- In this video, I wanna show you how to create an affiliate marketing website. I'm gonna show you everything
that you need to know from start to finish. But before we do that, I
wanna tell you a little story, a story about AWP Eagle
Viewer, just like you. His name is Carl. And back in 2017, he watched one of my videos, a video just like this one really. Cause I try and create videos
like this every single year, sometimes twice a year. But yeah, he watched the one I created
back in January, 2017. He watched the entire
video from start to finish and he ended up creating an
affiliate marketing website. And it was at that point that
his life changed forever. You see, Carl used to
work at a supermarket, nothing wrong with that. Of course, he had a really
good job at the supermarket, but he knew that
something needed to change that his life wasn't quite
going in the direction that he wanted it to. The first site that Carl created, it wasn't his best site.
He's honest about that. But it got him going
down a different road. And, well, let me cut
this long story short, Carl now earns around $7,000 a month from his projects online. He recently sold one of his
affiliate marketing websites for around $26,000. And, well, he now documents all this and talks about it and shares his ideas on his very own YouTube channel. And that all started from watching a video just like this one you're
about to watch right now. So, if you're looking to
change your life like Carl, then this might be the video that does it. I suggest you watch the
video all the way to the end. It is quite a long video. So, you might have to do
it in a couple of sessions. You might wanna set it
up on a separate screen so that you can work on your computer. Maybe watch it on your phone or an iPad or something like that. If you need to jump back
and forth through the video, there are timestamps
below in the description. So, just click on them and you can get straight
to the part that you want. So, let me introduce myself properly to those of you that are new here. My name is Alex. This is WP Eagle, and I've been doing YouTube
for a good few years. And my approach has always been
one of honesty and openness. I don't have a course to sell. I don't have anything to sell. I just wanna share
good, honest information that helps people achieve their goals and change their life. So, let me give you an example of this. I created a video just like this one. I said I create one every single year. I did one back in 2019
when I created this site, it's called bestroofbox.com. And of course, you can
watch the video right now. It's still up there. And after I put the video
up and I launched the site, I then created videos like every month, sometimes more frequently than that, sharing everything that I did to the site, all the work that I did on
the site or the changes, all the content, I also shared all the
traffic the site was getting, all the analytics numbers. And of course, I shared
all the earnings and yeah, you can watch all of those videos. In fact, I've put them all
into a YouTube playlist to make it really easy for
you to follow my journey. But basically, that site is now generating a healthy four-figures every single month. So, there's some proof for you that the websites that I
create in my tutorial videos, in tutorial videos just like this one that you're watching right now. Those websites, they can generate a
pretty substantial income and they do work. And in fact, Best Roof Box is not the only case study that I'm sharing on YouTube. I've also got wheelalong.co.uk, which is all about things
with wheels like trolleys and wheelbarrows and that kind of stuff. Well, yeah, I've got a
playlist on that site as well. It's only about six
months old or so that one, but it's already starting
to bring in a bit of revenue from Amazon. As far as Best Roof Box goes as a project, I'm still working on it. And I'm actually confident that 2021 is gonna be a
fantastic year for that site. Our figures are up on
last year, traffic is up, revenue is up and we're in winter. (chuckles) And that site does best in the summer. So, really looking forward to this summer, I also think that due
to travel restrictions and things like that, that it could do really well as people kind of have
to stay in their country and maybe go camping, that kind of thing. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing
how that does in the summer. Then I'm probably gonna
sell it in the winter and I'm hoping to get
between %40,000 to $50,000 for that site. And of course, I'll
share all that with you. I'll document the entire process and you can come along
with me on that journey and see how it ends. But yeah, I'm confident that I'm gonna
get a good price for it. So, if you're ready to
start that side hustle, if you're ready to start
making some money online, if you're ready to become an
affiliate marketeer, marketer, marketeer, I never know how to say that, but if you wanna be an affiliate
and earn some money online, well, I think we should get started. Roll the intro. (soft music) Okay. So before we go too much further, I think I need to be very clear on what an affiliate marketeer actually is and what affiliate marketing is. So as an affiliate, you are there to help
people make a purchase. There are people out
there on the internet, they're searching for
information to help them. They are looking to buy something or they have an idea that
they need to buy something, maybe to fix a problem. And we there as affiliates to help them, to provide information so that they're then
able to make a purchase. So, let me give you a real
world example of this. I'm gonna use the site that
I mentioned, bestroofbox.com There are people out there in America that have a Subaru Outback car. It's the only car I'm familiar
with cause I'm in the UK, but I know that there's people in America that have that car.
It's a very popular car. And they run out of space. The boot is full as we'd say in the UK or the trunk is full as
they'd say in America. And they need some more room.
So, they head over to Google and they type in roof
box for Subaru Outback, or what's the best roof
box for a Subaru Outback? And they do that in Google. My site appears. And my article on that very thing appears, they click through and they can very clearly see
which roof boxes are the best for the Subaru Outback. They then click through to Amazon using one of my special tracking links. And I'm gonna show you exactly
how to set all those up in this video. They click through on one
of those special links, they make the purchase
and I earn a commission. And the great thing about Amazon is, I earn a commission on
everything they buy. So, if they add the roof
box along with a large TV, some hiking boots and a jacket,
and maybe a fishing hat, I'll get commission on all of that. So, that's basically all there is to it. We're just there to help people buy by providing some good information through the content on our websites. Now, you might be thinking, how enough do I come up
with an idea for a site? What niche should I go in? Or what niche should I go in depending on how you like to say it. Well, I'm also getting a few... I've got a full video on
exactly how to choose a niche or a niche. So, if you're not at that point yet and you're still kind of
tryna think about stuff that you wanna promote,
do check out that video. All the videos and everything I talk about is all in the description and where I can, I'll put cards up there so you
can just give them a click. So yeah, if you're not sure on the niche that you're gonna wanna
create a site around, you go check out that video. You might also be thinking, well, how on earth can I
come up with content, ideas? How can I write content? How
can I get content created? I've got you covered. I've got a video on that too. Again, you'll find links
to it in the description. I'll talk about content a little bit later in this video too. Now, affiliate marketing is
not a get-rich-quick scheme. Many gurus and people on the internet that often have courses to sell might imply that it's something
that works quite quickly and that you can start making
money online overnight. And before you know it,
by the end of the week, you'll be driving a Lamborghini. - Here in my garage, just bought this new Lamborghini here. - Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work like that. Affiliate marketing is
a long-term project. Let's say long term, 12
months, maybe 24 months. And you're gonna put the effort in now and do a lot of work now, and then you're gonna
get paid in the future. So, it's different to working a job where you do a day's work and then you get paid
at the end of the day or at the end of the week. With affiliate marketing, you're gonna put a lot of work in now and then you're gonna
get paid in the future over and over again. It's a bit like being a farmer. You got to put the work in in
the spring and in the summer, and then by the autumn or by the fall, that's when you get paid. I'm not quite sure when actually farmers do
their harvest and stuff, but I think it works like that. Basically what I'm saying is, you gotta plant the seeds now,
you've gotta tend the seeds, you've gotta water them. You've gotta look after your
plants and they will grow. And you put the work in, they will grow big and strong and healthy and then you will get paid
handsomely in the future. So yeah, you gotta approach affiliate marketing as a long-term project. And you've also gotta keep in mind that there is gonna be some work involved, maybe quite a bit of work because you've got to create the site which I'm gonna help
you with in this video. You've then also got
to create some content. Even though there is quite
a bit of work involved, the good thing is, is that once you've created a site and you know what you're doing and you've created some content and you know what you're
doing on that front, you will be able to outsource a lot of it. So for example, now I get all of my
content written by writers. I just give them a brief and
they create the content for me. I get the content added
to my sites by my editor. So, I'm kinda hands-off.
So, once you get to a point where you've got some income coming in and you know what you're doing, you will be able to scale this up and outsource a lot of the tasks. Now, I absolutely love affiliate marketing and I always choose it over
things like drop shipping and e-commerce, which are other
ways of making money online. And the reason why I
love affiliate marketing is that you don't have
to worry about customers or customer service, because you're just referring people to companies like Amazon. And I will say there are
lots of affiliate programmes out there, not just Amazon although Amazon
is a great place to start. So yeah, you don't have
to worry about customers. You don't have to worry
about stock or inventory. You don't have to worry about shipping, all that kind of stuff. That's a bit of a headache. With affiliate marketing, you're basically just doing the marketing part of a business. You don't have to worry
about all the other stuff. And that's why I love it because I like to have plenty of time. I like to spend time with my family. And once you start bringing
in like customers and stock, that's gonna just eat away at your time. So, that is why affiliate marketing is always my number one choice when it comes to making money online. Of course, you can monetize
your sites in other ways. So for example, on bestroofbox.com, the main source of income is from Amazon and is from affiliate marketing. But I've also got some ads on there too, and they generate a reasonable income too. So, you can diversify, you can have multiple income streams all off the one website. So, let me just explain exactly what we're gonna
be covering in this video. We're gonna be covering
how to get a domain name and your hosting, hosting is how you set up
a website on the internet. You need to go with a hosting company and they basically get you up and running and look after your website. And I'm also gonna be giving
you some tips and ideas on how to choose a domain name. Domain name is your dotcom or your dot-net or your dotbiz, or
yeah, your dot whatever. I'm gonna show you you
how to create the site. And we're gonna be using WordPress and a fantastic drag and drop builder, which is called Thrive. It's my new favourite
WordPress theme and plugin , allows you to create some
fantastic-looking sites. It's got some fantastic templates. It's really easy to use. It's
drag and drop, as I said. And yeah, I absolutely love it. Let me show you how to
add content to your site. And I'm gonna show you how to make that content look amazing. We're gonna be using
tables and adding images and buttons, and it's just
gonna look absolutely beautiful. Speaking of beautiful, I'm gonna be showing you how to make sure the site
looks beautiful on tablets and on mobile devices. I'm gonna be covering
some of the legal pages. So, how you can get a
fantastic privacy policy or is it privacy policy? I never know. And also how to get some
terms and conditions and set up a cookie policy
with a cookie opt-in thingy, Bobby, basically all the legal stuff. I'm gonna show you how to
submit the site to Google and do some basic SEO, because we're gonna be generating the majority of our traffic from Google. I'm gonna show you how to
set up Google Analytics. And this is a great way to track all the visitors on your site, see where they're coming from, how long they spend on the site,
how many of them there are, and allow you to make some
really insightful decisions about the way that you
manage your website. Finally, I'm gonna show you how to make
your website run really fast, because it's really important
that your site loads quickly, you don't want people
coming through to your site and then having to wait for pages to load. And from a Google and
from an SEO point of view, and in terms of getting
ranked on the search engines, speed is quite important. So yeah. Find a part of the
video I'm gonna show you how to make sure the site runs super fast. So that's the bulk of it. There are loads of other bits
and bobs within the video. Like I'm gonna show you how
to create a logo for your site using a fantastic free graphics package. I'm gonna show you how to
create lovely featured images for your blog posts so
they really stand out. And yeah, I'm basically gonna cover everything. And I'm here for you. I run a live stream twice a week now, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, where you can drop by,
you can ask me questions. I do try and answer all the questions that I get on the live stream, and we can talk about your site. But if you'd rather not do it in public, you can also email me. I'll put my email address down there and also in the description, just drop me an email with
your questions and your queries and I will try to reply
to as many as I can. There's also the comments
section below this video. I do read all the comments that I get and I try to apply to as many as I can. So yeah, if you've got any
questions or you need some help, I will be there for you. I will
try and help as best I can. Now, we're about ready
to jump on the computer and get started. The first thing we're gonna
do is get a domain name and get our hosts set up. And you're gonna need to
spend a little bit of money to get these things. I'm afraid that hosting and
domain names, they're not free. And if they are free, they're probably not very
good and should be avoided. So yeah, you are gonna need to
spend a little bit of money. Like all good businesses, you do need to invest a
little bit to get it started. But I've managed to
secure a fantastic offer with one of my favourite
hosting companies, HostArmada. I've got a coupon code which I'm gonna share
with you in a few moments. So hopefully, it won't break the bank. You need to budget around $5
a month or so for your hosting and your domain name. And that should be enough
to get you started. Obviously when you start, it
starts to get a bit busier and you're getting all
that traffic coming in and you need a really fast,
super performance kind of site because you've got so much traffic, then you might wanna upgrade, but to start with $5 a
month should be about right. We're also gonna be using
Thrive themes, as I mentioned, and there is a cost for that, that comes in around at $19 a month. So think, as a ballpark figure, if you budget around $25
a month to $30 a month, then that should cover
all your initial costs to get the site set up. So, let's jump on the
computer, let's get started. I wish you the best of luck.
I'm sure you can do this. I really hope that this video
is the video that you watch, that changes the direction of your life. As I said, I'm here for you. If you need help, leave a comment below and I
will try and help you out. But with all that said, let's get on the computer and let's create an
affiliate marketing website. (soft music) The first thing we need to
do is set up our hosting and our domain name. A domain name is
basically what people type into their web browser
to access your website. The most common one is dotcom. But you can get lots of other
different extensions now like .beer and, .net, .org, dot whatever. There really is quite
a few to choose from. Your hosting is basically where you hire a little bit of a server
from a hosting company, and they make sure that
your website's online and that people can access it. You're gonna need both of these things in order to get your
website up and running. The hosting company that I'm
gonna recommend to you today is this one, it's HostArmada. They did well in a recent test that I did where I tried out a few
different hosting companies, checked out their speed and their support and all that kind of stuff. And yeah, HostArmada did really well. I'm gonna put a link up to
HostArmada now in account, you'll also find a link in
the description to this video. It is an affiliate link. So, if you click through and buy your hosting from HostArmada, I will earn a commission. So, there's no extra cost for you. In fact, I've got a discount voucher
that I'm gonna share with you in a moment that will give
you a fantastic 75% off your hosting and they offer
free domain name as well. So, if you haven't got a domain name, you can get one for free right now. If you have got a domain
name, that's fine as well. We can use that and I'll
show you how to set that up in a moment. So, click on the link
and come through to here, which is HostArmada. They will have different
discounts and offers on the home page depending
on the time of year at the moment, I'm looking at the Christmas one. But I'd say I've got a code
that I'm gonna share with you in a moment that will
give you a better discount than what you see here. Let's take a look at
their plans and pricing and click on that plans
and pricing button there. And then again, we're gonna
go for the shared hosting, which is perfect if
you're just starting out. And they've got three different
levels, got Start Dock, they've got the Web Warp and
they've got the Speed Reaper. I think the Web Warp is probably
the best value for money. You get unlimited websites,
you get loads of storage, you get a faster server,
but it's really up to you. If money is tight, then maybe the Start Dock
might be the best one for you, but you can only have
the one website on that. So, it depends on your ambitions and how many websites
you're thinking of creating. You can, of course, change your plan later if you need to go up or down. All of the plans include
that free domain name. So anyway, let's go for Web Warp. I'm gonna click order now. And then it's gonna ask
us about our domain name. So, if you want a brand new domain name, just simply type it in here. So, alexisbrandnewdomainname
and then click check, and it will tell you if
it's available or not, it is available. Perfect. And then you click continue. I'm not actually gonna register
a domain name right now because I've got one that
I'm gonna be using today. Type in the domain name that you want here and then you can change the
extension by clicking here. As I said, there are loads of different
extensions to choose from. I'm kind of old-fashioned
and I like a .com, but you can go for whatever you like. There's ones from different countries, different extensions here for
different types of things. So, you choose one that you'd like. Just a few tips on choosing a domain name. You're gonna wanna think about how big your site is gonna get. And the domain names that
I've been using in the past, things like bestroofbox.com
and bestpressurewasher.com, which is what we're gonna
be using in this video. They're kind of restrictive. With bestpressurewasher.com, I can really only talk
about pressure washers, which is fine because I've got lots of content
ideas for pressure washers. But if you're thinking
of going kind of broader, you wanna have a big site
with lots of content, then maybe go for something
a little bit more generic, like alexscleaningtips
or howtocleanstuff.com. That's probably already gone that one, but you get the idea. So, have a think about
the domain name you want, whether you wanna go kind of broadened with a more brand-able domain name or whether you wanna go more
specific with a domain name, with the actual keywords of the products within the domain name. Now, as I said, I've already got a domain name registered. So, I'm gonna come down here and click, I'll use my existing domain
and update my name servers type in my domain name,
which is bestpressurewasher and then over here, it's
.com, type com in there. Click use domain. I've chosen the existing domain. Let's go. On this page, we get to
choose our billing cycle. So, have a think about this,
because the thing with hosting, and this is the same regardless of the company
that you choose to go with, it's gonna go up on the renewal. It's just the way it works. They always kind of get
you in with a low price. So then when it comes to renewal,
the price always goes up. So, my advice to you is,
you need to choose a term that's as long as you can afford, because that way, you'll kind of lock in that
really low monthly charge, for me at the moment it's 469 a month. But that last should be less
once I put my discount code in. So yeah, here, I mean, if
you can only go for annually, if you can only afford
annually, that's fine. Just go for annually. But if you can afford
right now a little bit more to get the best value, pay
for as long as possible. Next, we get to choose your data centre. So, you're gonna wanna
choose a data centre that says near to the audience that you're targeting as possible. So, if you're gonna be
going for the U.S. market, choose one of these North America servers, my site is gonna be
gone for North America. So, I'm gonna choose New York. I guess it doesn't really matter where in North America it is. Yeah, New York sounds fine. That's near New York, isn't it? But obviously if you're
gonna be targeting Europe, you may wanna choose London or Frankfurt and then there's some other options here, Australia and Asia. So, let's click preview order. So, here's the final
page in the shopping cart where I can confirm my order. This is for three years worth of hosting. If you're gonna be registering
that free domain name, that will also appear here for free. I think when it comes to domain names, they offer a privacy
service for a few dollars which you may want to take. When you register a domain name, your information like
your name and address is publicly available on the internet. So, you might wanna hide that. And that's what that
privacy service is for. I use a private service on all my domains, and I think for the few
dollars that it is is worth it just to keep your details hidden. But of course, that's entirely up to you. Hey, we've got our discount code. It's already applied this
festive December code, but I've got a code that
will give you even more off. So, whatever offer you got in here, you're gonna want to click remove. And then in this box type in WPEAGLE75, can you guess what
discount you're gonna get? That's it, it's 75% off. I should just say that
that's an affiliate coupon. So, if you use it, I
will earn a commission. Thank you very much. If you
do, I really appreciate it. It helps me to create these videos. So, total due today for free
years of hosting is $140, which for three years
