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How to Choose CB products for Newbies

Clickbank is an extremely undervalued goldmine, and I constantly read, or get messages, from people who are ‘thinking’ of starting with CB. Unfortunately, when I check back on these people a few weeks later, they are still ‘thinking’ about it, or they gave up before they started.
It is extremely EASY for anyone to make a good income with CB…the mistake most people make is not to give it a proper try.

Most suffer from “paralysis by analysis”, i.e. they think too much into it, focus too much on learning the theory, and never taking action as they never feel they know enough to give it a go.

Others try, but make the classical mistake of opting to go for a high gravity (100+) product as they feel these are the easiest to get sales from. WRONG! These products will have way too much affiliate competition, and practically all avenues of promotion will be saturated. The only way to make sales out of these products is either if you are very good at a particular skill (e.g. seo, ranking YT videos, etc…) or if you can think outside the box and promote using a method that very few think about.

So, here’s how to find good products to promote on CB if you are a newbie:

Search the marketplace for products with gravities 5 to 25. Trust me on this. You can find a lot of these goldmines in the health section of CB. Ignore products that have a gravity in this range BUT are in a very popular niche (e.g. weight loss and make money online – as this defeats the purpose of searching for low competition niches).

Next, have a look at the landing page – is it professionally designed and written, and is the product price reasonable ($17-$47)? If yes, email the vendor and tell them you are a prospective affiliate and would like a review copy. The most important part here is not to get the copy, but to see how the vendor responds. If they don’t even respond to your email, it means that they do not invest in their site or in their affiliates, and you should not waste time and money on it. Move on. If the vendor replies and is helpful, you know you’re on to a winner. The vendor must be one that believes in their product, helps their affiliates, and will likely keep improving their product and site (and hence, your profit).

How to Promote

Next, promote. You do not need any special method to start making sales. Three easy methods are microniche sites, YT, or ppc (try bing ads). As we have picked a low gravity product (=low competition), then whichever method you use you’ll be advantaged:

1. If you set up a microniche site, or a YT video, it will be easy to get them ranked in Google (=low investment needed in SEO). P.S. For microniche sites, have at least 5 pages of content, ideally have about 10 pages. For YT, the key is to rank in Google. It is useless if you are in the top 3 in youtube search results but not in the first 2 pages of google. Build links to your video as you would for a normal site.

2. If you picked PPC, then you should be able to find low CPC keywords ($0.05-0.10). I recommend giving bing ads a try as they offer a free $50 signup voucher. To start with, target US, UK and Canada only, and if you are tight on money, keep your keywords highly targeted (not too broad). Have several variants of your ad. You should get a CTR of AT LEAST 1-2%. Anything below, there’s something very wrong with your campaign. Forget about facebook ads. Yes, there is potential in them if you really know what you’re doing, but generally newbies will lose money with fb ads.

Monitoring

Next, analyze your clickbank stats. If you get conversions of less than 1% (1 sale per 100 hops), there is something wrong. Either the vendor’s page is not as good as you thought, or there is a problem with your traffic (it is not targeted). Email the vendor and ask for advice. A helpful vendor should be happy to have a look at your site/method of promotion and give you advice.

Scaling Up

Rinse and repeat for other 5-25 gravity products. As you become more skilled, and have more money to invest, start adding higher gravity products to your repertoire.

And, that’s it! Good luck and take action NOW!

SocialMonkee review

If you want your webpages to rank high in the major search engines, it is advisable to build #backlinks, but in a smart and successful method. This means building backlinks for your money pages (Tier 1), but also for your current backlinks (Tier 2), to enhance them and pass on some link juice. Well, there is a link building service that allows you to do both with excellent relieve.

This service is really a proven link building solution which has currently helped thousands, to not just build backlinks for their pages, but also increase and boost their existing backlinks. Building backlinks can be a time-consuming, boring process. You may outsource the process to an agency and pay a lot of money, or you can do it yourself…

The service I’m talking about is #socialmonkee, which offers a quick and easy way to build backlinks to any page, whether it’s your own page or a page that links to your page. Submitting a URL to SocialMonkee takes less than a few minutes, and it only takes a few seconds if you use the Firefox or Chrome Plugin (provided to you at no cost).

the answer from wikipedia:

Backlinks, also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links, are incoming links to a website or web page. In basic link terminology, a #backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node.

Inbound links were originally important (before the emergence of search engines) as a primary means of web navigation; today, their significance lies in search engine optimization (SEO). The number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (for example, this is one of the factors considered by Google to determine the PageRank of a webpage). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.

Whether or not you already build backlinks to your pages, SocialMonkee is a must-have. If you’re new to link building, SocialMonkee is a great place to start as it’s very easy to use and does a great job. If you already build backlinks but don’t see the benefits, here is your chance to boost them and make them pass on some powerful link juice to your pages.

