Tutorials & Videos

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Tutorials

• 1: Affiliate Blogging Basics
  • What is Affiliate Marketing?
  • How You Make Money as an Affiliate
  • Affiliate Marketing Business Models
  • Meet the People on Your Team
  • Running Your Own Business: Benefits & Responsibilities
  • SUPER-Affiliate Strategies
  • Self-Test Quiz: Module 1
• 2: Find Your Niche
  • Follow Your Passion or Chase the Money?
  • Find a Hungry Market
  • Choose Your Niche Now
  • Quiz: Module 2
• 3: Setup Your Blog
  • 6 Keys to Choosing the Right Domain Name
  • Choosing a Web Host Made Easy
  • Working with Your Host’s Interface
  • How to Install Your Blog
  • Quiz: Module 3
• 4: Add Content
  • Content Development Basics
  • 7 Ways to Create and Source Content
  • Plan Your Content
  • How to Post Content on Your Blog
  • Self-Test Quiz: Module 4
• 5. Add Style & Function
  • Working with Plugins
  • Working with Themes
  • More Design Tricks and Tweaks
  • Self-Test Quiz: Module 5
• 6: Add the MoneyMakers
  • Is Your Site Ready to be Seen by Merchants?
  • Start with Contextual Advertisers
  • Join Affiliate Networks
  • How to Choose Products to Promote
  • Promote with Product Reviews
  • How To Cloak Your Affiliate Links
  • Great Product, No Program – Now What?
  • Self-Test Quiz: Module 6
• 7: Get Traffic
  • Basic SEO
  • RSS and Email Marketing
  • Get Social
  • Post Articles on Article Directories
  • Get Free Directory Listings
  • Use Auctions to Promote Affiliate Products
  • Video Marketing
  • Issue Press Releases
  • Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Advertising
  • Paid Directory Listings
  • 10 Ways to Market Your Site Offline
  • 6 Marketing Strategies that Kill Time & Waste Money
  • Marketing Strategies Summary
• 8: Manage Your Business
  • Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly Tasks
  • Evaluate Your Site’s Performance
  • Evaluate Your Sales Performance
  • Avoid and Solve Problems
• 9: Grow Your Business
  • Engage Readers Using Polls and Surveys
  • Make Money on Your 404′s
  • Negotiate a Commission Increase
  • Translate Your Site
  • Use Foreign Exchange to Your Advantage
  • Build Faster with Datafeeds
  • Repurpose Your Content
  • Turn Your Blog into a Membership Site
  • Make Money Helping Local Businesses Start a Blog
• 10. Advanced Tips
  • How to Do a Manual Backup using phpMyAdmin
  • How to do a Manual Blog Upgrade
  • Installing WordPress on an Existing Site

Videos

• Take a Tour of Rosalind Gardner’s Academy (7:45)
• How to Edit Your Profile (2:05)
• How to Use the Rosalind Gardner’s Academy Quizzes (1:10)

1. Affiliate Blogging Basics
   • Affiliate Marketing Primer (3:29)
   • Anatomy of an Affiliate Blog (10:04)
   • Go Get a Gravatar! (1:23)
   • How to Download and Save a File (1:18)
   • How to Download and Extract a Zipped File (1:11)
   • How to Configure the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
2. Find Your Perfect Niche
   • How to Choose a Topic: Part 1 (6:32)
3. Blog Setup
   • Create an Email Forwarding Address in cPanel (1:13)
   • Enable Traffic Statistics Reporting in cPanel (4:36)
   • How to Install Your Blog (2:21)
   • Take a Tour of the WordPress Dashboard (4:52)
   • Working with Blog Settings
   • Begin With a Design Concept for Your Website (3:37)
   • How to Create the Main Navigation Bar (4:38)
   • How to Use the WYSIWYG Editor (7:20)
   • How to Set .htaccess File Permissions (1:55)
   • How to Backup Your WordPress Blog (1:36)
   • How to Upgrade WordPress with SimpleScripts (1:17)
   • Connect to Your Host with FTP (02:51)
4. Add Your Content
   • 5 Key Affiliate Site Pages (5:41)
   • How to Add a Page (3:29)
   • How to Post to Your Blog (4:42)
   • The Easiest Way to Create a Contact Page (2:34)
   • How to Add a Link to a Post (1:51)
   • The Best Way to Link to Other Posts and Pages on Your Blog (2:30)
   • How to Source Images through BigStockPhoto (4:13)
   • How to Add an Image to a Blog Post or Page (04:00)
   • How to Bulk Edit Blog Posts (2:07)
   • Get Google Alerts (3:07)
5. Add Style & Function to Your Blog
   • Working with WordPress Plugins
   • Working with the WordPress Default Theme
   • StudioPress Genesis + Child Themes
   • Upgrading from another Theme to Genesis
   • StudioPress Lifestyle 3
   • Thesis: An Introduction (8:17)
   • Miscellaneous StudioPress Lifestyle 3 Videos
   • Other Cool Tips and Techniques
6. Add the MoneyMakers
   • Commission Junction: Find Products and Get Links (5:36)
   • How to Add a Commission Junction SmartZone (3:12)
   • How to Add Google Adsense Code to Your Blog (7:50)
   • How to Put eBay Listings on Your Blog (2:39)
   • How to Work with Clickbank (7:15)
   • Place Clickbank Hoplinks on Facebook with One Click
7. Get Traffic
   • Add Google Feedburner (3:38)
   • Create an XML SiteMap for Google (6:28)
   • How to Add Aweber Form Code to Your Blog (03:21)
   • How to Setup Blog Broadcasts from Aweber (4:15)
8. Manage Your Blogging Business
   • How is My Site Doing?
   • Use a Spreadsheet to Organize Your Business (1:37)
9. Advanced Blogging Techniques
   • Blog Upgrades: How to Do a Manual Upgrade (5:21)
   • How to Do a Manual Blog Backup (2:00)