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How to start a new wordpress blog in 15 minutes without breaking a sweat

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In this new era, things are pretty easy to do with point – touch and click convenience. Starting a brand new wordpress blog has also become a lot easier with this easy with this click and install technology. [ Blog post updated May 2021]

Below I have given an easy to follow guide to install your new wordpress blog  with bluehost in minutes. I have chosen bluehost, because they have also been the official hosting partner to the most popular  website and blogging platform online – wordpress.org and are also recommended by them.

Bluehost has come out with a  new deal at $2.95 for limited time, and its updated just below.  The 1 click install comes with all of their plans to make the process of creating a blog so much more easier and quicker.(this deal wont last long)

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When you start to think  and ask yourself Will I be able to make a blog on my own,  you might  start to get  a bit worried or  stressed. But let me assure you, – it’s not that hard as many people would make you think. With the 1 click install and new custom software, making the whole website process has become quite easy peasy (really!). I will show you how below. Here is a current bluehost offer to get your started

Low Price off Bluehost  Hosting

Deal just updated – Its not often that you get such a good hosting offer from bluehost at

Just $2.95 for their sale in 2021 – Grab it here via my link ($2.95)

 

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[Below is my detailed step by step starting guide.]

I am going to give you the most detailed and easy to set up guide to get your shiny new blog started today, so there is no more reasons for you to slack off and you can get it literally started today – Like now!

You could most definitely do the whole website install in 5 to 10 minutes if you’re that good, but  for some it may take a tad bit more time than five minutes (15 to 20 mins max)

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Installing and Setting up a wordpress blog Easily

 

I have created tutorials on getting your website started before, but people have given me feedback that it’s not detailed enough and had too much fluff . So here is a brand new one.

This is a  “barebones get your blogging started today” kind of guide with as many pictures as i could gather –  that I could include in one mega post . So don’t be shy and get started with your online venture already!

I deal with many hosting companies and bluehost is one of my favourite hosting companies. I recommend them just because they are always priced nice and affordable and have reliable hosting and they are also easy to use.

In fact they have been the top recommended hosting company by wordpress.org. I also recommend the “WordPress CMS” which is one of the easiest to use website software.They are many top Australian websites using wordpress including HeraldSun which uses the more pricey enterprise version VIP wordpress.

Below is the main hosting pricing plans for blue host called the

  • Basic plan
  • Plus plan
  • Pro plan.

[Prices for hosting plans below]

The plus plan is most popular for a reason, if you decide to start another blog then you can use the same hosting account for more blogs – anywhere up to 10 blogs.

Off course the basic plan makes sense if you are just starting out and on a budget, which most of us are.

I know when I was looking to start my first blog, the price was the most important factor in addition to reliability of the provider

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Special Promotion Offer for 2021 from Digital GROG + BLUEHOST

 Bluehost  Hosting Special deal for 2021

Deal : Its not often that you get such a good hosting offer from bluehost at Current updated deal for 2021 
Shared Basic Hosting Package Now Only $2.95 for 36 Months! one low price
[Most plans include one free domain]

 

The next couple of steps  to start a blog, could easily be done in a couple of minutes.

 

Step 1 – Choose a hosting plan that is suitable for you

 

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At this stage, click on select – after selecting your plan if you have not got a domain and you are making use of the free domain name with your bluehost plan, you can then search for that free domain name over here.

 

Step 2 – Choose your  domain name

If you already got a domain name that you want to use with this webhosting account then you can transfer it to your blog hosting as well on this screen.

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Step 3  – Provide the Name and details for billing  and your confirmation emails 

Next you put in your payment details and then go to the next step of choosing your plan and optional extras you would choose.

 

 

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To get the $3.95 deal you will need to get the 36 month webhosting plan. I will be honest and tell you, that I thought this to be a trick to get me to sign up for a longer period. But in fact it saved me money over the longer period when I purchased my first hosting as the price rose the next year.

I managed to escape that price rise due to being on a longer plan. But you can choose a plan according to your ownr budget  and affordability.

At the minimum, I would recommend you get the domain privacy and site back up pro as optional extras, if you can afford it.

The domain privacy stops people from snooping on your name and address which would need to be listed in the registration details when you buy a domain name.

The site back up is regular backups of your website  that the hosting company  keeps just in case of any emergency  or hacking  of website by outsiders.

 

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Step 4 –  Select  your Plan or Package and any Optional extras

 

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Please note down your login email/name and password that you will register with bluehost to login into WP admin later.

When you finish purchasing your hosting, you can login to your hosting account immediately with the login and password details.

Below is the wordpress backend cpanel sitehosting screen once you login top admin area. The website login area is different from this login area.

 

Step 5  – Click on the install word-press icon

 

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Step 6 – Install WordPress

You will see this screen next (to start a brand new wordpress blog install), click start

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Step 7 –  Select the free domain name you got or then the domain name you transferred in this screen and then click to install your blog

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The wordpress website/blog installation process will begin now.

WordPress can be customised to be used as a blog or a business website. All you need to do is change the theme to change the blog design and look of the blog/website to any sort of website you need.