is actually a bargain. It's a really good price. So, let's click checkout. Now, we've got a big form to fill in here. So, you're gonna wanna put
in all the usual stuff, your name, address, email,
all that kind of thing. And then down here, you can
decide how you wanna pay, whether it be credit card or with PayPal. And just gonna want to click this box here to agree terms service
and then click checkout. I'm not gonna fill in
all this form right now cause that'll just be boring. So yeah, that's what you gotta do. Click checkout, and
you should be all done. Once you are, you'll get an email and that'll
have all the information that you need to set up your website. So, let me fill in this form
and then we'll continue. So, I finished ordering my hosting. I've just had the confirmation
email come in and here it is. It's got all the details that
I need to get up and running. Now, if you've just registered a
domain name with HostArmada, that might take a little
while just to go through for it to be registered and for that change to
go around the world. So, you might need to
just wait a few hours for that to happen. If you've got a domain
name already registered, I'm gonna show you right now
how to point that domain name at your new HostArmada hosting. I'm gonna do it as well on my domain name. So, let's just have a look at this email. So, we've got our login
details for the control panel. That's where we basically
can manage all our hosting. We've got some server information here, which we're gonna need
your FTP details here and your email settings. And that's it. So, let me set up my domain name. As I just said, if you just registered
one with HostArmada, you don't need to do this step. And in fact, you can skip it. I'll put a time up on the screen now that will jump you forward and you can carry on
setting up your website. But if you've got a domain name registered with someone
else, maybe with GoDaddy, maybe with Namecheap, maybe with NameStar, maybe with someone
else, we'll set that up. Now, the process is the same for all of those different
domain name registrars. So, let me get my domain name set up. And this is for all you guys that have already got a
domain name registered. You need to head over to your
domain registration company. My domain name is registered with GoDaddy. So, I'm going to go
into my GoDaddy account. I'm gonna get to my products. So, here are my domain names. I'm gonna find the one that I want, to go into here. The search box that will help
bestpressure, there it is. So, you're gonna wanna do the same. Maybe with GoDaddy, maybe
you or someone else, but basically just find the domain name that you're using today. The one that you typed into
HostArmada when you signed up and find it within your
domain name registrar, and then go into the settings
and look for the name servers or the DNS settings. Let's scroll down this link here, manage DNS. Scroll down again. We've got the name servers. So, I'm gonna click change
into my own name servers, and then I'm just gonna copy
and paste them from the email. So, here's the first one, paste that in there. Here is the second one. Nice that it, click save. Yes, I consent. So, I need to verify my
identity or something, but I'll do that. I'm sure
you won't get that message. And there we go. That's all done. It might take a few
moments to come through. Let me just refresh. Yeah, they're there. So, now if I open a new tab and head over to
bestpressurewasher.com, okay. It's not quite working
yet. There's nothing there. But once that DNS change has taken effect, then I should see something here rather than an error message or possibly you're getting
your domain registrars holding page. So, just wait a few moments. DNS changes do take a little while. You might need to clear your
cache in your web browser if you need to. If you don't know how to do that, I'll put a link to a
video in the description where you can see how to
clear your browser cache. Hopefully, you won't need to do that. Hopefully within a few moments, you can just come to your website, type it in or click refresh
and something should appear. So, I'm gonna wait and we'll
do a quick edit in the video and I'll come back when it's all ready. (soft music) So after a few hours, I refresh the page on
bestpressurewasher.com and tarah, I see the HostArmada holding page. So, that means that domain is now pointing at our new HostArmada hosting. And we're ready to start
creating our website. If it hasn't happened for you yet, maybe just wait a little while longer. If that hasn't happened within 24 hours, then you might wanna reach
out to HostArmada support, but I'm sure you'd be fine. One other point to note, I've got this padlock, which is great. Shows the connection is secure. That took a little while
longer to kick in as well. So, when I first refreshed, it said the site was
insecure or not secure. But the right word is there. But yeah, wait a little while longer than it basically gets the SSL certificate and it's all good to go. So, the next thing we need
to do is instal WordPress onto our hosting. To do that, I'm gonna
go back into the email, all the details about my hosting. I click on the control
panel, URL and login. There we go. It's logged in automatically because I'd saved the password
in my password manager. So, let's get WordPress
installed, is really easy. Todo! That'd be overwhelmed by this rather
techie-looking control panel. There's a lot of stuff in here but you're not gonna
need any of it really. You might wanna set up your email if you wanna use email with your domain. But for WordPress, you just scroll down until you
get to the software section, which is here. And then we can see WordPress
manager by Softaculuos, this thing here, the one with the big W that's
what you want, click that, then click instal. Let's just double check this stuff here. Choose the version 5.5.3 is fine. That's the latest version, I think. This is all good for the domain there. You don't want anything
in the directory box, give it a name. You might change this later, put the .com, why not? Then a little description, I'm gonna put actually
pressurewasherbuyersguides. This description isn't really used much, but I think it's worth filling it in. Next, we've got our admin account. So, this is the account that
you're gonna be logging in to WordPress with, not the account that you'd
log into HostArmada with. This username you use for
WordPress is different. So, fill this in with something
that you are gonna remember. I recommend that you don't
use a username of admin, put something else in there. So, I might do some wpeagle. Next, you need to put a password in. Obviously give something secure. You can click this little key over here and it will generate one for you. So, I'm gonna do that. I'm
obviously gonna blur it out. It's a lot. I don't trust you. I'm sure it'll be fine, but
you can't be too careful. I copy out to my clipboard. So, I've got it. I click hide actually that
I don't need to blur. Do I? Then in here, we need
to enter an admin email. So, put my email address. Now, you wanna use an
email that obviously works because WordPress is gonna send you stuff. That's well done. Select language, English is perfect. Don't wanna instal any of these plugins and we don't need any of this stuff. The themes, what's an advanced? Yeah. We don't mess with that. And let's leave that. And then let's click instal. You can stick your email address in here and it will send you an
email with all the details which might be quite useful. So, let's click instal. And now it's doing its thing. So, that seems to have worked. You can find out by going
over to the website, doing a refresh, a little
bit of cache there. So, that's why it was
showing the HostArmada page. But now, once I refresh,
you can see WordPress. We'll see a default WordPress. We're gonna make it
look a whole lot better. But yeah, it's installed. Just go back to this page
or another link here, which is this one. This is basically our WordPress admin. This is where we're gonna
do all of the things that we need to do to WordPress. It's very easy to remember. It's basically your domain name/wp-admin. So, a couple of other things to do and then we're ready to instal Thrive, which is gonna give us
all our functionality and allow us to start creating the website and putting content on
and all that good stuff. I think we should run these updates because it's good to keep
your WordPress up to date. It's good to keep your plugins
and everything up to date, mainly for security reasons. So, let's click up here on
this little spinny thing. It says an updated version
of WordPress is available. Let's click update now. if you don't have the update icon and the two little spinning arrows at the top of your WordPress, then that probably just means that you haven't got any
updates to do right now. So, that's good. Lucky you. But I'd imagine that you will have it because most WordPress installations are a little bit out of
date when you do them. So yeah, you're gonna
need to run the updates. There we go. Nice. Well done. That was pretty quick. There's still three more updates and they're just these themes down here, which we're not actually gonna use. But again, I think it's a good
idea to keep them up to date. So, I'm just gonna select all of them and click update themes. There we go. All done. So, back to the dashboard
and we're almost ready. Just one last step. I'm just
gonna update my permalinks, which is basically the structure
of the pages and the posts on the site, the structure
of the URLs, I should say. So, that's the thing that people type in obviously to access pages and posts and stuff on your website. To do that, we go into settings down
here and then permalinks and we go down to custom structure, scoop out this. Structure I like to use is
category and then post name. So, just clicked on these two things here has added it in here, and then I'm gonna click
save changes and that's it. That's gonna visit the site. There it is in all its glory. The next step is to instal Thrive and get this site looking really nice and then start working on it, put the home page together, add content and all that good stuff. So, well done for getting this far. Let's continue. (soft music) So, the next step is to instal
the fantastic Thrive themes. The reason why I've gone for Thrive themes is, well, because it's fantastic. And it's my new favourite theme and plugin and website builder. I used to use elementor a lot. I still love elementor, but Thrive themes is just perfect for an affiliate marketing website. The reason why I say that is because what we know
it's got the usual stuff that you'd expect from a
fantastic WordPress theme and plugin and page builder. You get the drag and drop functionality, is really easy to use. Very intuitive. It's got loads of built-in
blocks and templates and widgets. So, you can get a website
I'm running really quickly, which we're gonna do in a few moments and you'll see how quick
you can get stuff built. But yeah, what makes this stand out
from some of the others is that it's got some
very specific elements that you can add to your content that just worked really well in terms of affiliate marketing. So, it's got like a pros and cons widget when you're doing a product
review or a product comparison. And it's got a whole load
of content-based elements basically. And it makes your content
stand out from everyone else's because people tend to
just add a bit of text, maybe add a few images to their content. But with Thrive, if you can, say, add loads of other things that
make your content really rich and make it really
good, make it stand out, make it different, make it pop. So, that's why I love Thrive. I will, of course, be getting
into a lot more detail on all of those things when
we come to building a site and when we come to add content. I'm gonna put a link up now in a card, you also find a link in the description. It is an affiliate link. So, I will earn a commission
if you click that link and make a purchase, which I hope you do, because you're gonna need it in order to follow the
rest of this tutorial. I really appreciate it if
you use my affiliate links, it really does help me out. In terms of purchasing
Thrive, you got two options. You can either become
a Thrive themes member, which I highly recommend because you get access
to all of their plugins and you can instal them on
up to 25 different websites, just click on this big button and I'll show you exactly what you get. You get all this stuff here, you get the Thrive Architect
and the theme builder, which is what we're gonna be using to create our site today. But then you get all these
other bells and whistles that you can use in the future. If you want to like this Thrive Leads that helps you collect email addresses when you want to build up your email list. Get a quiz builder if you
happen to wanna add a quiz or you get an ultimatum plugin, which, as a countdown, and
all this stuff as well, which is all really good. Let me just click secure my membership. And we're kind of looking at
the cost. So, yes, $19 a month. So not a lot, hopefully
within a few months, every six months, your site will be bringing
in kind of revenue anyway. So, that will cover. That is built annually. It's 228 for the annual payment. And as I said, you get
access to all the plugins. You get access to the Thrive theme-builder and you get to instal
it on up to 25 websites. So, now once you've got this
website set up and running and it's starting to take off and you're starting to
think about other websites, you won't need to pay anything.
You'll be ready to go. They do have a quarterly option as well. So yeah, I highly
recommend the membership. But if you don't fancy being
on a subscription type system, you can, just scroll back to the top. You can just purchase the
products individually. So, you click on the
little a square thing. Well, I don't know what
you call that menu. A little square thing. And here are the individual products. The two that we're gonna
be using, as I've said, is the Theme Builder and the Architect. And we won't need any of these other ones, but these other ones are
included in the membership. So, you might want them later, like this membership plugin, for example. But yeah, so these two
plugins are what you need or this theme and this plugin. If we click through, here's the Thrive theme
builder, click the yes button. So yeah, it's 97 for the
one licence for one website. So, that's the first
thing you're gonna need, the Thrive theme-builder. And then the other thing you're gonna need is the Thrive Architect, which is basically what you
use to create your content. One is to create the theme and basically the look and
feel the head of the footer, all that kind of stuff for your website. Then the Architect is to make your content and add your content and
making it really good. Is it just explained. And this one, the Architect
is 67 for the one licence. So, 67 plus 97, a bit of quick maths,
gives us a total of $164 if you wanna buy it as a one-off. So, get yourself a licence
for Thrive Architect and Thrive theme-builder. And then once you've done that, we can instal them both onto our hosting and onto our WordPress. So, if you purchase your Thrive Themes, either on a membership
or as a one-off payment, when you do that, you get
access to the member dashboard, which looks a bit like this. And what we need to do to
instal Thrive onto our website is download and instal the
Thrive product manager plugin, which is right here. So, I'm
just gonna click on this link. It's gonna save that to
my computer, like that. And then we need to instal
it onto our website. So, let's go back to the
tab with the website in. I'm already logged into WordPress earlier. Let me go here and go to dashboard. Let me go to plugins and add new. Then up here, there's upload plugin. And then here is choose file. And I'm gonna select the
file I just downloaded. It's called Thrive product manager, click open and click instal now. Then activate. And that's installed and activated. So, we've got a new option down here now called Product Manager. Let's just click on that
and we need to log in to our Thrive Themes account. I've already got that
information to hand or in fact, I think if you're already
logged in, like I am, it should just do it. Oh, it has. Perfect. Obviously, depending on
which option you went for, it's gonna determine what you've got here so that we're able to instal
whatever products we want. We need to instal with Thrive Architect. And then if you scroll down, you'll see the Thrive
Theme builder themes, and we've got Shapeshift here. We need that too. So, tick that. And I think that's everything. Yeah. So, let's click instal and licence. And it's gonna do that. There we go. It didn't take
very long and it's all done. So, if we click this button here, it'll take us to the
theme-builder dashboard. And now we're ready to
start creating our website. It's got a wizard here to
kind of help us do that. But before we go through this wizard, I think we need a logo, and
maybe you need a logo too. If you've already got one, that's fine. You can skip the next bit. But for those of you that
don't have a logo like me, I think we should design well right now. I'm gonna show you how you can do that in the next part of the video, really easily and really quickly. So, let's get a logo designed. (soft music) To create our logo, we're gonna be using this
fantastic bit of online software. It's called Canva. I'll put a link up now in a card. You'll also find a link
in the description. That is an affiliate link. So, if you click through and sign up, I will earn a commission. Now, Canva is free and you can do it a lot
with the free version. They do have a pro version as well that gives you access to
stock images and stock icons and a whole load of other stuff
that you might find useful. Although I was using
Canva for free for ages, it does a lot the free version. So, you may not need to upgrade to pro. But yeah, I appreciate
if you use that link, I will get a commission,
say, if you upgrade to pro. And yeah, really appreciate it. We are gonna be using Canva
a few times in this video, we're gonna be using
it now to do our logo, but we're also gonna be using it to design our featured
images for our content and maybe for some Pinterest pins, that kind of stuff as well. It's a really useful tool
to have in your toolbox. And since I've started using Canva, I've basically not got
any need for Photoshop. And I do use Photoshop a little bit, but generally, I can do everything
I need to do with Canva. It's got a whole load
of different templates for all sorts of different things. As you can see, we've got
logos, Instagram posts, presentations, posters, flyers,
videos, all sorts of things. And it's really easy to
use, this tool, really easy. But let's do our logo. You gonna come up here
and click create design, and then I'm gonna go
for custom dimensions. And size I'm gonna create my logo is gonna be 500 wide by 250 high. Click create new design,
there's our blank Canva. So, what I want I is a
nice little pressure washer kind of icon sort of thing. And then the words,
bestpressurewasher next to it. So, let's get our pressure washer icon. So, in Canva Eagle, all these things down this left-hand side, I'm gonna go to elements
and I'm gonna type in, oh, you can see I've already done it. I did do a little bit of research before I started recording. I'm gonna type pressure washer in and it's brought up all these
really cool little icons. Now, the ones that come
up with the little pro and the crown, they're pro. So, you need to be a
process driver for them. But there are some free ones, that's free. There are a few free ones. Okay. That one's a free one. But it's gonna depend on
your niche or your niche. That's gonna determine obviously which icons and things you need. Of course, you could just grab
an icon from another website. Maybe there's some free
icon sites that you know, I mean, and most of these are pro, apart from that one, which that would work, wouldn't it? Now, which one do I like? I quite like this one. I kind of like the one with the guy, but it looks like a pressure
washer cleaning company sort of logo, don't you think? I like this one. That one's okay. Now, we are able to recover these. So, don't worry too much about the colour that's showing up in here. So many to choose from. So, I'm gonna go for that one at the top. I think I'm gonna go for this one here so that you can drag that over. Make it a bit bigger. Then I'm gonna add some texts here. Then we'll do the colouring in a minute. So, I'm gonna click text over here. Just choose something from here. Or you can just choose the text up here, and we can obviously customise
it when we've added it. Loads of different font, styles and ideas. I like this. I'll put that one over there. Don't need this Angelo Brewing. So, these two elements,
they're grouped together. So, if I come up here and click ungroup, I can then just click on that, click on the trash can
up here, get rid of that. See this pink line is coming out? Let's just kind of show me
that it's lined up nicely with this. Let's just change this text, just gonna highlight it and type in best. There we go. I'm guessing it should probably
be a similar kind of height, so we can just drag the corn up. Similar kind of height
to the pressure washer. Let's move them over a little bit there. We get a little bit big up. Here we go. Too bad. So, let's do some colours. I think we need it blue. Well, I like that kind of blue. That's good. And don't think if we need to
make this different colours, maybe if I do the whole thing,
but would that be too blue? Let's have a look. Maybe if I make the
best, a different colour. So, of course, when
you're designing a logo, you just got to play around
and try different things. Here we go. Look at that. So, (indistinct) in there. Now, for sure you can't kind
of recolor different areas in this icon. So, if you want to date,
you would need find shops, something like that, but I'm
happy with it being blue. I think this logo actually looks all right with the red and the blue. It looks quite professional. So, we'll go with this. Now, I'm wondering if we should
probably just fill the space a little more. So, let's just make this a bit bigger. It's gonna have a lot of
white space around it. Might this take us through
it again, is it gonna fit? I think so. More space there. Perfect. So, here's my logo all done. I'm gonna call this Best
Pressure Washer logo. And now this is gonna be the retina logo. So, things like Macs and other
devices have retina screens, which are very, very high resolution. Now, older computers
and some other devices have low resolution screens. And basically what I'm tryna get at is you need two versions of your logo, one for the high res screens and one for the lower res screen. So, this is gonna be
for the high res screen, the 500 by 250. So, I'm gonna name this
logo at the top here Best Pressure Washer Logo. And then I'm gonna add @2X I don't know why it's @2X, but it's kind of a
standard for retina logo. So, that's good. And then I'm gonna download it by clicking this download button. Now, if you wanna have a transparent
background for your logo, that's fine. Just tick this button here
and then save it as a PNG. I'm gonna save it as a JPEG, which doesn't have a
transparent background. But I've got a feeling,
which I don't know yet cause I haven't done the
website, but I've got a feeling that the top of my website
will have a white background as well. So, it'll be fine. And the quality of 80 is fine. Click download, save to the computer. So, saving that. Perfect. So, now I'm gonna make the logo for the lower resolution screen. So, I'm gonna get back
to the home of Canva. Scroll down. It's this one here. It's
just generating the preview. I'm gonna click on the
free little dots here. I'm gonna go make a
copy and rename this one to be Best Pressure Washer
Logo without the @2X. Let's go in here. There it is. So, up here is resize. Then in here, before I change the value, I'm gonna click the little padlock so that they're locked together. I'm gonna have the size. So I'm gonna change the 500 to 250 and it's gonna automatically
change the height there to 125. Then I click resize. There we go. Then I'm gonna download again as a JPEG, download. Perfect. So, we've designed our logo.
