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So in this post we’re going to show you how to get yourself online as easily as possible – completely FREE.
Before you start though please note:
- WordPress has a family friendly policy. So if you intend to make some kind of site about gambling, drugs, porn or anything else you’d be pretty embarrassed to share with your grandmother … then this isn’t for you. WordPress won’t allow it (for pretty obvious reasons)
- The method I’m going to share in this post is for the free option. Many people start here, which is great – but if you’re serious about turning this into a business you’ll likely want to consider getting your own domain and using a self hosted version, which opens up a LOT more options.
What’s the difference between free and self hosted WordPress?
There are some pros and cons to using WordPress’ free blogging system – here’s a few.
The downside to using the Free WordPress option:
- You can’t use your own domain. For example, your website link will be something like yoursite.wordpress.org, which… besides being super wordy to type and hard to say … looks super unprofessional
- You’re limited with the themes and plugins you’re able to use. There are hundreds of thousands of different plugins you can use to customise your blog, making it do a LOT of different things. When you host your own blog you’re able to make it your own and that reason alone can open up many new avenues of income generation… so it’s worth it.
- They’ve build it to grow their business, not yours. When you’re hosting it yourself you aren’t forced into sharing their ads, promoting their business. You can control everything in a way that’s much more profitable.
Major benefits to using the Free WordPress option:
- In-Built traffic. You’re no longer flying solo when it comes to starting off with traffic. WordPress.org has a good reputation with Google, so when you’ve got some content on there you can get traffic from the big G – as well as getting more from the actual WordPress community themselves.
- It’s easy. They’ve got the whole system completely nailed… i’ll walk you through that below in a moment, but getting your blog created and ready to go and looking great won’t take you long at all.
- It’s free. If you’re on a budget this is an excellent place to begin! You’ll learn your way around the WordPress software without hosting costs hanging over your head etc.
Getting Your FREE WordPress Blog Set Up On WordPress.com
NOTE: WordPress have some ‘tricky’ ways to try and sell you their premium service. For what I’m explaining to you today you DO NOT NEED TO PAY. If at any time you get confused with any of the steps and feel you’re being bullied into paying… pause, come and check this list – and make sure you’re on the right track.
I recommend you get a paid blog at some stage – but only when YOU are ready… don’t ever feel like you’re being forced into this, WordPress can chill until you’re ready to do this on your terms 😉
I’ve said it’s easy, yeah? Well really – it is. You can do it in just 5 steps.
Step 1: Go to their site
Step 2: Add some details about your site
Step 3: Choose your website address
Step 4: Choose your plan
Step 5: Create your account
So let’s break all of those down and get you a blog!
Step 1: Go to WordPress.com
The actual link is here: https://wordpress.com/create
Step 2: Add Some Details About Your Site
When you’re picking these, think about the kinds of things people will be searching for on Google. Give WordPress as much info here as you can (without spending too much time…) Get it done, but don’t spend more than about 3-5 minutes here.
Step 3: Choose Your Website Address
Here you’ll be offered a .com (or .org.. or whatever is available). If you choose anything other than the first option you’ll need to pay, which is cool if you wanna…. but this post is about the thrifty option – which, I suggest you give a try if you’re completely new to WordPress… until you learn your way around a little.
Step 4: Choose Your Plan
As I’ve said… we’re going thrifty here, so choose the free version if you’ve not used WordPress before.
There are lots of things you can spend your money on online. If you’re COMPLETELY new … this is not one of those things yet… I’d recommend you get clear on what it is you want to do, what appeals to you – inspires, motivates and excites you into this online venture.
If you’re sure about what you want to do online, or have purchased premium plugins/themes etc and want to be able to use those – then go ahead and choose a paid option. Otherwise, pick the free alternative.
Step 5: Create Your Account
OK… so, I goofed the screenshots a little (you’ll note it now says step 5 of 5… lol) That’s because I was already logged in to my WordPress account. Sorry if that mixed you up!
The main point is… once you’re done – that’s it! 🙂 You’ve got a blog!
That’s it, you’re live!
There are a few things you can do now… edit your theme and the look and feel of your site – or write some posts on your brand new blog!
I’ve had a few people asking what theme I’m using on the ShopABot demo blog and if you’re able to use it on your free blog too. Short answer is – the theme is called ColorMag, it’s a free theme – but – you need to have a hosted WordPress blog to use it (you can’t use it on a free WordPress blog)
WordPress does give you access to almost 300 themes, with almost 100 of them being free. To change your theme, click ‘my sites’ at the top left and then click on your site name and customise theme.
