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How to Speed Up a WordPress Website in 5 Simple Steps?

One of the factors of getting ranked well in Google is page speed. That’s why I am going to give you 5 simple steps how to speed up a website. Google’s business is to provide the best results for the people who are using their search engine. They want that people are satisfied with results and people find what they are looking for.

Let’s say that you are searching in Google for example “hotels in New York”. Then you click the first result and it starts to download. Then it keeps on dowloading… and downloading…. and downloading…. Would it be a good result? No.

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But if the page would open up immediately or after 2 seconds of downloading. Would you be more satisfied? Of course. That’s why page speed matters and you need to consider how fast is your website.

By using my 5 steps your website’s loading time will be shorter and your website will be faster. So read carefully and put all these steps into action in order to boost your Google rankings. Remember that there is no shortcut to success in Google rankings. You will need to put some efforts. But your work will pay off. Keep on sowing the seeds of success and one day you will reap.

Let’s Make a Test

First you can test your website’s speed in Tools.Pingdom.com. Write your URL and then click “START TEST”.

Then machines will scan your website and give your page speed results. You will see the summary how fast is your website. Below you can see an example of my site. Even my site could be faster but at least it’s much better than in the past. These 5 action steps will also boost your website’s speed no matter how fast it already is. (Remember that this is not 100% accurate. Make a few tests and you will notice that it can give a little bit different result. But it still shows more or less what is your page speed right now.)

1.Optimize Images

You should always make your images a good sized when you are adding them on your website. As a rule of a thumb, I would recommend that all of your images must be <100kB. The smaller the better.

First way You can make your images smaller by using paint.
Here in the picture you can see what do you
need to click (I have a Finnish Windows). Then just change those values which are 100 and 100 to something smaller like 50. You can test which size is good for the image and then save. Image’s size should drop a lot.

Second way You can also use picture optimizers on the Internet. Upload your image for example to jpeg-optimizer.com and it will become smaller. Sometimes the value of the picture decreases too much when using this so you need to be careful that you wouldn’t publish too low quality pictures.

Third way I recommend to do this even though you have done 1 and 2. Download a picture optimizer -plugin to your website. I would recommend for example EWWW image optimizer. It’s easy to use because you just click, click and then it will automatically reduce the size of all your images on your website. It takes a little while to reduce the size but meanwhile you can have a cup of coffee or continue reading of this article.

2.Go Through Your Plugins – Delete and Replace!

Plugins can be a very powerful tool in a WordPress website but at the same time you need to consider how much load they are putting to your site. When somebody opens a site, plugins need to open over and over again. And when several people are scrolling your website, it will make even a bigger load. By reducing or optimizing your plugins you can sometimes dramatically increase your page speed and reduce loading time.

Go to your plugins. Ask yourself, “Are you using all of them? Does each one of them have an important purpose on your website? Could some of them be replace with a faster plugin?”

Sometimes you may notice that you have added some plugins because you just wanted to test how they work and you never end up using them. Or you may be using a social media plugin that puts a lot of load to your website. When I wrote this article I checked my own plugins and realized that there are two plugins that I am not using at all.

You can also download a P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) -plugin which will show you how much load each of your plugin is putting to your website. Then you can analyze if there would a way to delete or replace some plugins. You can ask me below if you have some questions about plugins. After testing plugins with P3 you can of course delete it because you don’t need it usually if you have just checked all your plugins.

3.Delete Unused Themes

Go to your WordPress dashboard. Then go to”Appearance” and click “Themes”.

There you can see all default themes and themes that you have downloaded yourself. How many of them you are using? Probably one. So what are you doing with all of those other themes? Nothing.

Well, maybe you want to use them in the future but you can then just download it again in 10 seconds and start using it. You don’t need to have all of them in reserve. Just delete those that you are not using.

Another thing that you would like to do is using a lightweight WordPress theme/framework. Tung Tran talks about this also on his WordPress speed optimization post.

4.Check Your Sidebar

You maybe didn’t know how to optimize images when you were adding banners on your sidebar. I recommend you to go through your sidebar and check how large images you have there. If there are some too large images it can slow down your website a lot. So get rid of them and replace them with faster ones.

