All right. Hey guys it's Greg
and I'm here today at YouTube N.Y.C.
to show you how to make a WordPress
blog
in the fastest
and cheapest possible way that there
is
today we're going to be using
WordPress
.org so that you get all the
features
like Google Analytics
and Google Ad Sense social media
buttons and pretty things that you
might see
on other popular Web sites that you
look at today.
So you can make a website
or a blog
or a website with a blog
or just a really simple one
page site something like that.
Either way it's up to you.
You just need to install the
Wordpress
software which is what I'm going to
show you
how to do right here.
We'll keep it really simple today.
You don't need to know anything
about servers
or code or any of that despite
what you might have heard
or read.
We have the only two tools we need
here to get
started which are the word Pesta
or web site
and a web host which you
can see here.
And then you have me your teacher
for better or for worse
and maybe just a cup of coffee
or whatever it is you like drinking.
So let's get started.
If you already see where we can take
you later on how to make a WordPress
blog the right way.
Let's do it.
All right guys
and gals. Let's do it.
So for starters you can visit the
Wordpress org site if you want
to I guess meet WordPress.
But you don't need to be on this
site
and you don't need to click download
WordPress either
because our Web host of choice they
host Gator has unlimited copies
of it and it'll set up WordPress for
us. But sometimes I like click
and showcase just to see who else is
using WordPress.
Like Bloomberg
angry birds
and the Walt Disney Company.
All right.
So we're going to visit host keytar
in a second
to see what they're all about.
But I'm also going to bring in our
handy stopwatch
so we can see how getting web
hosting
and getting a domain name if you
need it
takes about as much time as it does
to
check our emails. Which for me is
four minutes.
So let's click start
and we'll keep an eye on that as we
go
through.
First up is a visit host gator at
toldo that HBO s
t o r dot com.
All right. And we're also going to
keep track of how
many different snaps as we see
throughout the tutorial that's
snappy right here.
So I choose those because they're
always the
first to come out with new products
like these.
They have award winning live chat
support
up here
and you pretty much get more
features
than you could ever need to try
on your new blog.
You'll never run out of new things
to play with.
So first step is to click
get started now.
Right here.
And we're going to get the hatchling
plan today because
it's the most basic cheapest plan
one step up would be that baby
plan though
and that's just good if you want to
run unlimited
sites. But the hatching plan is
perfect.
If you want to run one WordPress
site or blog same thing
and we can see that it starts at 395
per month.
But that's just what the general
public pays
my audience. So we're always going
to get better
stuff and I'll show you how to get a
special discount
in one second.
I just want you to know that you can
also click compare
all plans
and you get this really epic
detailed
list from host gator
showcasing what their three most
popular
plans had sling baby
and business come
with things like a $300
credit to try google adwords
or Yahoo bang
and most importantly Hatchell
and comes with amazing WordPress
hosting right here.
All right. So that's all we need
today.
But this list is obviously pretty
cool
to see about it.
All right.
So now it's time to see to get a
discount.
This is just an example from a
previous
video tutorial that people followed.
But what I'm going to do is
leave you a link like this one
beneath the video.
Believe me not everyone sees
or finds it
but it's going to say something like
get biggest is kind of at
home care
and then you just click through it
and the discount will be applied
automatically.
So already we're going to get
the hosting down to three dollars a
month.
That seem amazing hatting hosting
and it also gets a domain name
thrown
in and custom e-mail there.
And so you don't have to use your
Hotmail anymore.
All right.
So that will be applied
automatically.
And I may earn a small credit if
you sign up through my link that
comes at no cost to you.
So big thanks for helping me.
By the way.
All right so now click on get
started
and we're going to go to the
housekeeper.
Order forms here in the right place.
Step one.
We just need to choose a domain.
So enter your new domain name
if you want to add a new one if you
need help
with any ideas let me know in the
comments is parts
really fun. But I already found the
perfect one
and I bought it so I'm going to
click on this domain
and entering my word
blog to tutorial.
Spell it.
Not bad.
And I'm just going to use the dot
com here.
We don't need
to get any of the other extensions
because I'm not worried about
copycats at
this point.
But the Dotcom's the best if you
add the dot net or the dot org
or something it's not going to hurt
your site.
People just think of the dot com
right away
I saw like that in step
2. It's time to choose a hosting
plan. Just make sure you have
hatchlings
selected
and then for a billing cycle
we can see that 12 months is
a really good price.
It's actually the lowest price right
here
but even more importantly perhaps
12 months is the ideal amount of
time to make your
blog success
and make some money from it
or move on to another on an
adventure.
But it's important to give your blog
a website a chance
to access
and it looks like even huskier knows
that
we're going to choose it for $2
and fifty cents a month that would
just be
$3 if you get a domain name to
next choose a username
and password
and come down enter your
billing info and step three.
So I had autofill take care of that
in step four make sure to uncheck
all
the additional services you can add
them later.
But we don't need them at the moment
because
we want to pay the least amount
possible
and in step five we're done.
All right. So it's going
to be $31.
If you just get the Web Hosting
or $36 if you
get the domain name that domain name
will just be $5 a month
which also is a discounted
price.
So these are both insanely amazing
deals
and you have my personal word that
these are actually the best
deals available today at my expense
in the future.
If it does just let me know in the
comments
and I'll help out.
But for now let's keep moving.
Check this box
and then proceed
and click.
Check out now
congratulations
and welcome to the host gator
family.
When you see this screen it's now
time
to check our inboxes.
OK so e-mail now.
And I want you to look out for two
e-mails
that host cator will send you
which will help you do the next two
steps we need to do right now
before we install WordPress.
All right.
I'm sorry for going thirty four
seconds
over.
Greg owes you thirty four seconds
redeemable however you want
her. So the first
thing to look out for is billing.
Right. And if you don't see these
e-mails just
ask Coast gaters Award-Winning live
chat.
They'll send them over manually.
So open up billing
and the first step we need
to do and need to know how to do is
just to log in to that place we were
before
where we got that Congratulations.
Welcome to the host family message
get back there because that's also
where we install Wordpress
and I closed all my browser
tabs so we need to see how to get
back there.