We've got two versions. We've got a high res one.
We've got a normal one and we can now go back to our
website, start working on it. We've also kind of got a colour scheme because you're probably
gonna wanna base the colours on your website on the colours
that you've got on your logo. So, now actually might be a good idea. Oh, what have I done? I messed up my logo. Now might be a good idea to make
a copy of these colour codes or make a note of it. So, let's do that now. I'm gonna write them down. I put my pen in my hand
now. So the blue is this, this code here is called
a hex colour code. Every colour that's used on a computer has its own unique colour code. 004AAD and the red is bright red. That is FF1616. So, I'll probably use
those as the colour scheme on my website. Perfect. So yeah, let's move on to next part. And we'll go back into WordPress and start running through the wizard. (soft music) So, I'm back on the theme builder wizard. If you close this page
or you lost it, whatever, you wanna get back here, just log into your WordPress at wpadmin or your domain name/wpamin
if you don't have an admin That'll take you to the WordPress
dashboard, this page here. Then if you get on a side
through Thrive dashboard and then into Thrive theme-builder, you're back on this wizard. Now, we've got our logo
and our colour scheme. We can work our way through this. Let's click get started to get started. First up is the logo. What about this recommended size? I've already given you a perfect size. Click on where it says your logo and then you can upload from your computer by clicking on select files here. I'm gonna upload the @2X
one, the nice high res one. Then you wanna come down the
bottom here, click select. There it is. Let's click choosing continue. Next we go brand colour. So, to change that. Just
click on the colour. Now, I've got my colour codes right here that I made a note off from Canva or consignment to this hex box. The blue was 004AAD. Click apply. There we go. There's our
blue. Choosing continue. Here's our header, is looking good. Now, Thrive has got a
number of different headers. See them all in here. So, you can choose one of these or you can actually just edit it, which we can do in a moment
to make your own header. So, choose one of these if you like these, I mean, these are all good. But I'll show you how to
customise it in a minute. We'll just customise this one. So, let's go choose and continue. Next is the footer. Again, up here, you got a
load of different footers that you can select. Whoa, so many lovely
photos to choose from. I do want one with a bit
of column, a few columns, quite like this one actually. I'm not gonna have the address there. I'm gonna have my affiliate disclosure. Let's go in like columns too. Perfect. So, we'll customise it or
edit it up a bit later. Chrome always changed her
mind. Like she was well, I for one as can you, so don't
worry too much at this point. Let's go choose and continue. Now is asking you, "What do you wanna
display on your homepage?" We're gonna choose from
a ready-made home page. I mean, you can just
display your blog posts, which is kind of fine as
well for a affiliate site. But I think this one will give
us a lot more flexibility. We can make it look really good. So let's go with choose
from ready-made home pages. So, it stuck this one, it
was just a lovely home page, but it's more for a business. So, let's go up here again and
choose one of the home pages. Of course, you can choose
whichever you like. And of course, we can customise these up as much as we like as well. I'm gonna go for this one,
the content focus one, and we will change this all in a moment. That's perfect. It's gonna be fantastic.
Let's go choose and continue. So, this is our blog posts. So, this is the actual content pages. Content is gonna be added to blog posts. And then you also have pages which are for more static
content, like your About Us, Contact Us, those kinds of pages. So, we've got a few options up here. I think I want one with a sidebar. Good to put your ads and
stuff down the sidebar and other things. So again, just choose
whichever one you like. I mean, Thrive has got so many
fantastic templates. That one's got a video. I don't have any video content right now. I think I'm gonna go for this
full width featured image with sidebar. That one is looking good. Now, actually this one, this one. I'm not sure about having
the text over the image cause it depends on what images I use. So, I'm gonna go with this one,
featured image with sidebar. Let's take a look. I think it's gonna be perfect. Perfect. Let's go choose and continue. Now, here is our blog posts list, which is the kind of category pages. Although I'm not gonna probably use these. I'm probably gonna create
my own category style pages, which of course, I'll show you in the
video a little bit later. But yeah, you could choose
one of these if you like, but I say I'm not gonna
be using one of these. So for now, let's just go with this one. That's fine. And the next is page. So, this is for your pages, as
you set things like About Us, that kind of stuff. So, we've got blank
page here, default page. I'm just gonna have a blank
page and we'll change it later. Choose and continue. Now it's asking which
menus do you want to use in the headers and footers? I don't think we've got any menu set up. So, I'm gonna just say I will choose later I need to add menus on my site. So, there we go. Let's have a look at the site. Wow. Got a bit of work to do
still, but it's gonna be fine. So, really looking really nice. So, just to finish off this section, I'm gonna change this header. I mean, an (indistinct). I just need to change this button. I wanna add a search
instead of the button. So, to change it, I'm gonna click up here where it says edit with Thrive Architect and then click on the header. Let me click on edit header. Then this is a one big custom menu. So, I'm just gonna
click on that like this. And I'm gonna click on
the trash can over here to get rid of it. We've got an empty column. Then on this right-hand panel,
we can add our elements, click on the little plus. All these wonderful
things that we can add. I'm gonna put the custom menu back and I'm gonna choose a different one. I go for the simple dropdown
or a standard dropdown, I should say. Loads of different menus to choose from. So, I'm gonna go for this first one, nice and clear and crisp and clean. Perfect. And what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna add a search to the right of it. So, I'm gonna come up here
again to the little plus, type in search, drag it over here. And you can see that little arrow that shows you where you can drop it, really easy, drag and drop into place and put it over here to
the right, like that. It's looking good. We can resize just by
dragging that like that, plenty of room for this navigation. Though not gonna have too
much in it, I don't think. But that's fine. This search box, we can change as well. All these options over here, click on this default template, you can choose which
search you would like. That one, let's have a look. That's kind of round one, search 10 that is. We're on this one. Search one, could have
something like this. That's nice. Ala, I'm liking that. Make it a little bit bigger. Perfect. Just click on it again. Got a few other options that I can adjust. So, here we've got the button layout. You can have just the icon or just text. I quite like both I think. I like both. Here we can adjust on which
content is gonna have come up in the search results. Now, I just want posts to come up because the bulk of my
content is gonna be posts. I don't really want
About Us pages and stuff coming up in here. So, I'm gonna click the little trashcan. I should say dustbin. In the UK, we don't have trash cans. But yeah, let's remove that page. Perfect. Here you got a few other options
you can play around with, the width and stuff, the size, and that's absolutely fine. We'll come and play with
this menu a bit more when we've added a bit of a content so that we can kind of see
what we're dealing with. There's a whole host of other options if you you want to play
around with options like the margins and stuff, but I think it's looking good. Oh, now I can't get this back on 20. Oh yeah, I can. Perfect. I think it is good. But yeah, there is tonnes
of options in there. Should you wish to play around with the drop shadow on there, you can adjust it. What colour is that? Okay. It's black, but
it's on a pasty of 18. Put that up to a hundred, then I got a serious shadow going on, but that's too much shadow. I put on 15. Perfect. Apply. Well, maybe I could even add a blue shadow that we've got our theme colours here. Do you need to set my
secondary red colour, but I'll do a little blue theme colour. How's that looking? Let's have a look. Quite like it. Quite like it. So yeah, that's the header done. Well done for getting this far. Doing really well. Next up, I'm gonna
actually add some content. I'm gonna add some articles to the site and then we'll come
back and do the homepage and change this menu and
all that kind of stuff. But yeah, next thing, it's a
good idea to add some content, just so that we've got an idea on what that looks like and it
kind of helps lay stuff out. So yeah, that's what
we're going to do next. (soft music) So, this part of the video, we're gonna be adding
some content to the site, as just said, it's a really
good thing to do quite early on when you're developing your sites so that you can lay it all out nicely. Now, before we get into the content, you're gonna wanna sign up
as an Amazon affiliate now probably if you haven't done so already, because you're gonna need
access to your affiliate links. So to do that, you obviously
need to head over to Amazon. The Amazon that you gonna be promoting, for this site, is amazon.com. The way you're gonna wanna do is scroll all the way down to the bottom. And there is this link
here, become an affiliate. Give that a click. And this is where you sign up. Basically you click this button, you sign in with your Amazon account, and then you basically just go through and fill out this form. It's pretty simple. You just got to add your name and address. You need to list off your URLs. I think they gonna ask
you a couple of questions about how you're gonna promote the site. So, you're gonna promote
it with content and SEO and that kind of stuff. And then you're done. And then you'll be given
access to the affiliate tools straight away that will generate links and all the rest of it. It is only when you start
sending traffic over to Amazon and when you start generating some sales, it's at that point that Amazon will come and take a look at your site and then you'll be
officially kind of approved, good to go, or you'll be rejected. But hopefully, if you've followed my guide and followed this
tutorial, you'll be fine. Now, you might be thinking
of promoting another company. I think Amazon's a great
place to start if you're new, but if you've got another company in mind, where you don't wanna promote
Amazon for whatever reason, that's fine. The process is gonna be
pretty much the same. It's just about inserting affiliate links. Now, most companies do offer
an affiliate programme. So, let me just think
of one random, rei.com, which I know is a big
seller in the States. They used to do roof boxes and things. If you scroll down to the
bottom, looking the footer, generally you will find a link
to their affiliate programme. So, here it is and you click that. And then you sign up, there's
a link there to apply. But yeah, if you knew
I'd recommend Amazon, Amazon is great because you
get a high conversion rate, the commission rates aren't great, but generally, people do buy from Amazon. They've got an account it's
very easy for them to buy. You get commissioned on everything, not just a production promoting. I think Amazon's a great place to start. So, go and sign up as an
Amazon affiliate right now if you've not done so already and then we'll carry on
adding content to the site. Hopefully you've got
some ideas for content. I've got a few videos on my channel around how to come up
with ideas for content and how to get content written. I'll put links to those in
the description of this video. So, scroll down, you'll find them. But basically I'll just summarise it now. The best way to find ideas
for content is on Google. So, if you head over to Google, now, ideally the Google
for whatever country it is you're targeting. And you may need to use a VPN if you're, for example, in the UK and you wanna look at Google, a VPN is the best way to do that. Again, I'll put some links
in the description too. I'll put a link in the
description to the VPN I use. It's a free one. It's pretty handy. But this example, I won't bother. I'll just show you how it works. It's the same regardless of
the Google that you're on. So, basically, you just
wanna start typing stuff in that's connected to your niche or niche. And I'm gonna type in pressure washer. And then scroll down and the section you're
looking for is this, the people also ask, it's got some great questions in here. And what we're gonna try and
do is answer these questions in a concise and useful way. It's basically an
affiliate marketing website is just there to help
people make a purchase. So, we've got this one here. What is the best pressure
washer for home use? Is it okay to wash your
car with a pressure washer? Is it worth getting a pressure washer? So, these all look pretty good. Is pressure washing bad for concrete? And you'll notice that
a lot of these articles, they don't actually answer
the question that well, so this one is, is pressure
washing bad for concrete? And there's kind of, Google's found this kind of bit of content within this larger article. Let's have a look at it, which is all on pressure washing tips. But we might do better
if we write an article that's specifically around, is pressure washing bad for concrete? Or if we just create a
washing concrete guide and then have a section
that's got a subheading of this pressure washing bath concrete. There's a good chance we can outrank this. This article is already coming up. And the great thing with
this question section is the more you click, the more questions
Google's gonna give to you. Another place you can get some ideas is down the bottom of Google, where you've got the searches related to, give you some ideas. And the other thing I like to do is what's called the alphabet method where you type in some
words related to your niche and then you just start putting in letters and see what comes up. So, pressure washer,
accessories, attachments, attachment for hose, adjustable
pressure accessories. So, there's some ideas there. There's some there. But then yeah, just make a note of these, put them in your spreadsheet. I always like to go for
the best sort of terms. So, best pressure, I'm
gonna type pressure. There's a few suggestions coming up here. You can see that I've done
some a bit of research before I recorded. But yeah, best pressure washer for, and then again, use the alphabet method A. These are all fantastic ideas for content. Best pressure washer
for a woman to use. Hmm. I'm sure women can use
any pressure washer. I don't think there's any
specific ones for them. So yeah, these are all ideas for content. And yeah, to check the
competition, just do a search. Is that your best pressure
washer for domestic use? And then if we just scroll down, so the first article coming up here is the best pressure washers to buy. Again, there's no mention
there of domestic use. These are just kind of generic articles. So, if we write a specific article around the best pressure
washer for domestic use or for homes, I mean, the two are pretty
quite interchangeable and Google is smart enough to know that domestic use is the same as home use. So, use a combination
of both of those words within an article pretty, quite well. It is a good chance that we
will outrank these articles because we are more specific. And that's really what
the plan is with content, fill in the gaps, be more specific when it comes
to answering the questions people are typing into Google. And then even without any link-building, we should be able to rank for those terms. Just one last tip or bit of advice. If you wanna find out the
kind of keyword volumes or a rough indication, I should
say of the keyword volume. So, that's the number of people
that are actually searching for a particular thing every month. There's a cool little tool
called Keywords Everywhere. I've got it installed in Chrome here. You can look up data
from different countries. And if I turned that on, you have to pay for
these kinds of credits, which aren't very expensive to use. It used to be free. It's not anymore. But just refresh this page with it on, it will give me the volume.
It says zero a month, which I don't believe actually. I don't actually believe that because if it was zero a month, then Google probably wouldn't
have had it as a suggestion. So, don't worry about the zero per month. You can still write content. But down here, it'll give us some related
keywords, some other stuff. And these do have a little bit of volume. So, take these numbers with
a very big pinch of salt and just use them as an idea in terms of what kind of volume it is. It might be a way of prioritising which articles you
published first possibly. It says best pressure under a
hundred, under a hundred what? I guess dollars. Has a 70 per month volume. But here we can see, and I
bet this is an affiliate site. They have actually answered
it very specifically, look best pressure
washers under a hundred. They've basically
answered to their ranking where you wanna have a quick
look at this affiliate site. Hi, did I take my colour scheme? Gone for the red and
blue as well? Nevermind. Yes. And affiliate site. But we're gonna do way
better than this one. Don't worry about that. The eight is half a better
method 4G, got to cleaning. Look at that again. There is no article coming up. Amazon is the first two links here. Google would much rather
serve up an article that's full of useful information about the best pressure washers for gutter cleaning for sure. So, what I do is I get these ideas. I'm gonna tell you that
gutter cleaning one. That's a good idea. Then I've got that one. You use your cursor keys, you can kind of add
them to this search box and it makes it easier to copy and paste. You can't copy and paste
from this dropdown. So, I'm gonna stick that in here. Guess what? Not pasting out. You'll notice that I
don't over edit my videos. Anything that doesn't quite go to plan I tend to leave it in.
I think it's useful. By the way, if you'd like
a copy of this spreadsheet, you'll find a link in the
description of this video. It's a Google Doc. I'll give you read-only
access to my template. If you wanna then start editing it, what you need to do is go
file and then make a copy. And then you can add
it to your Google Docs. And then you can play
around with it as you like. Now, in terms of getting
articles written, I use writers. I pay for writers to
create the content for me because I'm not a very good writer and I just don't seem to
have time or inclination to write my content. Now, generally, if you get a good writer, they will do a lot of the work
for you in terms of research and all that kind of stuff. You just need to give
them a bit of a guide. And all I do is give them
this spreadsheet to be fair. I say, here's what I want written on. I put their names over here in this column and tell them what the title is gonna be. So for this one, it would
be best pressure washers. I don't think the plural is a big deal. There's not a lot of difference
from best pressure washer and best pressure washers
for gutter cleaning APICS. So, like that. Could even do it mixed up this way. So, like that. As long as we've still got
that search term in the title, even though I've changed it to a plural, I think that's fine. That's
what we're looking for. And then what I also do
is I give them an idea in terms of the products
that I want them to insert. So, I'll do my own little
bit of research on Amazon. And then I'll put them in here so that they know which
products to talk about within the article, but you don't always have to do that. It depends on the writer. Sometimes if you get a writer
that's up for going on Amazon and doing the research
themselves, that's fine too. And you can even give people access to your Amazon affiliate account so that they can generate their own links or links for you, I should say. So, all these links in
the spreadsheet here. They're all my affiliate links so they can just drop them
straight into the article when they're writing it. You'll find some links
to a couple of videos below this video in the description to some videos I've
done on creating content and hiring writers and that kind of thing. Also some links to some sites
where you can find writers. Upwork is a good one. You can try Fiverr. I've used Chemical Textin.