Are you using Google Adsense? It may be a nice way to earn some extra dollars but you may want to consider how much it’s slowing down your website. It always takes some time to load which doesn’t give the best user experience. Sometimes it can be okay to have it but sometimes not. You need to decide it yourself.

Wealthy Affiliate’s trainer Jay was once reviewing WA members’ websites. He gave a rule of a thumb that if Google Adsense is not making you at least +$50/month, then it would be better to get rid of it.

5.Check Google’s PageSpeed Insights

Google has a free service called PageSpeed Insights. Go to developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights then write your URL and click “Analyze”. It will give you some insights how fast is your website and how you could make it faster.

But READ THIS CAREFULLY. Don’t panic if your result wouldn’t be as good as you expected. I searched what are the results for some very famous websites and for example Facebook got 49/100 for mobile users. So Google PageSpeed Insights doesn’t tell you the whole truth.

If you don’t understand something that you see on PageSpeed Insights, don’t worry. Do the tasks that you understand. I know that some of those PageSpeed Insights’ tips are so advanced that even I don’t know what all of them mean. So, if you don’t understand something there just let it be. With these 5 tips you are already doing well.

After doing all these 5 steps you can check your page speed from Tools.Pingdom.com and see how much it has improved.

Want More Tips to Getting Ranked Better on Google?

By using these 5 steps your website will become faster and your rankings should become better in the long run. If you want more tips how to speed up your WordPress website I recommend reading more tips by this Internet marketer, Marcus. Check his training here!

If you think that these 5 steps are enough for your website speed (I think they are) and you want to learn other ways to boost your Google rankings, I recommend heading to Wealthy Affiliate. They provide step by step training which shows you everything you need to know in order to get ranked in Google.

In Wealthy Affiliate you will learn:

• What kind of keywords you should use to get ranked
• How to find those keywords
• How to boost your organic traffic
• How to write articles that get ranked
• How to convert traffic from Google to customers
• and much more.

The best thing is that you can start totally for free like I did. So put your credit card away and start training today!

If you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to leave them below and I will be more than happy to give a personal response.

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How to Embed a Youtube Video in a WordPress Blog? – Easy Instructions

Some people are asking, “How to embed a youtube video in a WordPress blog?”

That’s why today I am going to give you simple instructions how to do it easily.

But first I want to give you 2 reasons why using videos in the blog can be extremely useful.

1.Videos Make the Content More Informative

Usually, the content in the blogs is mainly images and text. But if you use in addition the voice and the video the message can be understood much better.

I made, for example, the blog post on how to get Twitter followers fast. I embedded the video instructions also to help the reader to understand the process more.

2.Videos Can Boost Your Google Rankings

Google wants to provide the most helpful and the valuable results for the searchers. As mentioned above, videos can make your content more informative and more valuable which help to rank better.

The best is if you can leverage your own videos and that way get even more visibility to your Youtube channel. But if you don’t have own videos you can also leverage other people’s videos to make your content better.

See, for example, here how I embedded other people’s Hootsuite tutorials to help my readers to use Hootsuite better.

Now let’s go through step by step how to embed videos from Youtube to a WordPress blog.

Step 1 – Open the Video That You Want to Embed in Youtube

I am going to embed a video to this blog post to show you an example.

So I open the video in Youtube. (see the image below)

Step 2 – Click “Share” – Go to “Embed”

As you can see in the image above the next thing you need to do is to click share.

It will open you the following box (image below).

DON’T COPY THE LINK THERE if you want to embed your video.

Just click embed.

Step 3 – Copy the Code

After clicking, “Embed” you will see the code that you need to copy.

By clicking, “SHOW MORE” you can go to adjust the size of the video. But you don’t need to care about it if you want to use the default size.

Step 4 – Open Your Post in the WordPress Blog

So then you open your blog post where you want to embed your video.

Step 5 – Open the “Text” View

In the text editor, you have two have views “Visual” and “Text” views.

You can change it on the top right.

So, open the “Text” view to see the code of your text (see the image below).

Step 6 – Paste the Code in the Place Where You Want

Then scroll down where you want to paste your video and copy the code there.

As you can see I paste the code of my video in this blog post to embed the video. Just paste the code that you copied in Youtube.

Then you can change back to “Visual” view and see that your own video is copied successfully.

