Preface
Hello fellow internet marketers and entrepreneurs. The following step-by-step Website Building & MarketingBlueprint was created to assist you with everything from your initial planning phase(s), keyword research, building your websites, and finally to the ALL important steps of SEO and SEM. This guide will assist you by providing you with a complete step-by-step process that you can literally follow one step at a time to achieve your own internet success!
After reading through this guide you may be asking yourself, "Why did Matt give us all this information for free and where is the missing piece of the puzzle?"; "Will this stuff really work and what is he NOT telling us?". Listen folks, here's the deal: I'm just gonna be flat out honest with you! I haven't left out anything, and there aren't any missing pieces to this puzzle! Its all here! There are a couple of different reasons why I created this guide, and I'll share those with you briefly before we get started. I distinctly remember telling my wife one evening about how much I wanted to help other people and how I didn't want those people to have to go through the same struggles that I went through back when I was trying to get started. I don't want you to have to waste as much time and money as I did just so you can kinda' grasp whats going on, but then still not really have the tools and information you need. I also remember telling her that it would be extremely greedy of me if I didn't help other people learn how to make money online so they could help their families. After all, as I have told you multiple times elsewhere on my site, my desire is to: "Help others start their internet-based business, and become successful thereby helping them make a better life for their family". It would be nothing but GREEDY if I kept all of this information to myself and didn't help anyone else along the way. I truly believe that one can help themselves tremendously just by reaching out and helping others first.
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Ok, enough of my ramblings... Here it goes!
The Step-by-Step List (aka 'The Blueprint')
- The Planning Phase:
- Brain Storming:
Start getting your ideas down on paper by putting them on: a MS Word™ document, a Google Docs™ document (so you can have access to it from anywhere), a
text file on your MAC or Windows system, or just use a regular ole' pen and paper, or whatever method you prefer, but start writing something down! You ABSOLUTELY MUST write down your ideas of what you are most passionate about and/or what you would like to sell. Then start organizing those ideas by their importance (E.g. Organize your ideas into the order of what you would like to work on first --> last). Note: This is only brainstorming and doesn't have to be a perfect list! We will refine it a bit more later on in the next few steps. - Keyword Research:
Researching your keywords is an important part of your planning phase and depending upon what your research determines, this will largely control the content that you place on your website. Personally, I highly suggest using the free keywords tool provided by Google Adwords (Note: You will need to have a Google account and you will also nee to be "approved", but this will happen very quickly and Google will email you once you are approved). After you have logged in, click on Tools and Analysis --> Keyword Tool (see screen shots below):
Please continue by reading Keyword Research - using the Google Keyword Tool for further information regarding how-to properly perform / record your keyword research into information that you will be able to use at a later time when you are building your website.
- Brain Storming:
- Building Your Website:
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Hello everyone. I just wanted to let you know why this page hasn't been completed. After I started this page, I quickly realized that this Ultimate Guide would take up way more than just a single 'page' on my site. There is absolutely no way that I could ever tell you about everything that you need to know in just one page.
Because of this, I have decided that I will be making several pages here @ MattsAffiliateJourney.com that will be dedicated to this Ultimate Guide. Matter-of-fact, I will be dedicating an entire new sub-domain (E.g. http://theguide.mattsaffiliatejourney.com/) to this area of my site. This sub-domain will include many, many pages of written instructions as well as videos showing you exactly how to get your own internet business off the ground. Furthermore, I will also have an area that is dedicated to making sure that you are actually successful in your internet efforts.
Due to the in-depth nature of this project, and the sheer amount of work that this type of undertaking will require, it will definitely take me allot of time to put something like this together. I suggest subscribing to my newsletter so you can stay up-to-date with all the latest news from Matt's Affiliate Journey, and I will let you know when I am finally ready to launch this area of my site. - Marketing Your Website:
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Note: This is the exact same blueprint that I use to build my own websites! In fact, it has taken me quite a long time to "build" this list of instructions, and you may even notice that some of the steps in the blueprint (or the directions in those steps) may change from time-to-time because I am continuously updating/refining my process(es) so that they are more complete and efficient. Please refer back to this guide often or subscribe to my newsletter to receive notifications about updates and changes that I make to this guide.
I would like to personally suggest that you follow this guide in the order in which it is presented to you, so as not to miss any of the very important steps in this guide. These processes were meant to build on each other, and if you follow them completely and exactly you will indeed find the same successes that I have. †
† There is one final note that I would like to leave you with. It is very important to me that you understand I am NOT guaranteeing you any amount of money or any particular type of success. I firmly believe that you should seek the Lord in everything that you do and ask Him to guide your every step. This "internet marketing thing" may or may not be for you and unless you ask the Lord for guidance, you will never know the answer to this question. I know that I personally have prayed diligently for the Lord to either bless my efforts or to guide me in another direction, and He has seen fit to bless me in my internet efforts. Most importantly, I give all credit of my success to Him and not myself!