The system even integrates popular content spinning and link indexing tools so you can submit URLs even faster and get the most out of your backlinks. The network keeps growing, with new sites added every week, so sign up now and submit your URLs within the next few minutes to boost your rankings and get the traffic your pages deserve.

7 SEO Myths revealed

Ranking in the top of search engines, like Google, is vital when attempting to run and monetize an online business. This is the reason why Search Engine Optimization (S.E.O) has evolved as an art form as well as its own niche; everybody wants to know the “formula” of how to get to the first page and will devote their time and money to do it.

If you do a search for “SEO copywriting tips” you’ll get lots of similar results that provide, more or less, the same guidelines: use meta tags, write attractive headlines, integrate links, avoid using the passive voice, etc.. But some popular beliefs about SEO are simply wrong. Here are a few we’d like to make you aware of:

• Keep a High Keyword Density

Most SEO Professionals suggest that having a high keyword density for the main keywords of the page will help the rankings. They consider this an important rule/target and as a result they try to stuff these words into the text. Of course by doing so, they produce really unattractive SEO copies and not only they don’t help their rankings but also they irritate the readers of their websites.

What one should do in order to improve his rankings is to use different combinations of the main keywords in the text. This will increase the odds of ranking for other similar terms or combinations without affecting the quality of the text. Note that this technique will increase the Keyword Density of the important terms in anatural way. Nevertheless its primary target is not to increase the density but to incorporate in the text the most common keyword combinations that users are likely to search. A more accurate metric that helps you determine if a given keyword is optimized is the KeywordRank, which takes into account several different parameters such as the position of the keyword, the usage, the relevancy and more.

• The keyword is dead

Google killed its keyword tool and the latest algorithm tweak called Hummingbird added ability to search using natural language queries. This lead many SEO copywriting blogs to proclaim the “death” of the keyword.

Reality

The keyword isn’t dead. As Monty Python might say: it’s just resting. You still need/want to do some keyword research but now the focus is more on LSI, otherwise known as semantic

searching. This involves using more synonyms and related words in your web content than simply one word or phrase repeated again and again.

• Longer is better

When people are searching for something, they want as much detail as possible from a reliable source. Studies of Google search results have shown longer articles are better; CopyPress found the average word count of top search results was 2416. It has also been shown that longer copy tends to convert better.

Reality

Length doesn’t matter. According to representative John Mueller, Google doesn’t count words on a page to determine ranking; in a comment thread, he cited the fact that Google also searches 140-character Twitter posts.

Sometimes a short article will still generate a lot of shares or comments, which does affect placement. The key is to make sure your SEO copywriting content is unique and compelling, and that’s the long and short of it.

• Descriptions and ALT tags for images are important

You may have images on your page or website, and they help with design and engagement. But according to some sources, including descriptive names or ALT tags for your images will also help with your search engine rankings.

Reality

Image tags do not greatly affect ranking. It may aid with user accessibility or getting your images to appear in Google image results. But according to the Open Algorithm Project, this oft-cited SEO copywriting tip doesn’t dramatically lead to a better listing of your web page or site.

• Authorship is very important

Google made a big to-do of its Authorship program and suggested linking content or articles to a Google+ account would help with page ranking. There were also studies claiming to show that a link on a SERP (Search Engine Results Page) that had a Google author photo got more clicks.

Reality

Authorship is no longer an important SEO factor. For a variety of reasons known and unknown, Google devalued the Authorship program, removing the author image in SERP listings. Some have speculated that this is due to it competing with advertised content, others felt it probably got abused. Whatever happened, the authorship markup tool has disappeared. Some speculate, authorship will rise again in a different form. Until then, don’t sweat it.

• If you have duplicate content, you will be penalized

Many a webmaster have feared a so-called “duplicate content penalty” that can affect rankings. It is thought that if you have more than one page with the same content or many urls pointing to one page you could be de-listed or even blacklisted.

Reality

Duplicate content is OK for legitimate websites. According to Google: “Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results.” This means if your website is not purposely trying to fool Google or scrape content illegally from other sites, you will not be punished.

This is different from A/B testing, using slightly different wording on multiple web pages, which Google asks you use rel = ”canonical” rather than a noindex meta tag. (For more guidance on multivariate testing, check this article.) Look to add new content of course, but don’t fret too much about the existing dupes.

• Google’s search results are rigid, when you make it to the top, your site is fine

Additionally, people often believe there is a “secret” to getting into the top results that some self-proclaimed SEO experts have inside knowledge about.

Reality

In actuality, the “engine” of search is constantly evolving – Google changes their algorithm 500-600 times per year. And, as Google spokesman Matt Cutts explains in this colorful video, the results are always in flux.

