Recommended Resources
On this page you will find list of resources split by categories that I personally use right now and found to be most beneficial to my online ventures. Some generate cash flow, some save me time and some are simply MUST HAVE tools if you are serious about your own online business. While I will do my best to provide free tools and free information – in some cases it simply isn’t possible or not worth the effort and a commercial products will be recommended.
Web Hosting And Domain Name Registration
- NameSecure.com – domain name registration. While they provide hosting, I wouldn’t recommend it, as there are a lot better options, some of which provided below. I use this service for all my domain name registration and found them to be very reliable and user friendly. For any person more or less technical I highly recommend to keep separate accounts for domain name hosting and site hosting, this way you can easily move your site to new host in case of any issues. Does require some basic DNS knowledge.
- Hostgator.com - My highest recommended hosting based on personal experience. Not only do they provide a good price and value for your money but also what perhaps is even more important – superb customer service and 24/7 phone support. Great for WordPress hosting since part of your package is Fantastico scripts panel that includes 2 clicks blog installation. Simplicity and quality combined with great value – you can’t go wrong.
WordPress, Plugins, Themes
- WordPress – download you latest blog package here. Detailed installation and upgrade instructions available if you decide not to use Fantastico install and do everything manually.
- WordPress Themes – choose the look of your blog and download theme that fits your personality the most.
- WordPress Plugins – enhance your blog by using free plugins. Organized by categories plugins include all essential links and some basic explanations on what it does.
Blog In A Box - Turnkey Blogging System
- Web 2.0 Wealth System – Stop trying to build a blog! Access my own complete system that comes with a WordPress blog preloaded with ALL plugins and Custom theme ready to earn and several hours of video tutorials to teach you every single aspect of the Blogging For Profit. US Bases PayPal holders earn in 7 days or less. Learn to drive hoards of hungry traffic and earn from it. (Shameless plug but I do believe that nobody provides the value and support equal to my product)
Blog Automation And Content On Autopilot
Methods shared withing products provided below were tested by me and confirmed to work. Please be advised that these will not make you an authority figure on the niche you pick but they do work and they do generate income.
- Easy Blog Pro - very effective guide that provides you with custom scripts and teaches you how to turn any WordPress blog into fully automated Article Directory and then monetize it via AdSense or any other means you choose to integrate into blog. Or simply shows you a way to add extra content to your existing blog. Earning depend on your niche and how you decide to use it but has proven to increase profits on my test blog 10 times in first week (and ongoing). See full review here.
- WordPress Traffic - Absolutely unique set of 3 WordPress plugins that allow you to put a blog on autopilot including Content Generation and Scheduling and Auto promotion on Social Networks. Extremely effective when used properly and dangerous in wrong hands.
- 10 Days Cash Secret - Create a Niche Blog filled with content generated from Affiliate Product Feed. Schedule content to appear automatically and fully optimized for SEO. Extremely effective for getting high rankings on VERY long tail keywords (product names), which leads to a high click through and nice affiliate commissions. In my combined tests this product works very nicely when you ADD 2 products above it. EBP for more Content and WordPress Traffic for Social Networks promotion. I use only one plugin out of 3 but that is all I needed.
- Affiliate Blog Builder - Build Niche Sites Fast En Easy. Turn A WordPress Blog Into An Affiliate Product Store And Make It Niche Specific. Import Affiliate Products From Commission Junction (cj.com) With The Click Of A Few Buttons. Dripfeed And Rewrite Options For Unique Content.
- WP Spinner - WordPress plugin that solves the duplicate content penalties issue. Not free but if Article marketing is part of your overall strategies this plugin is well worth looking into.
Monetize Your Blog
- ClickBank – earn 50-75% affiliate commissions by offering products directly related to your niche. Has proven to be a superb option for my blog even with fairly low number of daily visitors. Definitely a lot higher pay then I would have gotten through YPN (tested) or AdSense (guess, since it is similar to YPN). If you have a WordPress blog, read my article detailing how to implement this technique.
- Amazon Associate Program - Earn with the pioneers of affiliate marketing. I love this program since it offers brand name recognition that people trust and also once a visitor comes from your link – you get paid for any purchases they make. Best part of Amazon is their marketing tools and superb sales tactics. Once a customer purchases item they offer similar items and in my experience, most people will buy more then one item and as such you will earn more. Read some detailed options on using Amazon Contextual ads on your blog.
- Easy WordPress AdSense - If you want to make money from Google Adsense, then this ebook will reveal a step-by-step, foolproof method of using WordPress to build content and traffic to your niche sites. Read my full review here.
Market Research And Search Engine Optimization
I’m a strong believer that your market research and SEO should be done BEFORE you begin to blog if you are planning to do it for profit. As such I recommend resources I personally use and found to be the best.
- Red Hot Niches – report by Myleena Phan that in my opinion is the best in covering how to discover niche in your sphere of knowledge and expertise that you can actually earn from. Simply subscribe to her email list and download report. It is well worth the few minutes it will take.