They're really good. BKA Content, also good. And what I've found is that once you start
working with writers, you'll start to learn which ones you have a
good relationship with, which ones deliver good quality content and then you can start to negotiate rates and that kind of thing
based on your volumes. Now, I've had some of these
articles already written and ready to go. So, let's add one to the site, insert this one here, the Aluminium siting
pressure washer guide. But before we do that, we're gonna need to add some categories. So, let's go back to
the site. Looking good. And you've got to carefully
think about your categories. So, categories are where
you put your posts. It's kind of a nice way
of organising your posts and hopefully, it should be fairly logical when you look at your niche
where content should sit. So, for this site, I've got a
couple of ideas for categories and you can have subcategories, which I'll show you in a second. So, to create your categories, you'd go into posts and then categories. And then I'm gonna have
two main categories. I'd have buyer's guides, but you're gonna be the
kind of affiliate content, commercial content maybe
is one way of saying it, buyer intent content, I don't know. These are gonna be the ones
that really have to sell stuff. So, the best pressure washer
for cleaning guttering, that would be a buyer's guide. And then the other main
category I'm gonna add, let's just add this. So, you just type in the name
and click add new category. And then the next I'm gonna
add is beginner's guides. And this is gonna have
more informational content. So, how to clean aluminium
siding with a pressure washer. What is a good PSI for pressure washer, those kinds of informational articles that may be don't have a
link to Amazon in them. That's gonna be beginner's guides. Oh, I've just noticed I haven't
put the S on the end there. I can do a quick edit then
just click quick edit on the S. Perfect. So, now I'm gonna add some
subcategories below these ones. I only need a couple, just to kind of organise all
the content in a logical way. So again, into add category up here, it's gonna go pressure washers. It's gonna go onto the
buyer's guides, that one. There we go. Then next we're gonna go for
pressure washer accessories, of course, you can add new categories. You can change them and
all that kind of stuff. Later on as you kind of create content, you may need to add new categories. I wouldn't mess with them too much once you've added a lot of content, that would just be a bit of a nightmare because these categories do
have an effect on the URLs, which is the links to your content. So, you wanna try and get
it right clear in your mind, how your structure is gonna be before you add too much content. But yeah, again, this one's
gonna go into buyer's guides. That's at that. Then underneath beginner's guides, I'm gonna have cleaning guide. I need the word guides. Again, I think I'm just
gonna have a cleaning, change that to beginner's guides. Then next one I'm gonna have
is just for pressure washers. That's fine. Perfect. So, now we've got some categories
to add some content to, so, I think we should add some content. So, I brought up this article here, which was written for
me a little while back by one of my writers, it's the Aluminium Siding
Pressure Washer Guide. So, we're gonna add this. I'm just gonna check it,
oh, well, I have checked it. I'm just thinking I might rename it actually so that it fits
in with our cleaning guides a little better. So, I'm gonna change it to How to Clean Aluminium Siding
with a Pressure Washer Guide. Although is an informational guide, I have got a few little links to a few of the pressure washers here. I've noticed that my writer
hasn't actually inserted my affiliate links. Nevermind. I'll show you
how to do that in a moment. It will be useful to show you anyway. So, before we add the article, I'm just wanna get hold of a
image for the featured image which is the big image that
goes at the top of the content. So again, I'm gonna jump into Canva, create a new design, custom dimensions and the
size for the featured image. Well, it can be whatever you like really, but I'm gonna go for
50500, create new design. And then what I'm gonna do
is try and find a photo, got this kind of stock
photo library within Canva. I think you will need the pro version in order to access these photos. You may have a photo
already that you can use, which is great. You can just drag and drop
photos from your computer into Canva or you can use
it to upload area over here. Other stock photo services
I recommend, iStock photos, really good. Adobe Stock is also good, you'll find links to all of
those in the description. But let's type in pressure washer. Let's see what we get.
Oh, some good ones here. Now, I need someone
cleaning some aluminium. I don't know how to spell it. Is that it? Yeah, it is. Well, should I say aluminium
for my American friends? Not quite what I'm after, but maybe that's a bit specific. Oh, what's this guy doing here? That looks like aluminium
siding, do you think? We might get away with that. Let's just have a quick look on iStock. There might be something better. Aluminium siding pressure washer. I spelled my aluminium wrong. Didn't I? No. Okay. What kind of siding is that? Okay, so there's not
much better on iStock, let's get back to Canva. Let me just put sidings here again. Same stuff. This guy is aluminium. Think, oh, I like this one. That looks perfect.
That guy up on the roof. Let's go with that. So, we'll get rid of
this one and drag it out. We'll make it nice and big. I think it would add a little bit of text. Why not? So, let's get a text, probably keep it in line with our logo. So, let's use this one again. Let's put in how to clean, I'm gonna have to reduce
the size. That's fine. Aluminium siding. I don't think I need to add to. What I'm gonna do is
actually I'm gonna add pressure washer guide here. That'd be good. Pressure washer guide. Perfect. It is a little big. So, I think if I just drop
this number here down a little. Perfect. Thinking they might
need to go to the right, let's click on these little
dots, justification over there. I knew, that one there,
that can go over as well. It's looking good. Now, you can do some
other really funky stuff. So, if I click on that image
that got these effects, and we can make that pop. That looks nice. Do you think that looks nice? Colour you wanna go for. Mustard, blush, lavender. That's too much now. Cherry. Should I use an effect? I don't know. I kinda like it because it
makes it less stock photo-wy. That makes sense. But the guy kind of disappears our way. He's not as clear as I thought. Love these effects. I could sit here all day just
clicking on these effects. What the heck? We'll go for
something bright and funky. Let's be funky. Let's go for mustard. Click apply. Now, we've got a lovely
featured image for our post. There's also effects
and things on the text I should show you as well. You can lift it up and show
what I actually did that, but it's useful sometimes. Anyway, let's go with that. Looking nice. Though I'm actually thinking that maybe that should be on one line, like that a little bit bigger. That looks better. Download JPEG. That's all fine. Download to computer. I'm gonna name it the same as the article. I can just copy it. It's good for SEO and stuff. There we go. So, now we get back to our
website and add the content. So, I'm back on the website.
Let's add our content. I'm gonna go up to new and then post. What I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna add the title here. Copy and paste. I don't even
know if I need the word guide. Actually, I'll take that off. Come down here to categories. I'm gonna add it to the beginner's guide cleaning category, that. And down here, I'm gonna
add the featured image. So, I'm gonna click set
featured image, upload files, select files, select the file or the image
I just created in Canva. Why that Grammarly things
that I was gonna... And then click set featured image. Then I'm gonna click publish. And now I'm gonna jump
into the Thrive Architect. This is the WordPress kind of
default editor, which is fine, but to do all the really cool
stuff, we need to use Thrive. So, click this big
green button at the top. There we go. So, it's kinda showing me
the squashed up version because I've got this article
over here, but that's fine. That's fine. Down here, we can actually
see what it's gonna look like on things like tablets and phones. Ah, so what a phone, it's kind of cutting off
my image a little bit. We can edit this template
really easy to come over here to this and switch to
the Thrive Theme builder. Just adjust it now before
we get too much further. It looks good on that one. I mean, that looks good. It looks good on tablet, just on phone. It's cutting it off. So, I'm gonna click on this content box. Then I'm gonna bring out this menu again. We're gonna need that. And we've got some options here. And so, this is all
around this top bit here, this featured image content box, and I'll show you how to edit
the other elements as well. It's pretty simple.
You just click on them. But yeah, let's get this
looking okay on a mobile so it's not cutting off the text there. So, I'm gonna go into background style. Let me click on here, which is the image. And let's play around
with this image display. Let's try and contain. Ah, there we go. That looks better. Not quite as high, but at
least we all the texts. So, that's fine. Let's click apply. That's done. And that would apply to all of
the blog posts going forward. Now, so you can't edit
these other elements. So, you've got this stuff here. I don't really want this author
image and all that stuff. I don't want that. And
let's get rid of that. And there's a column, I don't want that. I don't want the author. Now, the date, I don't know. We've got to up here and get rid of it. Tags, I might use tags. I'll leave tags there. Social sharing. That's fine. So, this element here is the content area, is gonna pull in the content
from the WordPress editor, the editor I just showed you before we click through to Thrive. You can't remove it, but it won't show because I
haven't got any content added to that editor. And we're gonna be adding
all the content with Thrive. So, don't worry about
that. Let's go past it. Here's an about the author
box. I don't want that. Comment section. That's fine. Here is the sidebar. And I think we'll do the
sidebar a bit later on. So, let's click save work. I wanna see what it looks
like on desktop, looks good. Tablet is fine. Mobile is fine. So, let's add this content. Now we've got the
template all ready to go. So, I'm gonna switch back
to the Thrive Architect. So, I click on this little icon up here. And here we go. So, let's start by adding
this pros and cons. We've got these pros and cons
at the top of this article. Bring that across a little bit. We've got a bit more room. So, if we come up here, we
start adding different elements, click on little plus, I'm gonna go into block and we can filter the
blocks as it's saying here. So, I want content blocks
because we're adding content, all these cool things. There's actually a whole load
of pros and cons elements that we can use. Just choose whichever one we like. I like this blue one, or that one's good too. But as you got the pressure
washer, blue vibe going on, let's go with the blue. Now, they're stacked on top of each other because of the size of the browser here, but if make it a little bit wider, they do sit next to each
other. That looks good. So, now we can just copy and paste. So, it's gonna come over here, highlight that, click
on here, paste it in. And this one and this one, don't need this one so I can just click it and then click on the trashcan. This one, don't need that one. Don't need that one. Just
this one, copy and paste. There's the pros and cons. Now this conclusion section, I do quite like it. I'm wondering if I could maybe drop this, this kind of opening a
couple of paragraphs in, change it to summary
rather than conclusion. I think that will read better. And I'm gonna scoop up
this, copy and paste. Very nice. So, next we've got some
texts and some bullet points. So, let's do that. So, I need a H2A, with a header. So, I'm gonna pop open the elements. I'm gonna grab the text
block and drag that in here. Copy this, paste it in. That brought over some styling from Word, which probably isn't a pro.
I think it's just bolded it. Yeah, it's fine. I don't actually want to bold it cause I'm gonna make it a heading. So up here, we've got our text options. I'm gonna drop down
where it says paragraph, I'm gonna select H2 or heading two. Nice, big heading. Then the thing I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna add another text just below it. I'm gonna put this
stuff in, paste that in. Then we need like a bullet
point or numbered points. So, come over here to add a new element. Let's move this out the way. Then up here where it says
search and a typing list, there's a few different list options. There's a numbered list, drop that in. Here's our numbered list. It's got a little bit too
much space at the top. It's gonna kind of like
stick out a little bit from that paragraph. So I'm just gonna adjust that. And by coming down here, going to layout and position
this margin at the top, I think I'm gonna bring that down to zero. So, I'll just hold it
on my left mouse button and then just moving up
and down to adjust that. I think that will be better. And again, at the bottom,
I'm gonna take that 20 off. We adjust it later if
it looks a bit weird. Then I need to do some
copying and pasting. So let's copy number one in. Number two, three. I need a new element. I
think if I just press enter, I'll get a new one. There we go. Copy that, paste in. So, there we go. That's our bullet points. Let's add this last bit of text. So again, I'm gonna grab a
text with Git or texts element. I think I'm gonna make this bold as we're talking about
the pressure washers. Now, before we get to this bit, what I wanna do is add a table showing off these pressure washers. I think that'd be nice to
have a table right here. And we can do tables with Thrive, I'm gonna show you how to do that. And then afterwards, I'll also quickly recommend another plugin that I like to use for Amazon tables. So yeah, let's do a table. Now, before you start
putting your table together, you're gonna wanna make sure
that you've got some data about the products that
you're gonna be talking about, that you can put into the table. So, if I just scroll down,
I've got that I did earlier for the free products
featured in this article. So, I've just gone over to Amazon. I made a note of the
pressure, gallons per minute, tank size, length of
hose power kind of thing. So, you're gonna wanna look
for some useful information about the products that
you're promoting and yeah. Put together a table. Now to add the table, come
up to the elements again and just do a search for table. Here we go. Drag that here. Some lovely templates to choose from. Of course, they're all
completely customizable. So, choose whatever you like. I think something like this
might work well. Let's try that. So, I just clicked it. Perfect. You can just click to start editing. So, I want it to look like this table. By the way, this table here
is actually been put together with the plugin AAWP, which as I said, I was gonna tell you about
after I've done this table, but hey, I'll talk to you about it. Now, you find a link to
it in the description. It's a premium plugin
that you can instal in. It allows you to create
tables using Amazon products. I mean, you still have to
populate a lot of the data yourself. It can pull down the
image though, pricing, couple other things using the Amazon API in order to get access to the Amazon API, which is basically, I say, just a way of pulling
stuff down dynamically from Amazon intrasite. To gain access to the API, you need to have made at
least free qualifying sales through Amazon for your affiliate account. So, if you're just starting
out, don't worry about it. If you've already got some sales and you don't have site API, you might wanna go check it out. So, there's a link to
it in the description. There's also a link to a video that I did a little while back where I
show you how to create tables with it. Tables do look really good.
They look like this one. I'll put in my Word document here. But we can make good looking
tables with Thrive anyway. So, just think about it. Anyway,
I've gone off on a tangent. Let's get this table done. So, in here let's type in image. I don't even need image in
there. We know what an image is. Then I'm not gonna product one,
product two, product three, or maybe I could. Let's put an image. Let's put the images in so that we can (indistinct) within search. And so, to put these images in, I'm gonna use the Amazon site Stripe. I'm gonna head over to amazon.com because I'm obviously
targeting the U.S. market. So, I need to purchase from amazon.com rather than Amazon credit UK. Now, make sure you add an address. It can be a fake address, of course, but a real address for someone
else maybe if it's not yours in the country that you're
searching for products around. So, I've got an address here in New York, only because if you've got
your UK or some other country addressing here, then you might not see all the products cause Amazon will kind of tailor it to the ones that are
shipping to your location. So, let's type in Sun Joe SPX3000. There it is. That one. Definitely the one. So, we have this bar across the top because we're affiliates. It gives us access to the
links and everything we need. So, I'm gonna take the
image or click on image. I'm gonna for large. I'm just gonna copy this bit of code. In fact, you wanna make sure that you've
got the right tracking ID selected as well. And to copy the bit of code,
get back to the website, then what we're gonna do, I'm gonna add, again, let's move this texting other way, gonna add some HTML or custom HTML. So, there's this little element
here called custom HTML. Stick that above that. Then I'm gonna paste that
site Stripe code in here. This has got the image and
this got a link for Amazon for the product with all my
affiliate tracking stuff in it. So, it's good to go. Click save. There's the image. But I can change this
text here just by going in and highlighting and
typing Sun Joe SPX3000. Perfect. Okay. We need to actually do these then we just type in product. Now, this column isn't
actually quite wide enough, so let's adjust that. So, I need to edit the table. So again, easy to collect stuff by going across the top here, I'm gonna click table. I'm gonna click manage
cells, click on this one, click manage cells again. Then we've got this column width here. So, let's make this a bit wider
so we can get our stuff in. A hundred pixels probably about right. Here's some of the options here. If you want to edit table, insert columns, that kind of stuff. Let's click close. That's fine. Let's do the
next one which is pressure. Still not quite wide enough. Maybe what I'll do is I'll
just decrease the font on these a little bit
and get that down to 16. It's better. Gallon, gallons per minute. That's already on 16. They're all 16. That's good. Tank size. Thinking I need to make this
column a little bit wider. Just let's do that again. Go to table, manage cells, click here. Manage cells again. What do you think? I think
I'm gonna go for 150. 150 is good. Perfect. Now, we are gonna need
to add a few more rows. Two more, three more in fact. Let's go for three more. So, I'm gonna make sure I'm clicked down on this bottom one then I'm
gonna go insert row after, there we go. And again and again. Perfect. Okay. So, that's all done. Let's click close. We can just edit these sales by clicking. What's the next one? Length of hose power. This one, I don't actually
wanna put anything cause it's gonna be an Amazon
link on the bottom here. So, let's just fill in this data. I'll do a quick edit. You
don't have to watch me do that. Okay, there we go. I've copied and pasted everything. I've removed that product name. And now I've realised
I've got the print name in this column. So, these things that really
am just clicking on them and deleting. So finally, let's add the link to Amazon. To do that, I'm gonna add a button here. So, I'm gonna come up to
elements, to search button, put that in there, put check price on Amazon,
a little bit big the button. So, let's adjust the size of it. Decrease the font. 10, line height is too much
and bring that down to one. Letter spacing is... Let's put that down to zero. I can increase the font again I think now. We have 16. Let's click on hand
just to edit the button. We'll show about the blue for
the button. Let's click here. I think I'm gonna go for a green. Green is always good for a button. Something like that. Wanna add a little icon. I wanna add the little shopping cart. I click on the icon. I can change it. Search for cart. Okay, with that one. Perfect. So, I'm gonna click back
on the button again. I think this button is
a little bit too big, so let's adjust it to
the layout and position. We can reduce some of this padding. So, it's currently all on 18, click on that button again. I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna click this padlock so I can adjust them all together. Then bring it down to eight. I think that's better.
So, let's add the link. Let me go back to main options. (indistinct) this target URL. We want it as a no-follow
and as an open in new tab, then back to Amazon, click
on text for the site Stripe, go to full link. It's very
important to use the full link. Otherwise, it can be
difficult to update your links in the future if you need to, for example, if you sold your site. Copy that to the clipboard
and paste that in and let's save them previous. Let's take a look at how
it's coming together. Then I am gonna take the tags out. In fact, let me add some tags. So, then we'll do that a second. But anyway, look, pros and cons looking nice.