In addition, current or former Google employees won’t spill their secrets not only because of confidentiality agreements, but also because they don’t believe in the concept of “gaming the system” to rank in results.

This means, aside from Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, which outlines best practices and was last updated in 2010, everything else is largely speculation by outside parties.

What’s the one thing about search engine results and SEO we know will never change? Well-written, original, informative content will always be rewarded and in the long run, perform best.

Monetize your website with Google Adsense, how to start:

If you browse the net regularly, which is probably your case when you read this article, then you may noticed advertising on many websites. Have you ever wondered how these commercials came on these websites and for what reason?

as a beginner in this huge world, you may be asking these questions. in this guide, we will try to answer and clarify everything about monetizing your site or blog by advertisements.
But here, we are going to focus on google adsense, There are other monetization strategies which can be more profitable in some situations (e.g., selling your own products, affiliate marketing, etc.). That being said, and as far as monetizing your site using ads goes, AdSense is the better advertising network on the Internet. Here’s why:

• It’s simple and easy to Set Up and Get Started
• Huge Number of Advertisers
• Ads Are Really Targeted
• It’s possible to Generate income from Global Traffic, not just focus on UNITED STATES visitors
• The Earnings Are Pretty Good
• The Advertisements Blend Nicely
• Payments Are Always on Time

Access to Google Adsense program

AdSense is Google’s advertising network. It was founded in 2003 when Google was looking for a way to generate more money.

Google Adsense is currently the world’s largest advertising network on the web, we find it almost everywhere. Here are some places where you can see ads from Google Adsense:

• sites with information content;
• YouTube videos;
• Gmail service;
• the Google search engine .

You may find that Google utilizes the authority on its own platforms to generate more money using its own services. therefore, We find Google Adsense within the SERP (search engine results page), Gmail service, or in YouTube videos.

What exactly interests us is the capability to broadcast Adsense advertisements on a personal website. Which is very simple, you first have to register your site in the Adsense program and, if accepted, you’ll be able to broadcast Adsense . First, you will need a Google account. Once logged in, you can propose your site for publishing.

Register your site to Google Adsense

In order to register your website with Google Adsense, you need first to make sure it’s online and running . To do this, just type the URL of your site in the web browser. If your site is correctly displayed, it’s ready to be proposed to Google. Indeed, sites under development or without a regular domain name can’t be accepted in Google Adsense; this is one of the very important rules of Google Adsense.

If you want to broadcast Adsense ads on your site, is that you intend to make an income. However, you should know that Adsense pays publishers by click. So we need a maximum of visitors to generate highest possible clicks and therefore generate much more earnings. In case your site is on a free hosting, or has no unique domain name, which is certainly a personal blog, or a site with very low traffic. Adding Adsense advertisements then would be a waste of time unless you want to earn a dime every month. You should be working on your energy: your content. Once your site is well known, consider monetizing your pages with Adsense.

To get started, you must visit the homepage of the Adsense program. If you are using an utility such as Adblock or other advertisements blocking module, you may have display issues. consider adding an exception in your anti-ad filters for Google Adsense, or simply disable it completely.

This page summarizes the three requirements for inclusion on Adsense:

• an active Google account;
• monetizing content: in our case, a website;
• a postal mailing address.

Do not forget that Adsense is not exclusively dedicated to websites. We can also find it on YouTube videos or even in mobile applications. It’s quite large,but we will focus here on the case of a website.

In order to pay you! Specifically, every time a visitor clicks a banner ad on your site, you earn money. Once your earnings accomplish the specific payout, Google will send you a check by post, that you can cash at your bank. you must provide a correct mailing address, to make sure that your check will be delivered to you.
However we’re not there yet. You will first have to submit your site to Google Adsense. Click the “Yes, proceed to a Google Account sign in” and log in. You are now at the phase number 2 of your website registration. It’s time to propose your web site to Google. Now Google will remind you the main rules and policies of Adsense program.

Above, we have a form with two fields to fill:

• your website URL .
• the main language on your site.

After that, click the “Continue” button to get into the third and final step of listing your website to Google Adsense. For this last step, you will have a little more to accomplish. they will request you include your full name, address and telephone number. Keep in mind that this information will be used by Google to send your payments, so provide a valid data. When you are ready, click the “Send my request” button to submit the demand to Google Adsense.

The validation stage of your site

Once your request submitted, Google Adsense will review the information you have sent. Your demand may be either accepted or declined. Here are the most frequent reasons for rejection:

• not accessible website;
• wrong personal information;
• User previously banned .