All right. So to do that we just
click
on this link that says host cator
billing portal.
And then log in with the information
from that
billing e-mail.
So that first step is done.
You now know how to get back to your
home skater
customer portal which is that
they also call it the billing portal
because from portal
towns a little better.
But this is where you do pretty
much everything in terms of managing
what you just set up.
You need to have a lot of hosting
packages
and this is also where we install
WordPress.
All right so let's click on
posting
and get ourselves to the right
place.
But what we need to do now.
The second thing we need to do
is go back to our inbox
and open up the no reply e-mail.
All right.
And this e-mail contains first name
server and second name server
which are two important pieces of
information
we need to connect our domain name
with our hosting.
Everyone needs to do this step
especially
if you registered your domain name
somewhere like Go
Daddy your name cheap.
Just log in to those registrars
and follow the instructions.
Or ask their live chat
where to put your first name server
and second names are
and then make sure to save So your
domain name points to your hosting.
Right. This a necessary step.
And I'm sure you have now.
But this is a host game tutorial so
if you
really want I'll let you know in the
comments how to do
that at a place like Go Daddy
or name cheap.
For now we're going to move forward
and enter the first name server
and second home server at home
Skeeter
should take us about a minute so
let's
continue
and continue.
OK so we're just going to write
these down or copy them in
our case it's a easier.
Highlight right click copy
and I'm going to remember that the
other one is just
9 8 7 9 7.
Come back to your host customer
portal
and then let's click on
domains at the top
and what are you going to do.
This is just an example.
You'll see your domain name right
here.
You're going to click on the gear
on it
and then where it says Name Servers
are going to change
and you're just going write over
these two
name servers.
So delete it
and then right click paste
and then write in the new one as
well.
Right so that one was just an eight
and then once that's done you're
just going to click
Save name servers
and you're good to proceed.
Good job.
All right. I think we know that at
one minute.
Great job.
So let's come back to hosting.
All right. So lots of fun new easy
tools to play around
with in this section of hose skater.
But for now it's time to move
forward
with the main event of the tutorial
and install your copy of WordPress.
I think they should take us about
two minutes
and after that we'll learn as much
as possible
in wordpress as we can today.
All right. And if not cut plenty
more tutorials on the channel
so let's do it.
Go ahead and come down where it says
get started
with wordpress today
and click that link.
And now all we need to do is
select your domain name from this
list
which should be pretty easy unless
you've
made it like a million WordPress
sites like
me
right there. Well there it is.
And we're going to leave the
director box blank
on anything there
and just click next.
Now you need to enter some
information like a blog
title so this
can be changed later.
I'm just going to go through
quickly.
The only thing you need to really
focus on here is your email
because WordPress will send you some
logon details
and your admin user this is what
WordPress will understand as your
username.
So when you publish a blog post it
will say
published by whatever you write
here like Greg
or you know tenis
guy 22
or something.
That's what it'll say.
So make that one series
and get it
all right. Now check the terms box
and click Install now
and cross your fingers.
This is the famous WordPress one
click
install you might have heard about
and were doing it together.
All right. Success.
We got the green check mark
installation complete.
You do not want to click on the
installation
details. You just want to take
these and copy them
and put them someplace safe like in
a blank note file.
Or you know a word doc what
you do want to do now is click my
installs
upper right
and change your password.
So it's the at that.
Thinking we're going to come down to
our new install at the bottom
click reset password.
You might just have one word
processor you know
a lot. In the future choose your
name
and address it in a new password.
I see you something different.
Click update password.
And now let's click
and admin logon.
All right. So I just pause the video
now
to tell you three things.
The first one is that if you visit
your
Wordpress admin log in link
like we are at right now
but you don't see this WordPress
logon. You see some sort of blank
or error page.
Then it's either because when
you just install WordPress it can
take
between two
and four hours for
the screen to start working because
your server
and other servers in your area are
updating. To understand
where your web site is.
Also if you just connected your
domain name from somewhere like
Godaddy
to your hosting it can take up
to 72 hours to start
seeing your Web site live
because of what's known as
propagation.
That's just so you know.
If you don't see this WordPress
logon screen
but you did follow the instructions.
You probably didn't do anything
wrong.
Just take a break
and come back a little bit later.
The second thing I want to say is
we're now
going to start ten steps to master
WordPress in 10 minutes.
I hope you'll stick with us because
this is where
we'll learn how to make it complete
Wordpress
blog
or web site should be a lot
of fun.
And the third thing I want to say is
that we're going to get rid of the
stopwatch because I think
we want the full screen
but I'll just use that for my
reference.
All right. So let's continue.
The first step in our ten steps
to master WordPress in 10 minutes is
just to log in.
So go ahead and do so
with the password that you set in
the screen.
The host Guter control panel
marketplace
lets also check remember me.
And let's also bookmark this link
so that when you log on when you
want to log
in in the future you can just find
this link from your bookmarks
or from a folder courier job.
All right. And if you do lose
track entirely of where to log in
you can always just visit your
domain name dot com
and write affords us W.P.
Dasch admin
and click enter
and it'll take you back to the same
thing.
All right so that's how I do it
sometimes.
So let's click logon
and welcome to WordPress
we can say we don't need help
because
you have me.
And then the first thing we want to
do is just
dismiss a few of the notifications
like no thanks right here
and we're going to clean up your
dashboard a little bit
so that all of us are on the same
page
and that your site runs perfectly
and really simply.
All right so first it says your site
is
currently displaying. Coming soon
page
what does that look like.
Well I'm going to open up our site
incognito so it doesn't know
we're logged in
and show you that coming soon page
looks like this.
All right. So anyone other
than you like your friend
or your business partner who's not
logged in
will see this right when you are
at this point in making your
wordpress
site.
So if you want a coming soon
page if you're worried that people
will see your
site before you launch then you
might want to keep this up.
However I like removing
it because then your friend can look
at the site
and give you feedback.
You know they don't have to be
logged in
and it can be kind of confusing
if you don't know this page is up
and it is and people
aren't actually seeing your site.