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Step 9  –  Blog is installing

 

Themes are available on the internet from as low as $10 a theme and also for free from within your wordpress blog.

 

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That’s it, follow the instructions on the next pages to finish, and your blog should get installed in the next couple of minutes and you should be ready to blog.

 

You will get sent an email with login details

 

Your blog is ready and set up, now all you have to do is write content and tweak your blog further if you need by logging into the admin area of your  blog.

 

I suggest you first  write up and article or two  on your blog as your first priority and then explore further  options from within your admin area over a period of time  to improve your website functionality, design and SEO.

 

Remember that this special price of $3.95 a month can be claimed by our digital grog readers by signing up from this tutorial here and you get this special price for 36 months + a free domain name.

The type of web host you choose is an incredibly important choice for what type of website you create. The type of server you choose impacts elements like performance, security, scalability, and management level of your website. Shared hosting is a great choice for beginners and smaller websites. It’s cost-effective and doesn’t require lots of technical knowledge to get started.

The good thing about getting a bluehost hosting account is that they not only offer other popular website software like Drupal and Joomla apart from word-press, but also offer a range of other software’s like Coppermine (you can create your own image gallery online which other people can contribute too), PHBB forums (you can create a forum of your own) and many more useful scripts.

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I hope this detailed picture tutorial helped you in some way. Do leave me a comment below to show you luv or just ask a question and I will try to answer it soon as I can. Let me know if there is anything worth adding to this tutorialonce you have gone through the same process and I shall add it in or update in a new post.

Good luck on your new journey!!

/jeff

Article originally published Jul 13, 2017 at 02:42 updated on 29/05/2021

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Get 2020 bluehost discounts for hosting with our coupon code links + free domain name

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the website deals and discount for bluehost hostingLooking for a good webhost deal to start your blog then this bluehost discount link below will surely help you.

Bluehost not only offers their popular shared hosting at cheap prices ($AU 6.45 a month) and USD deals as low as $2.95 USD, but also has different type of hosting plans to suit every kind off user from beginner to advanced bloggers and website owners.

They have shared hosting which is their cheapest plans for hosting a website and then also VPS plans, Dedicated hosting, optimized server plans and their new launch of superfast cloud hosting.

UPDATED  19/04/2020

Bluehost now has updated prices for AUD rates  whihc are given below. You can still access some discount offers by using the  discount affiliate links above and below.

[$USD 2.95/Month Bluehost Discount] Bluehost  60% off Activated Deal

 

And, as a special bonus, My readers can enjoy the ultimate website-hosting steal, readers can enjoy hosting for as low as $2.95/mo for 12 months Plan Only while this deals lasts.– Get it here

You don’t need a coupon code to claim the current discount + free domain name, as it is already applied in the link below, just click on pic or link to claim the deal.

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Their best blue host deal is off course the deal where you get hosting + a free bonus domain name.

Bluehost has been recommended as the preferred hosting for wordpress by wordpress.org since 2005

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They host well over 1.9+ million domains with its sister companies. Bluehost is a web hosting company owned by Endurance International Group. Their sister companies are  HostMonster, FastDomain and iPage

Bluehost coupon codes for 2016 ( how to apply deal code)

It cant get easier that this to get this discount. While coupon codes is a popular way of claiming discounts son hosting, and godaddy does a good job of this – Bluehost makes it easier by just offering the discount automatically Pre-applied when you click through their Hosting offer link – Click here.

Why choose Bluehost ?

Well when it comes to hosting for a blog, the essential features needed or provided for a website is not really much different from company to company, but this what goes in favour of bluehost

  • They have a very affordable pricing plan for your hosting.
  • They have a 1 clicks install making it easy to launch your first blog/website.
  • They provide a Free Domain name with their plan
  • They support word press + many more scripts and software on their plans
  • Their plans also offer unlimited hosting for many/multiple websites
  • They have good website architecture and cpanel administration panel to make maintaining your website and server backend easy
  • They are well known top brand in hosting and has to maintain that responsibility.
  • They have 24/7 customer service

Different server plans & products of bluehost.com

1. Shared Hosting – Starting from AUD $6.45 (1 website), normally $13.05 – $11.355 unlimited Websites

2. Managed/Optimized WordPress Hosting – Starting from $32.58 AUD (Normally AU$48.97)

3. Dedicated Hosting – Starting from $130.62 AUD (Normally AU$195.93)

4. VPS Hosting – Starting from $32.64 AUD a month (Normally AU$48.97)

5. Cloud Hosting – Starting from $6.45 a month

NOTE: The  DigitalGrog ‘ blog  recommends Bluehost. For only $6.45 a month, Bluehost can help you set up and host your blog. Because Digital Grog is a Bluehost affiliate partner, our readers can use this link to receive a 50% discount off the monthly price and a free domain.

Click here to Activate the Bluehost discount and a Free Domain name

Often bluehost comes out with special intro offers for any new plans or packages announced , which we update here on the blog links. Their plans are always backed up with a 30 Day Money back guarantee.