The summary looking nice. Heading, good. I don't know if that might
be better bolded, this table. Starting to come together
very nicely indeed. So, let me just show
you how to add some tags just so that this bit
doesn't look a bit stupid. I'm gonna edit posts. You basically add tags
within the WordPress editor, not the Thrive. So, click edit posts there and then down this right
hand side, we've got tags. I'm gonna give a tag of siding aluminium and cleaning guide. Tags that you use to group stuff together and you can use them for filters and for searching in the future. So, use relevant tags, but not too many. Click update. Take a look. Looks better. So, what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna populate
the rest of this table, do a quick edit and then we'll carry on and add some more stuff. Okay. ,So the table is
all done. Looking good. I just wanna show you a quick thing that I've done with these buttons because this button doesn't
look that great on a mobile. Let me just show you. Actually it looks okay there because of the little trick I've done, I'm gonna show you. So, what I've actually done is I've created a separate
button for mobiles, I'll show you how I've done that. You go into this responsive section when you're editing an
element, like a button. Yeah. These options here, where you can decide whether
it's a visible on a desktop, on a tablet or on a mobile. Remember, it's set to
mobile only, this button. Just slide that across. I can
show you the other buttons. So, this is the desktop button and it's set to be just
visible on a desktop and on a tablet. You can see that down here. So, all I did was I duplicated the button, now using this little button here that it would duplicate the button. Duplicated it. I reduced the font size
then on the copied button and removed the icon and set this top one, this desktop one just to
show on desktops and tablets and then this bottom one,
just to show on mobiles. And that's it. So, if you're wondering why
your button looks a bit weird on a mobile, excuse, you need to do this little step and turn that off now
and then we can see that. It looks perfect on both. So, let's carry on with
this fantastic article. Next, I've got some information about the individual products. So, let's add that right
now. I just got out there. I don't know why I did that, but I'm just checking if
everything was still there. It still is. So, I'm gonna insert the image, the site Stripe image from Amazon for each of these products. I'm gonna show you how I'm
gonna do that right now. What I'll do is I'm gonna
add some text just here. I'm gonna add the title. Copy that. Okay. Let's let's paste that in. I'm gonna do a paste to match style, just cause I don't wanna
bring anything over from Word, any formatting. Okay. There it is. I'm gonna make this a H3 maybe. Let me just check what other
headings we're running here. Got an H2 there. That's perfect. So yeah, these are H3. Then what I'm gonna do rather than paste this text into here, I'm gonna add another text widget and it'll all become clear in a second as to why I'm doing that. And then what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna put the first couple of paragraphs into this one. There we meet, will
become clear, like that. Because what I wanna
do is stick the image. Maybe another cool little button here too. So, to do that, what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna add a HTML block called, I shouldn't
say block, HTML element because we're gonna be
copying and pasting some HTML from Amazon. I'm gonna drop that over
here to the right of the text like that. Then let's go into Amazon. So yeah, what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna get the image by coming up here, again, image large and
grab this code here. Copy that into clipboard. I'm gonna stick that in here. Paste it in. Beautiful, slightly over to the left, you could come over here, you've got this alignment here. You can pop it over to the middle or even put over to the
right. That might be better. And then I can adjust this
column by just dragging. I'm gonna put it. And I think it's probably good. 65-ish, 66-ish, 6634. Perfect. And then I'm gonna stick
another little button here. So, I'm just gonna take care of this one. Just gonna duplicate it is
the right product, yeah, Sun Joe. Just drag that down here. There we go. Perfect. So, you see why I added
these paragraphs here is because I want to add some more. That's gonna kind of wrap around that. I may have added too much texts. I think that's fine. Yeah, that's fine. What did I end up with? 7030. 7030 we'll go with. Of course, you can just drag stuff around, play around with it as you like, get it looking as sweet as you want. (indistinct) the rest of this content. They're gonna add another
text, just under here. See? So, that's gonna go all the way across. That's good. Slightly more space there
though between this paragraph, that paragraph in there. So, I don't think I should
mess with that too much. Could just reduce this margin
here, putting it down to zero. That looks about right. We'll review it in a minute. So, there we go. That's that texts. We've got this here. The things we like, the things we don't like. I think there's a fantastic block to that. So, let's have a look. Go into blocks. Can use a pros and cons block again. I think this will be
perfect. This one here. Here we go. So, I don't want this bit of
text here. Get rid of that. We'll change this to things we like and this things we don't like. And then a little bit of copy and pasting. We've got in here, like that. Perfect. I need this one. Yep. That's it. Don't need these, just delete them. I'm just selecting and pressing backspace. Get rid of it. Perfect. It's looking good. I don't think we need this conclusion. Get rid of that. So, that's our first
product, the pressure Joe. Perfect. So, I've got a few others to add. Bring that over. Few others,
got three other products. We've got a bit of blurb and we've got the
frequently asked questions. So, let me just quickly
add these other products. (indistinct) exactly the same process that I've just been through. Adding the text, adding the
image, adding the button. Yeah, let me add them
and then we'll carry on. Okay. So, I've added all
the products to the article. I actually realised that there was a product missing off the table. Thought of that as well. The Simpson, a gas powered, let's say petrol for those
of you in the UK, yeah. Gas powered pressure
washer. So, I've added that. And then here are all the products with the lovely things we
like and things we don't like and the images and the buttons and yeah, it's looking really good. So, we got left to do now
is this bit of blurb here. So, I wanna make this look really nice. So, we need to add a
header. So, let's edit. We're gonna edit with Thrive Architect There's gonna be some copying and pasting. So, let's scroll down here. I'm gonna add text. By the way, little tip here, you can pin the little elements
that you use all the time. I've pinned the custom HTML one up here. That's what I use for site Stripe images, that kind of thing. But yeah, the ones that you've
find that you're using a lot, pin them up on top for easy access. Let's copy this in. It's gonna highlight that. I'm gonna paste and match style. Then I'm gonna make it a H2. I'm just gonna scoop all this up. I think all this can probably
actually go in the same one cause there are a lot to it. There we go. I'm gonna make
these H3 or heading three. Now, of course, I could
probably add some extra images maybe to the jazz is up, but
I don't have any (indistinct). So, we'll leave it for now. Frequently asked questions. There we go. Like this H3, there should be a H. Oh no, that is H3. Perfect final verdict, H2. So that's about done, I think. Okay. There's one final
thing that I wanna add to this bit of content and
that is a table of contents. It's a good thing to have. We'll slot it in here
underneath this lovely summary. So, up to the elements and
let's search for table. There it is. Table of contents. Let's drag it down here. Go to choice of different tables. Oh, lovely. Wow. So many tables of content. I'm gonna go for this simple looking one. It looks fine. There we go. I think I'd like it a bit wider. And I think I'd like it
collapsed as a default state. So last down here, let's adjust the width. To do that, we go into this button, edit table of contents, go to
allow and position this width. I'm just gonna click on this little cross to change it to auto. That makes it the full
width. Let's click done. Let's click save. And I think this article is all done. I'm gonna click save and preview. Actually, that'd be better. Let's take a look. Okay. Featured image, got sites, we've got the pros and cons. We've got the summary. We've
got the table of contents. We've got drop that
down there. Looks good. There's a table. There's our products. There's the things we like
and the things we don't like, then there's the rest
of the blurb down there. So yeah, it's done. I
think it's as good as done. Of course, you can always
revisit it in the future, make it even better. So, what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna add some more content, I've got about three
or four other articles that I'm gonna add. To make it easy to add those, I'm gonna save a couple of
these elements as templates so I can just drop them
into future articles and just quickly edit them, just the content within them
rather than all the styling. I'm thinking about the table mainly, but maybe this pros and cons as well. So, to save an element as
a template for future use, you need to go back into Thrive Architect and then you just select the element. I want the whole thing here. So, it's this whole, ah, yeah. Summary and pros and cons block together. There's a little picture
of floppy disc here which I think is a weird
icon to use in 2020, because most people probably don't know what a floppy disc is. Anyone probably under
the age of 30 doesn't. But anyway, let's click on that flip. Then we can save that
as the pros and cons. You can have a category
if you want, that's great. Category (indistinct) content templates. Perfect. Then we'll click save new template. Here we go. I'm gonna do
the same on the tables. I've got this ready to go. Of course, when I insert
it into other posts, I will have to change the products, but the layout and
everything is done for me. By the way, on the table, I
should probably mention this. I noticed it when I was adding
this Simpson that I forgot, these coloured lines on
this particular template, you might be wondering how
on earth do I change them. Well, you have to go into manage cells, select the one you wanna change. And then you click manage cells again, and then you go to shadow
and then in a shadow, there is the colour there. So, if you're wondering,
yeah, sorry I digress. But yeah, again, I'll just save this as a
product comparison table. Again, we'll put it in the
content templates and save. So, I've got me templates now. I'm gonna go off and
add some more content. I'll see you in a moment. I've added five pieces of
content to the website. Look, best pressure washer for boats. We've got best pressure
washers for $100, $200, best pressure washers from $100, $300. Electric pressure washers and
how to clean aluminium siding. Of course, which was the
one I added originally. So, now what we're gonna do is just finish off these posts. We're gonna make an edit
to the actual post template so that it will make a
change to all of these posts and subsequent posts that
we add in the future. Before we do that, I just wanna
quickly show you this post. And these ones, I've used AAWP, which I think I mentioned earlier, it's a fantastic plugin and you can use it to
create tables like this, and it creates them using the Amazon API. So, these images and these buttons, and a few other bits and bobs. We'll pull down using the Amazon API, which is basically just a way
of getting data from Amazon and putting it into your website. Now, I'm not gonna do a
full tutorial right now on this plugin, but you'll find a link in the description to a video that I did a
while back all about AAWP and how to use it and
all that kind of stuff. So, go check it out. You'll also find a link to
AAWP down there as well. So, what we need to do is we
need to edit this sidebar, put something down here, put my picture, a little
blurb, that kind of thing. I'm also gonna put a affiliate
disclosure or disclaimer, very important thing to have. So, we'll do that now. So, what we need to do is
edit the post template. So, if you wanna edit with Thrive rather than going into
the Thrive Architect, which is for the content,
the actual article. If we go to this one, the theme template, we can change those things. So, let's start by adding
an affiliate disclaimer and affiliate disclosure. Amazon
say you need one of these. You just got to make it clear that you're gonna earn some money if someone clicks one
of your affiliate links and makes a purchase. So, we should add it just
above this post title. So, I'm gonna come over here, got a plus at an element
and within our building bugs down the bottom here, we've got this styled box and
that's what I'm gonna go for. I'm gonna drop that there. I mean, you can put it where you want, but it has to be obvious,
people can't miss it. You can't hide it somewhere. You can't have it the bottom of the post, needs to be somewhere there at the top. So, I'm gonna put it right at the top to make sure no one misses it. Okay. We've got loads of
lovely designs in here. Oh, one just looks like a note, green one there's all right.
That's all right there. Ooh, that's perfect. Look at that. It's like a post-it note, but yeah, you can choose
whichever one you'd like. I'm gonna go for the post-it note. Now, I've got some texts that you can use. You can copy it off my website.
I've got it in my clipboard. So, I'm just gonna paste it in. This bit actually is going to be a title. Let's get that. Put that
through to copy paste. There we go. That's it. So, this will appear on all of the posts as part of the template. Then that's fine. You can't miss that. So, let's have a look at this sidebar. I mean, you probably change the sidebar as you work on the site, you might wanna add ads
or whatever you like. I like a lot of the
elements. I like the search. I think it's good to have a search. I'm gonna move that to the top. Let's go up and I'll put
that right at the top. Oh, there we go. I know we have a search here, but don't miss that once
they've scrolled down, actually, I'm gonna put it
below the button in here. Hey, we can have something up About Us. Hello. My name is Alex and I have been trolling the internet to find you the best pressure washers. So you can put whatever you like. So next, let's change this
image. Let's gonna click on it. I've got an image, a square
image of me on my computer. So, I'm gonna come over
here, click on this, which is the image.
It's already that there. So, let's click it again and then we can upload from our computer. There I am. Can reposition if need be, that's fine. Let me click apply. I'm not gonna use this email box just yet. So, just delete that. Don't have any social media
profiles, but if you do, you can just click on here
and you can edit these so you can add different links. But yeah, I don't have any social profiles for this site just yet. So, let's get rid of that. Now this latest post, we can
adjust that if you click here, get it edit design, or you can choose a new template up here. So, I wanna go for something which has got the featured image. We can always edit anyway
and create it our own. Let's just go for this
supine, click replace. Okay. Needs a little bit of a design work on it. Let's reduce number of
columns down to one over here. That's looking better already. So, the image is a little
bit blurry in the... I'm not sure about all
this text and stuff. So, let's see what we can
do and come over here, click edit design, click on the featured image first. I want the image size to be full-size, that makes it look a
bit crisper and cleaner. That's good. Category, do we need to category? I don't think so. I just want
the featured images really. Don't wanna post content. I guess we could have the text
for screen readers and stuff. They can't read images. So, maybe the text is a good idea, but let's make it a bit
smaller. Just click on it there. And we got the line spacing there, which is a little bit too
high. Put that down to zero. Oh, he's got another line height here. I think let's just take
that down. There we go. That's 0.5. We go. Maybe the font does need
to be a little bit bigger. Let's have a look. Let's drag that up. Okay. That's not a (indistinct)
band. I wanna be on 16. Perfect. Let's get rid of this read more. We don't need that. All right, that's looking good. Now, let's just click done. Let's just do a save and
preview. Let's have a look at it. So, here we go. Here is our post. There's our affiliate
message. I like that. I don't think it's too big. It's too big? I don't know. We'll leave it for now. Here's our sidebar. Looking good. Here's the latest post edit. Really nice. And click on the image to
go through to the post. And featured images.
Looking good on there. Let's just got this last bit
here, which is the categories, which I don't think we need right now. I wanna keep the sidebar nice and clear because I'm gonna be adding
some ads and things later on. I don't think we need that. So, let's just get rid of that. Let's get back into theme
template for the post, scroll down. Let's get rid
of this dynamic style list. That's perfect. Of course, we can increase
the number of posts that show here, you just click on it, it's set to show six at the moment, you can increase that. Of course, you've got five
bits of content on here. So the five, one, two,
three, four, five. Yeah. When I add some more, obviously for now. Let's just save work, very important, and maybe save and preview. There we go. So, that's
our content all done, looking real nice. Isn't it beautiful? So next up, we're gonna
do the category pages, basically the pages that we're
gonna add to this navigation. So, they're gonna be
based on the categories that I've added the content to. So, I've got buyers guides,
got cleaning guides. I'm gonna create some lovely pages that show off the content. Well done if you've got this far, you're doing really well.
But yeah, let's carry on. (soft music) So, earlier in the video
we created some categories. Do you remember some
categories for our posts? So, what I wanna do now
is create some pages that represent these categories. So, we can take a look at them. They don't look that great. I mean, they're not bad. They're not bad, but I think we could
do better with a page. Talking about it, this one
is gonna look very similar. I mean, they're the kind of fine, but the images getting cut off and stuff, then they need a little bit of work. So, what we do is I'm
gonna create some pages that are gonna kind of be these categories that then I'm gonna redirect
these categories to the pages. I know that sounded a little
bit technical, but don't worry, it's gonna be fine. So, let's create our pages first. We're gonna create pages
for the main category. So, that's buyer's guides
and beginner's guide. So, let's go to new page, buyer's guides. Let's publish that. Now, let's jump into Thrive Architect. We're gonna go for prebuilt landing page company to Shapeshift theme. And, oh, we can choose from any of these. So, I like this first one, but of course, you can choose
whichever one you like. So, just click that. And here we go, we can now start editing. So, I need to put some blurb in here, like that blight like this blue text here. And it's just change that to pressure... Oh, it's not really what I want. Pressure buyer's guides. I wanna make it blue. I'm
just gonna highlight it. Come up here, click the blue, apply. Perfect. Let's just change this
pressure washer buyer guides to find the perfect washer for you. Well, we used the word
washer too many times. Then this text can a bit more
blurb. Think of something. We have researched hundreds of products, hundreds maybe a little
bit of an exaggeration, but now the more content I
add might make it that number. Hundreds of products,
let's say pressure washers. So, you don't have to. Ah, I wanna get the keyword in again, expertly written. So, you can find the perfect product quickly and easily. I mean,
it's kind of fluffy, isn't it? But it's all right for now. Let's make this blue. Now, I'm not sure I want this button. So, I think we'll get rid of the button. Now here, we need a lovely image, we have a lovely image. So, if I click over here,
go to background style. This image is I needed
something kind of square that jumped into Canva, create a you design, a custom dimensions. I recognise 600 by 600
should probably be fine. That's square. Then let's go to photos,
search for pressure washers. And we just got to find something nice. These are all kind of decking related. I must do an article on decking soon. Mud on roof is quite good. That's kind of cool. I've that one. They're
all good. Aren't they? Well, that's kind of stylish with the sun in the background. That one's pretty good as
well with him doing the car. Let's go for the one with
the sun in the background. Looks classy. There it is. I like it. So, let's download it. JPEG, (indistinct) the
quality down a little bit. The smaller the images are and file size the faster your website will load. So, it's quite important
to get your images as small as they can be without
compromising quality too much. This is the best pressure
washer buyers guides. Try and use keywords where you can and images that are relevant to the page, you're gonna be adding the image to. Let's go back to Thrive. Let's come over here,
click on the current image, click on it again, go to
upload and find the file. I just done it. And here it is. Perfect. Insert. Can reposition if need be. But I think that's about good. There are some other options
here. You can do (indistinct). Nope. That's not right. Actually. It's not quite square. Is it? I guess that doesn't matter. The cover, it looks fine. Apply. Let's save. We should always
save on a regular basis, just in case. Perfect. So, here we're gonna
have our two categories and then we'll probably get
rid of some of this down and if we need all of it,
but let's have a look. So here, let's set this post
list first to be the right one, we click on it, go to post
list, go to filter posts. So, we wanna display posts.
We wanna add some filtering. I wanna filter by category and I want it to just
show the buyer's guides, not quite sure which one's, which hasn't showed them to
me in a hierarchical way. Easy for me to say. Well, I know it's the one that's got, I think four posts in it. So, let's see what happens
when we go for this one, save and close. There we go. We're gonna need to edit
this design a little bit so that the image looks good. I think also wanna probably
drop that date or not. It's really up to you. Depends how often you're
gonna be adding content. If you're not gonna be
adding content that often or maybe you've got
evergreen sort of content. You're probably gonna lose the date, but anyway, let's click edit design. Well, I'm gonna ditch the date. So, I'm just gonna click on that and then click on the little
trashcan, get rid of that. So, now we want to adjust
the kind of fill of this, whatever it's called. So, let's just click on
the background image here. Then it should be able
to just change this. Nope, let's cancel. Click it again. Then contain. There we go. That's default. Nope. We won't contain for sure. You can click here to kind
of adjust the position if you want a top or bottom. I'm gonna reduce this bit of
space that we've got here. I'll leave it in the middle and we'll reduce the space around it. Let's click apply. To adjust that space, we go to layout and position this here, which is a bit of padding. So, gonna click on that and
then hold down my left click and just move up and down to adjust that. Then here, we've got this height that
sets a minimum of 200 pixels. If we get rid of that
and click on the cross, it will just be automatic.