I guess to put it
hopefully simple.
All right. So if you want to keep
that
page up if you're worried
about her say look then
just leave it.
But if you want to remove it click
here.
And if you want to see how your site
looks to the world
you just click in the upper left
on your site title
and it'll take you to the front end
of your site
which is how the whole world sees it
once it's
live at the moment it's just
you that can see it like this
because everyone
else sees the coming soon page.
And if you click on that site title
again
it'll take you to the back end
or the dashboard where we make our
edits.
So just clicking the button will
just go from
one place to another.
Front and tabac and you're
caught but I don't like the coming
soon page
because the colors don't match
my branding so I'm going to
click here
and that'll get rid of the coming
soon page
and everyone will see your site
as it is. As
you build it.
All right. Great.
Up next let's click updates
whenever there's a little red
circle.
It means that we should update some
stuff.
So we can just.
Select all on the plugins which I'll
explain in a little bit.
Update them
and you can also update the theme.
Just a best practice to keep
everything
updated.
All right.
So now is a good time also to go to
plug ins
and plug ins.
We can make sure that we're on the
same
page. I just want to delete some
plug ins
we don't need so we can actually
activate access.
That's an anti-spam tool which you
can
sign up for later.
It will reduce spam on your blog
posts
and pages
and we can delete Hello Dolly.
Just click OK.
There is no harm in deleting a plug
in from your site.
You can always reinstall it
and get it working again
and you won't experience any
negative
side effects unless your whole site
like depends on it.
But our site doesn't depend on any
of these
at the moment.
So we're going to deactivate
and delete
Meldrum or your place opt in Monster
and jump back.
You can always bring them back later
for free.
All right. So if we could plug ins
again
we should just have one plug in
activated
as well it's a plug in
in the first place.
A plug in is like an add on
to your site. It extends the
functionality
by definition.
So if your Wordpress is an apartment
a plug in would be like the
television the
oven the couch
your apartment doesn't come
with those things automatically just
like Wordpress
doesn't.
But when you bring them into your
site
plugins like to do a lot more like
show
social media icons
or create an image cyder
or rank better in Google
and so on and so forth.
So you need Paulian
but you want to make sure you get
the right ones too.
And just ask me to share my
favorites if
you'd like.
All right. So we're done with the
first step in
our 10 steps
and the second step is the theme.
Let's change the whole work of our
site.
If we click our site title to
go to the front and now we see
that our site looks well like this.
It's got one of the default themes
in wordpress
running.
I know that it's called 2016
but everything you see from the
black lines
to the way the fans are
the way your sidebar is over here.
And every little detail down
to the shape of the search box
that's all
guided by the theme.
So this theme works pretty good for
a
lot of people
but we want our site to work.
Amazing.
So let's change the whole theme
and to do that we can go up to our
upper
menu
and we need to common themes.
Or we can go the long line which is
click on your site title
and then hover on appearance
and click themes.
I'll take you to the same place.
And we can see that activity's 2016
made by the Wordpress team you can
see all the details here.
X out.
And so if you aren't activate one of
the other
themes that your site came
with just click on activate button
here
or to get a new theme we can click
on the
big plus sign here.
Right now you're going to see a ton
of things.
So these are all made by
WordPress developers the Wordpress
community
and wordpress you know features some
and so others are popular.
And you're going to want to like
play around
when you have a moment.
The only problem is some themes look
really good. And then actually
they don't work at all.
You know when you install them like
they do right here
responsive is a really good one that
I
know but there's
too many things to keep track of.
So I picked out one already
which I know looks good
and it's just called North Beach
search for north
than it or find it.
All right. And it's by a company
called Site
origin so origin created
the smash hit vantage theme
which absolutely dominated WordPress
for the past three
or even four years.
So I know you're going to like North
because
they made a really popular thing
before
and this is one of their new models.
All right.
So to get north working
we can just hover on it
and click install
and then click activate
cool and now right away it's going
to say things for reasons that are
not equal
or marble here
or it's great to customize her art
so she can
go at her own pace
and we're going to see what our set
looks like.
Like the title
and right away everything looks
different.
So it's a lot more simple yet.
And of course it doesn't look very
good
at all because there's nothing here.
So let's move on to Step Three in
10 steps to master Press
adding blog posts.
And within this section also show
you how to
get free images online.
So to get your first blog post live
hover
on the skinny at the top
and click the post
start off right away
with an image so open
a new tab.
And I like going to a site called
pick's
X a b a y
dot com.
All right. When you get a pix of it
you can get
all sorts of free high quality
nature images.
And
you know any way you want to search
basically
works you can't go wrong.
So if you have a food blog you have
a nature blog
whatever kind of thing you want.
I usually go on with nature
and once you click on an image you
like you
can also click on the categories.
So it's pretty cool
and you can try to find the best
possible image.
So I'm going to search for like New
Zealand
because I just visited there
and I've been pretty obsessed
with it
and use this
image.
The first one because I was actually
there.
That's the gondola in Queenstown.
It's pretty cool actually golfed
right there. That's a story for
another time.
And to get a nice image just click
free download
and then you can choose the size
of the second largest one is good.
Really good. Click download.
And then it's going to ask you to
sign in
and do the capture.
And I just did a free social media
site
and before so I don't need
to title it
and save it cool.
Now we can go to the blog post
and you can easily insert
an image into the blog post by
clicking
add media then click
select files then just
find the image on your computer.
That's usually in downloads
or on your desktop when you find
it. You can double click
or click open
it will upload to your Wordpress
your
blog and be stored in your hosting.
And then you just have to choose
that display
setting. So whether it shows up like
really big or smaller in the post
and if you want it to float around
text
or link to something all
right and then you can click insert
and post.
So I chose the big
setting. So you get a huge high
quality
image
but we actually just want to click
it
and remove this because we want
our image in the featured image
section
so that the theme does something
beautiful
with it.
So Clix a featured image choose
the image and set each image.
I don't see that in just one second.
For now we need a title.
So how about made it to
the top in New
Zealand
and then some text.
Sorry about the noise I guess.