As soon as Google examined your site, you will receive an email with reply regarding your request. Make sure to check your inbox from time to time, as well as your spam. In case your demand had been declined, do not panic, rejection is not final. If it was caused due to low quality content or poor design, you can always try again later once you’ve done a good job on your site . Normally, Google Adsense welcomes almost all websites, as long as they are properly built. Even small blogs with very few visits are generally accepted, because they have little chance of generating income for the authority.

If you are the owner of an old Google Adsense account which was banned in the past, Google will not agree to create a new one, and will never accept either to reactivate the old. Adsense banishments are, in fact, registered forever. So there is certainly very little chance to access the program again. However, if you have been admitted, which is sure to happen if you have followed the advices given in this article, then you will have now access to Google Adsense interface.

Manage advertisements with Google Adsense

We will learn now how to place advertisements on Google Adsense. first log on to your Google account and visit the Adsense user interface.

Your first Ads on Google Adsense

Go to the creation of a new advertising interface. Google Adsense requests for the name of the publicity you would like to create. You can write anything you want, this name will be used only to quickly and easily identify an advertisement. Google Adsense after that asks you which structure you want for your advertising. The service recommends four sizes, which are generally known to be the most efficient:

• Medium rectangle : 300×250
•  Large Rectangle    : 336×280
• Leaderboard            : 728×90
•  Skyscraper              :160×600

Google Adsense then asks you the type of advertising you want to view. You can choose either a 100% ad text, a 100% rich media advertising (image, sound, video …), or a textual and rich media advertising. Finally, Google Adsense will offer a feature to customize your advertising display. As we’ll talk later in this chapter, I suggest you copy this color palette in your CSS to integrate advertising as much as possible to your website.

Google Adsense then offers to save your advertising. When saved, Google Adsense automatically generates JavaScript code to place in your website. Once the code placed, your ad appears and you can start making money with Adsense.

I suggest you go check out the Google Adsense official video channel on Youtube. It can be interesting for you.

Next chapter will be about how to avoid suspension of your adsense account, the dark side and negative aspects of the program, and tips on how to make the most from your publicity with Adsense.

Next: I was banned from Google Adsense, what now?

creating a good quality content

Today we suggest to share with you one of the major challenges of the web; creating good quality content. The content quality of your website is vital to a successful SEARCH ENGINE RANKING OPTIMIZATION.

Content is king. You will hear that term frequently when it comes seo success. Indeed, that’s the reason why the Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors starts with the content “elements,” with the first element being about quality content .

creativity

Original content has two aspects, the fact that this article is the work of the author, and to exhibit some form of originality to capture the reader. In conclusion, your own publication should have a good value for the readers.

Importance of the title

It is very important create attractive titles., 80% of Internet users read your title, only 20% browse the rest. The title of the post is the first thing your readers notice, it is as vital as the content itself.

Operational solutions

The most efficient content should be a form of #tutorials that give your reader the keys to apply your advice.

Providing answers

Using internet search engine is like trying to find the answer for a question, or a solution for the problem. Your content must provide the proper answer immediately. Nowadays,almost all content online marketers make an effort to bring real value for their readers.

Give accurate, up-to-date and verified information.

If you communicate on a company #blog, begin focusing to offer precise and verified information for your reputation as well as your business. Links for your statistical sources are always recommended.

When you generate links to other websites you are:

• Rating the quality of sites that on which are pointing your links
• Citing Your sources to the maximum
• Helping search engines in order to categorize your website / blog

Try to engage

Some recommendations to engage your readers:

• Ask questions from your visitors
• Make a promise for your readers in the introduction
• Tell the experiences

Illustrate your elements

Keep in mind that a picture is worth a thousand words. And you can add a custom made graphic which is certainly greater than a picture directly from an image bank. Illustrate your posts with images, videos, diagrams, charts, examples, etc …

Write brief texts related to original articles

It is very important to learn how to eliminate the surplus of information and go directly to the point. A short article summarizing an original longer and more detailed may have more effect. Google doesn’t calculate the size of your content based on the number of words. Also, a mobile user will see the advantage of a short article.
Make regular updates
Holding a website or blog is really a daily commitment. Visitors like the search engines expect an update frequency of the order at least one or two times a week to get a good idea of your site.

As we have experienced with the themes, WordPress provides a fantastic freedom in customizing your website with a simplified to the maximum process. As well as we were able to modify very easily the style of our website, we can also add new functionality using plugins.

Plugins are generally modules to install separately to increase the functionality of any software. WordPress here, For example, integrating Facebook or twitter buttons, adding visits statistics in the dashboard, or even with a photo gallery on your publications … Adding plugins to wordpress:

Manage plugins

Adding plugins to wordpress

Such as themes, plugins may be installed directly from the administration interface, and also manually by downloading the necessary files and placing them in the appropriate folder.