Here’s what that looks like:
There is a theme that’s similar to ColorMag that looks pretty good too (see the image above), but the choice of theme is totally up to your own personal preference – so pick something you like. Remember too – you can switch it at any time 🙂 If you want to change things up, just go back, click on customise and choose a different theme. All of your posts will still be there it’s just that your design will change.
Once you get started blogging, you’ll realise there’s a lot more to learn and see and do at every corner. Do your best to stay focused on creating and completing ONE task at a time and you’ll start seeing results faster.
- Do you have some areas you’d wish I’d covered?
- Have you created a blog and want to share it with the Wildfire Concepts community?
- Are there any parts you got stuck on?
Post them in the comments below!
Talk soon,
Cindy Donovan
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Can one make money through this free blog from google ad sense?
Will google approve free blog in SEO?
I might be wrong (if anyone knows otherwise, please correct me), but the free version of WordPress is pretty limited when it comes to adding code, extra plugins etc. You can use it to create content, post your affiliate links etc – but adding Adsense code isn’t something that can be done.
If you want to use adsense, or any of the other ways to monetize your blog, you’ll need to go with their hosted option, or host it yourself… everywhere makes installing WordPress really easily.
Keep in mind that when you’re trying to get approved, for Adsense, Amazon and any of those other platforms – you should keep the content very clean, helpful and related to your blogs purpose… put about 8-12 good quality content posts on there before sending your request, which will let them see you’re serious about bringing value – not just trying to make a quick buck.
You will need Adsense approval from Google, before you can earn money with Adsense. The standard way to get Adsense approval has for a long while been to create a free blogger “Blogspot.com” blog, and use that as your website to show Google Adsense you can then earn Adsense revenue by regularly posting original posts on that blog. I think it works well.
Thanks for that Peter! 🙂
I have my shop built. i was wondering if there was some sample terms of use, privacy and other forms we have to put at the bottom of our site we c an use. Also I tried to upgrade and when I pushed the button for monthly payment all I got was a blank google page and a spinning wheel that would not go to paypal.
Hey Durward and wow! I love your music store, looks really great! If you click the links at the bottom of the page, you’ll see that most of that is already filled in there. You’ve given me the idea though, to make it automatically generate your site name in there so it’s more official – I’ll pass that request to the dev team and see if they can make that happen soon.
With your issue re: upgrading and Paypal … I’m REALLY not sure why this is happening… we’re still seeing sales coming in and everything looks fine on our end, but … some people are having problems, while others aren’t.
We’ll keep pro upgrade options locked at that price for now – so that you can still get it at that price to keep things fair, but you might just need to try again tomorrow and see if Paypal get’s things sorted.
Thanks for dropping by the blog btw! 🙂 Great to see you here and keep those questions coming!
When I purchased the program, Pay Pal let me upgrade once and when I tried it the second time for the one time offer, it kicked me out too.
Sorry to hear that Jim. If you haven’t already, please contact us at https://shopabot.freshdesk.com with details of the issue and we’ll do what we can to make things right.
I had the same issue as Durward. After days of trying and sending tickets to support, I got a reponse to my last ticket today and ordered PRO through the link they sent. The problem now is that it seems I have two accounts, basic and pro, and they are not linked! The pro options are not showing on my site even though it says pro in my dashboard. I just sent a new ticket. Hopefully they’ll reply soon as I want to add my autoresponder and move on with everything else.
Hey Tammy – sorry about this. We really are working as hard as we can to get everyone’s issues fixed… Hopefully get yours sorted very soon.
‘Days’ isn’t usually how we like to operate, but getting more than 3,000 people aboard in such a short space of time has taken us a little by surprise. We’ve closed ShopABot to the public now so that we can get you the attention you deserve – and will open it back up ONLY when you are all happy. 🙂
Thanks, Cindy. I appreciate your reply. At least I don’t feel ‘forgotten’. I certainly want to take advantage of your 30 days to profit commitment, but I’m feeling stuck to move forward with Shopabot. I’ve been building my blog in the meantime -as you suggested- and I have it ready as well. Want to move on so badly! Hope to hear from your support team soon telling me that this issue has been resolved.