The chase is on
with my kids.
Categories are good for people
and the search engines to find your
post so
why not add a new category
to something basic like travel.
We can uncheck categorize
and tags are even more specific
in categories like New
Zealand
or categories
or food than tags are brownies
and cookies.
All right great job
and we can leave the rest the
settings the
same although there are a lot of fun
to play around
later.
And let's publish the post.
Or in my case update because I
already published
it.
Right now we just need to click the
site title to go back to the home
page
and we can see that our first blog
post
is live.
Great job
and the North theme did something
beautiful
with the image inserted
in this perfect square here.
So that's where featured images
will go.
It looks really professional.
You can see the byline here for your
author
and the date. And then once you
start getting comments
those will show up in the link right
next
to the title right here.
So the next step in our 10 steps to
master
Wordpress is pages some
more to post but slightly different.
Let's go back to our skinniness
and click new page
and let's just create an about
me page so about me.
So this one is cool.
I'm going to show you how to get
another image now
but this one is going to be from
our own gallery because it's an
About
Me page.
All right. I'm going to open up the
photos
app on my Mac.
If you're on a PC then just go
with the default photo uploading
app.
I already had to plug in my phone
and click Import.
And so now I have some
images to choose from.
So are there kind of goofy
and I think a good one would be like
maybe.
So I have a few Yes
yes.
No images to choose from.
Am I going to go with like.
This one.
So to get it from the
app to your WordPress.
I like doing the old fashioned drag
to
the desktop.
Now go back to WordPress in your
browser
and click Add media again
upload files
or slide files
and you'll see that new
image on your desktop.
Right. So we didn't rename it
but that's OK for now.
We can just double click
and it's a big image because it came
from
a phone.
Now we're going to size the image
down to
large
and set the alignment to the left.
So the tax will set to the right
image. You'll see that in a second
click instead of the page.
Here and I look an image.
And so now I'm just going to write a
little about
us player that will hopefully good
on our new blog.
So if we click anywhere to the right
of the image
and then start typing
and you'll see your text appear
right away you just gotta
start typing.
So when you start writing the names
the image
goes in the wrong place
and an easy way to fix it is just
to click the text tab
and then you can find the part of
this
blog post which is the image.
So in our case we have text
and image
and we can see if we will of close
not that
the text ends after tutorial
and then there's just like this
image aged female
We're going to separate it by
hitting enter
then we're going to highlight all
that image it's
female
and we're going to cut it
there we're going to come to the top
make some space
and put that image back there
because the image should have been
at the top.
It just likes kind of hugging the
text.
So not a quick visual then the
image will align perfectly.
Good job.
And we can even clean up that one
space.
All right. So that's starting to
look like a professional
about me page if you'd like
you can go back to the text tab
and actually do a lot
with this little H.T. not Editor
window for example.
You can add some styling to the
image
such as style equals
quotation marks border
to pick's.
Just a random site I chose
Dasht
blue some so can
quote and give your image
a nice border around it.
Keep in mind there is pretty much
unlimited
things you can do within WordPress
because you are now
in control of the Internet
and as many real web pages as you
want
on the Internet.
So let's just publish our page.
I think it's ready to go.
And we'll check it out by clicking
home page
and we can see we have a link to
our new page in the navigation menu.
And there she is.
So just to start I would see a lot
more that we could do.
All right. So the fifth step in our
10 steps to master WordPress
involves
the links to your blog posts
and pages also called
you or else. And also called
Permalink.
So if you're anything like me you'll
see
a page that you're on on the web
and you'll look up here you are
Albar
in your browser
and what we don't want to see is
anything
complicated such as an index
step
or a date even because that can
update your posts over time.
In the eyes of Google all you want
to see are keywords like about me.
So to simplify your links
or Permalink.
Go back to the dashboard
with me.
Hover on settings
and just click permalink.
All right. And now we just need to
choose the host
name. There's a bunch of options.
I'm not really sure why
but they could be useful for someone
and click save changes what that
post
name selected.
Now only go to our blog
WordPress will know that the blog
post
and the about me should only
have the keywords right there
after the domain name.
Great job.
And that will apply to all of your
links going
forward what you want
are it.
Part 6 is going to be involving
our homepage.
So let's click on our site title
right here.
And I just want you to know that the
home page
doesn't have to show off your blog
posts.
All right.
So what I like doing when
I build a website for a client
or make a blog for a client
sometimes
is showcasing a huge image
with buttons on it
or an image slider on the home page
and then they'll have to click
somewhere to get
to that blog you know.
So it's not the first thing they see
with the blog.
It's more just like some beautiful
information
about the company.
So if you want to do that I'm
going to create a separate tutorial
because
that alone will take about
10 or 15 minutes to set up.
But the basic way to start doing
that is to make a page
called front page.
So you go to a new
page
and you just call it the
front page
and click publish.
And this looks crazy confusing right
now.
But then you go to settings
reading
and here's the crux of
it all.
Where front page displays shows
you would change it from your latest
blog post
to a static page
and make that front page equal to
the front page.
You don't have to call it front
page.
I just like doing that because it's
WordPress terminology.
And then you'd make your post page
the blog.
So you'd have to create a page for a
blog to
anyways just a little bit of advance
word pressing
that Olby definitely for another
tutorial
coming soon.
All right. So look out for that.
For now we're going to stick
with our latest posts on the
homepage
and just change yours.
All right. The seventh step in how
to master
Wordpress is creating a menu.
So follow me now to appearance
menus.
Very good
and even though our site has a few
items
in the area
that's just WordPress.
Guessing what you got here so we
don't want to sample page of course
and we might want these to
rearranged
or so in menus
start off by clicking create new
money.
Call it something as simple
and explanatory as possible like
the main menu
and click create menu.
Next you can choose what goes in it.
By checking these boxes
here like that
and clicking add to menu.
If you have something in here that's
not ready yet
and you want to remove it open
and click Remove.
Make sure to choose the display
location
such as primary menu which is where
it will go on our theme.
Different themes will have different
display locations.
And lastly I want to add a custom
link to our homepage.
So click Custom link.