Automated install

We access the search engine plugin via the “Plugins> Add” menu, which provides a similar method to the installation of themes. You can Search simply by keyword, date added, or just browse the most used by the community. Seek among the most popular plug-ins by clicking on the appropriate link (see below).

From the list which appears, we can see for each plugin the name, current version, a note of users as well as a brief description of its functionality. To begin the installation, just click “Install Now” and WordPress will download the necessary files for the operation, once again everything goes according to the same process as for themes.

manual Install

Plugins may also be downloaded manually in the official WordPress website in the plugins section. After you have retrieved the zip file, place it in the folder WordPress / wp-content / plugins, and you complete the installation!

Activate or remove a plugin

The administration provides a plugins management panel accessible via “plugins> installed plugins.” Here you can manage the various plugins for your site.

Once a plugin is mounted, it’s necessary to activate it simply by clicking on the “activate” link in the plugin description. in case you no longer need a plugin, you can disable it in the same way. Finally, to uninstall a plugin and remove all its files and information stored in your database, you must click on “Remove”.

•  The deletion is irreversible! You must reinstall the plugin if you want to use it again later.
• To remove a plugin, you have to deactivate it first.

Updating a plugin

To fully use plugin new features or simply for bug fixes, all plugins have the possibility for being updated whenever a new version is launched by teams of development . This is signaled in the main menu with a small sticker displaying the number of plugins which could be updated. (See below)

Before you decide to update the plugin, see the details. You will find a list describing each one of these updates as well as possible risks. When you’re ready to obtain the latest version, click on “Update automatically”, WordPress will immediately download and install the newest files.

If you are much more enthusiast of manual download, you can update the plugin simply by getting the new version of the .zip file and replacing the old folder to update, the same way as for the first installation.

Useful plugins examples

You already know now how to search for and install plugins, here is an example of the most popular that you may find useful.

Hupso Share Buttons

The first plugin focuses on social networks by proposing to add sharing buttons for a wide selection of them. Your website visitors can easily share your publications with a single click to the social networks. Buttons can be added below your articles or blog posts, pages and even as widget according to the configuration you choose.

Several options are also available, so you can choose location of the buttons and how to share text is determined, exclude categories or articles sharing, or even change the button style. So it is an extremely helpful plugin to avoid boring steps for integrating these buttons for every social network, and also the result is rather powerful (see below).

NextGEN Gallery

To finish this selection, let’s look at the plugin NextGEN Gallery, which allows creation of photo galleries to display with your publications.

You start by creating an album, add images one at a time or even by groups in a really simplified way to sort the list, then you can view them at various locations: in an article, page or a widget. The display may also take the form of a slide carousel to scroll the images automatically, it’s under your control.

there are so many options for you to adapt the plugin with your needs; by modifying the size, design, image transitions durations, or even allowing specific selection of images in the displayed page.

• WordPress can be customized using plugins. These modules allow you to add lots of features.
• The plugins are developed by the community.
• You will find more than 33,000 plugins, feel free to browse the library!

How to Modify WordPress appearance

Your website identity depends especially on the graphic theme: all the visual features of your site, such as colors, text size, background images or arrangement of blocks in pages. When you installed WordPress, you didn’t have the opportunity to choose the used stylesheet, and for good reason: it’s installed by default and it’s then up to you to find another and change it if you want. Let’s see how.

Theme changing

Choosing a theme is  very simple. in the administration interface, go to menu “Appearance> themes”. Here you will probably have one or two pre-installed themes that you can enable or disable at your leisure (see below).

Let’s try to change the currently used theme  (here “Twenty Thirteen”) with “Twenty Twelve”, Click “activate” and refresh, your site’s new look is already in place,  nothing more to do (see the figure below).

It’s possible to install new themes created by the community in various ways: Using the administration interface or by downloading files yourself.

Add a theme via the dashboard

To add a theme directly from the admin interface, choose the tab “Add new” up the theme selection page. Here you can search by keyword, upload a .zip containing a previously downloaded theme file or browse the latest ones added by developers :

When browsing the gallery (by searching or browsing the latest updated themes), you have an option to preview the final result through the “Preview” link below the thumbnails. when you click “Install Now”, WordPress will automatically download the requested theme and it will be added to the list of available themes.

Using a downloaded theme

In case you have downloaded a theme separately, for example directly from wordpress.org or any website offering WordPress themes, you can install it manually by placing files in the CMS tree.

Try, for example, to install the theme expound proposed on the official website of WordPress. Unzip the .zip file and place the expound folder in the : wordpress / wp-content / themes  directory of your installation. If you redisplay the list of themes in the administration interface, expound is now selectable for use on your site (see below):

Adding widgets

Widgets are small blocks to add on the pages of your website. They provide information and specific functionality to visitors. For example, it could be a current time display, a calendar, weather forecast, mini games, etc. It’s an easy way to add dynamic content  without having to modify the site code.