Normally shared hosting has a fixed price for the term of that contract, but please do check if the plan states a discounted first month, which means it will revert to a higher price after first month. It would normally say so in the ad if it’s only a first month discounted price.

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What is shared hosting ?

Shared hosting is a server where you are allocated space for your website on bluehost servers and the space will be shared by many other users as well. So its basically like a larger server space , where every user is allocated a certain amount of space for their website . Normally this space is more than enough for a couple of websites It’s like living in an apartment with many neighbours and so the rent or hosting price can be cheap.

Optimized Hosting (also Known as managed hosting)

Optimized hosting was basically born to break free of the slower speeds of shared hosting, which often occurs when your have a very high traffic to your blog. Optimised hosting use a VPS server with customised software to speed up loading of your blog. Bluehost also offer advanced CDN and site lock features with its Optimised WP PLAN.

What’s dedicated and VPS hosting

Dedicated and VPS hosting concepts are quite similar. They both provide a better service than shared hosting.

Dedicated hooting is as its name suggest a server that is dedicated entirely to you, so you share it with nobody else and you could possibly also choose your hardware and software on that server. Main benefit of dedicated servers is that you don’t need to be worried about bad neighbours (websites) affecting your website, although this is said to play a very small role in ranking in google in the overall google algorithm

A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an internet hosting service. You can today even have a virtual server on your desktop easily with windows 10 . But in hosting server terms, a VPS runs its own copy of an operating system, and customers have superuser-level access to that operating system so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS. Its like having your own computer but in the cloud.

On a VPS Server, you have dedicated amounts of RAM (memory) available to you at any time unlike in shared hosting where if other users in that group use more of ram , then your site can get slow.

Cloud Hosting

The beauty of the cloud is that a number of machines or serves can act as one system. Shared hosting servers normally depend on one machine while your cloud hosting security and speed can be guaranteed by many servers. Up scaling and upgrading g of your server resources and capability can also been done at a click of a button. It is customisable, secure and scalable.

Established hosting companies such as Godaddy , Dreamhost, Hostgator, Site5 and bluehost are offering cloud-based solutions alongside shared hosting.

 

So which bluehost plan is the best ?

From the above three plans in the pic, the $6.45 a month is definitely the cheapest and the best  if you are starting a blog. However if you are going long term – then i would suggest  the $9.72 per month plan, as it not only gives you ability to host 10 websites ,but also gives you a global CDN, Spamexperts  mail filtering and $150 worth of advertising  offers to give your new blog a jump start with  free advertising

Normal bluehost prices for webhosting plans

Plans            Basic                   Plus

12 month : AUD $9.72              $12.98

24 month : AUD $8.08              $11.35

36 month : $13.05 $6.45           $17.95 $9.72

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As you can see, these two normal priced plans are currently discounted

What’s the bluehost Free domain policy ?

Free Domain Policy :

If you register a domain with Bluehost when signing up for a hosting account, there is a domain fee that is non-refundable. This not only covers our costs, but ensures that you won’t lose your domain name. Regardless of the status of your hosting service, you’ll be free to manage it, transfer it after any required lock periods, or simply point it elsewhere at your convenience. You retain ownership of your domain until the end of its registration period unless you elect to extend it.

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If you are looking to start your website, don’t waste time and take action

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If you are ready to take action today,  then you might want to check my post  https://www.digitalgrog.com.au/australia/starting-a-tech-blog-in-six-easy-steps/  which will give you a step by step break down of how to start your wordpress blog today 

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Starting a Blog for Making Money Online in 2019

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Recently I wrote a extensive post on “how to blog successfully and make your blog popular” ,  and I received a quite a few questions from new bloggers, who are  just getting into the blogging game asking me “How do they make money and start with blogging“. [updated 28 March 2019]

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The short story  is, that you will need a “Australian WordPress hosting”  account and  a good “WordPress Design Theme” to truly blog with freedom attract your audience  and grow  your  traffic to your blog.

Making Money from blogging

Making money from blogs  is not easy today, it used to be easy at one part of time but now everybody  and their dog is in the game.

Today  the blogging world  is kinda saturated  with mom bloggers, business bloggers, fashion bloggers, travel bloggers and all sorta bloggers ( my dog is a princess bloggers).

So you pick any damn niche and you already got competition.

 

It’s a struggle to survive – if your already in the game 

What google says  about what a blog is – “A blog is a website, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis” – I really like this simple and to the point definition.

 

Look and search everywhere, but there is no magic mantra or magic bullet  for a Sucessful Blog.

In addition, google keeps changing the goal posts with annoying algorithm updates that keep bugging SEO’s and bloggers.

Every year there is something new with google requirements  to be popular in their search engine , like now you need a https website  for security, your website design needs to be responsive, you need amp and what not.

Its harder and costlier  to make money every year.

What you should do  to become popular online ?

You should definitely get your blog a USP (Unique Selling Point) to stay on top of your competition.

If you get this right you will get blog viewers, likes and  sharing of your content, which will surely get your blog traffic coming back to you on a regular basis.

This will also encourage your  viewers  to  subscribe to your email list and also people to comment on your blog, which all creates a buzz around your blog.