And then it will okay. Be far too small. So, I guess we all gonna
need to set a height senate, so we just bring that up again. And it looks like it's fitting exactly. 132, is it 131? 132, I think is about right. There we go. Let's click done. I think we should just have
a quick preview actually. Let's go save and preview. Wow. Looking nice. Then if we click load more, we get more. I need to add a bit more content really. I'm happy with that. We need to just change this text and then we need to work
on the rest of the page. So, let's go back in, edit
with Thrive Architect. Okay. Let's scroll down
and we need to change here. We have that, it's just put buyer's guide. And then here, then here,
let's just change this text, pressure washer buyer's guides, regardless, let me just put some blurb. I'll fast forward the video. Their guide has been a blurb. So, this one is going to
be basically the same, but it's gonna be full
the other subcategory, which is pressure washer accessories, which I don't think I've
actually got content for at the moment, but not to worry. So, let me just quickly do that. I'm gonna just do exactly what I just did. So, I've added the second category. There were no posts to display yet because I haven't got any accessories buyer's guides written. So, can I get them created
as soon as possible and get those added just
a quick note on content and how much content you need
before you launch your site. I recommend you add at least 20, maybe 30 posts before
you make the site live, just so they can launch. And it's fairly well populated, quite well filled out and Google has got some
content to get its teeth into. Anyway, let's carry on and finish off
this fantastic category page. So, I don't need any
more of these category or subcategory sections cause you might... It depends on your content and
the structure of your site, but I don't need them. So, let's go back in to
the Thrive Architect. Let's get rid of them. Take a look at the other
elements on the page. So, on those two, I don't want this one. So, I'm gonna come up
here, click the trashcan, dust bin, I should say,
or we say in the UK. And then we've got this section here, now with this one, I'm gonna link through
to the beginner's guides. The other page, which
I haven't yet created. So, we'll have to do a come
back and update the link, but let's put some blurb here. New pressure washing. No, no, no, no, no. New to pressure washing. I didn't think pressure washing should actually have capital letters here, but I'm not very good at writing English. Don't panic. Our beginner's guides
will teach you everything you need to know to get to start cleaning. Maybe I don't need any more words. Let's just get rid of that. Then this, I'm gonna change it to browse
beginner's guide and so on. That looks perfect. And we need a lovely image here. I'll close Canva. You know how the Canvas thing works? Let me just do a quick edit
and I'll look up an image. There we go. That's perfect. Have downloaded it. Let's add it. So, click on this column,
go to background style, click on this, which is the
image that's already there. Click on this and then upload files and then find the file on
your computer. Here it is. Just a pressure washer doing it stuff. Beautiful. I need to reposition. I think that's perfect. Let's click apply. There we go. Then here, we just got this final thing, which is gonna show all the
articles in the category and then we've got the latest articles. So, let's get it all finished.
So, let's do this first. I mean, this is not too bad, but we need to get these
images looking good. They're being cut off at the moment. A little bit of text
here that needs adding. Let's change this text first. Browse all our pressure
washer buyer's guide. That we'll do. I can maybe fill out in another
time. I need to do it now. So, let's get this looking
a little bit better. What we need to do is
adjust the images here, trying to click on that. Come here to post list. I'm
gonna go to edit design. I'm gonna click on the image here where it says content box. Scroll down. I'm gonna go to a background style. Here's the image here. It's currently set for an
image display of cover, I'm gonna change that to contain. There we go. Now it's not cutting off
the edges. Click apply. But this box now is a little bit too big. So, I'm gonna go two main options. Well, this minimum height
here, I'm gonna adjust this, slide it down. I wanna get it so that it's just right. So, I'm just moving it around just so that it kind of
fits exactly on the width and the height. Seems to be around 50. Have to just gonna use my
arrow keys or just type it. Let's type it. Not seven, 58. 58 is perfect. That's fine. Let's click done. Now, you might be thinking
this is a little bit too small. I think they're okay. But you can adjust if you
wanted them to be bigger, you could just reduce this columns number. You would then have to adjust
the height and thing again, but I'm happy with five. I'm happy with five. I
think that looks fine. Okay. And then down here,
we've got the latest articles. This is just pulling
in the latest articles. Let me just see where
it's pulling them in from. We're gonna go to filter posts. Okay. It's bringing in
all of the latest posts. I'm gonna add a filter so
that it just adds posts from this category, which is,
of course, the buyer's guides. So, let's go add rule, category, display results that brings for at least one of these categories, add, and it's buyer's
guides. So, we close. And we need to just change this image. I guess I kinda need to
know what size it is. I can't find, let me just... A handy little tool within Chrome. If you right click and go inspect, you can then hover over things and it will tell you the size of them. Like that one is 518 by 428. Okay. So, let's go to Canva. Let's close that. Start a new one. And when you create a design, create a design, let me kick that again. So, it was... What was it? 518, 428. My memory is terrible. 518, 428. Perfect. And then into photos, let's look for some pressure washer stuff. This one's pretty good. We'll
use that one before this. It looks familiar. Maybe we'll have any of
these are good. Aren't they? I like the fence one there.
That's good. We'll go with that. Fill that like that. Yeah. Fine. Download it as a JPEG. Just bring the quality down a little bit. Cause I want the file size to be small, click download. I'm gonna call it buyer's
guides latest articles. Just so it matches with the
section I'm adding it to. That's fine. Okay. Let's go back to the
site and closing space. Now I just click on this
little crossover here. So, I'm gonna click on the
image. Go to background style, click on the image here. Click on the image here. Click upload, select files. And here it is here. Global of images, (laughs) just like a muzzle and some clean word, but I guess that's fine. And then insert, can reposition this, but it needs because it fits exactly. Click apply and click save work. Now, she looks a little bit grainy. I think maybe I might've
turned down the quality a little bit too much on here. I'm wondering if it needs to
be just a little bit bigger, just so that it kind of has
a bit of room to play with. So, let's go for 600 by 450. There we go. That's all good. I'm gonna download it a
little bit high quality, we'll go over 70. I do wanna replace. Thank you. There we go. Let's try again. Still looks a little bit grainy, kind of reposition it. Yeah, fine. We'll go with that. So, that is the silo
page or the category page or whatever you wanna call it done for the pressure washer buyer's guides. I think we should have a quick look at it. Let's go down here and
go save and preview. Yeah. I'd used the kid one before. So, you need some content
for the accessories. Perfect. So, what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna save this as a template so that I can easily create
category pages going forward. Cause I need to create one
now for my beginner's guides. So, let's jump back in, so, edit with Thrive Architect. So what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna come over to the little cog over here,
go to save landing page, then call it category page
or call it whatever you like. Of course, you can have tags if you want. I don't wanna tag, click save template. Perfect. So, we've got it saved as a template. Let's go and create our
beginner's guide page. So to do that, let me just close this. Don't need this. Go back here. Oh, this is already on add new page, but let me just take you
back to the dashboard so you know what we're doing. So up here, we've got the
new, I'm gonna go new page, call it beginner's guides. I'm gonna click publish. Perfect. I'm gonna go to
launch Thrive Architect. Okay. I'm gonna for prebuilt
landing page then down here, we've got my save landing
page templates or whatever. There it is. Looking nice. Give that a click and
then apply a template. Doesn't have a header
or footer at the moment. So, we'll need to do that
when it can come up here, click on the page with a little cog and just kind of click
on the eyeball there to get that header. And then down the bottom, I think we want the footer here then if we want that bottom bit, let me, I'm gonna think of that yet. So, let's not worry about that. So, perfect. So, what I'm gonna do is I'm
just gonna work through this. Just change it to be beginner's guides and then we'll crack on
with the rest of the site. So, you all I'm gonna be
doing is you're changing this so that it filters from
the right category. So this one, it might be,
let's get rid of this. I haven't got much
content on at the moment obviously to play with, do have a cleaning guide. So, let me just add that, save and close. You get the idea. I'll
do a quick edit and yeah, as I say the (indistinct). So, there we go. Got this page all done. Does need a bit more content
in order to fill it out. So, I'm gonna get that content written and published as soon as I can. But yeah, I've noticed one
little thing that we need to fix. And that is this. So, widgets
like this recent post one, they're pulling through
a little kind of snippet of the article. And because I've got
the pros and cons thing at the top of the article,
it just looks a bit weird. So, we need to kind of write
our own little excerpts as they're called for these articles just so this makes sense. Let me show you how to do that. Pretty worth doing actually
when you add the content, I should have done it earlier maybe, but hey, hope we'll be fine. So, I'm just gonna click through and I'm gonna edit the post, so, edit with Thrive Architect. Then I click up here on
the post to the little cog, then in here, where it's got post content, I'm going to go in. And from here, I'm not gonna actually
click on edit with Thrive. I'm gonna click on it, just to edit post, take it into the WordPress default editor and down the right hand side here, I've got this bit here that says exit. So here we can write what we like. So, something that looks nice. Nothing too long just a few words. And that's what's gonna appear on those kind of lists of posts. Say something like learn
how to clean aluminium, aluminium? Aluminium. I don't why I've given it a capital. Does it need to capital? I don't think it needs to. why is it saying it's spelled wrong? That's definitely how you spell it out. Aluminium. Like this. It's like that. Which means it's spelled wrong
up here as well. Isn't it? Well, anyone tell me this. Aluminium. Aluminium. That's better. I might have to just adjust
the link of the post as well, which would be yeah, permalink. Get that right. Perfect. Okay. So, let's back to this expert. Learn how to clean Aluminium,. Sorry, I'm gonna give it a capital. Aluminium looks like a word
that deserves a capital. Something like that. I
think we fine. Click update. Perfect. So, let me just go straight
back to the beginner's guides. So now when we look at the list, oh, let me just refresh.
It's still not showing it. Let me just edit and check that this has
got the right setting. Click there. Click edit design. This needs to be set to exit look. Perfect. Perfect. So, that's that done. Let's just go save and preview. Let's go down. That looks good. So, I'm gonna need to do the
same for the buyer's guides. Let's just take a look to these. Yeah, none of these are
making sense either. Oh, why is it not
letting me click through? Okay. Let's just see what's going on here. So, editing the page
with Thrive Architect. Let's click on this. I think it could be this
link entire item content. Let's just turn that off
and then all that means is that you have to just
click on the title I think, doesn't make much difference,
but hopefully it fix it. And the other thing we need
to do is just edit the design and change this to exit. And these are actually making sense. Now, did I set of exit on these? Maybe. Maybe I've already done it. Perfect. Let's click done. Let's click save and preview. There we go. There we're good. Now we have it. Let me
just see if I have that. So, it might be it's pulling it in. Automatically, I can't remember. I added these articles. Oh, there we go. Yeah, the expert is set. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. So, what we need to do now is this menu. Let me start adding
some things to this menu like the two pages that we just set up. So to do that, we're gonna
come up here, click customise, go to menus, gonna create new menu. I'm gonna call it main menu. I'm gonna set the location as primary, gonna click next. I'm gonna click add items and then I'm gonna add
the beginner's guides and the buyer's guides. Perfect. Then I'm gonna click publish. That should have done it. Let's click the cross and have a look. Okay. It's not a paid. So, we may just need to edit this header. Let's go to edit with Thrive Architect. I'm gonna click on the header up here. I'm gonna click edit header over here. Click on this menu, custom menu. It was currently set
to menu sources custom. Let's just set it to main menu. There we go. Perfect. Save. Pretty well add a few
other things along here. Maybe a Contact Us or something like that, but that's fine for now. So, let's just save and preview. Refresh, and there we go. Is there. We can click through. So good. So, I think the next
thing we should move on to is the home page. So
yeah, let's do that next. (soft music) So, let's get this home page all done. Once we've done that,
we'll start to fill up. We're making some real
progress with the site. So, we've got this that we
bought in earlier, which is fine, is fine. I mean, these would
need adjusting or whatever. Too keen on this big thing that makes my image look a bit weird. I like this. I'm bringing
this out with this. But yeah, let's work through it and I'll show you how you
can bring in more blocks and just kind of make it your own. So, let's go with this thing up here, edit with Thrive Architect. So, I'm gonna get rid of this topic first cause I'm not gonna be collecting
email addresses just yet. I mean, I could of course,
just get rid of this and add a button or something, but I wanna try something different. So, I'm just gonna remove this. Come over here, click
on the little trashcan. I'm gonna click on this
plus to add a block. I'm gonna go and look at the hero areas. Cause I think that's what
you call the (indistinct). That's up to the hero area. Got quite a few nice ones. Now I like this, this one
here with the gradient. It's got a nice blue to it. I guess it's the same blue
as this. It should be. So, what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna add a nice image here. So, let's do that now. Let's do that with Canva. So in Canva, I'm gonna
create a new design. I'm gonna do custom dimensions. I'm gonna go for 1400 by 800, seems to be a pretty
good size for that unit. Here we go. And then I'm
gonna go into photos. I'm gonna use this one here. I look earlier for a
good photo that I like, went for this one. It's part of the canvas pro
iStock photography library, lined that up. That's about right. Let's go download JPEG and download. Call it pressure washer hero. Go back here. Make sure that I've selected this area. I think I have. Then down
the left hand side here, I'm gonna go to background style. This photo here is what we wanna change. I'm just gonna click on that. Click on it again here, go
to upload, select files. Find the image on my
computer is right there. Pressure washer hero, give it a click and then
click insert into post. There it is. Beautiful. Come over here. Click apply. You can reposition move a
little dragon around like that if you want to. Click apply. And that is good. And I mean of course, we can change this text, expert guides. Expert pressure washer guides, and articles, something like that. Best pressure washer for your needs and learn how to clean anything with it safely and easily, something like that. And then here, I wanna
have two buttons really. Cause I wanna have one link
it to beginner's guide one linked to buyer's guides. So, I can do this one. Buyer's guides. Just click on the texts to edit it. I'm gonna click here to adjust the link. Let's go to the main options, target URL. I started typing in buyer's
guides. It should come up. There it is. I like that. Perfect. And I said, I want a copy of this button because I want to have to.
I want it to side by side. So, what I'm gonna do actually is I'm gonna add some columns. To do that, I'm gonna come
over here to the little plus on the top right. And select columns. Drag that over, drop that in below the text, say I want two columns. I'll put you there. And then I'm gonna duplicate
you by clicking on that. Take your copy and put inside the column, change this to beginner's guides, the IDs, can't spell guides. And then we can grab hold
of this little line here and just adjust that. I think some thing like
that might be okay, 60, 40 but we'll have a look in a second. Let's click preview and then
see what that looks like. Why is it? Oh, hang on. Maybe I need to just
click save. Let's save. And now let's refresh the preview. Let me close that. Try again. Preview. Okay. It's gone right over there,
which I don't want that really. So, what I'm gonna do
is click on the block and then we untick this and tick this. We can adjust some things
probably about 1,024 is about right actually,
maybe a little bit more. Let's go for 1145, save work. Let's just click preview again. Refresh. That's better. That'll do it. I mean, I can
play around with that all day, but let's move on. Okay. Close the preview. Let's scroll down. So, this recent posting, I'm not a big fan of this big thing, so yeah, I'm gonna get rid of that. In fact, I might just
ditch this entire section by clicking on the trash. I like this. Don't know where to start, but I'm gonna move that
down I think a little bit, move it down out of the way. I want it down in the bottom of the page. I'm just gonna drag it
down here somewhere. So, to add a minute there,
let's go back to the top. I like this. I do like this, so I can change this to something like latest
pressure washer articles. It's about the latest... Find out about pressure
washers and how to use them. Perfect. So, I like this, this post thing. Let's just see what it's bringing in. Like it's on filter posts. It's bringing in all of the posts, which is, that's absolutely fine. Got Lily's shoe with the
size of the thumbnails again. So, let's fix that. So, I'm gonna go to edit
design and a scroll down. I'm gonna background style. I feel I need to click on the
actual image. There we go. Background style is there. I'm gonna click on where
it says featured image. I'm gonna adjust the image
display to be contain. Better. Click apply. Then I got what I need to do
on the hover state as well. So at the top here, we've
got this state normal. If we change it to hover, so it's like when someone hovers on it. Click on this again, click on the featured
image, switch it to contain, click apply. It was already uncontained. That's weird. And while it seems to fix it, (laughs) so yeah, you've got this
thing where you can adjust it for the different states.
There we go. That's fine. Now I just wanna adjust the height. So, I'm gonna go to main options. Adjust this minimum height. Bring that down to where it's
just fitting nicely, I think. Is it 198? Is it 200? I think it's 198. That's perfect. Okay. Let's click done. That's nice. This bit here
where it says category one. I mean, if I had a lot of content, I'd probably break it down by categories, but at the moment, I haven't. So, for now, I'm just
gonna have it all in one. So, let's just change
this to buyer's guides and beginner's guides. Still icon is a pie chart. Not really relevant. Let's click on it and click change icon. Just wanna kind of document
articley sort of thing. That was a pressure washer. Is there... Let's have a look. No. Is there a water
droplet? That'd be cool. Yeah, that. I like that. Perfect. So, that's section done? Yeah. All the rest of this stuff, I mean, the different layouts for again, showing off your latest
concept, which is fine. I mean, you choose whichever one you like, but I'm gonna get rid of them. And let's say if I had a lot
of content, I might do this. And in the future when
I've got low content, I may kind of break this down
and have lots of sections for the different bits of content. But for now, I'm gonna
put it all in the trash. Bye-bye. Get out of here. See you later. Okay. About the author,
is good. I like that. I'm gonna change it to About Us. And then hi, I'm Alex. And then of course, I need
to put some blurb here, but I'm not gonna make
you watch me struggle to come up with some text there. I'll think of that in a minute. This image I've already
got an image on here of me so I can just click here, find me, insert, and then I can adjust
this shape, grabbing this and put that up there. Make that a bit bigger like that. There we go. Social media, I might leave that other, I do need to set up the social media, but for now, I can leave it. Testimonials. I mean, I don't have any, but you could maybe make some up. Maybe you probably shouldn't
do that. Let's get rid of this. I haven't got the email signup. Again, in the future, I might think about
collecting email addresses though I'm quite sure what I
could offer people just yet. If I had like a fantastic 20-page
guide on pressure washers, I could maybe offer
that for free in return for an email address,
but I don't right now. So, let's drop this. Of course, I can always
add any of these elements back again. You just click on the blocker
then they're all in here. You just click on one and it
will put it back in for you. So, let's send that to the
trash and then I'll keep this. Don't know where to start. Explore our most popular articles, browse articles. Then I would link that off
to one of the sections. Maybe link it off to the buyer's guides. The ones where the money is. There we go. Okay,
let's change this image. Can we go to Canva? And let's create a design. I think I'm gonna go
for something quite big. Let's go for 900, 600. I think the bigger, the better, I mean, can we just resize it later? Create new design. Let's find a nice photo
of a pressure washer that we haven't used before. So many pressure washer photos. Ooh, that one's a bit different. Isn't it? It's got a cleaner. Let's put that on something
a little bit different. Mix it up a bit. Download it as a JPEG. I'm gonna call it a pressure
washer home page bottom area. (laughs) Something like that.