Open up your site.
Copy the URL.
We're going to walk quicker now
because we're getting
a lot better at Wordpress as we go
through.
I can feel it
and now.
Oops my bad
copy paste in there
and just give it some text like home
and click Addleman
you can reposition menu items by
dragging
and dropping
and family save money
and let's go to our site
and refresh to see
what we need.
Great job.
You I know how to make a menu in
wordpress.
All right so I like to show you how
to make a logo now
and to do that.
I like starting at the logo
maker dot com
that's logo maker
with out the E
and move that you are
right and this is just a great place
to find
logos and graphics.
If
you search for a graphic like
Comverse
I'm a big fan of compasses
and you'll get all these really cool
icons
that could be a logo.
Or maybe just an icon explaining
your services
or your goals or your mission
statement.
And then when you find one that you
really like you can
just click on it.
Like that you can easily change
that color by dragging around the
color wheel.
You know you might like a dark blue
or like a nice dark blue.
You can change the size by dragging
and dropping
and that's literally just the start
of what you
can do. Here in Logo maker
you can also add text.
For example
just click on the T
and type something.
All right. For now I'm going to show
you how to save
and upload this logo
click crop in the lower right
now click Save logo in the upper
upper right. Sorry got the lower
and upper next up.
Long day
and never again to save this as
you know will go.
Version 1
see it
and because this logo is free you
just have to paste a few
little credits on the site.
So just click this button right here
and now come back to our blog.
All right. And we're going to go to
the dashboard here.
We're going to make a new page by
clicking
pages on the left
add Neal.
And we're going to call this page
credits
and then drop in that little credit
from
Logo makers so we don't forget to do
that later.
Very important stuff that you don't
want
to forget.
So
yeah because that's code repasted it
should
actually go in a text.
And paste that in there.
And then when you click back to
visual
it will look good.
If you just publish your page don't
worry it
doesn't show up right away on the
site.
Just make sure to add that in later.
We can also go back to pages
and we can click trash
on a sample page.
All right. Now to upload our logo.
I'm going to show you that.
Customize your area where a lot of
the fun
goes on and wordpress just hover
on appearance and click customize.
So this will be where we do the rest
of
our mastering WordPress steps
to insert the logo.
Just go to.
Whatever you think might be the
right section.
But in our case I know it's the site
identity
and because no logo is selected like
Logo upload
or again select again.
And find that logo from our
downloads.
There she is.
And open.
Great job. And slide it.
All right. Now when you just grab it
a
little bit
drag and copy
image.
Right. So now let's see even
publish.
Let's see how our logo shows up.
It might be too big.
It might be perfect.
Refresh
and it's a little bit too big.
At that.
So I come back with me to customize
and I'm going to show you a really
clever and easy way to
change the size of something on your
site
and do it the way a professional web
designer would.
So if we go back we
can navigate to the additional CSI
section where you can add
your own CSI as here.
So when I learned were press
at the start I had no idea.
Yes that's what held me back.
I want to show you right away what
you can do here
because that way you'll feel a lot
more powerful
with everything
so we can just delete that dummy
text here.
You can also like actually click the
help icon
to learn more.
Right. So this is helpful stuff too
if you'd like
to learn more about us.
And for now I just want to show you
how to write a little bit.
So all it is is just hash tag
masthead.
Period side dash branding.
I am g
and that is going to say Listen up
logo
we are talking to you
then do an open bracket like that
and just write in Max
with
75 percent
semi-colon
and close bracket
and then that match when you click
on the site it should refresh.
And then if you don't see the
changes right away it's just because
we gave it the wrong percent.
So let's try a lower like five
twenty five.
We can see that this will
automatically change the
size of our logo because it's
telling
it to only go a certain width
and to circle so that applies
to every part of it.
All right. So I like it nice
smallholder
kind of like the Apple website
or the uber Web site
or you know the Netflix
website or something like that.
So 15 percent
20 percent is
too much and 15 perfect.
So 15 percent is perfect.
Now when we say publish
you go back to the site
and refresh you can see our
new logo looks a lot sharper.
Great job.
We just want to get rid of that text
beneath
it which is our site tagline.
So let's go back to customize
here back so
that entity
and we can get that tag line which
is still
shining. Just delete it right there.
Save and publish.
Refresh Well how does
that feel better.
All right. The final two steps to
master WordPress
are just a matter of cleaning up the
site.
The first area when I cleaned up is
our side
bar and to do that it can go back
to customize
back
and click widgets
and then you can click the main
sidebar
and literally just delete everything
we don't want and our Sidebar
remove remove
remove remove
and save and publish.
Now refresh
and our Cibo will look a lot cleaner
but a little bit empty.
So we want to put in like a Facebook
box on our Sidebar.
How do we do that.
Well we can go to the
Facebook like box
through Google
and we'll get the White Box
it's of open that
that's going to say like OK this
is what you can and can't do.
So we actually want to go back
and we want to go to the page
Paulian.
And this is what you see typically
on the web
on any major Web site that has
their Facebook box
and you can like it right from the
page
itself.
So it's really fun
you learn about inserting Facebook
onto a Web site.
So let's just give ourselves the
right
link here. Mine's already there.
Go ahead and create a Facebook page
if you need
it. It's obviously free.
And then we can set a max
with maybe about 300
and this will update
and then you can play out the
settings.
So I think actually the small
is pretty cool.
I like being brief.
Now you just seem to click good code
and what I'll do is grab this bottom
code
first just how I like doing it.
Copy that
and come back to WordPress
add a widget choose a text
widget where you can put an
arbitrary text
or H.T..
Now that's the key.
And then just paste in that code
from Facebook.
And so let's give it a
little chance to load save it
and refresh Azzi that worked
and it didn't quite work.
In fact it doesn't know
that it should appear.
It's just a link to Facebook.
All right. So that means that we
need to insert
the second porticos from Facebook
into go back to this page
and copy this step to code
and put that somewhere on our site.
But where do we put that.
Or the perfect place to put it is
actually
inside a plug in
which might sound crazy confusing.
I know but if you made it this
far you can definitely insert
this code onto your site.