These all work together in your favour and also help you #rank in google search

Trust me  people commenting on your posts  or  on the blog  and contacting you via your contact me button is a sure sign of you becoming more popular (or in some cases unpopular) in your blogging journey.

 

When you write quality interesting  content  better than most other blogs, have a professional looking designed website and you share  your top written content  in the right  social media channels and forums – Your blog will soon get  noticed and  be on its way to being successful.

 

If  all of this happens a lot (people interacting , commenting , likes on facebook, sharing your posts) and it happens more often, then your on your weay to becoming a blogging superstar so to speak and you don’t have to chase money, but the money will chase you sooner or later.

This shows people are listening(reading) to you, want to interact  with you and you  have become bit of a influencer, and companies and brands love that.

This is a sure sign of achieving success and if you get all these above tips/hints correct and implement it, you will be  lucky and will surely succeed. If your luckier  than most other bloggers/instagrammer’s then  brands will also approach you.

Success surely involves one important thing  in these times  and that is making authoritative and quality content  and getting the word spread  about that “Epic Content” you just created to the  blogosphere.

You do this  by getting it shared on social media ( Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Linked in)  and  also getting mentioned by popular people of note in  your blog niche.

Today many people do outreach  to amplify their best content  and get it shared online  and this can  work for you as well. Its not hard to do, outreach can be done by yourself or then  you can hire an agency to do it.

Influencer’s are kinda getting big right now on the Instagram platform. Some popular infleuncers get paid  quite well if they have a huge following and can earn even more than a full time job.

However Blogging aint getting any easier, so  don’t expect the great Matt Mullenweg of wordpress or Matt cutts of google to help you out with this. This job will have to be done by you – by doing the hard yards.

There is another option to speed things up, I would recommend learning from a experienced blogger who is already earning income online. I have got an online tutorial if you want  to get started today atleast getting your blog online as a start.

In relation to making money online, I would recommend Rosalind Gardner  who is a super affiliate and has helped many into  their online affiliate marketing careers, she has an in-depth  affiliate guide called – “Super Affiliate: How I Made $436,797 In One Year which covers how to start Your Own Home-based Affiliate Marketing Business.

These guides will surely teach  you how to go about and start earning  with affiliate marketing or  increase your existing blog income

Keeping on top of competition, also involves churning out  regular awesome content,  sharing it on social media, doing proper SEO so that  the content shines,  promoting the blog and updating it regularly to match what google search engine  needs(SEO) to keep it ranked high on their search engines.

My Post of

“The 3 Steps to Setting Up a Popular and Successful Blog”

just got published at dailyblogtips.com, so you might wanna check out this extensive post  to get some tips on – How to get a successful blog going!

3 steps to suucess in blogging

For People Looking to Start a blog

Luckily there are quite a few free platforms that help you start out on blogging  totally free and so you can start your blog without spending money.

Free Blog Platforms is not my recommended way of starting a blog  if your really serious about blogging, but if your cash strapped  then you can surely take  advantage of  this method and get started. 

Most successful bloggers would have used these free bloggin services at some part of time  or maybe even when they started their new bogging journey. WordPress.com offers free as well as paid options for a website, but if your after self hosted which is most suitable for making money with affiliate offers then the below offer might be more useful.

But, if you can  afford a reasonable >>  $3.49 hosting a month for a brand new self hosted wordpress blog. I would recommend this as a preferred starting platform. Not only  you will have 100 % ownership  of your own blog , you dont have the risk of ban or deletion of your website by google / tumblr /wordpress.com (whichever platform you decide to go with)

My recommended service for  a self hosted blog is  the wordpress software and the recommended service provider is Bluehost hosting. Below is a link to my blog post

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With Bluehost WebHosting you get both Hosting and domain name , plus a 1 click install option to get your wordpress blog installed quickly.

The WordPress CMS is recommended, because it is one of the most versatile website software which give you 100 % flexibility in design. It also has  awesome flexibility in functionality  which can be added if needed with heaps of plugins , WP themes and tutorials available online.  Your website can be designed with easy install themes to make it look , just like any professional website. It is also one of the easiest to use blog/website software.

Bluehost hosting , I recommend because I have had blogs on their servers for ages, besides they also have a 1 click install which is so easy to install a website or  blog in minutes, just by following their install  prompts.

Below is a current deal for you from my blog as I am an affiliate partner with them

Special Promotion Offer for 2019  from Digital Grog + (BLUEHOST)

Special Feb/March bonus, My readers can enjoy the ultimate steal of  $7.99 $3.95/mo  on the  shared hosting plan (this promo is for a limited time! – Get it here )

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A self hosted wordpress blog is a website that your run on your purchased hosting account and have full freedom over  this website.

Most hosting  companies provide a 1 click install nowadays  to get your self hosted blog set up easily.

 

Getting a self hosted wordpress blog will also avoid the hassle of moving your blog later on  which every free blogger does eventually.

Because for sure,  if you sign up with a free service like blogspot or tumblr or wordpress.com, you will move sooner or later  to a self hosted wordpress blog like most professional bloggers do.