Install a new widget

In the Appearance > Widgets menu, we see all the available widgets for the website in the center, and on the right the different areas where your theme can contain these widgets. In fact, the widgets can not be placed anywhere, they need one (or several) area of the graphic depending on how the used theme is designed. By default, WordPress has a number of included widgets.

To add a widget to a specific area (which is determined by the used style), you simply drag and drop it from the center to the “Main Zone” (the name may vary depending on your theme) on the right. Let’s add, for example, the widget “Tag cloud” with this method:

Once a widget is placed in the widget area, you can edit properties, which determine its behavior on the pages of your website. Let’s add the title “Keywords” and choose taxonomy “tags”, which will display a short list of the most used tags to mark published articles. The other option “Categories” offers the same display but for the categories of articles. Now click “Save”, then refresh the site’s home page; the new widget should appear in the selected area.

Deactivate a widget

Removing a widget is simple: just click on “Delete”. This will remove the widget and delete the applied settings.

However, you can also choose not to display a widget, while keeping the options you’ve chosen such as title for example. For this, just move the widget to the “disabled Widgets” area at the bottom of the widget management page. You can then place it later on your site with the same settings.

Modify WordPress appearance;

Important to remember:

• The appearance of the site is determined by the chosen theme.
• New themes can be downloaded from the official library, or uploaded from any trusted site.
• The widgets offer additional features in the peripheral zones of each page.

The life of a site, particularly a blog is not necessarily limited to the action of one person (in your case). It also requires the involvement of visitors who can bring their thoughts to your articles, and other writers who can invest in enriching your content.

comments

If your site is successful, there is a good chance that visitors will want to leave comments on some articles that inspires them, and even on some pages.

Comments: activate or deactivate

First, let’s see how to enable (or disable) comments on the pages and articles of the site.

In the administration interface, go to “Settings> Discussion.” At the top of the page, a box asking if you want to “Allow visitors to post comments on the latest Articles.” If this box is checked, all articles and pages you create will receive feedback, and vice versa if you uncheck it. However, this option doesn’t allow you to enable or disable comments on the content already created. To do this, go to the “Articles” menu and select “Quick edit” under the article you want to change the status (see below).

You can then, as in the following figure, Change comments #permissions via the checkbox “Allow comments”.

To make this change on all of your Articles, you must select “Edit” from the list of grouped actions select all items you want to disable comments and click “Apply”. A similar form to the previous will be displayed and allows among others to enable (or disable) the comments for all articles (see below).

options

Back to the “Settings> Discussion” page. Many parameters are available here to help you manage comments, it’s, for example, possible that  an administrator validate or disable comments for old items. At the bottom of the page you can choose if comments can have an avatar next to the user’s name who posted. If so, you must choose a type of avatar:

• Mystery person: an anonymous user logo is displayed;
• Blank: a blank image is displayed;
• Gravatar: the image is retrieved from Gravatar, a service for associating an image to an email address;
• Etc.

If you choose Gravatar, then you need to select a maximum level for the censorship of the image, i.e ; an image for adults will, for example, not be displayed if you choose a level from G, PG or R. If you do not know which one to choose, let ‘G – Visible to all “, which is used by default.

Moderate comments

the statutes

Once a comment is created, it can be in several different statutes:

• Approved: the comment is visible on the site;
• Pending: the comment is awaiting validation, only you or another site administrator can see;
• Spam: the comment is hidden because it has been disapproved by an administrator.

Finally, it’s possible to have a comment in the trash if you decide to delete it. Let us see how these changes status.

Edit and delete

You can access to the list of comments on the site via “Comments” of the administration panel.  Fly over a comment and click “Edit” , this takes you to the edit page.

 In the center you can change the comment content and the name of the user who posted it. A history of actions on this comment (e.g a change of status) is also displayed at the bottom of the page.

On the right we find the status list presented above, as well as the comment creation date and a link for moving into trash.

If we choose to place a comment as “Pending”, you will see it immediately removed from public display in the article. On the other hand, a small “1” appeared in the administration menu to indicate that a comment is awaiting approval by an administrator :

If the comment is marked as “Junk” or placed in the trash, it no longer appears in the list of comments, we must choose the filter “spam” (or bin) at the top to access it (see figure below).

You can then choose to cancel this status and restore the comment for it to appear again, which is useful in case of error, for example (see below).

Settings

It’s also possible to filter out certain texts in the comments to prevent them from being published without your approval. In the “comments Moderation”, you can choose a set of words that will trigger up waiting the comment with these expressions. It’s not obligatory to complete words; i.e “Press” block comments containing “##wordpress” “Pressure” or “Press”.

