The State Of One Man And His Goal

A quick little video about my progress so far, what I’ve learn and where I’m planning on going.

Enjoy

A Little Video Posts

The Net Fool commented that he hasn’t seen me make any orginal posts lately so I made this video explaining why.

Where The F@*k Have I Been?

Awkward, damn, I have to say that May has officially gone down as my best month ever. Starting off in Florida for a week with my buddy and his girl, the realization that I was only selling Real Estate to make my parents proud, out of control mountain biking and kayaking, a couple for 4-6 day flings with a couple of pretty girls, working the past 9 nights at the restaurant (with 3 to go) closing my last Real Estate deal yesterday, a new website I made that I know has potential but I don’t know how to promote it, the party last night and not having to go into Real Estate today. Please watch video

http://youtubeproposal.com

Installing Google Analytics On Wordpress 2.5.1.

First thing you need to do is sign up for Google Analytics and you can find it here. Next look at the bottom left of the page for Add a Website Profile and double click. Then you need to enter in you domain and click continue. Finally copy the legacy tracking code.

Now log into the back end of your site and click on Design >Theme Editor > Footer. Next look in the code for where it says . Hit enter to make go down and paste you code right above it.

Finally, go back to Google Analytics now that the code is in place and click the continue button below the code.

Done, here is the video for futurer clairification.

Creating An Adsense Account And Applying The New Code To Your New Theme

Slight change in plans for this series, I’ve been working with relaxationtipsvideos.com to document the how to create a vlog series. However, this isn’t helping me achieve my goals of making money online. Using wordpress to create sites can be applied to more than just blogs. Lately I’ve been talking about creating content sites to make money online, so I’m going to be developing a new content site in this series. Understand this can be applied to anything, content site of vlog. Recently on SitePoint there was a site for sale called http://ww.dust-mites.org It was earning 200 dollars/month and was ranked 9th for the search term dust mists. The new owner has managed to get it to rank 8th currently but I’ve seen it all the way up to 5th. So, I know there is money to be made in this niche.

Yesterday, I registered the domain name http://dustmiteknowledge.com. So far I’ve added the domain to my hostgator account, installed wordpress, applied the prosense theme and today I’m going to change the adsense code.

My goal is to get this site ranking in google for dust mites as well as the top 10 long tail terms for dust mites. But first things first.

Scanning SitePoint for successful sites from makes so much sense to me. Why put in all the research when you can “look under the hood” of already successful sites to see examples of successful niches and then apply yourself and steal some of their thunder.

The first thing you are going to need to do is create an account with google. At the top right corner of your account you will see you publisher id number. Simply copy and paste the publisher id over to all 7 ad units.

There are 7 adsense ad units planned throughout the code on prosense they are as follows

1) Adsense singlepost bottom banner
2) Adsense homepage linkunit
3) Adsense homepage banner
4) Adsense sidebar
5) Adsense singlepost top square
6) Adsense singlepost top banner
7) Adsense singlepost bottom square

That’s it, now get to work publishing content. The next post in this series is going to show you how to add google analytics onto your new site so you can see where you traffic is coming from.

Installing A Theme On Your WordPress Blog

What’s up everybody, I’m sorry its been so long since my last post. I’ve had crazy week and I feel like I have grown up a lot in a 2 week period. More on this to come.

It seems like the Co-op is a good idea and people are down with it, I’m just not sure the best way to go about it. Please more suggestions, I want you to help contribute if you have good ideas so we can make it our co-op.

This post is the 4th in the creating a vlog series. I think having a vlog is important for personal development but I realize that I want to spend the rest of my time creating content sites. This series is for that as well and there will be future posts on my work with content sites.

Anyway, today’s post is going to show you how to install a theme on your new wordpress vlog. The theme I have picked out is Prosense. It has adsense ad blocks already on it and is optimized for SEO. This blog, onemansgoal uses the Dream Theme by Ben Cope and it looks a lot nicer than Prosense but I would recommend starting with adsense before you start trying to sell your own ads.

There have been a lot of comments regarding text as well as video so you’re going to get both. So feel free to read the text or watch the video. I understand it is hard to process all of the thoughts in the video so maybe watch the video and clarify with text.

So we have already set up our go daddy account and registered a domain name, set up our hosting account and installed wordpress onto our host gator account. Now we have a bland looking blog it will function but it doesn’t look that good and it hasn’t been monetized. So now we are going install a theme.

First Step - You need to google wordpress themes and find one that you like. I googled wordpress adsense themes and that is where I found prosense but you can choose any theme you like.

Second Step - Download the theme and save it to your computer, after this is completed you need to un-zip the files.

Third Step - The files are now on your computer so you need to open you ftp (file transfer something?) software. I use smart ftp and you can download it here. Now open up the ftp and open up your desktop and drag and drop the files over onto your server. As I sitting here I think I need to make a video showing you how to use ftp, however I’m a newbie as well and I figured it out pretty quit. Play around with it and you will get it.

Fourth Step - Log into the back-end of your blog and go to Presentation. You will see your current theme and then you will see prosense or dream theme below it. Double click on it and bam your done.

You’ll have a great day and remember it you want something take it. No one is going to give you want you want you have to go out and grab it. Don’t read blogs all day take action and get yourself free.

Introducing the Co-Op

Today will be the first day to sign up for the “make money online” co-op. The make money online co-op will be open to any blog in the make money online niche. The list will be maintained here at onemansgoal and the order on the list will be based on who signs up first.

The point of the co-op will be to help all involved gain links and traffic. The following will be accomplished in a couple of different ways.

1)You will be required to write a post on your blog explaining to your readers what the co-op is and the benefits in order to grow the co-op in size. Remember the more blogs we can get to participate and more links there will be to go around.

2)You will be required to write 2 posts per month highlighting a member of the co-ops blog. Who you choose will be completely up to you. It will encouraged that you read all the members blogs at least once so you can find a couple that you like and write a post highlighting one of their articles. At the end of each post you will be required to list all of the blogs in the co-op complete with links. This will be easy for you because you can simply come here first to find the list and repost the list I will be keeping track of.

By completing the second step you will be giving a link twice a month to everyone on the list, and you will be receiving a link from everyone on the list as well.

To sign up go to the contact page on this blog and shot me an e-mail. I’m going to give all of my readers a chance to get best position by signing up now. Tomorrow I’m going to collect the e-mail addresses of all the bloggers on 45n5 top list and e-mailing them as well to see if they would like to join.

Thanks for watching

Installing WordPress onto your HostGator Account

Here is the 3rd part in an ongoing series of setting up a video blog. You can find parts 1 and 2 here:

Part 1 here
Part 2 here

Here you go

Taking a Trip to Florida

Check it out

Setting Up a HostGator Account

Here is part two in my series “Setting up a Video Blog” You can find part one here

I’m sorry the sound isn’t that great. I’m in a hurry between jobs and there is a interesting discussing going on in the comments of April Traffic and Revenue Report

You can sign up for a HostGator Account here: