for a keyword, that might get you 0 visitors, unless you are ranked high in Google for that term, so the competition might be “100,000″ in quotes.

That is too much, but if the same keyword had 5,300 searches and only 8,241 competing pages in Google you will more likely rank for that keyword! Understand? Great!

#10 – Press Release Distribution

Press Releases are free to submit on many websites. They can turn out to be a good promotional tool if you have something worthy of a news announcement. Got a new website? Release a press release about your new website, that’s simple enough! Try to target your press release to your keywords and submit it to.

* PrWeb.com
* Free-Press-Releases.com
* PrLog.net

And many more!

#11 – Us Free Ads

UsFreeAds is a website that will allow you to post an ad for your website. It is like a short classified ad to help promote your website. Try it out and see that you can get some really cool results from it!

#12 – Content Is King

No matter which traffic method you are using, always remember that content is king! Content moves the internet and the person with the best and the most content for a keyword will have the most opportunity to get traffic so create a lot of it and place it on your website, other websites and link back to your website.

Here are some of the criteria for good content:

* Valuable
* Helpful
* Interesting
* Funny
* Crazy
* Cool

And many more!

#13 – Video Marketing Sites

You don’t always have to write in order to spread your content to gain attention and visitors online! You can also use video marketing sites to get the same message across, and sometimes better than with articles or text. I use video a lot to help increase the traffic to my sites in various markets. I like to do it and it’s a lot of fun.

Here are some of the sites to submit your videos to:

* YouTube
* Google Video
* Yahoo Video
* Facebook Video
* Dailymotion
* MetaCafé
* Revver

And many more. Please keep your videos short, valuable and to the point as well. This will help people like your videos and go visit your website.

#14 – Use Facebook

Facebook is a great place to share your website. Get active in the community and talk to a lot of people in the community! Share links that are interesting, videos and photos. Join groups and create your own fanpages to help increase the visibility of your website.

I use this method a lot and have only recently started to use facebook as a serious business tool to drive traffic to my sites and it’s working wonders! Try it, you will not be disappointed!

#15 – Forum Marketing

Get active in forums and start posting good answers to people questions. Share links to your other resources that you created, articles, videos etc. Share some photos of yourself too! Join in the many discussions going on and try to establish a sense of authority and credibility in the forum as somebody who is a good valuable resource.

#16 – Create An Affiliate Program

If you have your own product that you are selling, why not start an affiliate program and have other people promote your website for you? So instead of building traffic yourself, share your methods and allow affiliates to promote your product for you. It’s a great way to get some traffic without paying a single dime!

#17 – Join Twitter

If you haven’t noticed lately, Twitter is one of the fastest growing phenomena out there right now. You will find that millions of people are sharing their messages and getting very simple things to become very viral on Twitter, so if you are not currently on Twitter you are missing a huge portion of the marketplace. So join now and start posting valuable resources and links to interesting things you find online. Sometimes you want to mention your own website and get visitors to come over and take a look. Share a lot of content and engage in conversation.

#18 – Search Engine Optimization

SEO or search engine optimization is one of the best ways to get free targeted traffic for a long time. Pick 20 or so keywords and start creating content for those keywords, build links to your website and optimize it the best for your keywords.

Some things to think about with SEO is to have your keyword in each of these elements of your page:

* Title Tags
* Header Tags
* Underlining, Bolding, Italic
* Anchor texts for links
* Backlinks

When your site is optimized in the best way possible it will start to gain some attention in the search engines and start getting free traffic on autopilot! Neat, huh?

#19 – Submit Your RSS Feeds

A great way to increase your traffic is to distribute your RSS feed to RSS distribution sites. It will help you spread your message faster and more people will find your RSS feed if it’s out there in more places than just your own website.

Some of the feeds to submit are:

* Your Blog Feed
* Squidoo Feed
* HubPages Feed
* Article Account Feeds
* etc

#20 – Directory Submission

You can go ahead and submit your website to various directories online that have resources and links to websites. This will help increase the amount of backlinks you get to your website and thus increase your SEO. It will be hard to get too much traffic from these on their own, but you do get some SEO benefit!