 You can do the same in the “Black List for comments”, but in this case, comments corresponding to one of the chosen words are immediately marked as “spam”, without moderation.

Users

Users management

Any user management is done by the “Users” menu of the administration that allows you to manage all existing users, to create new or edit your own profile. You can list all the users of your site (see below):

roles

Each user is associated with a role defining all the rights granted to him, in other words the list of actions that can be performed in the site administration interface:

• Administrator: This is the role that grants all the rights and you have by default as a creator of the site;
• Editor: allows to publish and edit all the articles on the site, even those that do not belong to him;
• Contributor: he can create or edit articles and pages belonging to him, but can’t publish them (he must ask an editor or administrator to do it for him);
• Author: the author can publish and edit their own content;
• Subscriber: he can only access the home administration panel and manage their profile.

To change a user role , check the name in the list of users. You can then make your choice with a scrollable list. Note that you can not change your own role (see figure below):

User creation

You can create a new user by going to the submenu “Add”. This interface allows to define the name of new user, role, and some optional personal information.

It’s also possible to allow the creation of user accounts for any visitor. To do this, in the “Settings> General” menu, simply check the box “Anyone can register” and set the default role of these users.

 So, remember that:

• Comments allow visitors to express on publications.
• The administrator can moderate comments before and after publication.
• Several people can contribute to the site, possibly with different rights.

Next : Modify WordPress appearance

Your site is now installed and ready to use, but it’s still terribly empty! Here’s how to fix this by adding content to visitors.

Articles

WordPress content is organized into two types: articles and pages. The difference is the type of content you will publish.

An article will generally be a topical content because it takes greatest value at the moment of publication. This is typically the type of content used for publications of a blog or a news feed.

A page will rather be a constant value content over time without the need to be updated. It can be used for presenting a company, person or to talk about a subject background.

At the presentation, articles can be displayed in a chronological ordered list , that’s what makes sense, either completely or with an overview of the content, while the pages are accessed through a link (usually in navigation menu) to their content.

Articles management

To create an article simply go to “Articles” and choose “Add new” in the submenu.

The text editor

On the next page , you have a field to set the title of your article and a text editor to type its content and format with the dedicated toolbar (see below).

You can make text bold or italic, create bulleted lists, change text alignment or color.

For a description of buttons in the editor, you can hover over it to display a small information bubble. Also, the last icon (in the shape of a question mark),opens help in a new window. Finally,the two tabs labeled “Visual” and “Text” are in order to toggle between the visual and the generated HTML. If you don’t know how to use HTML, there is no need to switch to text, visual mode will be enough.

Publish Article

To the right we have the available  actions for the article in progress. In particular it’s possible to have a preview of the article with the blog design to get an idea of the final rendering. You can also, as in the following figure, manage the status of publishing your article. instantly or maybe later.

As long as an article is not in the status “Published”, it doesn’t appear on the site. You can start writing it as a draft, save and come back later to finish, but the “Publish” button displays the article immediately.

Categories and Keywords

It’s possible to combine one or more categories to an article and a set of keywords, This will allow your visitors to easily locate your content from the list of articles on various themes.

categories

To manage categories, simply go to the menu “Articles> Categories, in this page you can add a category and edit existing ones.
By default, only one category is present and it’s not possible to delete it,because the default category articles will be used if no other assignment is chosen.

To create a new category, you must inform:

• The name of the category, which will be posted on the pages;
• An identifier, typically used in the URL when displaying articles in ;
• Parent (optional); each category can have a parent category;
• A description (optional) that will eventually be displayed if the subject allows.

After creating the category, we can assign it now to an article. To do this, on the edit page just check the box next to the category to combine and update the article. If we display our site again, the added category becomes visible in the site’s foot page (or on the side depending on the theme). Now you see a new page with the list of associated categorie.

Keywords

Unlike the thematic description of categories, keywords or tags are used to characterize the article more precisely. For example, an article about how WordPress can be in the “My tutorials” category on the blog, keywords may be like :”course”, “computer”, “training”, “operation”, “WordPress” etc. The description of the article content becomes richer.

As well as the categories, there is a specific page in the administration to manage the keywords in the submenu of the Tags. However, it’s prefered to create the keywords directly on the page while writing an article, because it’s common to create some specifically for every article.

For this, under the form for adding categories, a field prompts you to add keywords (separated by commas). It’s also possible to choose from the most used existing keywords, Create or select tags and update the article to save changes (see below):

When viewing the article, you now have a list of keywords that will redirect you to the list of associated articles, as in the case for the categories. Indeed, if two articles have a common keyword (eg “wordpress”), the user can find these two articles by typing the keyword. This will facilitate research publications for your visitors by offering a range of words that appear frequently on your site.

pages

Creating pages is very similar to the articles, it’s in the “Pages> Add new” menu. Edition of the content is by the same text editor, and publication follows the same process. However, the options on the page are different. We have more categories or keywords to associate, but three new attributes.

attributes

On the right side of the page editing area a framework similar to the following figure appears.