This normally happens when they realise the constraints and limitations of using a free blog service or getting a blog deleted for a policy violation.

However, choosing what blog service you want to start with is totally upto you and so are below are some free blogging hosts listed for you.

  • WordPress.com (or  from wordpress.org)

WordPress.org is one of  the largest self-hosted blogging tool and software in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. You can check out their features here  and get a free or Premium blog at wordpress.com

Get a free or paid wordpress blog here

 

  • Blogger.com ( from Google)

Blogger is free blogging platform by google.com  with a host of features to make blogging as simple and effective as possible. You will need a google account  or gmail account or  then just create one for free when registering with blogger.com

Get a free Blogger blog here

 

  • Tumblr.com

Tumblr is a mini blogging or micro blogging service and  lets you effortlessly share anything, Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email.

Get a free Tumblr blog here

These three services  are free to use  and if you get real popular fast you will have the option of breaking out or branching out from their services  to  transfer your blog to a paid server.

Most people when it is time  to upgrade, move to self hosted wordpress platform with their own custom domain name and webhosting.

As I said before , if you don’t want the hassle of moving hosts and your  blog  later when you get more traffic on your blog and start to earn some revenue, then I would recommend for you to sign up with Self hosted blog  choosing a hosting company  with 1 click install to get your blog started. Here are some price comparisons for hosting companies.

Intro – Digital Grog Blog Video

 

Review of website –>  Hosting 2019 ( Best WordPress Host Providers)

Website Hosting 2019 Australia 

However, just starting a blog is not sufficient to make money and the best way to ensure you are doing this the right way is to get the right training right from the start. This ensures that you dont have to waste time figuring things out and can start earning money quicker.

There are not many brick and mortar university courses that teach you how to earn money on-line  and the online courses that are available are for specific niches like social media marketing, web design and on-line marketing.

The on-line marketing course available in these universities go though the traditional approach and basic concepts of on-line marketing, but is often outdated as this subject matter changes rapidly.

It is best to take a course from a on-line marketing agency that is currently practising this in the market and that is why I recommend Rosalind Gardner  who is a super affiliate and has helped many into  their online affiliate marketing careers, she has  an indepth  affiliate guide called – “Super Affiliate: How I Made $436,797 In One Year which covers how to start Your Own Home-based Affiliate Marketing Business.

There is also Affilorama By Mark ling  and  click bank university .

Clickbank is one of the largest marketplace for digital products and has made many millionaires.

These courses, not only provide you training to earn money on-line as a affiliate (selling other peoples products through your blog/website) but also trains you for making and launching your own product and promoting it.

Some more Useful internet marketing courses

  1. The “Affiliate Blogger Pro”
  2. Affilorama By Mark ling
  3. CB Passive income for 2019
Step by step Instructions to start a WordPress blog 

If you don’t have a blog yet and you are ready to get started today with a wordpress website, then you might want to check my tutorial post with step by step instructions  on starting a website over here –  https://www.digitalgrog.com.au/australia/starting-a-tech-blog-in-six-easy-steps/. This post will give you a step by step break down of how to start your own WordPress blog today with bluehost webhosting.

You can start by choosing a good domain name  with our domain checker tool below

More tools : Bluehost Domain Checker

How to make money with  a wordpress blog

No one is going to give away  all their secrets for this one. But i can atleast point you int he right direction. Here are some tried and tested methods to make money with your website.

Google Adsense

This is one method whihc needs the least  effort  to make some money, but will also pay  peanuts if you dont have much traffic  to your blog or if your  blog is in a  niche where you cant earn much.

 

Affiliate Income

This is where many blogs earn top dollar, by promoting  products  in the niche they are bloggin about  to their audience.

Fashion bloggers can earn thousands of dollars promoting the right brands. Technology bloggers can earn thousands of dollars promoting technology and gadgets. Food bloggers can earn hundreds of dollars  promoting products in their niche.

I have seen  many people in all of  these mentioned niches doing  anywhere from $2,000 to $40,000 a month in revenue.

 

Ecommerce shop

This is a new trend where people are creating their own products and selling on platforms like shopify – online shops. 

They are many people not stock/products on hand, but selling stuff online and  getting it shipped directly to customers from vendors in china, while making a nice commission with no inventory, this is also called drop shipping.

 

 

Amazon Niche Websites (Amazon affiliate)

This income stream has taken off in the last couple of years. They are bloggers who write articles on certain niches. example fishing lures.

create an amazon store and product

The bloggers then have links to fishing products  from amazon on their website.  when a viewer purchase  a product from amazon, they earn a commission for advertising that product on their website and making a sale.

While all these methods are good, there is one basic  thing they need to make money – Qualified leads or  targeted traffic to your website.

If you are getting  the right people coming to your website  who are interested in your products, you will be making sales.

Targeted Traffic with Advertising

One way to get quick targeted traffic is online advertising with  the search engines themselves. I suggest Bing adwords as they are cheaper and more flexible with their  ads. Here are some free started coupons worth $50  to get you started.

With search engine advertising  you can make unlimited money if you get your advertising right.

