Summary
- Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money online; I'm currently making over $10,000 monthly as a side hustle.
- You don't need coding skills or expensive tech to succeed in affiliate marketing; you can set everything up with minimal technical know-how.
- The initial setup takes about 30 to 60 minutes, and the ongoing cost is around $3 a month for website hosting, which is necessary as there is no free version available.
- Hostinger is my recommended hosting provider, offering a deal of up to 78% off, making it $2.69 a month plus three months free. A free domain and website migration are included.
- Choose the Business hosting plan for better capacity; it supports up to 100,000 monthly visitors and includes useful tools like WordPress AI tools and a free CDN for faster global access.
- When selecting a domain name, aim for a .com as it’s the easiest for people to remember.
- Set up your website using WordPress and choose the Bloxy theme, which is perfect for affiliate marketing.
- Use the Bloxy theme's Bloxy companion for access to starter templates and import the 'news' template for a clean, customizable look.
- Customize your website by adjusting colors, fonts, and layouts to match your brand. Choose simple, designer-approved color palettes unless you're experienced with design.
- Ensure your site is responsive and looks good on mobile devices, as more than half of visitors will use mobile.
- Structure your website with categories and custom links so visitors can easily find relevant content and your affiliate offers.
- Write SEO-optimized content either yourself or by using AI tools like ChatGPT to generate articles efficiently.
- Regularly add new articles to your website to attract more traffic and increase affiliate sales.
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How To Take Action
I would suggest you try affiliate marketing as a way to make extra money. You don’t need to be a tech whiz to start. You can set it up with basic skills and spend only about 30 to 60 minutes initially. After that, your cost is just around $3 a month for hosting, which is worthwhile since free options aren't available.
A good way of doing this is by using Hostinger for website hosting. They offer a reliable service with awesome deals. Get the Business plan for better performance, supporting many visitors so that your website runs quickly around the globe.
When you're choosing a domain name, pick a .com because it’s the easiest for everyone to remember. Set up your website with WordPress and use the Bloxy theme. This is ideal for affiliate marketing, giving you a neat look with free starter templates. Customize your website with colors and fonts that match your brand. Stick to simple color schemes if unsure about design.
Make sure your website works well on phones since many people will visit using mobile devices. Organize your website with clear categories and links, making it easy for visitors to find what they're looking for.
Write content that helps people find your site on search engines. You can do this by yourself or use AI tools like ChatGPT to make content quickly. Add new articles often to bring in more traffic and boost your affiliate sales.
Quotes by Author
"Affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money online in 2025"
"Making over $10,000 every single month from affiliate marketing"
"You don't need to know coding, hire writers, or have fancy tech skills"
"Only time investment you need to make here is about 30 to 60 minutes"
"Click here and let's finish this"
Full Transcript
affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money online in 2025 and I'm going to show you exactly how to set it up in this step-by-step tutorial right now I'm making over $10,000 every single month from affiliate marketing and that's purely as just a side hustle that's six figures a year and I barely put any time into it so you don't need to know coding you don't need to hire writers and you don't need any fancy tech skills by the end of this video you're going to have a working affiliate website like this this this or any of these that can promote whatever products you want for a commission making money for you completely in the background and later on I'm even going to show you how to use AI to create all your content for you so the only time investment you need to make here is about 30 to 60 minutes to set it all up and then right around three bucks a month for website hosting there's really no free version of that so let's get started with step one which is getting your domain name and your hosting plan so just think of hosting as the storage for all of your data right in this case for your images all the blog posts and articles that you're going to use to sell your affiliate offers in so you just need a really reliable computer somewhere that's always on and really fast so that when people visit your site all your content served up quickly now I've worked out an amazing deal with my absolute favorite hosting company called Hostinger to save you over 70% off regular price to get that deal just uh click the link below or go to westmdow.com/hosting okay so once you follow that link you'll wind up on this page and you'll know you have it if it says up to 78% off hosting and website builder that means you got the deal 2.69 a month right now plus 3 months free i can't promise that's always what it's going to be but that's what the deal is right now you get a free domain with it which is great free website migration if you need it and great support as well so we're just going to click on claim the deal and so you've got a choice here you can go with premium that's just fine for most of the time but I actually recommend business for a few reasons it's less than a dollar more but you get a lot more with it you know especially if you get a lot of traffic which for an affiliate site hopefully you will be getting a lot of traffic that's the name of the game here this gives you up to 100,000 monthly visitors as opposed to 25,000 so you can make a lot more money if you have 100,000 visits versus 25,000 um this also comes with a lot of cool stuff like WordPress AI tools and here's the big one too free CDN that makes your website faster all over the globe so I recommend it for that reason so let's just go back up and click on choose plan feel free to choose whichever plan works for you though now you can choose how long you want it for you've got you know month 12 months 24 48 i recommend 48 that just gives you the discount for a lot longer if you got a year the discount would be over after a year so but again choose whatever you're comfortable with and then I'm going to click on continue now it just wants you to put in your email address and choose a password and then you'll click on register okay so now it just wants you to put in all of your information including your payment information then you just click on submit payment okay so then it says something like this so payments done just click on the get started button now it's going to ask you some questions you can skip all this it's really not that important and since we're doing a new website from scratch we're going to click on create a website next and then WordPress we're not going to go with their website builder click on next okay so here's another important step where we need to set the admin details for your WordPress dashboard so why do we need that well whenever you want to keep building your website or if you want to go just check out the back end or anything like that you need to log into it so these are the details you're going to need for that so I just recommend it be your email