Resources To Start A Network Marketing Blog

NameCheap has some of the best prices on domain names on the web. They also offer free privacy protection and free domain transfers to your hosting company of choice. This is the easiest and least expensive way to register your domain name and start your network marketing blog.

At less than $10 for most .com addresses, you can register multiple domain names. I own both DigitalSheE.O. and my name Jen Towkaniuk, for less than what one domain with privacy protection would cost elsewhere.

Bluehost has been my choice for web hosting for nearly 10 years. Their plans are inexpensive yet very reliable for the price.

Their introductory rate allows new bloggers on a budget to prepay for two or three years to make the search engines happy. After the introductory period, the rates increase, but by then your blog may be ready for premium hosting.

Premium hosting enhances SEO with faster load times. If speed is a factor, consider premium hosting with WP Engine. After you start a network marketing blog, post 30 or more posts and have more images and plugins, this becomes much more necessary.

WP Engine owns the StudioPress and the Genesis Framework. StudioPress is my choice for beautiful themes that are always mobile optimized and updated for new WordPress versions.

StudioPress has some of the best and fastest themes for WordPress. All themes run on the Genesis Framework that is updated on a consistent basis to be compatible with new versions of WordPress.

StudioPress offers themes that you can modify without changing the framework, so it is very user friendly for those of us who aren’t very tech savvy. The user manuals are very comprehensive and will have your blog up and mobile mized quickly. My network marketing blog uses the Magazine Pro Theme.

Speed matters for your blog. Search engines will give priority ranking to websites that load faster and users will be far less likely to bounce off your blog if it loads in 3 seconds or less.

Large images cause slow load times. Shortpixel is an image compression service that is extremely cost effective. Shortpixel will optimize 100 images a month for free, which is great when you’re first getting started. Their smallest paid plan includes 5,000 images a month for less than a cup of coffee. Get your free optimization plugin here.

If you’ve been on any website recently, you’ve seen Privacy Policy and Cookie warnings, Terms Of Service Notices, and Disclaimers. They are on every website and blog because having these pages is the law. Without them you are liable for damages if someone chooses to sue.

Don’t copy these pages from other blogs! They may not be written correctly or they may not protect you from your specific content and use of information.

This legal bundle is written by a lawyer who is also a blogger. These templates are simple to set up and will protect your blog and you from legal action. All pages come separately as well (links above), but it’s a much better deal to grab them all at once and be done with it.

Email hosting is the first service you should purchase when you start a network marketing blog because you will want to start creating an email list of subscribers immediately.

Aweber helps you create beautiful forms on your website to collect email addresses, branded emails to send to your subscribers, and even offers templates to help you write your email content.

Aweber is affordable and their customer service is amazing. I’ve been an Aweber customer for 5 years and love their service.

Stupid Simple SEO is exactly as it sounds. It is a comprehensive course that breaks down the complicated topic of Search Engine Optimization into step by step lessons that make it simple to get your blog’s posts to show up in Google search results.

No matter what happens in the future with social media algorithms, Google is here to stay. Using SEO in your blog posts can put you in front of thousands of people searching for your products and services every day.

Stupid Simple SEO is only open for enrollment a few times a year. Visit the course’s landing page to see if it’s open now or to be added to the interest list so you don’t miss it when it’s open next.

I almost hate to put this one second under Stupid Simple SEO because it looks like a lesser option. It is nothing of the sort. This book is complimentary to the course, as it teaches you how to insert the keywords and search terms you found in the Stupid Simple SEO course into your blog content.

When you start a network marketing blog, you can’t just write about anything and hope that Google will find and like your content. There are subtle tricks that aren’t hard, as long as you are aware of them. This book is very detailed and will have you writing optimized posts quickly, so you can get back to your income producing activities.

Easy On Page SEO can be purchased alone or as a bundle with Easy Backlinks for SEO. Backlinks are something you will add to your blog after you’ve written a few posts, so you don’t need it from the start, but you will want it later for sure.

The fastest traffic you can get to your blog is through Pinterest. In my first 30 days of blogging, I was able to go from 0 page views on my blog to over 500. I credit these views to the strategies I learned in Pinterest Ninja.

There are a lot of courses out there, but this one is cost effective and very comprehensive. I went through the steps in this 156 page ebook and saw my monthly Pinterest views grow from 530 to over 42,000 in 30 days. It also includes lists of Facebook engagement groups, Pinterest Group Boards and more to help you grow your account fast.

Tailwind offers scheduling tools for both Pinterest and Instagram. Scheduling my Pinterest pins has saved so much time over manually pinning alone, and helped grow my Pinterest views 8000% in 30 days.

The Instagram tool includes a free link in bio tool called Smart.Bio. If you want a full explanation of how a link in bio tool will help your business, check out my full Smart.bio review here.

Canva is my favorite tool for graphic design. I’ve used more complicated tools in the past, and was shocked by the simplicity of Canva.

When you start a network marketing blog, you will need images for your blog, as well as images for Pinterest. Canva makes creating them a breeze.

Canva has a free version, but the paid one is worth 10 times what it costs. The paid version comes with thousands of royalty free premium images, graphics and design elements. It also allows you to share your designs with your team and to upload your logo, brand colors and fonts. I create my pins, website images, social media graphics, lead magnets and so much more in Canva. Try it free for 30 days and you’ll fall in love.

AppSumo is a website that offers deeply discounted digital services. I have found some really amazing deals on so many things, but the best and most frequent are stock photo image packages. They change companies and deals often, but I can always find a discounted photo bundle there.

Having unique photos on your blog and Pinterest photos is a must for visibility and to keep your blog legally protected.

ShareASale is an affiliate network that pairs affiliate marketers with merchants who want to grow their sales force.

You can sign up as a merchant to sell your products or as an affiliate to make money on your blog offering products that help your niche.

When you start a network marketing blog, you can offer complimentary products to your what your company offers and make multiple streams of income. This additional income can cover your blogging expenses and more.

SendOwl is a service that hosts digital files, ebooks and more. So if you want to offer information products on your website, SendOwl will help you deliver the content to your customers. It will also allow them to become part of your sales force as an affiliate.

If you offer great content and want to use your customers to get the word out, offering an affiliate program will help you make more money through their referrals. Who doesn’t like to make extra money from products they love?