In this tutorial, we’ll go over a few basic Wordpress functions so that you can start adding content to your new affiliate marketing site.

ReviewAroo members can also watch this affiliate marketing tutorial in video form by clicking on the following links: 

(Note:  These videos are in production and will be available very shortly.)

===> Video – Adding Text and Images to Your Affiliate Marketing Site  <===

===> Video – Adding Video to Your Affiliate Marketing Site  <===

To get started, login to the Wordpress admin area of your site.

You will be adding almost all of the content on your site in the form of Wordpress “posts”.  To add a post, click on “Posts” and then “Add New”.  This will bring up a page that says “Add New Post”.  To add content, just type the content of your post into the editing window.

Use the menu at the top of the post editing window to make basic changes to the appearance of your font and the layout of your post.  This will allow you to change things like font size and color and to use different font styles such as underlining, bold and italics.

At the top right of the post editing menu, you will see the words “Visual” and “HTML”.  Clicking on “HTML” will show you the HTML code in your post.  As you get more experience with affiliate marketing, you’ll inevitably pick up some very basic HTML skills and will be able to use the  HTML mode option to make some of your changes.  For the timebeing, however, you’ll probably just want to stick with the easy-to-use ”Visual” mode when creating and editing posts.

Adding Links

To add a hyperlink to your post (an affiliate link, for example), select the words that you wish to turn into a link with your cursor.  Click the “insert/edit link” icon (looks like a couple of links of chain) in the menu bar.  Enter the url that you want to link to.  Under “target” choose whether you wish to have the link open in the same window (meaning the visitor will leave your site if it is a link to another site) or whether you want the link to open up in a new browser window (which will still leave your site open on the visitor’s computer).  Then click “insert” and your link is completed.

Adding Images

Adding images to your posts is very easy.  First, open another window in your internet browser and find an image online that you want to use.  Right click that image and then choose to save it to your computer.

(To create your own image from a screen shot, use the handy Microsoft Windows “snipping tool” which you can find by searching for it under your Windows start menu.)

Once you’ve saved the image to your computer, go back to the post that you are creating in your Wordpress admin panel.  Click the “add an image” icon (first icon  to the right of the words  “Upload/Insert” at the top of the post editing window).  Choose “Select Files” and then find the image on your computer that you wish to upload.  Double-click the image and it will be uploaded to your site. 

With the window still open, give the file a name (and a caption if you want one), choose whether you want the image to be centered, aligned to the left/right etc. and the size of the image.  Once you have configured these options, click “Insert Into Post” and the image will appear in your post.

Click “Save Draft” under the heading “Publish” at the top right hand side of the page and then click “Preview” to see what the post/image looks like.

If you don’t like the size or positioning of the image, go back into the post editor, left click on the image and two icons will come up.  The icon on the left will allow you to quickly edit the size and alignment of your image.  Use that icon to play with your image until you’ve got it just right.  Use the icon on the right if you want to delete the image and start over.

Adding Video

To add video, you’ll want to install a cool (and once again, free! yay!)  plug-in called ”Interactive Video” which will allow you to place a video player right in the body of your post.  To install the plugin, go to “Plugins” in the menu bar down the left hand side of your page and click “Add New”. 

Search for the plugin called “interactive video” and follow the installation instructions (or watch the video above for detailed instructions on installing and configuring the plugin).

Once the plugin is installed, a new “add interactive video” icon (which looks like a movie reel) will appear above your post editing menu bar.  Click on this icon and follow the steps (similar to adding an image) to insert your video.

Post Categories

By default, all of your posts are listed as “uncategorized”, meaning that they don’t fall into any particular topic or category.  If you are going to have several posts on your site, consider organizing them into categories so that they are easier to navigate. 

You can add a new category in one of two ways:  1.  By clicking “categories” and “add new” along the left hand side of the admin panel; or 2.  If you are in the middle of creating or editing a post and want to add a new category, just click on “Add New Category” under the heading “Categories” on the right hand side of your Admin panel page.  Insert the name of your category where it says “New Category Name” and then click add. 

While creating or editing a post, you can assign it to a particular category simply by placing a  check-mark beside that category under the heading “Categories” on the right side of the page.

Tags

While creating or editing a post, you can also assign “tags” to it.  Tags are just keywords that describe your post.  For example, if your post was a review of the product “Clickbank Pirate” and your keywords for the post were “clickbank pirate”, ”clickbank pirate review” and “clickbank pirate scam”, you would include those words as post tags. 

Spell-Checking

If you want people to take you seriously, make sure you spell-check!  Use the spell-check icon (the letters “ABC” with a checkmark) to toggle-on the spellchecker.  Misspelled words will be underlined for you in red.
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