Login to aws.amazon.com and select “Create an AWS Account” in the upper right:

Once your account is created, login at aws.amazon.com and select Your Account->Security Credentials

Go about halfway down the page and you will see the Access Key – click the word “Show” for it to show your secret.

Send the Access Key, the Secret and your Amazon tracking IDadsense pub ID (from your regular account at associates.amazon.com) to me for your site setup!

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How To Get A Separate Amazon Tracking Id For Your New Site

Login to associates.amazon.com

In the upper right, click on “manage” for tracking ID:

Click on Add Tracking ID

Type in whatever you want for your new tracking ID (I usually use the domain name) and click Search

If it says the id is available, then click Continue and that ID will be added to your account.  Now you can track the sales from this domain!

Here’s some video tutorials on how to use the Autoupdating websites.  This is one of the easiest and most flexible content management systems around!

The first thing you are going to want to do is make sure you change the affiliate id’s.

Change Your Affiliate Id’s

Add A New Category

Here’s a short video on how to add a new category – categories are used to organize posts just like you do in wordpress.

Adding A Page

Here’s how to add new pages:

Writing A New Post

You can add posts to your autoupdating website, just like you do with a blog. Here’s how to do it!

Overview

Here’s an overview of the features and functionality included in your autoupdating website!

Thanks for buying one of my custom sites! Below are some instructions on setting up your adsense and affiliate links. Because these are encrypted, I can’t just replace my id with yours – you actually have to go generate the code from your own account.

Luckily, adding that code to the blog is easy – here’s some videos on how to do that, plus how to edit your ebook sales page (for those sites that have them) and how to get thumbnail photos on the hompage and use some of the plugins:

Setup Your Affiliate Links

Setting Up Your eBook Sales Page Info



If your blog comes with an ebook and sales page, you’ll need to add your own payment/download link (either a paypal link or a link from a download service like Digital Product Delivery).

Usually this entails mucking around in a lot of HTML code, but I’ve made a custom script that allows you to edit one file and change a variety of things on your sales page. The script is located in your …/ebook directory and is called config.php – the video below explains how to use it:

How To Get The Thumbnails On The Homepage



Here’s what you have to do to get those little thumbnails to show up on the hompage posts:

PLUGINS



By default, your plugins should be all set up for you, but if you want to tweak them here are some short videos on each one.



All-In-One-SEO – improves the SEO of your site

Tube Press – adds youtube videos to your site

Privacy Policy – This privacy policy generates a page that complies with Googles TOS

Featured Content Gallery – if you have the photo gallery on the site you purchased, then this video will show you how to set it up (if you don’t have the photo gallery, then just skip this video).

Thanks For Buying One Of My Exclusive Custom Websites!

As you know, I will host it for free for the next 60 days, but it’s really in your best interest to move it to your own hosting as soon as you can because the files will be automatically deleted when 60 days are up and I wouldn’t want your site to become inaccessible if you lose track of time and forget to move it!

If you already have hosting, great! If not, I’d like to suggest the Hostgator baby account – it’s only $7.95 a month and you can have unlimited domains and websites on it. Plus if you buy through my link, then I’ll be able to help you with any questions as I use Hostgator myself and am quite familiar with it.

SETTING UP YOUR SITE

The first thing you will need to do is change the name servers on the domain to those that coincide with your hosting. You can get this information from your hosting support and, in fact should have received it in an email when you first signed up.

Changing The DNS Name Servers

The name server change is done in namecheap, so you will need to have ownership of the domain. If you haven’t sent me your namecheap username yet, then please send it to me now along with the domain name so I can push it to you. Once it’s in your account, you can change the nameservers – it’s pretty easy as you can see in the video below:

Installing WordPress



Next, you need to install wordpress– if you already know how to do that, then skip this first video. If you don’t know how, the video below is a short tutorial on how to use Fantastico to setup wordpress:

Importing The Database



The zip file that I sent to you has all the information (the posts, pages, settings etc…) in a sql file that needs to be imported into your wordpress installation. This isn’t as scary as it sounds! Here’s a video that shows you how easy it is (NOTE – your .sql file will probably be named something different, just look for the file that ends in .sql and that’s the one you need to import):

Uploading Your eBook & Custom Theme



Next, you need to get the files associated with your custom theme, plugins and ebook onto the server. This is an easy, simple ftp:

Activate Your Custom Theme And Plugins



Ok, we’re almost done! Next, you need to activate the theme and plugins and, once that is done, you should be all set and your blog should be fully functional! Here’s what you do:

Setup Your Affiliate Links



Last, but not least, you want to change the adsense and affiliate sections to have your links so that you get paid! Here’s how you do that:

Setting Up Your eBook Sales Page Info



If your blog comes with an ebook and sales page, you’ll need to add your own payment/download link (either a paypal link or a link from a download service like Digital Product Delivery).

Usually this entails mucking around in a lot of HTML code, but I’ve made a custom script that allows you to edit one file and change a variety of things on your sales page. The script is located in your …/ebook directory and is called config.php – the video below explains how to use it:

How To Get The Thumbnails On The Homepage



Here’s what you have to do to get those little thumbnails to show up on the hompage posts:

PLUGINS



By default, your plugins should be all set up for you, but if you want to tweak them here are some short videos on each one.



All-In-One-SEO – improves the SEO of your site

Tube Press – adds youtube videos to your site

Privacy Policy – This privacy policy generates a page that complies with Googles TOS

Featured Content Gallery – if you have the photo gallery on the site you purchased, then this video will show you how to set it up (if you don’t have the photo gallery, then just skip this video).

Below is a series of videos that will show you how to install and setup your custom blog as well as how to use the plugins and features. Each video is only a minute or two long, so don’t let the amount of videos scare you! This is really easy and should take you under 15 minutes to get the whole install done.

First of all, you need to install wordpress on your domain – if you already know how to do that, then skip this first video. If you don’t know how, the video below is a short tutorial on how to use Fantastico to setup wordpress:

Upload And Activate Your Theme And Plugins

Next, you want to unzip and upload the files and activate your theme and plugins:

Change Your Ebook Sales Page

If your blog comes with an ebook and sales page, you’ll need to add your own payment/download link (either a paypal link or a link from a download service like Digital Product Delivery).

Usually this entails mucking around in a lot of HTML code, but I’ve made a custom script that allows you to edit one file and change a variety of things on your sales page. The script is located in your …/ebook directory and is called config.php – the video below explains how to use it:

Add Your Affiliate ID’s

Next, you want to add your banners and adsense code as well as a video. Your blog has an options panel that makes this super easy – here’s how to use it:

The Plugins

Setting Up Your Plugins – watch the videos below to find out how to setup and use each of the plugins:

All-In-One-SEO – improves the SEO of your site

Tube Press – adds youtube videos to your site

Privacy Policy – This privacy policy generates a page that complies with Googles TOS

Featured Content Gallery – if you have the photo gallery on the site you purchased, then this video will show you how to set it up (if you don’t have the photo gallery, then just skip this video).

How To Add Thumbnail Pictures To Your Posts

If you make new posts that will be shown on the homepage and want to have thumbnail photos show up beside them then you need to simply make a custom filed called “thumbnail” and add the image location to it in your post. This video shows you how:

Congratulations – You’re done setting up the blog!