Video Instructions on How to Embed a Youtube Video in a WordPress Blog?

Here you can see the video that I made to help you to embed a Youtube video in your WordPress blog.

Conclusion

Embedding the video in a WordPress blog is quite fast and easy. It takes probably 1-2 minutes once you have learned the process.

Here are the instructions How to Embed a Youtube Video in a WordPress Blog in a nutshell:

1.Open the video that you want to embed

2.Copy the embedding code

3.Paste the code in your WordPress blog post in “Text view”

I hope this blog post helps you to embed Youtube videos in your blog successfully.

If you have any questions, please, leave it below and I am more than happy to help you out.

 

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What is the Best Domain Hosting Site? Do You Want the Straight Answer?

There are hundreds of different service providers for domain hosting. So the relevant question is, “what is the best domain hosting site?”

The best domain hosting site is Wealthy Affiliate.

Straight question, straight answer. 😉

Okay, I’m going to explain to you why Wealthy Affiliate is superior to other services.

Price

For most of the people, the price is one of the most decisive factors when buying any product.

In Wealthy Affiliate, the yearly premium membership is $349/year = $29/month.

With the yearly membership, one can get hosting for hosting services for 25 sites. 

Let’s see how much the same service costs in the other websites. One big provider is WPEngine which has over 45,000 customers worldwide. Here is the image how much their hosting costs.

25 websites cost $249/month which makes almost $3,000/year! The price is almost ten times higher than in Wealthy Affiliate.

“What If I’m Looking for the Hosting for Only One Website?”

Probably you don’t have 25 websites and you are just looking for hosting for your blog or Internet store.

“Where to get the hosting for only one website?”

Answer: from Wealthy Affiliate.

If you search the Internet you can find several services that provide hosting for less than $29/month. GoDaddy, GoDaddy, Hostgator or Webs.com for just to mention some of these low-quality services.

Sometimes you can see their offers, “CHEAP HOSTING!! $5/month!!” but you get what you pay for. First of all, some of those platforms that ARE NOT specific to WordPress

There are several reasons why Wealthy Affiliate beats cheap services like 6-0.

Here are listed a couple of reasons

• A highly optimized, simplified and continually improving hosting platform
• The ability to MOVE your websites easily from one domain to another IN SECONDS.
• The access to unlimited FREE websites
• The latest and greatest hosting technology (your websites are always hosted on the highest powered servers available)
• Totally automated recovery processes
• Personal website maintenance
• Removal of bad (scam) plugins and themes
• Well functioning spam management

Those reasons are only talking about the quality of the service.

Tons of “Bonuses” Included

When you get your domain hosting from most of the providers you will get ONLY THE DOMAIN HOSTING but nothing more.

The things are quite different in Wealthy Affiliate.

There are several “bonuses” that make WA superior to the other providers and here are listed 10 of them.

1. 24/7/365 The Community and the Live Help
2. Access to Successful Online Entrepreneurs and Industry Experts
3. Weekly Webinars
4. World Class Training on How to Make Money Online (1,000’s of resources)
5. Personal Access to the Owners (This you won’t find in many places!)
6. Unlimited Access to the Website Builder
7. Awesomely Simple and Practical Keyword Tool
8. One of the Most Lucrative Affiliate Programs in the World
9. Incentive Programs
10. Business Productivity Tools (Link Tracking and Stats)

The list is quite convincing.

If You Succeed and Want to Increase a Number of Your Websites…

Let’s say that you end up buying the domain hosting from GoDaddy. The price for 1 website is $6,99/month. Then, for any reason, you want to have another website and you need hosting for that.

If you continue in GoDaddy the price goes up and you pay already $11.99/month.

For the third website, you start to pay $20.99/month. Just compare that in Wealthy Affiliate you pay $29/month for 25 websites and you get the access to all the tools and services mentioned before.

The Main Reason Why Wealthy Affiliate is the Winner

In my honest opinion, Wealthy Affiliate is the winner not only because of their magnificent domain hosting but for their training, community, support, and motivation.

GoDaddy or WPEngine don’t teach you how to earn money online but Wealthy Affiliate teaches you everything right from the start and provides a very motivating and encouraging community.

I tend to think that I mainly pay for their training and all of the other things come as a wonderful extra.