Call it whenever you like, then come back to the site, click on it. Then go to background style,
click on the image here, click on it here, go to upload. Select the file. This one here, insert into post. Perfect. Click apply, click save. And I think that's the
home base done for now. I mean, of course, it's
gonna be an ever evolving and improving page as I
continue to work on the site even after launch. Let's just have a quick
look, let's have a preview. There we go. Top's looking good. Our latest articles like
water droplets. Fantastic. And there's me. I need to do this Latin. I'll do that later on. And there's that. Wow, there we go. That's the homepage. Well done. (soft music) This part of the video, we're gonna be adding a few more pages. These are pages that
you've really gotta have, not particularly exciting or interesting. Things like the About Us, the Contact Us, Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions and also a cookie pop up thing policy. Those annoying things that you
see when you go to websites. So, you have to have because
of Europe or whatever, we're gonna be adding all of them. So, to add a new page, if
you wanna add any new pages, just come up to new and then go to page. So, let's start with About Us. Put About Us, then publish. There we go. Now I'm
gonna switch to Thrive. Let's spend too much time on this so you can go in as deep as you like. Now, there isn't any pre-built pages, I don't think for About Us, but there is some blocks and
that's what we're gonna use. So, I'm gonna go normal
page. I'm gonna come up here, choose a block. I'm gonna go for theme
blocks and then I'm going to, well, you can search up there or you can come to hear
about, or this team bit here. They're all really good. So, you maybe have a
combination like that one, which is sort of like the
one we got on the home page, then down here. Yeah, down here. We'll have another one.
So, up here again, block. Then let's add team one. This is quite nice. This is
quite nice too with the blue. Go here. There we go. Then obviously, you'd fill
it all out with information. Now, I don't have a team
as such for this website, but I do have some writers that I use and I do have an editor. So, I'll put that information here and anyone else that happens
to help me on the site, I'll get a picture and
stick them in here as well if they're okay with that, which I'm sure they will be up here. You obviously write about yourself and you might need to
elaborate on a few bits and just kind of say that you're into whatever it is you're writing about and that you do lots of
research and all the rest of it. You may, of course, one
of assuming a pen name and that's fine too. So use a different name and
just have a stock picture of someone. And that way, you can kind of
keep your identity private. So, I will update this page later. Of course, it's very easy to edit. Just use your Thrive. I'll just come here and edit
all the things as usual, replace the images. But I'm gonna go away now and
get some pictures of my team and fill it all out. Okay. So the About Us pages, we'll done populated it with some words. I've also put these words on the homepage. Remember had that batter's box, so I'd not populated this
one. Let me show you. So yeah, I've added the words here. And I did a link through to the About Us. Yeah, I'd done some blurb and I did... My team members took
out one of the columns cause there was four columns.
Just wanted the three. These are actually
people that work with me. So, it's all good that you
were helping me with this site. So, I wanna quickly show you
how the columns thing works. So yeah, there was four here. All I did was come over here. You can select the different
elements across top. Very useful to remember
that, of course, top. But if you take out the content box, you can then take out
the column like that. Pretty simple. Of
course, you got undo here if you need to put
anything back. There we go. So, that's the About Us all done. So, the next time we'll
do a Contact Us page. Just want a very simple form and you could add your phone
number, all that kind of stuff, but I'm not gonna on this affiliate site, just a form just in case
people wanna send me a message. So again, I'm gonna go new page, go to Contact Us, then publish. Then I'm gonna go launch Thrive Architect, then normal page again,
then up to the blocks. And there are some
blocks around a contact. So, I'm gonna go to a theme and scroll down and then
there's a whole contact section and you can just drop these blocks in, whichever ones you like. This one's quite nice,
but I just want a form. So, I'm just gonna go with this. Love to talk to you
about pressure washers. Perfect. In fact, I want this to
be a little bit wider, just a little bit. So, I'm gonna go into layout and position then put this max width of 30. I'm just gonna put that up a bit 50. That looks better. I'm gonna edit the actual form bit. Just click on it and you can
add different fields here. Say for example, you wanted to add a website
or a phone number box, just click add new and you
can choose the field type. A phone is fine. And then just put an example for them. Apply and you can drag them around. I shouldn't put a label line. Did I? Show label. That's what we need. Perfect. So, that's the form. You can connect it through to something. So, it could just send it
straight through to your email by selecting email. you can set who it goes to and
all the stuff that gets sent, or you can have some other connection. If you go to the API dashboard, you can connect it to all sorts
of things, these apps here, but you probably just don't
wanna send it to your email. So, that's that. That's basically all I'm
gonna do on the contact page. Of course, you can drop in
any blocks or any elements you like if you wanna put
more information, but for me, the form is fine. Let's click save. Save and preview. Even let's have a look at it. There we go. Perfect. Okay. Next up, we're
gonna do some legal stuff. You gotta do it to make sure site legit. Google likes it when
you're all above board. So yeah, I'm talking about
privacy policy, privacy policy, however you like to say it. How do you say? I dunno. Privacy policy and we're
gonna do a cookie thing, annoying cookie thing and
let stuff now to do it. I'm gonna use a service
that I really like. And well, I recommend it
because I like it and I use it and it kind of makes things easier. Pretty sure it covers you for legal stuff, covers you better than anything else. So, what I'm talking about
it's called ear bender. I don't know even how to say it, but you'll find a link
to it in the description. It's an affiliate link. Thank
you very much if you use it, there is a small fee
for using the service. Let's say it's worth it. Just to make sure that you're covered. If you haven't got any
spare cash right now, you could obviously maybe wait
until you'd get some money coming in and then go for it. Or you could find a kind of
generic privacy policy out there on the web and just
copy and paste that in. But that's a little bit risky. Not that I've ever heard
anyone getting in trouble for not having a privacy policy or having an incorrect privacy
policy, but you never know. Anyway, let me just quickly
show you how this works. So, let me (indistinct) my
dashboard. I'm already signed up. What I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna click start generating, so website. Type in the website, best pressure washer,
typed it in correctly, bestpressurewasher.com. Start generating. So, I wanna go do my privacy
and cookie policy first. Click generate now. It's just thinking about it. There we go. So, what we need to do is
just add all the services that we're gonna be using on the website. So, it's really easy,
just click add service. So, we've got the most
frequent services here. We've got all of these services here, so pretty much anything
you're running on the website you can include. So contact form, we've
definitely got contact form. We've set up a minute ago. And you can add the personal
data you're collecting. And I think it's just a first name, last name. What else did we get? Email address. Was it phone number?
Maybe. I'll cover myself. I think it was. And well, and a message. Do you need to put that
in various types of data? No, I don't think so. Then click save. Perfect. The other thing we're gonna be using, which we're gonna be adding
shortly is Google Analytics. So, let's add that. My analytics I think is Ireland. That's fun. What was
specified? Could kill off time. I've got no idea how
long it takes or lost. What else we got? We
got Amazon, of course, Amazon affiliate. So, I'm gonna type in Amazon, Amazon affiliation, there we go. By the way, are you gonna
do offer free service? Should have probably said that, but I don't think it includes
things like Amazon affiliate. So, not gonna work for you. So there's that? What else have we got? We've got the analytics,
we've got the contact form. We got Amazon affiliation. I think that's it for now. (indistinct) is I actually pretty good cause it will scan your
site on a regular basis and let you know if
you're missing anything. We'll go with those free for now. There they are. Can adjust this stuff
if you need, all users, I think is fine. And then we'll see if... I dunno what that is that
I need to have something about California people. So, now I need to put in my details. What? Doesn't remember this from before. That's my email address.
I'll put that in here. Let me just populate this. There we go. Got my name
and address in there. And that's my company address by the way. It's not my actual address, and then let's click next. So yeah, this is what we've got. Perfect. Next again. So, now let's do a couple of other things. We need a cookie policy as
well as click activate on that. That's done. Now the terms of the terms and conditions, I got another company that I use for that because I think it's better, which I'll show you in a minute, but terms and conditions is pretty something you don't
really need to worry about. Anyway, let's got to take me
to the embedding instructions. Okay. Let me start from the top. Privacy and cookie policy, click embed. It takes you down to the bottom. Now, I like to go for the
embed the text in the body. So, we got the privacy
policy and the cookie policy. So, I'm gonna just pop
back to the site quickly. I'm gonna create a new page. Let's do the privacy first. Okay. Now, you can do it with Thrive,
but you might not need to. Let's just have a look. Do it this way. I'm just gonna copy this,
this here, this JavaScript. And then I'm gonna come
here. I'm gonna go for HTML and paste it in like that. Just click preview. Let's have a look. Perfect. Works fine. Close that. Let's click publish. So that's that. We can have a look at it if you want. Okay, let's go new add page, cookie policy. Then back to each Embedder
and then scroll down. Grab this one here. This cookie policy JavaScript, copy that. Click on the plus. I want custom HTML. This
block here, click here, paste it in and then publish,
and then publish again. Perfect. Let's view the page. Cookie policy all done. Very nice. Let's go back to Embedder. That's that done. Now, what I wanna do is add
the cookie solution now, which is the annoying pop-up that you get whenever you visit a site
nowadays, click generate now. Choose the colours you like. Quite like the light one actually. Then I think the rest is okay. I mean, you can adjust the
position like bottom like that, like that. I think like that
at the bottom is perfect. I like that. Click next. So to add it, we just
need to copy this code. I'm gonna click copy. There we go. And we need to add that to the
head, the head of the site. Very easy to do that with Thrive.
Let's go back to the site. Let's go to the dashboard. Then we're gonna go to
the Thrive dashboard. Then if we scroll down, we've got analytics and scripts here. We can click manage scripts. STEM, all we need to do is go add new. And then it's got a box
for the script here. We paste that in, give it a label so we know what it is. The embedder cookie except placement. We want it before the head. We'll take it in all these like that. Then that should be done. And check it. If we visit the site, there it is. Look at that beautiful. Now, it's currently linking
off to this. Oh, which is fine. That's fine. Works well. I guess you could link it
through to the cookie policy on the site, but that's fine. Click except it's gone. Shouldn't come back and bother us. So, that is the privacy and
the cookie policy all done. So, just wanna quickly touch
on terms and conditions. I guess you need them.
I've got on my sites. I'm a lawyer or anything, but yeah, that seems like
a good thing to have. I get them from this
company here .kyla.net. I think they're better
than the iBender ones. Cause this is specific
for affiliate websites, is 36 pounds, probably about $40. Something like that. I've already got this one ordered. Once you've ordered it, you
can come in and click edit. And then you basically just go through and add your company name or whatever. And all this other stuff, turn
on the stuff that you want is to do with basically the
use of the website and covering if people try and hack your
site and all that kind of thing. As I said before, I think the main reason
for having these documents is because it makes your site look legit, both to visitors and to Google. And that's obviously a good thing. Once you've done everything,
you click save changes, then you can download it as a Word doc like that. Then if we open it, there it is. Just gonna copy this into my clipboard. And I'm gonna head back to the
site here, create a new page, call it terms and conditions. Then I'm just gonna paste it in. Don't really need to use Thrive for it. You could do, but I
don't think we need to. This should look fine. Let's have a look. There we go. I might make that a heading. That would look nicer. Wouldn't it. Let's just edit the page again. This gonna make this H1 server click here. I'm transforming to a
heading and go for H1, update. So, H1 is basically a header. It's good to have headers
within your content. It helps visitors and Google know what the document is about. So, H1 is the main title of the document and then your subheadings
would be H2, H3, etc. Anyway, let's have a look at this. Click over here and here we go. Perfect. So, that's the terms and conditions done. (soft music) So, now we've created those pages, we should probably link
to them from the menu zone and whatever. So, we've got a couple of options. We can add them to this
menu across the top. Although I wanna keep this
kind of nice and clean, but we can add a couple of things to that. And then we've also got this
footer area with these links. So, we could mess around with
these and add links here. When in fact we need to
do the footer anyway. So, let's do that. But first off, I'll show
you how to adjust this menu. I mean, we did it earliest.
Hopefully, you remember. You come into here and
you can go to menus. Alternatively, you can
go into the dashboard and go to appearance and menus. I like this way. This way is fine. So, here's our menu. We're just the beginner's
guide and buyer's guides. And we could add the
Contact or the About Us. Maybe the About Us.
Let's add the About Us? There we go. And I think I'm also gonna
add a link to the homepage. I think that's always
a good thing to have. So, where is the home page? Is not that test time was when
I was playing around with. It must be this one, generated homepage. What a catchy name that is. So I can drop that down or I can rename it so that it says something
a little bit more friendly. Of course, you can drag
them around to reorder. But I'm gonna put the buyer's guides first cause I've got more of them at the moment. So, let's save. Let's go
take a look. Beautiful. Of course, we can adjust
this menu if we need to with Thrive Architect. If you wanna make it different
sides or just the spacing, maybe you want to add a few more items and need a bit more room. So, here we are. Let's
click on the header, then click edit header. Then if you click here on the custom menu, you've got some options here. So, you've got the
horizontal spacing here. You can adjust that if you want it a little
bit closer together, that'd be a good thing. We set to six. You got some other options in here. You've got the lamb position. So, here we got Blake margins and I see can get it exactly
where you want it all, left right centre line,
whatever, there's those options. If you want adjust the font, I think you need to just
click on the individual items and then we've got topography and then we can adjust like this. Think about 16, might be about right. 14, a little bit too small. That's quite nice. Let me go with 16. Perfect.
Tick done and click save. So, there's the top menu. Let's take a look at the footer now. Scroll down, got to the footer here. So, these links are
automatically generated. What I'm gonna do is
just create like a list with some icons and just add the manually, click on the footer, click edit footer. And so over here, and by the way, these are automatically generated or automatically populated. I should say, I'll show you where we
can do that in a second. But let's have a look over here. Yeah. I don't want these elements. I'm gonna gonna take these off trash. And what I'm gonna add is
the lovely stylist, that. So on this side, I'm gonna have links to
the kind of normal pages. And then in this column here, I'm gonna add links to the legal stuff, the privacy and all that business. So, let's start by adding
on main category pages, the buyer's guides and
the beginner's guides. Buyer's guides, like that. And then to add a link, it's gonna highlight. To come up here, click on that chain,
type in buyer's guides. You should find it. There it is. Don't open in a new tab. Insert. Perfect. Then the big beginner's guides. Again, let's highlight, click the chains, start typing it in. Perfect. Then we'll add the About Us. We need capital U. I always (indistinct)
looks a little weird, but I guess I've done a capital G there and I probably should. So, let's link that through. Then finally, we should add the context. I'm just gonna duplicate
this one, clicking on this, Contact Us and then highlight it all. Click up here. Take that out and then type contact. Perfect. So, there we go. I wanna change this icon. So, let's click that. What have we got? Let's click change icon. 7,856 eye constitution.
That's quite a lot. I guessing like a bullet will be fine. We've got any bullets? We've got a classic though
around, but I know what we need. We need the droplet then
we, of course, we do. The water drop. Perfect. Beautiful. But we need it
to be a different colour. Oh, I like these. Look at these. No, that's too much, too much. It's too much. Cancel that. I want the colour. So, let's
go for the lovely blue. There we go. That's perfect. I think there's a little bit
too much space between them. That's what I'm thinking. So, let me just check the layout here. We've got this bit of margin
here within the list item layer and position area. So, bring that down. I think zero is actually fine.
We don't need any margin. There we go. A little bit low down. Isn't it? Actually, when I look at it, it's not lined up with the logo there. So, let me just adjust that. So, let's click on the style list. It was going on. It's this
bit of margin at the top. So, it's a bit of padding there. We're gonna just both of these. Let's bring this down to zero. That looks nearly about right. Let's take out the padding to zero right? There we go. That looks
much better. Perfect. Let's do this other column as well. What I'm gonna do is I'm just
gonna duplicate this list, style list like. It's
slated up at the top. Cause it's hard to kind of
grab hold of it down here. So, you come across
top, select style list. Let's click the duplicate
like that. There we go. Then drag one of the
others, just drag that over. That's fine. There we go. So on this side, they're linked to those legal
things that we just did. So what we got? Let's click that, we've
got the privacy policy. Yep. Let's just highlight it. Hang on. There we go. Highlights it all. Click on the link. Change it to privacy. There it is. Date. This one we'll have as cookie policy. There we go. Okay, perfect. Again, let's click on the chain. Let's type in cookie. Perfect. This one will have his
terms and conditions. I can spell it. That'd be better. Here we go. Again, let's
highlight the whole thing. Click on the chain. Perfect. I think that's it. Isn't
it for the legal stuff? I think so. So, I'm just gonna take these
off by clicking on the trash. There we go. Beautiful. So, let's click done then save. I'm gonna do the rest of the photos. I'm just gonna basically
add a Amazon disclosure, disclaimer. Put there in a second. Before I do, I just wanna show you where
you add this information so that it kind of
automatically populates it. So, let's come out and go
back to the post editor. Then I click up here, go back
into the WordPress dashboard. Now, we're gonna come
into the Thrive dashboard, scroll down through
this smart site section. Let's go into there. Then here we can add some
information for the global fields. So, it allows you to populate
things like your name, address, phone number, email address, can also link through to
these things which is handy, and your social media,
just makes it a lot easier because then when you add a
social media button on a page or whatever, it would automatically be
pointing to the right place. So, just come in here, click on the pencil and then you type in, take their bestpressurewasher.com, like that. I'm gonna have an address on here. Maybe set up an email address. You set up your email addresses
within your hosting account. Okay. Privacy policy is a link,
is it gonna let me search? No, I have to copy paste. Let's open a new tab. Here we go. Let me just copy this link. And why is it privacy policy too? Was there already one in there? Okay. We should probably fix that. And that's not a nice URL.
