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A lot of newbie internet marketer who wanted to earn money online usually get stuck in designing their website. So here is another free templates that you can include in your Wordpress affiliate site. Though this are free (but under the creative commons license) it is high in quality. You may visit the site at http://www.freecsstemplates.org/

Good luck to our success.

In my previous article I introduce how to earn without spending a dime, however if you prefer to have a much higher profit then you should invest (time and money) by having your own domain name and hosting account.

One advantage of having your own domain is that the search engine can indexed your site faster unlike when you are hosting on a free domain. Secondly, if you are paying for your hosting account you can have more control over the scripts that you will installing.

Here is the breakdown of your initial investment:

1. Domain - $10.00 per year

2. Web hosting - $3-5 dollars per month.

3. Wordpress Blog system - free

4. Wordpress Plug-ins - free

The prices shall vary since there are a million domain registrant on the Internet.

In getting your own domain and hosting account, you may want to consider the Top companies in the industry:

1. Hostgator.com
2. bluehost.com
3. www.GoDaddy.com

Remember to get a hosting plan that supports PHP scripting. Wordpress only runs on PHP environment.

How to choose a domain.
Register a domain that has word according to your niche or website. For example if you will be establishing a website for children’s wear you can choose the following domain that has your keyword in it.

www.childrens-wear.com | www.childwear.com

If you domain is no longer available you can add a filler in the domain eg:

www.mychildrenswear.com | www.yourchildrenswear.com

Why is the keyword important in your domain? For the reason that it will add more points in your search engine optimization.

Install Wordpress
The next thing to do is install Wordpress on your server. You can go to Wordpress.org and download the latest release. I will skip the installation of Wordpress into your web host, you can find a lot of reference at the Wordpress website. If you still need further help in installing you may visit their help section.

Once you have installed Wordpress, go to the admin area and log-in to your account. Then go to the option menu and changed the Title and Description of your blog.

Include your primary keyword in the Title Tag while write your secondary keyword in the description area. Note that blog directories will reference your blog according to your title and description.

Post Content
Start writing post in your blog. You should populate your blog with as many “quality” content as possible. Put contents according to your target market. For example if you will be targeting on computers do not include contents about medicines. You may get some of your content from article directories like www.ezinearticles.com

Just remember that majority of the contents that you have put into your blog is not duplicated. Search engine will rank your site lower than that of a site having an original content. Always create value for your readers.

Put in the plug-ins.
Download the following plug-ins to optimized your Wordpress system. The plug-ins listed are free or under the GNU License.

FireStats - Tracks your visitors.

Google Sitemap Generator - Create a sitemap of your website.

SEO Title Tag - optimizing your Title tags

Ultimate Warrior Tags - create additional tags from your content.

Sociable - easily create buttons for your social bookmarking sites like delicio.us and technorati.

Refer to the respective website for their installation instruction.

Apply for your Google Adsense account
Now you have set-up your blog you can now apply for your google adsense account. In applying just go to http://www.google.com/adsense.

The approval of your account varies, sometimes it may take from 2 days to 2 weeks. Or Google may even decline your application if the website does not conforms to their standards.

Put your Adsense code in your blog
There are two ways to put your adsense code to your account: using the Adsense Deluxe Plug-in and using the 3-column lay-out of http://www.sapiensbryan.com/

I used the 3-column lay-out. It is much easier to change the Adsense code than using the plug-in, besides the code blends more with site that can lead to higher CTR.

Know your stats and feel free to experiment on your ad placement.

This conclude the tutorial on how to earn with Google Adsense using Wordpress. But you should not stop here there is still a lot to learn: driving traffic to you website, tracking your performance, link building, etc. I will be posting articles on those areas soon.