Here are some directories:

* DMOZ
* JoeAnt
* WebWorldIndex

#21 – Networking With Others

One of the best ways to drive more traffic is by aligning yourself in strategic alliances with other successful webmasters in your niche. You can exchange links, email lists and a lot more. This will allow you to have access to a lot of leads, say you know 10 people with 10,000 people on their lists… It would open you up to 100,000 new prospects immediately!

See how powerful these relationships can be!

#22 – Use Digg.com

Another site you might want to consider networking on and driving traffic with is Digg.com. It will allow you to post news for your niche and people can come vote on your content. Your content will then get seen by others in the Digg.com community and you will get more diggs that will lead to more traffic. It can get really viral if you have something of good value and post it to Digg.com!

#23 – Be Bold And Daring

In order to attract people you will need to be a little bold and daring. The more over the top you are, but deliver good valuable stuff the more people will feel attraction towards you. Some of the most successful people are very bold and daring. They speak their mind so don’t be afraid to be a little animated when you go about your content or whatever!

#24 – Encourage Interaction With Your Visitors

When you post a blog post for example. Ask people to interact with you and leave comments. Have them interact, engage and help you improve your site. This helps show that you care about your visitors and will attract more of them!

Help make it easy for your visitors to share your content by providing “share this buttons” and other “sharing abilities” on your site.. Make it easy for them to share your stuff!

#25 – Join And Get BUSY In The Warrior Forum & Digital Point

When you are honestly active in a forum you are always providing great information and you continously build your credibility to become one of the authorities in your niche.

I’ve use these methods and this forum to drive thousands of visitors, how? It’s because it’s full of targeted people, then I place good valuable content in front of them.

The best part is that you don’t have to pay a single penny for the visitors you attract. You’ll become an internet marketing magnet that immidiately catches the attention of your prospects and sends server crushing traffic for free!

When your trying to get backlinks for your website there are a number of ways you can do this which are:

1) Write articles and submit them to article websites

2) Build a blog on your website and write very useful articles and submit these to social network sites like twitter, digg, facebook, delicious

3) Submit your website to classified advert websites like craigslist, gumtree,hotfrog and loads of others

4) Write comments on blogs with a link back to your site on a blog that is in a similar niche to your website

5) Join forums that is in a niche similar to your website and write a number of posts with your anchor text keyword link in your signature

6) Answers questions in yahoo answers with a link back to your website

7) Write a squidoo lens, hubpage and wiki page linking back to your website

8.) Create a facebook group and get all your friends to join and ask them to ask all their friends to join.

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If you are thinking of creating a clickbank product then you need to make sure you launch it correctly as if done properly you can easily make $20,000 a month and be one of the top sellers for your category on clickbank with a very high gravity score.

First you need to setup an account with clickbank and pay the $49 activation fee and get your website sales and thank you page approved.  Then the next step is to get a buzz online about your new product.

I highly recommend joining the following forums and posting your advert in the following forums:

• Warrior Forum - http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/ (WSO)
• aBlake Forum – http://www.ablakeforum.com/ (ESF Marketplace)
• BlackHat Forum – http://www.blackhatworld.com/ (Buy, Sell or Trade)
• Digital Point Forum – http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ (Buy, Sell or Trade)

As an example i will use the Warrior Special Offers (WSO) section considering most people know this forum well.

In order to meet the posting rules of the Warrior Forum you need to make sure you sales page meets the following:

“A Warrior Special Offer Means The Price You Give Must Be Better Than The Price The Public At Large Can Get. (This is not a “buy my product” forum, it is a “Special Offer” forum)”

So make sure that the price you offer your product on the WSO section is cheaper then what you are selling it on clickbank for.

Then what you need to do is setup a 2nd free clickbank account and sign up as an affiliate to your product. 

Then when you setup your special offer sales page make the payment button go through your 2nd clickbank free account.  Or you can create a free special report for your product and within the report put your 2nd clickbank free link in there which then directs the user to your sales page.

By setting it up like this will shoot up your gravity ratings on Clickbank and push your product to the top of the category your advertising in, bringin in even more affiliates and more sales.