Just go back to the dashboard
by clicking X cooking
X will actually take you back to
where we were
when we went to customize.
We were on the pagers list
and now it's click on plugins
and you're going to learn how to add
a new plug in
and it's just like adding a new
theme
like add new
search for it.
I don't want to repeat insert
code.
Super simple plugin I use on
a lot of my sites.
It's usually in the upper left
corner.
In this case it's the one
with the magenta
colored thumbnail
and click install on it.
Now it
and this will bring us to the
page where we now have to plug ins.
Very nice looking good.
And we want to just hover on
settings
where we now have a new section for
this
new employee
so click that
and then we're just going to paste
in
the code from Facebook right in the
header.
So it is a great place to paste in
analytics
code or Facebook code
or Google Code.
You don't need to know how the code
works.
You know you just need to paste it
in the right place.
And that's a whole lot of the world
works
and deciding that people don't
really know
what the code means.
We just use it save
changes
and now refresh your beautiful
blog
and we'll see that the Facebook Like
Box
populates perfectly.
It's just like chopping off
part of our site. I'm not sure why.
All right. Speaking of clean up we
might
also delete our
sample post here so just open
it.
It's kind of cool that we have one
comment early
but I'm sure you'll get more.
As you promote your blog
which will be the next section.
All right. So let's go to
posts
and just trash.
Hello world.
All right now we check out our site
looks a lot cleaner.
And the final step in mastering
Wordpress
or at least becoming a master as
I'll call you is just to add it
our footer.
All right. There's a lot of stuff
you will do in wordpress
but this will make you a
master to begin
with and then you'll become more of
a master.
So we're going to edit the footage
right now.
How do you do that.
Let's go to customize
and in this section you would
definitely expect
to see something for the footer
maybe in widgets.
No that's not in widgets although
you do
get a top bar which
is kind of cool.
Try that out later.
We just need to know where to get
this piece right here
so we can go back
we go back to the dashboard
and there's a lot of your site that
lives in appearance
editor appearance editor.
So this is where I like the the nuts
and bolts of your site.
Love
say it lives
and if you actually edit something
here
and do it in the right way it'll
show up
on the homepage
or on a blog post
so you can if you want to go this
way.
In this case we do
want to do a command for
her to open a
theme for her file.
And we want to just come down
to where it says div class
equal site info.
So I'm kind of encouraging
you to become a little bit
of a beginner coder here
which is definitely going to help
later on
as you learn more and more about the
Internet
and how to make an amazing WordPress
site.
That's beautiful. And the audience
loves
it because you know how to do
everything
with it
or even teach it.
So what we want to do here is just
like
command a command to see the entire
file.
We want to open a new text file
and just pasted in there
and call this
north water
to be back up
and save it so that if we do
anything
or copy paste it from here in
your site
and it back to normal in no
time for now I know that we
can actually delete everything in
this container right here.
Or we can just modify like little
sections
of it.
So I'm going to go for the whole
enchilada
and just delete all of it
and you're right in
2017
vertical bar.
This
is war.
All rights reserved.
So you know I'm kind of making a
joke
of this.
But seriously
Noorani tutorials.
That's my YouTube channel.
We can also put in a link if we want
but for now text
or do let's
just steal
this copyright icon from the site
itself.
I mean you actually paste that in
right there and loved it.
So you can see how like on WordPress
you can pretty much do
anything within reason.
All right. And now we have a totally
new footer
that you know not to do because
you're an expert
with appearance editors just don't
get too
overconfident and chop up every one
of these
files because that might hurt your
site.
But you know what. At the footer
you're
much further ahead than most
bloggers
when they make their first blog.
All right. So that does it.
We're now done with 10 steps to
master
WordPress in 10 minutes
or maybe a little bit more.
Sorry about that
but thanks for sticking with us
and I hope you now know
more than you ever could have
imagined about
WordPress.
All right.
So we're done making our humble
little
blog and I think it will work
for any niche that you choose
or niche because it's so
simple
and it's cool how you can see
everything from the logo
to the footer on one
screen and get a lot of information
across right here above
the fold.
So now it's time to move on
and set up Google Analytics
so that you can look at
and nice traffic curve like
we saw in the introduction.
So we're going to drag in our
stoplight
again which
I know some of you won't like
but I hope it helps
you
and show you how we're going to set
up Google Analytics
in under three minutes
or about as much time as it takes to
feed
your pet.
So I think this will help us in the
corner.
I hope so because we have to get
through Google
Ad Sense
and online marketing.
After all right.
So let's begin
to get started with Google Analytics
is going to open a new tab
because I'm already logged in
and the other one.
I'll show you the steps
so you can just Google Analytics
and then Google Analytics will come
up.
The first one Google dot com slash
analytics.
You can see their Web site here
which is beautiful in its own right.
They help a lot of small businesses
and just click seinen in the upper
right
and choose analytics
like almost all of Google's
products.
This one is free.
You just need to have a Gmail
or create an account
with Google
and then follow the steps
and they'll help you get set up set
up and tell you if you have data
already or if you're going to start
brand new.
All of that will help you get set up
easily.
So what are those steps look like to
insert
Google Analytics on a Web site.
Well we can check out my analytics.
Again Google dot com slash
analytics.
Sign in click analytics.
And so this is what it looks like
when you set up
your account.
Have some users showing up at my
sites
and a lot of new users that's good
and new sessions.
And so what I want to do now is just
go down
and click the ad men
click the gear
choose an account.
So I've set up analytics for a lot
of different accounts
and clients
and create new account.
All right. And then tell Google
Analytics about your site.
So this is what you'll be doing.
Exactly.
Select an industry category this is
always tough
for us teachers because it's like a
combination
of education
and Internet.
OK. Remove the HGP
and then come down
and leave these check if you want to
get Google services
it's recommended
and click track
and then click
accept.
And now you're going to get your own
custom piece of
Google Code.
So click once right here in the Web
site tracking
box copy.
Now come back to our blog.