Let's click edit page. Get rid of that too, but it lets me. No, it's
not gonna let me okay. So, that must mean I've already got, Oh, I've already got a privacy
policy. That's the problem. When that one was created, nevermind. Let's get rid of it. So trash. And then all
to use that URL again, I need to empty the trash and
let's just get rid of that. So, now I should be able to
go in and change that URL. Let's go back in. Do a quick edit. Get that out of that. There we go. I'm just gonna have to
update that filtering on. Why is this not gonna work?
So, let's just do that. We'll be adding an SEO plugin shortly, which will automatically
manage your redirect. So, if you happen to change URLs, it will automatically
update and do redirects, but we will instal just yet. So, I'm gonna have to come in here. Just check that this link is
correct on the privacy policy. Yeah, let's do it two on it. Look, let's get rid of that. Perfect. But you can see it's
populating these things now with the stuff that
I've already filled in. Perfect. Do you want me to take
a look? So, here we go. Let's copy this. Just gonna highlight and copy. There we go. I have a disclaimer as such but terms and conditions
will certainly do. That's not right. I need
to copy the right link. Oh, and also, I've noticed that the footer is not right on here. We'll fix that in a second. So, you got the right
footer on the homepage. So, terms and conditions. Perfect. I haven't got any of
this stuff set up yet, but obviously when I do, I'll add it here. So, let's go back to the
homepage and close that tab. So, the home page is looking good, but we need to just edit these few things. So, I've got disclaimer,
I'm gonna add here. So, let's do that. Now
let's edit with Thrive. Scroll down. Let's click on the footer. Let's click edit footer. So, let me just check
this image first off. It's got this link here which
is not really what we want. Let's going through to
Thrive. Let's go to that. And I'm just gonna put
a little slash there. Cause that's where I'm gonna
link back to the homepage. I don't want this here
and I don't want this. I'm just gonna add some text here and it's going to be an
affiliate disclosure, which I'm just gonna quickly
go and copy into my clipboard from one of my other sites. Okay? I'm gonna put a title, bold it up. And then I've got the
text in my clipboard, just paste it in. It's a big space there. Let's,
have a look what's going on. Is that the line height? Well, it could be. That's fine. Of course, you can add whatever
you like to the footer, but keep it simple. Go with that. Let's click done and save. So, that's the foot are done. We just need to make sure
now that it's applied to every page and post on the site. So, I'm gonna jump back into
the WordPress dashboard. I'm gonna go to the Thrive dashboard and then I'm gonna go
into the feed options. I'm gonna go to footer, and up here, I'm gonna select
my new photo, which is here. That's it. And click choose. That's done. Let's just check. Everything
is looking all right. Yep. Let's have a look home
one of these random pages. Yup. Yup. I don't know. I've just noticed that... Why is it two buyer's guides there? We'll fix that in a second. Oh, beginner's guides is not
the right one. Is that it? Change footer. There we go. Maybe I manually set
it early or something. I'm not stretching it to full width. I think it looks better
when it's not full width. It's got a width of 1080 pixs. Can also quickly edit it
I guess while I'm here. Get rid of that one. Let's click save. So, let's just check the
other pages very quickly. About Us looking good,
Contact Us, perfect. And I suppose you should look
at a piece of content as well. Let's have a look at this one. Beautiful. So, it's all done. (soft music) So, we've basically finished. The site is looking good. If you've made it this far, congratulations. You've done better than most
people that watch my videos. They don't often get this far. And hopefully, you've got a
site that you're pleased with, that's looking good and
that is ready to launch and ready to work on. Oh, there are a couple of little things that you might wanna do before you do that and we're gonna do them right now. The first thing is we're gonna check what the site looks
like on a mobile phone, on an iPhone, that kind of thing. We're also gonna check
what it is like on a tablet because people are gonna
be visiting your site from those devices. And you're gonna wanna make sure that it looks good on those just as good as it looks on the desktop. Second thing we're gonna
do is we're gonna instal an SEO plugin and we're gonna
submit a site map to Google. This will help Google crawl the site and also give us some information
about how well we're doing on the search engines. Alongside that, we're gonna
instal Google Analytics, which is a way of
tracking all the visitors that come to your site and see how many people are you getting and where they're coming from and as well, they really useful information. And the final thing is we're gonna check how fast this site is loading. Faster the site loads, the better. You'll do better on your
search and your rankings if you've got a fast site. And also just for visitor experience, it's better to have a really fast site. So, we're gonna try and speed up the site. And I've got a plugin that
I'm gonna use to do that. But anyway, let's check what
it looks like on a mobile and on a tablet. You might call them cell
phones in the states. Let's click edit with Thrive. Down to the bottom, you've
got these free little buttons that allow you to change
how the site looks. And it also allows you to
edit based on the screen size, which is really cool. So, the menu has got into
a burger, which is good. It looks good. These buttons
aren't quite right though. Are they? And up here, the search, I
mean, it's not a big deal, but you can't see the words. So, let's make a few adjustments. Let's adjust the search box now . I'm gonna click edit header. I'm gonna make that a little
bit bigger on tablets. Let's click done. Let's click save. That's better. Let's adjust these buttons. Was thinking I just need to
make that a little bit wider on the tablets. Let's say these changes
should only apply to tablets. Not other screen sizes. I think that's about right. Looking good. Let's scroll down. This all looks fine. Looking really nice. Looks good. Looks good. What has happened here? The
footer has gone a bit weird. Let's have a look at that. Click on that. Click edit footer. What is it? Is that...? Cause the line height's zero. Okay. That's let's do that. That looks better. Very good. So, let's click done. Let me get back to the top
now. Let's just save actually. Always save regularly, is a good tip. Let's have a look at the mobile. Otherwise scroll down to the footer. So, we'll start at the top. Okay. Here we are. This is the mobile view. Looks good. Got the burger menu,
got the big search box. Though it looks like
the not quite centred. I think I'd like them centred. Let's click on it,
let's click edit header, click on the search. It's a layout. Go to the alignment and go centre. That looks better. And here, I mean, that's
fine, the burger menu. So, in terms of these buttons, let's click done on editing the header. So, in terms of the
buttons, I think again, I'd like them the same width
and I'd like them centred. Oh, I'm just showing someone the column. I need to actually click
on the button. There we go. Button. Perfect. And then we got main options and the we go size and
I'm gonna centre that. The width is on auto, but I actually wanna
know what do we think? 90% looks good. Same with this one, centre 90. You see if we flick to the
desktop, desktop still as it was, tablet still as it was,
the mobile is as it is. Perfect. Looking good. Okay. So looking at, I've just noticed though
that the image here is not the right one. Is the mountain. What's that all about? Let's see what's going on
in the background style. Click on here again. I
mean, this is the right one. This one, there we go. That's wider. I don't know
why that wasn't being applied. Was it right on the...? It's okay on the tablet. Strange. Let's have a look at the rest. Well, this is fine. Looking good. Perfect. So, you might wanna
go through your other pages during this process, just checking that everything
looks good on a mobile and on a tablet and on a desktop. So yeah, that's all done. So, the next thing I'm gonna
do is set up Google Analytics and our SEO stuff.
We'll do analytics first cause it's a useful thing to do first because it enables you
to authenticate your site to a lot easier. It'll make sense in a minute. (soft music) So, I'm gonna head over
to Google Analytics. I'm just gonna search,
right? Google Analytics. Give that a click. You will need a Google
account to access this. Now, it's taking me straight in. If you haven't got anything set up, you'll be prompted to start creating it. I'll show you what that looks like. I'll create a new one right
now. I've got into my admin. Then what I'm gonna do
is create a property. Give it a name. Bestpressurewasher.com. Time is fine, currency is fine. Let's click next, industry thing. I don't know other. That one, don't wanna tick them boxes. It's web. Let's click web, enter the URL. Of course, it's bestpressurewasher.com. Bestpressurewasher.com Just type it again, but
with capital letters. And how it's the measurement? Sounds good. Let's go for it. Perfect. Create stream. So, we're ready to go. We
just need to do the tagging. So, we've got some tagging stuff here. I'm gonna use the global site tag. Just need to copy this, like that. Then we'll go back to the
site, go into the dashboard, Thrive dashboard, scroll down, analytics and scripts. Same place that we put the
iBender thing in earlier. Add new. Place it in, give it a label. Hey, you already knows what it is. Before the head, search
it into everything. Continue. I'm gonna move the Analytics 1 to the top. I think that'll work better.
So, there we go. That's done. We can check it's working. If we go to Google analytics
and go to the home, this user's in the last 30 minutes thing. If we click view real time,
then if we visit the site, like this, something
should happen in here. Oh, something's happening already. I think that might've
been me just a minute ago. How quickly this comes through actually. Let's click About Us and see what happens. About Us. It appears to be tracking because
some stuff happening here. Oh, here we got it. There's some stuff happening. So, the slight delay, but we can see some data
coming through now. Perfect. So, that's Google Analytics. (soft music) Let's move on to setting
up Google webmaster console and our SEO plugin. Close down these tabs over here. Let me go into plugins.
I'm gonna go to add new. Go to RankMath SEO, which
is my favourite SEO plugin. So, I'm just gonna type
that into the keyword books. There it is. Click instal now. Activate. So, we need to connect through
to our RankMath account. I already have one. You need to register. I'll log in. There we go. Could decide what you'd like here. I like to go for advanced, but you might wanna go for
easy. Go through the wizard. So, let's gonna be to import
from the only one that's here, which I wasn't sure we had installed. Anyway, let's click skip (indistinct). Not important now. Bestpressurewasher.com is
a other business website. Cool. There's lots of things in here. Is there other? No. So, what can we go for here? Remember this option previously?
It's none of these things. No, none of these things. Okay. I'm just gonna leave
that as organisation. It's gonna go organisation. Company named
bestpressurewasher.com, add a logo. We got a logo in here. That's the logo. Perfect. Default social share image. I'm not gonna worry about that. So, now we can connect to
Google. Let's click on that. Need to sign in. You'll need
your Google account again. Then need to give them access, already done it. Then the site is here. Not gonna do analytics as
we've already done that. And we haven't got Ad Sense right now. That's fine. Save and continue. Site maps and all this images, we don't wanna include Thrive
symbols or Thrive light boxes. Just our posts and pages, can include categories. That's fine. So, as I said earlier, the XML sitemap is a way
that we can tell Google all about the posts and pages on our site and help them index it. No follow external links. That's pretty good thing to turn on, open external in a new tab.
We know that's good as well. Save and continue. Your site is ready. You can
go into the advanced options if we like. Need role manager. For a full monitor, that's a good thing. And redirections, want that on as well. So, I'll continue. Schema type for posts is article, article type is article. Because there gonna be lots
of useful articles on site, of course. And for pages, it's not an article, it's non, there we go. So, Schema is a way of telling Google what a particular piece of content is, whether it's an article,
a recipe, whatever. There we go. That's RankMath SEO set up. I've got some other videos
on RankMath on the channel. I'll put links to those
in the description, go into more detail on all this stuff. That should have set up
our webmaster console. We can check that if we head over to that, I think it's actually
called search console. I don't know why I call it
webmaster console. They changed. The name is going to, but
nevermind. Let's get in. So, over here, I should be able to find best pressure washer. There it is. Already got some data coming
in. We check the site maps. It's there. Perfect. It says it couldn't fetch,
but I'm pretty sure it cannot. It's pretty just a bit of a
delay so it could not be read. Well, let's check it ourselves. If we come back to our
site, and what's the URL? Here. This one. I can type that in. Sitemap_index.xml. It's there. That's there. That's fine. That's the posts. That's the pages. That's the categories. Don't know why that's there.
I thought I turned that off. Okay. That's not working. So, then I turned that
off within the RankMath. Let's just double check that. So, if you wanna get back into
RankMath, it's right here. Got site map settings. Thrive symbols. Yeah. Definitely off. Attachments is off. Pages
is on. Oh, gonna be fine. Just a little delay.
Let's just save changes. That's the SEO done in the
site map and the analytics. Final thing is the speed of the site. (soft music) So, let's
check the speed of the site. I mean, it feels pretty fast. I don't notice it loading
slowly or anything like that, which is what I'd expect from HostArmada. They're a really good, fast host. That's why I recommend them. But let's actually put a number on in and see how fast the site actually is. And there's a couple of tools that I use. There's a Google tool, which
is called Google page speed. Just search Google page speed. I would, of course, put
links in the description. And here, you just kind of enter your URL. It's gonna copy it. You know me, I'm lazy. Then
click analyse and it goes away and it gives you a score out of 100 for both the mobile version
and the desktop version, and the closer to a
hundred URL, the better. That was notoriously hard to
get a good score on this tool. I will say that it's actually 43 even though it's red,
is not actually too bad. I've seen a lot lower than that. Desktop, we're up to 84, which is actually pretty good. And these things are green. It gives you some tips here in terms of how you can improve the speed. And I'm gonna share with
you a plug-in in a minute that I use that will help
improve these scores. The other tool that I like
to test sites on is Gtmetrix. Let's Google it. So, this one here. This gives you some different
information. I don't know. I'm copying that again.
It's one in a couple dozen. It gives you some different information like how long it takes your site to load, that kind of thing. So... Can take a few moments for it to run. And here we go. So, largest
content, full paint, which is a kind of metric
on how fast the site loaded. 2.2 seconds. Performance, 17%, grade C. So I mean, we could do
better than that for sure. So, I'm gonna instal the plugin and the plugin I'm gonna
instal is WP Rocket. I'll put a link up on the screen. Now, you'll also find a
link in the description. It's an affiliate link. Thank
you very much if you use it. I really recommend this plug in. I use it on pretty much all of my sites and it will make a big
difference to the performance of your site. It's really easy to use. And it doesn't cost too
much. It is a premium plugin, but yeah, $49 for one year. There are some free ones available. I'll put links to those in
the description as well. Like WP fastest cash. They can help as well. But yeah,
I'm gonna just download it. I'll go into my account. Download, save and go back to the
website, go into the dashboard, close a few tabs. Let's keep
it tidy. Go to plug, add new. And that I'm gonna go
upload plugin, choose file. Select the file, which is
in here, there is WP Rocket. Then instal. It's gonna upload it now. Then activate. Then we're in. So, if we come down here, we've go to WP Rocket,
let's click on settings. Okay. So, that's done. So, let's
just check out the options. For cache, I wanna enable
it for mobile devices. I don't want caching for
logged in users. That's fine. Let's click save changes. Next we got file optimization. I want to minify CSS. It does warn me that
it could break things, but I'll take my chances. I wanna combine. Again, I'll take my chances. Once I optimise, I'm basically
gonna take all of these and this one, and this one,
and this one, and this one, save changes. Again, basically turning everything on. And then if something breaks, I'll go back and turn them off
on my own and see what it is. For media, I want to enable
lazy load and that one, I don't wanna replace YouTube. I-frame with a preview image, that can really help speed your site. Add missing image, dimensions,
not running any WP, also web piece stuff. So, I don't need to
worry about that for now. Next is preload. I want it to preload. So, that means it will create the cache. Cache is basically a
stored version of your site so it can load a lot quicker. Think of WordPress as it creates the page. every time someone looks at it, pulling information from the database, all that kind of thing. If you have a cache, it cuts all that out. We can tickle these things. Preload links here. I guess we
can have that. Save changes. And I think that's about it. Don't really need to mess
with the advanced rules. Database is fine. Can use that if you wanna
clean stuff up in the future, but it's fine. So, I think
we should test the speed. So you remember on Google page speed, we had 84 for the desktop,
43 for the mobile. Let's run it again. Okay. So, we've hit 55 now on the
mobile and 92 on the desktop. That's good. A lot of green here. Perfect. I'm sure this will actually improve over a little bit of time.
Let's just run it one more time see if we get a different figure, you often get a different
figure every time you run it. And let's run GTmetrix as well. That was a great seed. You remember it loaded
in about two seconds? Well, let's do another. See what Google always
drop. Now 49 is here. I told you it changes. Still
a really good desktop speed. We do it one more time. Do not get obsessed with
the Google page speed score. It's really hard to get
a really high score. Dropping every time I do it.
I don't think I run it again. Okay. And then we move up to B and we're loading in
less than two seconds. Now, if I went through
and optimise some images, that kind of thing, I'd
probably get a highest speed. I'm pretty sure the image that
I uploaded to the homepage or ,the pressure is bigger
than it needs to be. But for now I'm happy.
I'm happy with that. So, that's about it. We have created a fantastic site. I will, of course, be working
on the site as we go forward. I'll be doing updates on the channel, but yeah, well done if you got this far, you've done amazingly. I hope your site is good. If you've got any questions, just leave them in the
comments below this video and I'll help you. But in fact, let me do a
quick transition over to me looking at the camera and
we'll do a do an outro and I'll talk about all that stuff there. But yeah, well done. Congratulations. You made
it to the end of the video. I hope you've been able to
create a fantastic looking site and you're now ready to
continue working on it. Continue adding content. And
hopefully within a few months, some of those affiliate
commissions will start to come in. Now, I've got loads more
videos on my channel around things that I think
you're gonna find interesting around creating content, around
SEO, around getting traffic, all that stuff. I'll put links to everything
that I think will be useful for you in the descriptions. So, do check those out or just have a browse around the channel. I'm sure you'll find something useful. Remember, I go live twice a
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You've done really well. I say not many people make it this far. You are in probably 1%
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you are and confident, that great things are
gonna happen for you. But anyway, until next time.
Bye for now. (soft music)