- Niche Annihilation Method - Very effective way to locate a niche and then take steps to ensure you can occupy top positions and earn from your labor. This one is not pretty but work if you put some work into it.
- SEO Made Easy by Brad Callen. I consider this one of the best resources when it comes to information on Search Engine Optimization. Brad is the guy behind SEO Elite and Keyword Elite tools used by many Internet Marketers and he really knows what he is teaching. Whenver you decide to get serious about your SEO optimization or decide you need a tool to help you find profitable niches - I can highly recommend tools created by Brad and mentioned above.
- SEO Codebreaker - Step-by-step Video tutorials that cover pretty much all you need to know about SEO. What I personally like about the product is that it has a dedicated section to WordPress blog optimization. See my complete review on this one.
All About Bloggin And Promotion
- Authority Blackbook by Jack Humphrey. Unmatched in usefulness report by a true guru on creating Authority Websites (emphasized so much by John Reese) will teach you everything you need to know to take your blog into Web 2.0 profits. Master of social networks and free traffic generation shares his strategies and was one of the most influential eBooks that prompted me to emerge into profitable blogosphere.
- Social Power Linking - Best of the breed methods to Drive Free, Targeted Traffic To Your Website Or Blog That Lasts Forever, And Grows For The Life Of Your Business!
- 30 Minutes Backlinks - If you are willing to put 30 minutes every few days to use methods shared in this unique video tutorial - you are guaranteed to get hundreds of One Way Backlinks that will continue to grow and help you Dominate Your Niche. Read full review
- Blog Profits Blueprint by Yaro Starak. Superb free report that covers everything you need to know to earn from your blog. Based on Yaro’s personal knowledge and experience this is one of the freshest and comprehensive guides that skips the BS and walks you toward earning with your blog.
Internet Marketing
- Internet Success System by Mark Hendricks. Complete Step-by-Step home study course and LIVE master mind conference program created by one of the top Internet Marketers and one that I respect the most. He actually does what he preaches and you will not get a fluff from him but a complete guidance. Combine that with access to his Master Mind conference and direct communication to Mark and the price (which is a lot lower then many other less known people ask) will seem small. Also Mark is the ONLY guru that EVER directly replied to my emails almost every time, which simply shows true integrity of the person behind the teachings. Now with 4 levels of membership (including FREE) so you can advance in your knowledge at your own pace!
- How To Build And Profit From Your Own Lists by Mark Hendricks. If my consistent recommendation of Mark’s products didn’t give you a hint yet – here is direct statement: Mark is one of the best in the business at ethical marketing and his strategies greatly appeal to me. But id this is not enough, consider that many top Internet Marketers call Mark a “granddaddy of list building”.
Autoresponder Services
- Aweber – my most recommended service since I personally use it and come to love the options they provide, high quality support and one of the best deliverability rates in industry. You’ve heard that money is in the list – make sure you build your own, just because you have blog and not marketing website doesn’t mean you should skip this option. Use free trial option to test the waters.
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Alex, this is an awesome resource list, thanks for sharing and enlightening us.
Regards,
David
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Hey Alex,
Great info - thank you!
I see you recommend Host Gator. In another post you said you no longer recommend using Fantastico.
It seems that Fantastico is a major selling point to Host Gator. Do you still recommend them even though you no longer using Fantastico. (I’ve been having trouble with my hosting company so I may need to move a site and blog.)
Thanks,
Len
Len,
For me main selling point to hostgator is their support and server uptime. I’ve been with them for almost a year and never had single issue and whenever I had any questions - I got almost instant support.
On Fantastico - on that post I recommend Not to use it but also state that I think “installing” blog initially is great just not upgrading. Install option via fantastico can be a life saver to a people new to the whole process and enable them to get started and then learn in process. But that is just my opinion …
Alex,
I am having a problem uploading my mp3 files to my church blog at lunarpages.com. I have modified the.htaccess and php.ini files as they suggested but still only a portion of the file uploads before filezilla or cpanel times out.
How should I place mp3 audio and video files on a blog? Is it better to store them elsewhere and link to them or is there a way to get around the size limit problem.
I have seen many similar problems on the net but none of the responses seems to have worked.
I have not heard back from Lunarpages since trying thier suggestion several days ago and replying to them.
Leon,
Sorry, not sure how to help you ate this point. If both FTP and built-in file upload manager times out - that indicates an issue with host to me. I recommend to se if you can host it offsite somewhere like http://www.divshare.com or similar and play it on your blog or change host.
Alex
Alex,
Thanks for the suggestion. I will investigate Divshare. I hope you will do a post on how to use such services with a blog. Did you have this issue with your recommended hosts and if so how did you initially get around it?
Leon,
I never had an issue you described. I do make sure to use quality hosting. Sorry I don’t know much about lunar pages …
Thanks for the super info here Alex!
Will be recommending your blog thats for sure.
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Hi Alex,
Im new to blogging and would like to say that look forward to your email every week. I have learned alot from you.
Felix
Thanks Felix.
Alex
Wow! These Internet Marketing tools are really nice..^^ I love almost all of them…^^ anyways thanks a bunch for sharing this wonderful list!
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