Yep, got it. I’ll send a message to the team to see if they can hustle your response a little. Not sure if it will work, but worth a try.. hehe
In my opinion the standard shopabot.com training lacks a VERY IMPORTANT detail which if not corrected could result in Amazon banning our shopabot.com websites. The Amazon affiliates TOS requires every page/ affiliAte website to have an affiliate declaration which is easy to see.
The standard shopabot.com pages do not have that, but this is easily corrected. I simply added the following text to my footer code:
“) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com”
I think that everyone NEEDS to do this AND that this is a part of the training and added to the training videos urgently, otherwise I am concerned that Amazon might just ban the whole shopabot.com domain.
Hey Steve! I wasn’t aware of that – this is the beauty of community!!! Thank you for the heads-up. We’ll get that sorted 🙂
Hi Cindy – Great tips for us newbies! I was wondering about choosing your domain name…
1. Should we choose it so that it is the same as our ShopABot store URL?
2. Once we set up our blog, get approved by Amazon, can we use our affiliate link on other blog sites? Or do we need to apply for another affiliate account?
Thanks for helping us get into the game!
Chibi! Great to see you here 🙂 Choosing your domain name can be tricky for sure… !
I’d suggest just choosing your niche, if you’re stuck for ideas have a look at the discover tool – and find a fairly broad category and turn that into your chosen niche. Your can still contain all of the products on Amazon in it -but finding that little angle that you focus on helps build a bit more trust.
Then, when you’ve picked your niche, choose a word that describes that. I know it’s a bit easy to say… and harder to do, but try not to overthink it too much. Pick a keyword, or something relating to that niche and then create it.
Or – if you want to keep your options broad and go a bit wider with it, choose something like ‘vipshopper’ or ‘bestvalue’ etc. so you can be a bit more flexible later.
In regards to using your Amazon affiliate account… you only need one associates account – once you’re approved there, you can use those keys anywhere you choose.
Thanks Cindy, that was very helpful!
I’ve chosen a name for my ShopABot store but wanted to know if that same name should be used when choosing a name for the WordPress site. For instance, can my SAB store have a fashion theme and my WordPress site be about automobiles? I guess it doesn’t matter right? We just need the blog in order to get approved for our affiliate link, correct?
Thanks for the PLR articles! You’ve provided us with so much value!
You’re right – it doesn’t matter (that much). Don’t spend too much time overthinking things, usually the first thought that pops into your mind, your initial gut feeling/thought is often the one you’ll come back to later anyway… lol, so save yourself some time! (as described in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink book <3)
If you're starting out, keeping things fairly broad, it will be mostly about testing it - to see what your visitors are interested in, tie it in closely with what you've chosen as the giveaway and you're a chunk of the way there 🙂
Happy to help re: the PLR - they aren't the BEST thing to go with, but perfect for what you're trying to do.
Thanks Cindy! I set up my blog and am starting to fill it with the PLR content. How many articles should I use? All of them? I’m thinking 15-20?
Great! 10-12 is good, 15-20 – even better! 🙂
When you have chosen a niche and decide that it’s really not what you want to sell, can you change it on the ShopABot store?
Hey Mary, unfortunately no – if you want a new store you need to get a new store. I’m not sure if you noticed though, on the 4th of April we’re awarding ALL members with a bonus store credit – so you can build a second store 🙂 So with that one you can choose something a little more targeted maybe 🙂
Hi Cindy,
I linked my shopabot store (artstudio.shopabot.com) to my US-Amazon affiliate account. But I have also a German Amazon affiliate account and plan to get some more accounts for other countries like Spain, France and GB. So my question is: How can I link such other affiliate accounts also to my store and how would that reflect on the articles sold in my store (artists supplies, etc.)?
Regards,
Carlos
Carlos, hi 🙂 If you’re using the pro version our software auto detects the visitors location and can serve them a different Amazon region 🙂 That would definitely be the best way to do things!
Hi Cindy, it’s me again :). In the meantime I’ve been setting up my shop so far, and now I have a quick question (there a more, but I’ll not bother you today with them, lol): When I go to my shop as if I were a visitor, I keep seeing the following message at the bottom of the page: “Edit Your Shop Content – Go to Shop Manager and click the Category you want to edit. Describe your shop and add unique content.” Perhaps it’s kind of a silly question, but why do I see this message “as a visitor”?