New Business and website customers in the following markets receive free search adverting credits to help them get started:

 

Other methods for targeted traffic is as  I have said before – SEO for your website, awesome content on your site/shop or blog,  promotion on social media  by you or a hired agency – which will get you on your road to success.

If all this is not your cup of tea and you would just rather doe something quick and earn money , then maybe  you need to check  these survey websites out here “Make money surveys – Australia”  or  iSurveyWorld Surveys (Australia) and just fill out surveys and make some money online.

Good luck!

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Technology : Betting with smartphones for Melbourne cup 2016

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Smartphones bought mini pc’s to your hand and now you can bet anywhere or on any horse for the Melbourne cup in 2016  while you are on the go.

This 2016 race “That stops the nation”  you will see more than ever, punters reaching out to their phones to take a last minute punt on a horse.  Its never been so easy to bet on horse racing and sporting events.[ Check our recently updated post for the 2017 Melbourne cup info ]

Betting smart on melbourne cup  with new technology

Today you can place live sports bets with your iPhone or Android smartphone or even your ipad.

Today we go through some of the  top online betting providers in Australia and show you how you can sign up with some free betting and bonus offers for the Melbourne cup horse racing carnival 2016.

The race that stops the nation is one of the best sporting events to sign up or register with a betting company in Australia.  Why – because this is Australia’s biggest horse racing event and so you get the best free bet offers and bonus bets for just signing up, which costs you nothing.

Deposit for bets

They do ask you for a minimum deposit to show an act of good faith, but most free bet offers give you back much more in value for the registration when you sign up with them.

For overseas punters:

When and where is the Melbourne cup ?

Melbourne cup in 2016  is  on Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Address: 448 Epsom Rd, Flemington VIC 3031, Australiaa

Betting at a local betting outlet

If you don’t want to get an online betting account, you could always just walk in to a tabcorp outlet and purchase a bet on a horse.  There are many kind of bets you could  bet on in the Melbourne cup.

You can bet on the winning horse, you can bet on two different horses to win, you can choose a trifecta.  On the cup day there is always assistance on how to lay your bets at the TABCORP outlet

If you want to bet online, then offcourse you can just sign up onto any offer below  with the free or bonus bet offers . We recommend ladbrokes or betstar who have a good and reliable modern betting platform and support  the latest technology, including smartphone betting.

They also cover a wide  selection of sporting events for betting , including all the popular local and international sports and events.

Be mindful that free and bonus bet offers that are advertised apply to different states with different providers according to the approved betting licenses and state regulations, so check the offer landing page via our links to check if the advertised offer applies to you and in your state

Below are their offers for the cup and some other  local bookmakers as well

Betstar established in 2007, is an Australian Corporate Bookmaking firm that are based and established within Melbourne and Darwin. Betstar employ 40+ staff split between the Melbourne & Darwin offices

Once you sign up with them, you will need to provide documents to them drivers license or passport copy.  They will check this and get back to you with approval.

Our second recommendation: The ladbrokes guys provide a good platform.  So if you want to give this a go, grab their current offer which won’t last long obviously.

Below are some more punter’s (bookmakers)  you could choose from

luxbet

Luxbet – https://www.luxbet.com/ ( $150 in bonus bets)

 

sportsbet

Sportsbet – http://www.sportsbet.com.au/ ($150 Bonus bets)

tab.com.au

TAB – https://www.tab.com.au

william hill

William Hill – https://www.williamhill.com.au/ (get upto $50 back offer)

bet 365

Bet365 – https://www.bet365.com.au/

betfair

Betfair – http://www.betfair.com/

Documents required  for getting an account :

The person applying for the account must be 18 years or over, and bookmakers can request that account holders present evidence of various ID and proof-of-age documents, which can  be just one of the document or more than one below.

  • Driver’s license
  • Passport
  • Birth certificate
  • Australian citizenship certificate
  • State-issued ID card

Choosing the lucky winner is still anybody’s game and nobody can predict that, but luck and gut feeling sometimes can make you money in this game.