We can associate a parent page to another, to define a hierarchy of pages. The main visual change appears in the main menu that will display child pages you have defined.

The “Model” attribute (which is not always visible depending on themes) is used to change the page size, i.e the way it is displayed. By default, the pages are usually displayed in a sidebar (as for the list of items) that displays widgets (list of categories, keywords, various links). It’s therefore possible on some themes to choose not to display this sidebar on a specific page by choosing a “full-width page template”.

Finally, the attribute “Order” sets the appearance order of the page in the menu relative to others, The page with the smallest order appears on the left, while the rightmost page will be the one with the highest order.

The menu

A menu is the essential element of navigation on the site because it provides a link to the main pages .
Menu management is performed via the submenu “Settings> Menus” in the administration interface.

Creating a menu

To create a menu, nothing easier: just choose a name and click “Create Menu”.

After creating the menu, we just need to add links. These can be in several types:

• a custom link that you choose the correct url for;
• a static page;
• a link to a category;

When a link is added to the menu, it appears in the central framework that summarizes the added menu items. It’s then possible, by unfolding the block, to delete the menu, change the wording, or adding a title attribute to the link (see below):

In this way, a bubble appears when you fly over the menu with the mouse (see figure below):

When you have added your links, activate the menu in the block “theme Places” where you can choose the main menu. The menu will be used as the main site navigation. If the theme you use permits, it may be possible to have more than one active menu location at a time, you could then activate a second display to another location of your pages.

 I can’t go to the page that list my items, we couldn’t add it to the menu!!

 as you’ve seen, it is not possible to add in the menu a link type “page articles”. So you have to type in the website base url for a list of your publications, which is not optimal … Two solutions can solve this problem:

-The first is to add a custom link to the menu, which will be the home page of the site and which will, for example as a title
“Home”. This solution is, however, impractical and it will change the menu if your site changes address.

-The second option is to combine the list of items on a page. In “Settings> Reading”, you must then choose to display a static page as a home page (so select a page of content you created), then a page to list articles. Note that if it’s used to list articles on this page will never be displayed, so it can be empty.
Then simply add these pages to your menu, the first will be the home page and the second will link to the list of articles.

Organizing menus

The order of the links is by default in the Add menu order, but it is quite possible to modify it as you wish. By dragging selected menus, you can order them as you please, as well as creating sub-menus. To do this, simply move the menu item to the right slightly, below that which will be the parent (see below):

Now, an overview on the parent menu will display the submenu as the following figure:

This allows to reproduce a similar navigation obtained by defining parent pages to others, but this is applicable to all types of menu items such as custom links and categories.

media

If you are now able to create content on your site, you are missing an important element to make it more attractive: the media; Images, sounds or videos, it’s entirely possible to insert them into your pages and your articles to illustrate your point.

Insertion in articles

 On the edit page of an article, you will find a button “Add media” (see below):

When you click, a new file upload window appears:

You can drag and drop, as in the following figure, a file in the window or click the “Select Files” button to use the file browser. When you select the file, it will be sent directly to the web server and previewed in the “Media Library” tab.

You can send any type of file, but the size should be smaller than 2MB. You can definitely add a music file or even a PDF, WordPress will take care to provide a proper display when viewing the article by a visitor.

Once the media you want to use in your article is submitted, you just have to select it and click the Insert button in the lower right section. Before that, you can edit the properties of the media on the right of the window:

• Title: the text to display in the overview of the media;
• Caption: a legend that appears in the media;
• Description: a longer description text than the caption (depending on the topic, it does not appear on the default theme for example);
• Link to: choose the behavior when you click on the media.

There are also some specific attributes pictures:

• Alternative Text: text to display if the image couldn’t be displayed;
• Alignment: if you choose “left” or “right”, the image will be surrounded by the text of the article;
• Size: the thumbnail size displayed in the article.

Finally, when the desired media has been inserted, do not forget to update your article for the changes to take effect!

Manage unused media

When you delete a media from an article, it will not be completely removed from WordPress, the sent file remains on the server to eventually be used on other articles.

To completely delete a media, you must go through the “Media> Library” that lists all files sent on the site. Then simply click on the link “delete Permanently” to delete it from the library.

 Important notes:

• The articles are published regularly depending on the news.
• The pages are destined for presentations.
• The menu can be managed automatically or manually.
• Any type of media can be added in a publication.

Next: Manage your participative site