Hey Carlos! You can delete that, or edit it if you want to put content there – text, images – whatever you like. To edit it go to each of your categories and change or delete the text 🙂
On Mon, 19 Mar at 3:42 PM , Ron Alexander wrote:
Obviously, I have purchased your product and I had intended to use it, however, I have one major problem……….I would not have a store without being able to “help” customers solve problems as they arise. Yesterday I opened a new google email account “bestsellers3211@gmaill.com specifically for this purpose. Using your”site settings” page……I attempted to install this email address in the contact us area and it REFUSES TO SHOW up on my home page or anywhere else!……………can you fix this?…..ron
That’s a bit of a problem, yeah Ron? Could you please put in a support ticket at https://shopabot.freshdesk.com with what you’ve just said and the link to your shopabot store?
We’ll be able to help you there – I’d rather keep comments here to ‘moving business forward’ conversations, rather than tech support issues. 🙂
Hi Cindy!
I bought the basic package of Shopabot. For the people who bought the basic package is there a way to remove “blog” at the bottom of the footer or a way to link “blog” to your own blog?
A few things that I would like to see for the website:
1. Upload your own header image. ( As a graphic designer I would love to see this option )
2. A larger logo size to be uploaded to your store.
This is my first time buying a program like this. I purchased mine thorough King Human’s YouTube channel.
Thank you for your time and have a great day!
Wow, Chris! What an exciting adventure you’ve just jumped in to 🙂 Keep asking questions and I’ll do my best to help you!
Cool suggestion re: removing ‘blog’. Actually, this is something i’ve put forward to the tech guys already – they’re pretty busy… we didn’t expect quite so many folks – and have been rushing to get an extra server equipped and fixing urgent issues that crop up when you have a sudden influx of 3k+ people join up! So yes, your wish has been granted lol.
The design bits i’ll add to our feature suggestion list, which may take a little longer to get to (maybe a week?) but I like both ideas so I’m pretty sure we can make those happen too.
Keep at it and yeah, stay in communication!
– Cindy
Thanks Cindy! I did create my WordPress blog and set up a FB page, Twitter and Pinterest. I’m going to set up a Hootsuite account so I can schedule postings for all three accounts. 🙂
Thank You for the info. I don’t know if this should be asked here, if not I’m sure I will be directed to the right place. 1) would it be possible to get a Facebook group where ShopaBot members could go and inner-act and help each other out? Also so is there anyway to move and size my logo on my site? Thank You
This is a cool idea – i’ll give it some thought and let you know. I’ve had mixed experiences with FB group, so I wanna get a feel for the community first and see if that’s something that would provide enough value for the amount of energy and ongoing resources needed to maintain it. In the meantime – there’s the blog … i know, not the same… but – still… 🙂
I’m trying to make the word press site. I am using a server company for hosting. Its taking a lot of time. Because I never built a site before a
site. I have my own domain name. But I don’t know how to apply your steps. The site is up but trying to design it is
hard. I feel stuck. Any ideas I’m not using your shopabot yet because I want to be approved by amazon.
a little frustrated.. I wanted to thank you for fixing my problem. Great support.
Last I have a suggestion if there was a way have shopabot work with adding our own products in addition and also
do the same with jvzoo , click bank. I think it would be awesome.
If there is a way to help me get started to use your program please let me know.
Thanks Dave.
Hey David, maybe try a different theme for your blog? There are a lot of different themes out there, nothing should be THAT difficult to make work. There are many themes out there you can use that look fairly professional out of the box (that are free too!).
The key thing to remember here is DON’T overcomplicate things!
1) Choose an easier to use theme
2) Put some posts on your blog
3) Request Amazon Associates account
Just do it 😉 That’s the only thing i can suggest. Try not to get too bogged down in making it perfect. As long as Amazon can see that you’ve given some attention to providing good value for your visitors, good content in a reasonably easy to find format – you will be fine 🙂
Cool suggestion re: additional products. We’re developing some extra features – they are entirely new modules, so there will be a small fee attached to unlock them, but it will let you do what you have in mind and then some! I’ll keep you updated on that when we are closer to having it complete. Right now our main focus is making sure everyone gets their stores set up 🙂
Hello Cindy,
My name is Bendy
I purchased SAB a few days ago . Right now I am working on building wordpress blog site . My question is after adding some articles, What we do next before giving to amazon associate account for approve ? Do I need add url link product or something else? How can make wordpress blog site impress to get approve?
thank you for helping us step by step .