Form guide for Tuesday, 1 November 2016 – List of horses for race 7  cup race

Melbourne Cup – Race 7

No. Horse Br Jockey Wgt Current odds
1 Big Orange (GB) 7 Jamie Spencer 57 kg $15.00
2 Our Ivanhowe (GER) 6 Dwayne Dunn 57 kg $51.00
3 Curren Mirotic (JPN) 18 Tommy Berry 56.5 kg $34.00
4 Bondi Beach (IRE) 5 Ryan Moore 56 kg $9.00
5 Exospheric (GB) 13 Damien Oliver 56 kg $21.00
6 Hartnell (GB) 12 James McDonald 56 kg $5.00
7 Who Shot Thebarman (NZ) 20 Hugh Bowman 56 kg $34.00
8 Wicklow Brave (GB) 24 Frankie Dettori 56 kg $15.00
9 Almoonqith (USA) 19 Michael Walker 54.5 kg $21.00
10 Gallante (IRE) 2 Blake Shinn 54.5 kg $67.00
11 Grand Marshal (GB) 9 Ben Melham 54.5 kg $41.00
12 Jameka 3 Nicholas Hall 54.5 kg $8.50
13 Heartbreak City (FR) 23 Joao Moreira 54 kg $16.00
14 Sir John Hawkwood (IRE) 14 Blake Spriggs 54 kg $81.00
15 Excess Knowledge (GB) 21 Vlad Duric 53.5 kg $67.00
16 Beautiful Romance (GB) 1 Damian Lane 52.5 kg $71.00
17 Almandin (GER) 17 Kerrin McEvoy 52 kg $13.00
18 Assign (IRE) 22 Katelyn Mallyon 52 kg $61.00
19 Grey Lion (IRE) 16 Glen Boss 52 kg $34.00
20 Oceanographer (GB) 11 Chad Schofield 52 kg $7.50
21 Secret Number (GB) 10 Stephen Baster 52 kg $31.00
22 Pentathlon (NZ) 4 Mark Du Plessis 51.5 kg $126.00
23 Qewy (IRE) 15 Craig Williams 51.5 kg $23.00
24 Rose of Virginia (NZ) 8 Ben E Thompson 51 kg $101.00

If you want to check  the Melbourne Cup 2015 Video stream or replay online, check out the youtube video featuring the 2015 winners below.
Melbourne Cup Video Online Race Results Winner 2015

 

The different kind of hedging and betting strategies are not limited to the local tab outlet , now you can do it all online. Trifecta, winner bet, place bets and custom bets made by you. The odds can be multiplied many folds with the more exotic bets you place.

Technology has advanced enough for you to read your email on the bus, talk or video chat via Facebook or what’s app on the train and buy that nice dress on your morning tea break via Zara online.

Now you can also bet online on  your horse  for Melbourne cup via your ipad, smartphone, laptop or even your smart enabled watch or fridge.

How to deposit or withdraw from your betting account

To deposit money into your account , you just need to connect your bank account to your sport bet account. Some punters give the PayPal option too.

Withdrawing money is as simple as clicking withdraw in your betting account to transfer funds to your connected bank a/c.

We here at digitalgrog have been covering the cup  from a many years, check out some old posts from  2010 , 2011, 2013 and  2015‘

 

Flemington racecourse map on google

Racecourse MAP below

 

Choose from the best web hosting plans for 2018: Australia Vs US Hosting

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Here at DigitalGrog we regularly publish  step by step guides to creating a website, web hosting comparisons, reviews of hosting providers and domain name services.

Below is a detailed listing of webhosting companies with prices and features. This will help  you get started on your new journey if your creating a new business website or just a personal blog.

Godaddy Australia

If you are on a budget and price matters to get you started, you might want to try the current Godaddy deal- Click here above

Our recommendation is for Bluehost – Current deal here for a WordPress website or blog  and WP-Engine if your starting a business website – Current deal here.

 

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Hosting Comparison – Australia Or US Host ?

Hosting in Australia is significantly more expensive than most other places in the world. Most of it comes down to some of the high cost of labour in Australia and of course infrastructure/backhaul internet/DC fees.

Latency is not the most important aspect of the loading times between here and the US and should be considered if you are running a high traffic website.

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Often when comparing how fast a server is providing content, factors like comparing the application stack, use of hardware load balancers, caching, CDN’s server technology etc are not taken into account when it should be.

 

Does US hosting IP affect my website ranking?

Search engines like google base their algorithms on a number of factors, one of them being the IP address location. Getting a country TLD domain can help, such as a .com.au domain for a business website or blog targeting Australian viewers.

Overseas hosting can still get results  by using proper SEO techniques and Google tweaks, like logging into the google search engine webmaster tools and telling them who your target market is.

A US host with a CDN can also help, if you want to go one step further by speeding up your loading time further and getting a nearby network point to your country.

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Webhosting Acronyms Glossary and Meanings

Below is many words related to website hosting and managing. It is acronyms, features and just about a glossary for website related terms. This might be helpful when you are trying to make sense of terms when you build your first website or purchase services to create your first blog or webpage.

CMS – Content Management System is a program used to publish, edit and modify content on a given websites. CMS is often used to run websites containing blogs, news and shopping sites.

SSL – Secure Socket Layer is a cryptographic protocol that was designed to provide communication security over the internet.

CSS – Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the overall look and format of a site that has been written in a markup language.

Disk Space – The amount of space allocated to you on the server to store files, pages, emails, and more.

Uptime – The amount of time the server is uninterrupted and your website is accessible. This is typically shown as a percentage. You want a high uptime (99% and above) so as not to disrupt access to your site

Reseller Hosting – Where a block of server resources is sold to an individual for purposes of using it to host multiple domains under their own name

Control Panel – The control panel is the central hub for a web hosting account. This is where the user modifies and controls all aspects of their web hosting such as adding new domains and sub domains, uploading web pages and installing server applications

MySQL – A database system that is often included in hosting packages. It is commonly used with a variety of applications

PHP – Hypertext Pre-Processor is a server-side scripting language designed for the development of websites and can also be used as a general-purpose programming language

Linux Server – A server that uses Linux, a free, open source operating system used by most shared and free web hosts

Windows Server – A server that uses Windows as the operating system. This type of plan is typically more expensive but necessary to accommodate specific applications

Add-domain – It is additional domains which can be createed from the main domain control panel without having a separate hosting account. It had all features just like a main domain, but with no cPanel control.