If you need more perspective on domain hosting and comparisons I recommend reading this article.

Conclusion

The best domain hosting site is Wealthy Affiliate. There are other cheaper services that can work somehow but if you are serious about earning money online Wealthy Affiliate beats other services easily.

I have never had any kind of technical problems with WA so I can say from the experience that their service really works.

PS.Are you still thinking if you should get the own domain name and where to get it? Check my instructions on how to get a cheap and high-quality domain name.

I hope you find this article useful and it helps you decide where to get the domain hosting for your websites.

What domain hosting sites have you used? What are your experiences? Drop a comment below.

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“How to Expand My Online Business?” – 7 Tasks to Do Daily

In order to succeed in online business, you will need to be persistent and to some things over and over again to make the breakthrough.

My advice is to practice daily. Devote time every single day to your online business. Take little steps to the success. Think it this way,

“Everyday you are one day closer to the breakthrough.”

If you have been asking yourself  “How to Expand My Online Business?” Today I will give you 7 tasks that you can do daily to be more successful.

1.Write content

Writing valuable content is one of the most important things in the online business. You need to have valuable content in order to get people interested in your products or services.

Writing daily can definitely give an enormous boost to your online business. You don’t need to publish the post right away if you don’t have the time to write it until the end that day.

Writing daily will also boost your writing skills and your texts will be better all the time. And you will be able to write faster.

Remember also that the Perfection is not required in the online business.

2.Make Videos or Podcasts

Articles are not the only way to communicate online. Videos are a huge resource and I recommend to use them in your online business.

You can also link the videos in your articles to make the message more powerful. In videos, there can be text, pictures, music and many other things. So videos are very versatile and many times can convert better than the text only.

Take a little video and upload it to Youtube. Find the good keyword for the video and leave the link to your website and get more traffic.

Podcasts are also a powerful way provide value. Podcasts are easy because they can have listened to the bus, in a train, while driving or literally anywhere.

3.Search Keywords

Right keywords are the key to getting ranked in the search engines. Finding right keywords can lead to a huge traffic from the Google and other search engines. (See How to Find the Best Keywords for a Website?)

You don’t have to write the article right away.

You can, for example, search for 10 different keywords and write the posts other days.

Using proper keywords can literally boom the traffic in your website. For free.

4.Make Social Media Marketing

Social media can be the other free way to get a ton of traffic to your website.

Use the time to post in Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+. You can also search for more followers and engage with others. (See How to Get More Twitter Followers Instantly? – 5 Ultimate Tips)

Use the time to automate your posts and tweets. This will save a lot of time in the future.

5.Study and Explore New Things

We never should stop learning in life and the same applies to the online business. Read the articles and watch videos about the different subjects.

How to do better SEO, social media marketing or write better articles. Or go just through a new training program like Wealthy Affiliate, Chris Farrell Membership, Affilorama or Niche Blitzkrieg.

New ideas will take you to the next level and give you more inspiration and motivation.

6.Ask Questions

Einstein was asked how did you become a genius. He answered, “I never stopped asking questions.”

If there is anything you don’t know ask from someone. If there is a skill you would like to master, ask someone who has already mastered it.

Wealthy Affiliate is an online community where you can ask any questions related to the online businesses and you will always be answered. You can personally contact many successful online entrepreneurs.

Tony Robbins tells many times why successful people get the better results. They ask better questions. Start asking questions!

7.Search Images

As you have written the text or only got an idea of the new text, use the time to find great images. (See How to Find Millions of Free Images.)

If you don’t have the inspiration to write an article right away add first the images and write then.

The important part to be an efficient writer is to plan out your texts ahead. But it’s not always necessary to write the text first and then add images. You can have the vision of the text in your mind and then write it with the flow.

DO SOMETHING EVERY SINGLE DAY.

When you keep on doing the things every single day you are all the time taking little steps closer to the breakthrough and success.

There are so many things you can do to push your online business further. Keep the work persistent and effective.

“How to Expand My Online Business?” – 7 Tasks to Do:

1.Write content
2.Make Videos or Podcasts
3.Search Keywords
4.Make Social Media Marketing
5.Study and Explore New Things
6.Ask Questions
7.Search Images

Use the Pareto 80/20 principle to define, what is the most important thing to do today, and the following days to get the best profit.