I am just a newbie .
regards
Bendy
Hey Bendy 🙂 Keep it simple, with your blog I’d focus more on content articles rather than trying to make it look like you’re selling things.
You might want to consider using something other than Amazon Selling Shop… find a niche, like … martial arts(?) or something else… and then post 10-15 articles about that.
Amazon is looking to see that you’re bringing value to the internet, not checking to see how well you can sell.
Keep it friendly with helpful and informative posts all about a niche of your choosing.
Add the articles and share the link with me again if you want me to have a look before you submit it – Don’t link to your store on your site, or add any other type of advertisements. Just make it full of content, helpful posts etc 🙂
Hi Cindy,
I don’t know , what to do. Because I bought Shopabot almost 1 week ago and after that bought another one with upgrade to Pro subscription.
I send couple email in Support about upgrade my account and do refund for second Shopabot. They promised one time to do it and disappear.
Account not upgraded until now., money not refunded and nobody contact to me. As I see everybody excited, but I can’t use my Shopabot Pro until now. I am asking questions, Nobody answering on my emails. What it is? What kind of service it is? Time is money. Can you talk to this “team” about it ?
It is ridiculous. I tired to wait already.
Hey Leo. I’m sorry … 🙁 We’re trying to get on top of all of the support issues – we’re not ignoring you on purpose!! Our desk is just literally swamped. We had a tech issue that prevented a bunch of people from getting their logins early on in the launch and a lot of people who didn’t get responses within a few hours who then went ahead and sent more and more tickets… freaking out, thinking we’ve just taken their money and run.
Please know – that’s not who I am. I know you and I haven’t met, but I’ve been working online for many many years now – there’s no way I could do that by treating people like crap. I appreciate your business and am doing my best to get caught up and WILL get on top of this as soon as we’re able. We’re working round the clock to make that happen.
Hugest apologies – and I hope to have your understanding for a little while longer. Trust me, this kind of delay is NOT a normal occurrence.
I have a domain through Godaddy. Can I use that on WordPress for free?
If you’ve also got hosting with Godaddy you can install a copy of WordPress on there, but to have a self-hosted blog you need a domain AND hosting, not just a domain.
Has anyone been approved using their shopabot url or know if Amazon may still approve? I have already applied using the shopabot url and I’m concerned about this. The sad thing is I did already have a free wordpress blog which is why I think this advice could be mentioned in the training videos, even if briefly, rather than in an email received after watching the videos!
If you get denied let me know, there is always a plan B (or C, D etc.. ) We’ll get you sorted. 🙂
Hello Cindy Donovan I’m newbe to word press blog this looks a lot for me to set up
i will have a go at setting this word press up do i have to sign up to this prograh first
Amazon Services LLC Associates Program
Hey Graham, I’d urge you just dive in and give setting up the WordPress thing a go. I think you’ll find you’ll surprise yourself 🙂 When you sign up for the Amazon Associates program they will ask you for a website URL, giving them this will increase your chances of getting approved.
Follow the steps, grab some articles from the PLR bundle I sent you in the email – and make a blog. It’s a lot easier than you think and that sense of achievement of completing something you thought was beyond you is… incredible 🙂
Hi Cindy. In response to the email you sent today regarding changing our store name I have a question. I named my store “Outlet”. That’s it, just Outlet. Seemed fine at the time but when creating the logo (from the site you recommended which BTW is awesome) just having the name “Outlet” seems kind of dumb. It’s not really a name. So since this is all Amazon related I came up with the name “Outlet Jungle”. Bought the domain name and was just thinking of using it simply as a redirect to my shopabot store.
So since my intention is to use my domain name do you think it’s cool just to leave it the way it is? Don’t know if it would create confusion from shoppers if they didn’t see Outlet Jungle. I also am hoping that you can grant a request I saw from an earlier post so that we can link our own blog from the blog link at the bottom of our store.
2nd question. When talking about our site in social media etc. just how much are we allowed to say about it being an Amazon affiliate site? Would like to know what the rules are regarding mentioning the Amazon name and our site.
O.K. now this is crazy. I’ve spent the day setting up my site, just took a look and now the header images are gone. Grrrrrrr
Thanks!
Have a nice day!
Outlet Jungle… I like it Gary 🙂 We’re going to be building out the ability to make it look like your store is hosted on your domain … in maybe 4-6 weeks (hopefully sooner), so that might solve that issue.