Click to the dashboard
and you're going to be pretty happy
that you have your W.P.
insert code plug in installed
because we can just click that
and then make some space beneath our
code from Facebook
and just paste it in
and then it'll start working.
It's in the right place now on your
Wordpress
Web site. All right.
And it just means like a couple of
spaces
right there that's fine.
Save changes
now when you come back to analytics
we can verify that it's in
there.
So we're done here within Google
Analytics.
Just click back to property settings
scroll
down and click save.
All right. And now we're going to go
to
another Google web site which is
called
webmaster's central.
So look that up click the
first link sign
in
and you're going to want to click
add a
property right here in the upper
right
and then type in the Web
site again not the wireless code
just your Web site.
So copy
paste and click add
and this is going to add your Web
site to all
of Google's like data tracking
and blog Chagnon Web site tracking.
And so it's going to say recommended
method to verify
ownership is Google Analytics.
We've already done that.
So click verify.
Cross our fingers.
And congratulations.
It worked.
All right. So Google Analytics is
now
confirmed in our Web site.
They know you're there.
They're going to start tracking
anyone who visits
your blog or website.
So click continue.
And if you have any questions about
exploring
the tools here let me know.
You don't need to.
You really want to spend most of
your time
in analytics over here because
they have all this rich data
and it just looks beautiful.
One thing I like clicking is on
behavior
and site content
and then all pages because it
lets you see exactly which pages
and post are getting the most
traffic.
The third and final step you can do
is just
submit your you are out directly to
the
Google search engines
and you can literally just google
submit my you URL
to Google.
And I think we're going get a third
and final tool which is the Submit
Your
L Google.
Open that and then just
you know paste in your web site
link check that you're
not a robot and this is like a hard
submit.
All right. So this is like going to
tell them even quicker.
It's like a third reminder.
And now you're officially in there
your web site
is like in Google's
line of processing.
Right. So that'll get done.
You don't need to do anything else.
And we're good you know have Google
Analytics working
perfectly.
All right so it went a little over
there again.
I'm just going to owe you guys a
bunch
of grags time here.
By the end but hope you enjoyed
those
couple of extra steps to make sure
that Google Analytics
is working.
All right. So now we're going to
move on ad sense.
Very similar process.
You can just Google Ad Sense.
And so we'll do it in
cognito.
It looks like when you're a new user
of course.
So you just look up this link Google
dot com slash ads
and slash start.
All right.
We could look at her video about
like phones
and you know
and in the link I want you to
actually
go. In fact it's just google
ads and sign up
think it's slightly different to
sign
up right here.
So I'll leave you these in the
comments below of course
in the video notes
and the beauty here
is that there's only three things
you need and you know exactly
what you need.
So you just need to sign into your
Google account.
That's the first step.
And then it's going to ask about
your Web site.
So you need to have some sort
of website up you know Google
understands that there are
restrictions on
free Web sites like Wordpress dot
com
and Tumblr where you can put ads.
So they don't want to mess with
that.
They just want you to have your own
WordPress
website. I mean that's the
definition
of a real Web site these days having
Wordpress
and they want you to have a little
bit of content.
So it doesn't look like you're going
to be funny
or just like duplicate web sites.
Your web site has to look authentic.
So what you need to do is follow the
steps
to make a WordPress website
or blog.
And then right I would say one to
three blog posts
and populate it with some nice
content
and then you'll go ahead
and submit your website right here
in
the welcome to add sense.
All right. After that you went to
New Basic information
and they approve
or disapprove you.
So at that point I got
to say good luck
and I'm happy to help you at any
point in
the comments below.
Get Accepted to add.
It's a little bit harder nowadays.
I've heard there is a line.
Then when I sign up like you know so
many
years ago but you can do it.
I'm here to help.
Just don't delay because
it can take some time to get
approved.
All right. So inserting add sense
onto your blog or website
and putting an ad up is
just as easy as putting
Google Analytics in maybe even
easier.
Just go to this ad sense site
Google dot com site ads
and now sign
in.
Once you're approved.
It'll hopefully look something
like this.
So this is the new modern dashboard.
And.
Yeah.
All right so we want to click on
my ads
and you're going to want to click
new
ad units already have some we can
use
they're already active so it won't
take any time for them to appear.
Let's try
this one line.
Sidebar.
From one of our past amazing
tutorials.
You seem to copy the code
Asen Kearney's is recommended.
And then come back to your blog.
And then easiest
is to hover over the menu
and click widgets.
And I'll take you right to the side
bar area.
So what I like doing is.
Using a text widget add widget
and then just pasting in that code.
I make sure to click Save otherwise
it won't work.
And so this is another way of
viewing our
main sidebar
and it's the old fashioned way of
seeing
widgets.
The newer ways collect
and customize.
And then you can get two widgets
from there like we added our you
know
Facebook box.
Now we can out
and see our blog
and hopefully we'll have a nice ad
somewhere
but we don't and that's because I
actually run a
block or so to click that
and operate it.
And approve all pages on this domain
and exclude.
So now we have our very first
Google Ad working
and it knows that I like Virgin
Australia
because we just went to Australia.
It's a pretty smart program.
It'll generate your blog
or your website revenue
and that type of ads that show
up will depend on the content around
it. And the cool thing is that
depending
on your niche
those ads can earn you anywhere from
one to about $20
per click.
Because you know obviously when
someone clicks
it that person person's going to
spend more if it's like stock
market advice
or a finance book as opposed to
just like I'm you know cat
toys or something.
I spent a lot of cat toys.
So then you're going to earn money
and there's no reason that
you can't make
you know anywhere from
one hundred to five hundred dollars
maybe even a thousand.
After a few months of work
it's definitely difficult.
But if you blog every day
and publish every week regularly
you'll be amazed how people come
and enjoy your content
and will get to know you
and even help you you
know by using your advertisements
and your products.
And for a lot of bloggers I've
talked to you and heard about
putting that first ad on their blog
is the
first step to earning a full
time income.
There's no limit on it through
blogging.
Right so now you know how to do that
first step
fit a lot of people can't even
figure
out. All right guys
and gals so you've made it this far.
Graduations you've made a blog
you know about ads
and analytics now.