Do you want to learn more? Go to Wealthy Affiliate and start learning for free and take your online business to the next level.

If you already have the online business, what are the routines that you tend to do daily?

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5 Benefits of Having Own Domain Name, and Where to Get it?

Let me start saying that getting your own domain is nowadays dead easy. You don’t need special skills or knowledge.

Would you like to have your website’s name be “yourwebsite.wordpress.com” or “yourwebsite.com”. I prefer the latter.

5 Benefits of Having Your Own Domain

1.You Own a Website. When you have an own domain, you now have some own space on the internet. And all the time you build and develop your website your space gets bigger and better.

2.Control. Having the own domain gives you the freedom do literally anything you what within your website. Design, context, text, images, links, money making sources, everything is under your control. You can even make your website a social media or community if you want.

3.Ranks better. Having an own domain seems to rank better in search engines than subdomains, like xxxxxxx.wordpress.com, xxxxxxxxx.blogpsot.com, xxxxxxxx.siterubix.com or others.  Subdomains can also rank very well if the website is high quality but own domains tend to rank better.

4.Brand/Authority. Do you know the Brands like Youtube, Facebook or Amazon. Those are all highly successful websites and at the same time ultimately valuable brands. Those brands are worth millions (or even billions). Having your own domain gives you credibility and reliability because your visitors will recognize you easier.

5.Domain is an asset. Its value grows. Think your website as a real estate. You own the land and the house from the country called Internet. As you build your house (your website) bigger and better its value grows. All the time you put effort to make it better its value rises on the Internet. You can actually own many websites like you can own many houses but be careful not to concentrate on too many things at the same time.

There are also other benefits but these are at least very crucial reasons. Let’s go into the process of getting the own domain name.

Namecheap – Cheap, Easy and Practical

I have bought my own domain names from Namecheap.com. Some of the cheapest domain names are under 1€ for the first year but most of the domain names cost a bit under 10€/year. With he price of one pizza you can have an own domain. Certainly not expensive.

You can search for different domain names by typing your search in the box and click enter.

The page shows you the results. You can buy your domain name can end to .com, .org, .net or whatever you want. Still, I recommend you to have .com domain name because they rank better in the search engines.

After viewing the results, you can consider which one of the domain names you want to buy. You add it to the cart, create an account (takes 30 seconds) and you have an own domain name.

To be honest, before getting interested in website stuff and online business I thought that having an own domain name (like mywebsite.com) would need some skills and it would be difficult. But as you can see it’s actually dead easy!

Domain Hosting

After you have your own domain you will need to get domain hosting.

There are countless places where to buy domain hosting on the Internet. I’m using domain hosting by Wealthy Affiliate which includes in the premium membership. Wealthy Affiliate’s domain hosting is reliable and high-quality.

I have never had any problems with Wealthy Affiliate‘s domain hosting and they have 24/7 support if you have any issues.

Summary

Own domain name is certainly worth it. It costs only about 10$/year but the benefits can be enormous.

I recommend you to get an own domain NameCheap because it’s easy and fast to use. It doesn’t require any special skills and as its name says, it’s very cheap.

I hope this text is helpful to you if you are thinking to get your own domain name. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below.

If you have owned domain names where you have bought them and why?

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How to Find Free Images? – Millions of Images Available for You!

As you may know most of the images in internet are copyrighted. In the same way texts are usually copyrighted as well. Still there are millions of images which are totally free to use and you can find them in seconds.

Adding relevant images to your website is highly important. People are visual by nature. We grow up by reading books with a lot of images and a visual characteristic never leaves us.

With good and relevant images you make your content more readable and attract more visitors. Relevant images make the text also easier to understand and to remember what you are saying. But where to find free images?

Free Image Sources

• Your own personal camera
• Screenshots that you take
• Wikimedia.org
• Sxc.hu
• Stokpic.com
• Freeimages.com
• Pixabay.com

These are good examples of the ways you can find free high-quality images. There are other websites also but with in these websites you already have millions of images.

Many of the free images are very high-quality and taken by professionals so you don’t have to worry will you find good images. You will!

If you take own photos there is of course your personal touch and it can be fun. The drawback is that sometimes it may take more time and always the reward for the used time is not worth it. It depends what you are looking for but of course I encourage you to use the good quality images to make your website more appeal.