I doubt it will cause too much confusion right now, but keeping the flow will help once we get this coding created. I must have been sleeping when I read about linking to your own blog … haha – i’ve added that in the features suggestion list, good idea.
About the social media sharing, can you share an example of what you’re thinking of saying? I can’t imagine you will have too much problems – especially if it’s simply sharing on social media – you can share all you like and you don’t need to mention Amazon. The only time you NEED to is on your actual store, where we’ve taken care of that automatically putting the required text in your footer. So I think you’ll be fine 🙂
For social media shares, you’ll do better if you’re sharing them a bit more naturally. We did a series about Instagram/Influencer marketing about a month ago and talked a bit about how to make your ads look a little less like ads and get their interest. It’s not TOTALLY in line with what you are asking, but you might find it handy still – check it out here: https://wildfireconcepts.com/influencer-marketing-mistakes-you-can-avoid/
(Sorry about your header images… plz contact support if it was some stupid bug and we’ll help you get things sorted)
Forgot 1 thing. The logo on my site is 200 X 200. Why so small? Way larger than what’s recommended. Thanks
I’m not sure on the dimensions, the design and flexibility of that is something we’re working on too – so i’m sure that will be addressed pretty quickly.
Hi Cindy I just Purchase a reservation of your shopa bot….is it need to upgrade into pro account first before I can have my shopabot store?
Is it need to make a blog to get approved as an amazon affiliate?
Hey Jerry 🙂 Awesome – I look forward to having you join the ShopABot crew! We’ll be opening a new server fairly soon… we’ve said on that page about a month, but it’s likely about 2-3 weeks.
You don’t need to upgrade to pro – that’s only if you want to access the pro features. The basic ShopABot version will give you a fully functional store – so only get the pro level membership if you look at it and really want those added features
I’ve shared this strategy for the free blog because it helps your chances of getting approved with Amazon, so while you wait you have the perfect opportunity to get things ready.
Create a free blog, then when it’s looking good request approval with Amazon and you will be ready to roll with your store as soon as we open up access again. 🙂
Cindy Donovan i Will have to go for the free word press site to start with
will valueshopper.org do for my word press web site address does this have to have
a web site hosting plan for this go dady
Getting the domain and hosting isn’t free? You can get a completely free one if you follow my instructions on the post. If you do want to go ahead and get the paid one you can – valueshopper.org could do well if you want to go broad, but maybe think about going a little more niche – check out my post here for a bit of info about how to do that https://wildfireconcepts.com/making-your-shopabot-contests-profitable/
Hi Cindy. I purchased the shopabot pro a few days ago. Each day, I have been trying to make sure that I sit down and work on the next aspect of my site to go on and get everything up and running and stay focused. When I watched the video on getting your Amazon API and amazon affiliate approval, I used a blog that had been setup during my last online adventure to apply to be an affiliate. I am seeing here that I should have added the 10 – 15 articles to my blog first before applying? Will it hurt me that I didn’t do that first?
Also, in your next to last email, you recommended a good place to go to get a free site logo and I set up the perfect one, but when I uploaded it, my logo is miniscule and nothing like the logo that we initially started out with. I have paid for the high resolution version and it still is super small. I researched everywhere how to make my logo big enough for people to see and some of it is really technical. I don’t want to do something that might totally mess up my site, but that miniscule logo is driving me batty. All of the categories have been set and products added. I just have to do the giveaway to start getting traffic to my site and add the articles to my blog and hopefully that will be enough to finally get the ball rolling. Any insight you can give would be most helpful at this time.
Thank you,
Delora Washington
First up… lol @ ‘batty’ … (battye used to be my surname.. haha)
Are you on mac or pc? resizing the image is pretty simple. If you can’t do it yourself though, you can check out some guys here https://www.fiverr.com/search/gigs?utf8=%E2%9C%93&source=guest-homepage&locale=en&search_in=everywhere&query=resize%20logo – would be pretty cheap 🙂
For the giveaway I’ve written up some training here for that: https://wildfireconcepts.com/making-your-shopabot-contests-profitable/ hope it helps! Lemme know if there are other things you want help with and i’ll keep the training coming 🙂
Hello again, Cindy. My other question is about the social links. I do have my own personal facebook and twitter page that I had to set up during my graduate program, but don’t use them much or know much about them. Do we have to create pages for our site on each of these social media platforms? How does that part work? If we set up a giveaway and want them to share it, then don’t we need those links to refer to our new business? I haven’t seen much on videos to do that. They just mention that we can set those buttons up in the settings overview.