And I want to close
with a few minutes to talk about
online
marketing.
You're going to be doing a lot
online
as a blogger
and a web site owner
and one very important thing
is marketing.
All right. The good news is it
doesn't have
to be hard. It's fun
and there are proven steps
laid out ahead of you.
All right. So we've already
paved the road as
previous online marketers.
And here's how to do it so that your
blog
gets readers
and you can generate traffic
sell products to affiliate marketing
and you know grow in any
way you want.
The first step is to guest post.
So when you start
of blogging you don't
have an audience
but other blogs do.
One example of a blog that does is
pro blogger.
All right. So
what you can do is write about
topics
you're good at
and submit them to blogs like pro
blogger and then hopefully
after a couple of weeks of waiting
and you know biting your nails
they eventually send you an e-mail
saying
you're approved.
Once they do they'll publish your
content
in with a couple of edits they'll
give you a byline
and a link back to your site which
is important.
I'll talk about that in one second
and you'll start to look like
you know an author that has
a certain amount of credibility.
You have to write posts that are
very good
don't get me wrong to be long
exhaustive
and within the post you are to use
your style.
So you know enough said you know how
to write a blog post.
But the cool thing is you can
actually
link out to other bloggers
like I linked at in a Hofman.
All right. So she like tweeting me
saying
big things. And then we got to
network together and I really admire
her.
Check out her blog right here.
And you get that link back to
your post.
So you get two to three links at
least one.
What this link does is people can
click
it to get to your site of course
and then they'll say oh man this
blog is actually
cool even though it's new.
I'm going to read some of their
articles
and post comments
and share.
But Google also sees this link
as a vote from pro blogger
that your site is worth linking to.
All right. And that helps your
Google rankings
over time which you need to start
building. You need to start building
Google rankings
through links on other
websites and blogs
and guess posting is one of the best
ways to do it.
So once you have people coming back
to your blog
and you start building SEO juice
from these links your blog
posts need to look
good. They need to pass the test.
They need to be readable.
So you need to develop a style that
people
can actually get through
with headers and webs
and images.
But you also need to use a tool
called Yost.
So let me let me show you that one.
You can edit this page here.
And I have a plugin installed called
Yost which
gives me actually a checklist of
everything
I need to do to make a blog
post or a page of friendly.
You click Edit snippet.
And you can tell Google
about your posts like writing a
better
description.
This would appear beneath
a link in Google when someone
searches
a fellow like a blog
for Mani.
This is the description right here.
It's like the great text
really important.
To rank in Google.
So you can actually control what
shows up
there.
You can even give it a focus keyword
and then once you do that Yost's
will tell you where to write the
keyword how
much to write if you should
edit your images
and so on and so forth just
doing this much
and having a checklist will set you
apart
from the thousands of other blogs in
your niche
that are too lazy to
or just don't know how.
So know if you don't
know now you know you can
get this tool for free.
Call the Yost as you
go here.
And then so once you do that
and you have people coming to your
blog
and your blog posts are good
and they pass a test your pages look
good and they pass the test then
you're
going to want people to stick
around.
So people will often read your blog
and then forget about it.
But if you have an e-mail newsletter
here above the fold
looking you know good enough that
someone
would pop in their name
and email and click join
then you'll be able to keep contact
with readers and deliver them more
value.
And then eventually online market
to them in the future
with your e-books your ideas
your new products your new
businesses your new
Web sites
and that's how the process sustains
itself.
It's really easy just sign up for a
whether
they charge a dollar per month to
get started.
I use them for all my email
management.
And by that I'll give you a link to
every tool
we talk about in the video below in
the comments.
You don't need to go anywhere.
I want to say comments.
I mean the notes below the video
it would be great.
I've collected over 5000 subscribers
with them.
I get stats for when I send out a
newsletter.
The company will open it collect it
if anyone complained.
I know it. Point four of a
complaint.
But I should probably get that.
And then you can create as many
emails as
you want for like you know your
parent
blog or a different blog.
So on and so forth.
You even get detailed information
about
each subscriber which I won't tell
you of
course because this is all very
professional
and private.
If you don't want to get a
professional
e-mail management tool like this
that
you have to pay a little bit for
if you'd rather grab an email
marketing software
that's free and just super basic
and get MailChimp will give you
a link to them to below.
And I've used them for different
projects.
They were great.
You can capture people's emails
you know send them a free welcome
message send them an ebook
and start that
whole process.
So these are all very
good positive things to have on your
blog.
It's good numbers so when someone
subscribes
you can check out that stat
and get excited about it.
And then of course when you land
a guest blog post
or you know make
your own blog post you can get very
excited as well.
If you're anything like me this
stuff
makes me more excited than
I was as a kid at an amusement park
to wake up
and just open the laptop
or fire up the desktop
because you look at the numbers
and you can see how your work is
doing.
You start finding people.
What I forgot to do for all that.
And you know really
immerse yourself in blogging
and get a piece of the pie
from all the blogging success people
are experiencing.
So that's online marketing in a
nutshell. I'll show you more guest
posts
if you want but that might be kind
of vain. I just went on like a
blogging
Post blog.
Guest Post frenzy
when I first started Dear
blogger.
So that's what you can do to
guarantee it works
and will leave you
back at.
The blog we made together so you can
keep adding to it.
Write some more blog post below
and maybe a contact page
and then make sure your sidebar
looks
perfect.
Maybe you're going to want to add in
that a Weber
or MailChimp right here.
Just that simple copy paste piece of
code
into a text widget like we saw
before.
All right. But I'm confident you
have the tools
now to make
your blog into a successful
endeavor
and really join the blogosphere
with style and make it a better
place.
So good luck. And here's where I go
into
asking for things from you mode
and asking you to please share the
video.
Subscribe rate
and post a comment.
I really really need these things
to keep doing what I do
and it really helps if you learned
anything and you can do that.
Thanks so much for helping spread
the good word about blogging.
If we ever meet up at some
convention
drinks on me
and you know Cheers.
Thank you so much for watching.
I love making these for you guys.
So I'm going to go into that mode