Sub-domain – A subdomain is a subsection of your website that can exist as a new website without a new domain name. Use subdomains to create memorable URLs for different content areas of your site.

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PST Merge: Apt Solution for Getting All PST Files at One Place

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It is obvious for the employees using Outlook from decades, to possess multiple PST files with them. Since earlier the format of Outlook PST files was ANSI, the user may possess both ANSI and UNICODE PST files. Storing all these PST files in the user machine might not be problematic for the users, but it does give rise to issues when the user may require sharing all the PST files or may require transferring the files to a different machine. Thus, in order to avoid any file from being left behind, consolidating all the files in a single PST is a wise option.

PST Merge software is the solution that fits this very problem and merges Outlook PST files into one. Whether the collection of PST files is of both ANSI and UNICODE PST or only ANSI or UNICODE type PST, the software will support merging of both types of files. The resultant PST file will be of UNICODE type, which can be easily accessed in Outlook 2003 and later versions.

Quick View

Developer

MS Outlook Tools

Function

Merges multiple PST files into UNICODE PST file

Current version

3.2

Size

7.6 MB

Interface

Graphical User Interface

MS Outlook installation required

Yes

Windows version supported

8.1 and below versions

Trial version

Available for free

Features In Brief

· Merges multiple PST files and associated items like emails, contacts, etc.

· Offers three merging options- Merge, Join and Merge Contacts.

· Removes duplicate items from getting merged when option is selected.

· Excludes merging of emails residing in the deleted items folder of PST.

· It supports merging both ANSI and UNICODE type PST files altogether.

· No limitation on the number of PST files that can be merged together.

· Merge Outlook contacts exclusively with Merge Contacts option.

Versions Of The Tool

Trial Version: In order to get an idea of the working of PST Merge, it is recommended to download the trial version of the software. The trial version is completely free of cost and gives an overall idea of the working of the tool.

Licensed version: Once satisfied with its working, the user can go for the license version of PST Merge. It can be purchased from the official website at a price of $69 only.

Test Run On PST Merge

For giving a clear idea of the working of PST Merge to our users, we did a test run on the demo version of the software. The software got downloaded within a few minutes and got installed easily. The demo version has some limitations in context to the number of items that can be merged. However, the working of both trial and license version is similar in every aspect. Now let us go over the working steps of the software in detail:

1) Activation Window

Once the software is run, a window named Evaluation Version will appear before you. Since we are going for the demo of the software, we selected the Continue Demo option. In case you want to purchase the software click on Buy. If you have already purchased the License version and want to activate it, then select Activate option.

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2) Add PST Files

The next step is to add the PST files that have to be merged. The software offers two options for adding the PST files. The first option Add Files can be chosen in case the user wants to add the PST files one by one. The second option Add Folder is opted if all the PST files reside in the same folder and the user wants to add the entire folder.

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3) Three Ways To Merge PST Files

The software offers three options for merging the PST files. They are as follows:

· Join

The Join option combines multiple PST files whilst showing the joined PST files as different folders of the resultant PST. For example if PST1 and PST2 are joined, the output PST file will have 2 folders with the name Personal Folder [1] and Personal Folder [2] in it. The Personal Folder [1] will represent the PST1 and the entire folder structure of the file will be kept intact. In a similar manner, Personal Folder [2] will denote PST2 file.

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· Merge

The Merge option will combine the input PST files by merging all the similar folders of the files. For example, if PST1 and PST2 files are merged, the output PST file will have only 1 inbox folder which will store all the mails of inbox folder of PST1 and PST2. The same goes with the other folders as well.

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· Merge Contacts

Merge Contacts option as the name suggests is merging the contacts folder of the input PST files. The contacts of all the input PST files will be combined and stored in a single PST.

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· Remove Duplicate Items While Merging

Once you have selected the option for combining PST files, the next option you will get is Remove Duplicates. The option is enabled for Merge and Merge Contacts only. It removes the duplicate items like emails, contacts, calendars, etc. and does not include them in the resultant PST file.

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· Exclude Mails of Deleted Items Folder

If you don’t want to merge the mails stored in the deleted items folder of the PST files, and then select the Exclude Deleted Items option. This option is only enabled for Join and Merge and not for Merge Contacts option.

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PROS

· Three variant options for consolidating PST files.

· Supports both ANSI and UNICODE type PST files.

· Option to exclude deleted mails and duplicate items.

CONS

· No option to merge selective items of the PST file.

· No preview of PST files before merging.

THE VERDICT

PST Merge is a commendable tool that comes from trustworthy sources. Based on its overall working and all the features, we would rate it as 9.7/10. Even though the software does not allow selective merging but it does enable the users to exclude deleted emails and duplicates item from getting merged. It will definitely not burn a hole in your pocket and functions really well.