To install Wordpress first you need to install a Mysql database on your server.  You can do this by logging into your domains Cpanel and following this video tutorial:

Once you have made a note of your database details you now need to download the latest wordpress files from :

http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

Unzip the files to your computer and using your FTP program upload all the files to your server.  As shown in the following pic:

Once you have the wordpress files installed if you now open your website in your browser and following the onscreen installation instructions and putting your Mysql database details when requested on screen.

If you have a wordpress blog and want to make money from your blog then a very good plugin to install is the Google adsense plugin.  The plugin is free to install.  Simply do a search on Google for the “Google Adsense Wordpress Plugin”.  Download and unzip the plugin then using your FTP software upload the plugin to the following directory within your hosting account:

Public_html/wp-contents/plugins

Login to your blog and under plugins you should see the Adsense plugin and activate it.

Once you have activated the plugin your ready to customise the plugin under “Settings” on the bottom left of the screen.  Under the Adsense ID this is where you put you Google adsense publisher id also known as your PUB Number.  This number can be found at the top right hand corner in your Google adsense account.

You can also setup Adsense channels if you use adsense for several other websites and want to track which site is generating your clicks.

You can also set what sizes you want the adds to be displayed on your blog under ad formats.  You can also decide if you want your ads to appear on articles, static pages, category pages, on your home page or any of your archive pages.

You can also change the colour of your ads to match the theme of your website and you can also set to show a number of adds per page depending on your preferences.

If you have a blog or a website and are looking for a way to make money from it then i recommend joining upto Googles partnership program called Google Adsense.  Google adsense is a partnership opportunity that you will allow Google to show their adverts on your website and whenever a customer of yours clicks on their adverts you earn a commission instantly

The commission you earn depends on your content, some adverts can earn you upto $5 and some 0.20c depending on how much the advertiser has paid Google.  Google then spilts the revenue with you for placing the add on your website.  From the advertisers point of view this is called PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising via the Google Adwords network.

The great thing about Google adsense adverts is that you can easily intregrate them into your website or blog either as text or banners.  You can change the look and colour of the text to match your content which makes your reader want to click on the adverts as they will think they are part of your website so you earn commission very easily.

There is a very good plugin for wordpress that you can upload and activate and allow Google adsense to show up in your articles on pages.  Just run a search on Google for the plugin.  Installation is very easy.

Social networks are now becoming a vital method to drive traffic to your websites as Twitter in particular is used as a search tool by some users to look for information.

If you have a website that needs more traffic then you should take advantage of the free media that is out there.  One way to get more traffic is to

1) Setup a wordpress blog and link this to your website. 

2) Sign up to Twitter and create an account.

3) Follow as many people as you can that are related to your niche, just run a search for your main keywords

4) Download the wordpress twitter plugin and upload it and active it on your blog.  Fill in your twitter details and set it up so everytime you create a new post, it automatically submits a link on your twitter account

5) Setup a facebook account and become friends with as many people as you can related to your niche.

6) Install the Twitter facebook application and link in your twitter account to your facebook account.  Everytime you create a new tweet via your blog, twitter will also update your facebook status with a link to your article automatically.  So you will get traffic from both Twitter and Facebook automatically when you create new posts in your blog.

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If you have a wordpress blog that you dont pay much attention to then you should install the wp-o-matic wordpress plugin which will turn your blog into an Autoblog.  What this plugin does is automatically adds articles to your blog via an autofeed that pulls feeds from website rss feeds you specify.  You can set it to run at specified times throughout the day adding as many articles as you like.  You will need to setup a cron job via your hosting account in order for it to work.

When you download the plugin simply extract the files locally to your computer and then FTP to your server and upload the plugin folder to the following directory in your hosting account:

Root/wp-content/plugins/

Login to wordpress and active at the plugin

Then under settings click on wp-o-matic and start the installation process.  Follow the onscreen instructions which asks you to setup a cron job.  If your not sure how to setup a cron job follow the following video which shows you how to install and setup the wp-o-matic plugin:

 You can add as many different campaigns as you like

Although if you can i still would recommend your own unique content as your blog will highly benefit from adding unique articles that aren’t duplicated from another blog.