Also, if we have shopabot, are we supposed to be signing in to the members login on this page or just coming here for the blog articles and to interact with the shopabot/wildfire community?
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
D. Washington
Yes, you’d be better with pages set up specifically for your store 🙂
Good point too, i’ll create some training about setting up your social media links for extra traffic – some time soon.
This blog is for your help/support and training. To work on/create your shopabot sites you can do that over at ShopABot still. 🙂
Hi Cindy,
Thank you! Quick question. I already have a website built for a couple of years. But how do I add shop a bot to my site? Not sure where to find the info on exactly how to do this.
Thanks, jen
You’re way ahead of the game Jen! Great stuff 🙂 If you’ve got a blog, the easiest way would be to create a new menu item and link to your store with that, they would still leave your site though
We’re looking at allowing pro members to be able to link back to their blog (and not just use our inbuilt blog system), so that way you could bring them back to your blog.
The main plan though is to get them TO your store and that’s where you’ll make cash -so if you make a menu item and have it open in a new window they can go shop and come back to your site when done 🙂
Hi Cindy!
I have built both, my shopabot site and my wordpress site. First, the most important thing… this is showing at the bottom of my shopabot site even when I’m logged off “Edit Your Shop Content – Go to Shop Manager and click the Category you want to edit. Describe your shop and add unique content.” How can I remove this from showing on the live side of the site?
Also, I want the homepage to be the Strollers page, but even though it says in tha dashboard it is my home page, it won’t stick when I’m not logged in. How can this be fixed? I’m thinking it might be a glitch on your side. Here is my shopabot site: innovatyka.shopabot.com
In regard to the wordpress site, I’ve uploaded 11 articles and I believe it is ready to go. I’m just wondering if that number of articles is enough to get approved by Amazon as an affiliate or if I should write more. Please advise. Here’s the site:innovatyka.wordpress.com/
I’ll appreciate some feedback. Thank you!
Tammy
Hey Tammy! That’s awesome that it’s all coming together – good job!
Can you please contact tech support for the issue about editing shop content? Send us your store link and whatever other details you think would be relevant so we can try and get this sorted as quickly as possible. Our desk is here: https://shopabot.freshdesk.com
Mention the other issue too – we can’t do support here on the blog, but are doing our best to get everyone sorted as easily/quickly as possible via the desk 🙂
I had a look at your site – looking good! Nice choice of images and good content. I noticed you’ve got the Amazon affiliate text at the bottom of your posts, you aren’t an Amazon affiliate yet on there so you should probably remove that until you get approved. I’m not sure if they would mind, but might be weird you are applying and have already got disclaimer stuff set up.
Other than that – i think you’re totally ready to go 🙂 let me know how it goes!
Thank you, Cindy. Will do!
Cindy, I have an idea I would like to run by you – is there a way I can connect with you offline – my email is thesalesfunnelstoreatgmaildotcom- it has to do with shopabot and really excited about running this by you. Please can you kindly respond accordingly – I look forward to working with you and so thankful to have known you these last 3 years.
Hey Desi! Sure – I’ll shoot you an email – always up for new and exciting ideas! 🙂
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Purchased shop a bot access MARCH 16th , submitted receipts for bonuses, received and viewed the support emails about issues known. HOWEVER, my support tickets were submitted MARCH 17th and still no reply and no remedy as of yet. Needing to understand how this is suppose to be a hassle free business model opportunity, even for a beginner- this has been frustrating and disappointing when your just learning to make money online. Happy I found this blog MARCH 31st , I see others have similar problems and now I know it’s not just me. But still, how am I suppose to make money with this?
Hey Shakela, I’ve checked our desk and can’t see anything for you?
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Can you please send another ticket with any outstanding issues to https://shopabot.freshdesk.com
If you’re still working you way around things I’ve set up a new demo here: https://wildfireconcepts.com/new-shopabot-demo/ so you can see the pieces that I’ve set up with the software. You don’t have to do the blog part, but check out the giveaway section and store.
I know it looks like a lot if this kind of thing is all new to you, but I’m here for you – so ask as many questions as you need to get it set up – then just start with the basics, get your store live and a giveaway created. Dive in and let me know if/where you get stuck 🙂
Question- I currently have a premium account with WP and already have a web site on it, can I still use shopabot on this domain along with this site with directory( mysite.org/store) that takes users to the shopabot shirt store? My current site is 100% WP now and struggling to learn all the features but I love it.