My Favorite Way to Find Great Images

Did you know that you can also find free images from Google? I will give you step-by-step instructions.

1.Go to Google Images and click settings and Advanced Search

2.Type in the “all these words” box what do you want to search.

3.Scroll down and in the last “Usage rights” sections, use the drop-down to choose what kind of license you want to have for the images.

4.Click advanced search and you can see all the photos that are free to use. Here are three free examples that I found from Google with the search “Images”. What do you think about the quality? I think it’s good enough :).

I use Google search many times because it gathers photos from many different websites so I can spare my time when I don’t have to search photos from many sites. Still I sometimes use other sites mentioned above to find more exact, relevant or higher quality photos.

Read the Rules

I just want to mention that there are different rules in different sites so you may want to read the rules before using the images from the new site.

Sometimes happens that someone adds images to a “royalty free” sites even though he/she doesn’t have copyright for the photo. It’s hard to know when this has happened but just be careful when you are using free photos.

There are also a lot of paid photos in internet but in my opinion there are enough free photos to use. But ifyou need really world-class quality photos for something particular it’s also possible to buy them from internet. If you are interested in photographing you can also start your own business by selling photos in internet but there’s a lot of competition.

I hope you found this article helpful! If you have any questions or comments, leave them below!

Where do you get the photos for your website?

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How to Make Money Selling Other People’s Products?

You want to make money online? Yes.

You don’t have own products? No.

Is it possible to make income without own products? Certainly Yes!

Four Simple Steps

1.Choose Your Interest. First step is to decide what you are interested in. Do you like sports, arts, music, programming or dogs. I mean your interest can be literally anything. You don’t need to be an expert. But you certainly need to be interested in that theme. 

Okay, let’s say that you are interested in music, more specifically playing guitar. Once you have chosen your interest we can move to step two which is

2.Build a Website. Building a website is actually very easy and SIMPLE. The process will take probably 30 seconds. You will have a good-looking website which is the foundation of your online business.

You don’t have to know anything about programming or stuff related.

 

If your interest is playing guitar, your website will be related to that theme. You will be adding information, reviews and other things to your website. I still want to point out that you don’t need to be an expert but interested in that theme. If you are expert guitar player, that’s wonderful but not necessary in online business.

3.Attract Visitors. Once you have your very own website the next step is to attract visitors to your website. You attract visitors by providing value about your theme.

MORE PEOPLE MEANS MORE OPPORTUNITIES!

If your website is about playing guitar you can for example give tips how to practice. You can write reviews of your favorite guitars or link great guitar tutorials from Youtube.

4.Earn Revenue. Once you have your website and some visitors you can start earning revenue. Most easily this works by promoting other people’s products. You “affiliate” products that are related to your website’s theme.

In internet there are millions of different products that you can affiliate.

In your guitar playing site you can affiliate different guitars, guitar equipment, guitar training courses and others. For example in Amazon you can find 1,233,667 results for “guitar”. You can literally run a guitar business by selling Amazon products only. Once someone buys a product from Amazon, you get a commission. Simple?

Commissions Vary But even 80% is Possible From Some Online Products!

In our example your interest was guitar playing. But your interest can be anything in the world. I can assure you that there are affiliate programs for any theme in internet.

Internet is full of opportunities to earn money selling other people’s products. There are thousands and thousands of programs. Some of them provide you little 5% commission but some programs can provide you even 80% commission.

Let’s say for example that you promote a guitar which costs 500$ and you get 10% commission. That makes 50$ into your pocket. But if the guitar is 5 000$ with 15% commission it means 750$ into your pocket. And these numbers are totally realistic.

Just Remember those Four Simple Steps:

1.Choose Your Interest
2.Build a Website
3.Attract Visitors
4.Earn Revenue

Start Today

You can start the process today. I started my journey in Wealthy Affiliate and I can say from experience that it’s the great place to start making online revenue. In Wealthy Affilliate you will learn all the things and details you need to run a successful online business.

In this article I explained you the four steps, four principles of making money online but if you really want to make online revenue you need to go more into detail.

I just want to underline that all you need is the will to start learning.

Start Making Money Selling Other People’s Products Today