I’m not sure I totally get your question but if you’re meaning can you link to your store? Then absolutely 🙂 You’re not able to host the store, because a lot of the code we use in the background… to make things work nice and easy up front for you… can’t be hosted anywhere else.
If you want to see the way I’ve set up my site you can check out the three components here: https://wildfireconcepts.com/new-shopabot-demo/
Thank you Cindy. You gave me the answer I needed. I forgot reading about shopabot hosting the store. So, I will just point to it from my current website.
Yep, that’s the perfect way. Try and keep similar colours etc between your main blog and your store too – so they don’t feel like they’re going to a completely different place on the web 🙂
Hello Cindy!
I have bult my Shopabot site and went to test it as if I was a visitor. There are a few things that would be awesome for you to consider when you do the upgrades of the system, so I’m sharing them in here:
When a person that lands on the site clicks on a product to add it to the cart, a popup shows up that says “Successfully added to cart – OK” . Then, once the person clicks on OK, the popup disappears, leaving the person wondering what do to next.
The cart is at the top of the page on the right hand side of the window, but it does not indicate that there is a product (or any number of products) in the cart. It would be great to indicate the # of items in the cart right next to it, so they can see how many products are in the cart. This feature is present in other sites and it’s been proven to help complete the purchase cycle.
Going back to the existing popup, it’d be awesome to add 2 buttons to the popup; something along the lines of: “Success. Product added to cart. Keep shopping” AND “Go to cart now” giving visitors options on what to do next. The visitor can keep on shopping and add more products to the cart (more sales, more revenue) or go directly to the cart and complete the purchase in Amazon, saving a couple of clicks in the process (the fewer clicks the easier to complete the order. WooCommerce sites are a good example of this.)
These proposed solutions would help us sell more products if the person wants to keep shopping and/or have the client go to cart directly from this popup instead of searching for the cart button at the top of the page. Another suggestion: please add an “abandoned cart” feature to the site so we can follow up on those people that do not complete the purchase for whatever reason. Retargeting helps recoup some sales as people go back to the cart to complete the purchase when they are reminded a few days later.
I hope I’ve explained this clearly. I will appreciate your considering this upgrades. Thanks much!
Great suggestions Tammy. The buttons should be a fairly easy addition… the other bits I’ll talk and see if we can do those too – it feels pretty natural for a store to own those. 🙂
With the cart abandon suggestion, I’m not sure how we would do that. We could let you drop a retargeting pixel perhaps and then you could followup with ads? But we can’t do email ’cause we haven’t got their email address.
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Yes, I think that should work fine. I haven’t tested it but I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work. 🙂
HI Cindy
Thanx for this wonderful product after real good marathon of emails I got setup my Shop.
I have some query 1. whats the use of Menu(NEW) please guide the step involved with the pages to create.
2. when we go from CART TO CHECK OUT WE GET SOME TIPS SHOWING IF YOU BUY FOR CERTAIN VALUE THE THE SHIPPING IS FREE AND THERE IS NO COMING BACK TO YOUR SHOP TO ADD OR DELETE YOU PRODUCTS FROM YOUR CAR TO SATISFY THE GIVEN OPTION BY AMAZON,
Great to hear you’re on the right track!
1 – Which pages do you mean? What would you like to create (sorry, i need a little more info here)
2 – I’m not sure we’d be able to do free shipping, that’s done by Amazon. Hm. not sure how to do that other part either, ’cause when they get to Amazon they will have those available in their cart there – so they will be able to purchase there?
Maybe I’m not understanding so if i’ve totally missed the plot let me know and i’ll try and check this out again
OK I WILL TRY TO POST AN EMAIL WITH SNAPSHOT TO EXPLAIN MY POINT.
THANX
Cindy I’m a newbie although I already have an affiliate I’d. I am currently unable to access API for Access & Secret key as Amazon state I have to push 3 items to them from my site and they will evaluate & approve. I did come across the statement that this requirement can be appealed which I have done so. Any other ideas please will my site work in the meantime if I proceed to complete & implement it Thanks Mike
Are you using ShopAbot? If so, contact the support team – i think there was a solution that they found, but I can’t remember exactly sorry!
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