address and then a password you'll easily remember that's still secure okay so I've got mine now we're going to click on next and we're not going to choose either of these options we're going to go down to create blank site okay and now is the part where we can actually choose your domain name remember that's something like your businessname.com so hopefully whatever you want is available sometimes it's not though and you'll have to get a little more creative so I'm just going to try for say west mcdow link now you've got all these options for all these what we call domain level extensions that's your do your me.io there's a lot to choose from and there's more and more all the time i tend to always recommend just going with.com for the the really important reason that that's how most people think of domain names and if you were to give people your domain name as a net or a.org their brain is more likely to remember it as a do so so they're going to probably type in the wrong thing so if you can possibly get your com or something close to it that's a dot that's what I would go with and then we'll click on next and it wants you to choose if it's personal or or company just going to choose company and then next step okay so just make sure your company name is filled in and that all this information checks out and is correct and then you're going to click on finish registration then it's going to ask you where your audience is located because here's the thing you want your website to be stored remember how we talked about hosting is just a a reliable computer that's set up somewhere always ready to go so you want that computer to be as close as possible to most of your customers and clients so these are all their data centers so if you're on the east coast of the US you might want to choose the one in Massachusetts if you're more in the west you might want to choose Arizona or just choose whichever one in the world is closest to your customer so for me in Chicago I would probably do Massachusetts and then click next so now it's installing WordPress now this might take a couple minutes so we're just going to let that run till it's finished okay so now we are inside of the WordPress dashboard so um it may look a little different there may be different things here the main thing is if you have this dark sidebar over here with all of these elements you're in the right place now so the first thing we need to do is we need to add the theme for the site so we're going to go to appearance and themes so these are this different themes that are pre-installed right now so they're very basic they're very bare bones we need something a little bit better and there are I I would guess probably hundreds of thousands of themes out there but I've got one that's perfect for affiliate marketing because at the end of the day all an affiliate marketing site really is it's a blog that you write blog posts that recommend certain products you can make comparisons between products all that good stuff so and there's one blog theme that's not only free but it checks all the boxes that we're ever going to need for it so let's just go up here and click on add new theme and under search themes we're going to type in Bloxy it's this one right here just click on install and then on activate but we have one more important step and that's to install the Bloxy companion now that is going to give us access to all of the starter templates that we're going to need specifically one that we need to use so click on install and then it's going to bring you to this screen uh we're going to go over to starter sites now okay so these are the starter sites that it comes with and you'll notice some of them are marked pro that means uh you have to pay for them but then there are ones like this one that are actually free so you will notice though a lot of these don't exactly look like affiliate sites um this one does it's like a new site but it's paid but then other ones like this one just kind of more look like websites like for a service business or a product something like that we want to use this one right down at the bottom called news it's a really nice looking theme for an affiliate site and it's really easy to customize too so we're just going to click on import make sure you click on this to install the child theme next next and then install so now it's just going to take a few minutes to kind of gather up all the stuff all the the dummy blog posts all the images that it comes with so uh let's just wait for this to finish and then we're going to click on view site okay so this is what it's going to look like right out of the box with none of your customizations applied yet you can see already it looks pretty clean and it has everything that a blog needs it's got search it has the menu logo place for your post you know categories all the good stuff that you're going to need here so but maybe you want your site to look completely different than this maybe you have an inspiration blog that you want to go for well it's really easy to control just about everything here so all we really need to do is go up to the top bar where it says customize okay so here we are in the customization dashboard so we're just going to go through all these elements one by one and I'm going to show you how everything can be tweaked in a way to just kind of really make this feel like you and your brand so let's start with the header right up top all we need to do is go to the sidebar and header now you'll see right away when we look at the actual header up top it really mimics what's down here so we have two levels this actually lets you have a triple decker menu if you need that this bottom row happens to be empty now but if you wanted something like that you can totally do it so right now what we have up here in the top row is a menu social icons right up here and a search icon right here then underneath it we have the logo we have another menu and we have a button so first of all things can be dragged around so if I take the logo and drag it we can put it in the middle now and maybe we want to take this menu here and drop it underneath just like that maybe we would rather move the search next to the menu down here so that's how you move stuff what if you want to delete something here like maybe we don't need this menu up here well as you can probably guess you're just going to click on the X and it goes away and all these elements can be customized too so if you click on socials you can go over here you can get rid of one if you let's say you don't have a Pinterest just click on the X but let's say you have something that's not shown here you would just find the social network here maybe Behance if you're a designer and then click on the plus icon and then that shows up there you can then reorder them just by dragging and dropping them you can change the size of them down here with this little slider you can change the spacing make them more spaced out or closer together and you can even change the colors so you can do things like change it to the official color of each um social network or if you go to custom you would just change that up here under design so you would just choose whatever color you want it to be and then you would choose the hover color meaning when you hover over it it changes colors there but I'm actually going to delete the socials i'm going to just click on the X and then with nothing in that top row the whole top row just goes away and if you click on the button you can customize that too you can change what it says by just typing something new in here you can set the link right here if you have like an Amazon storefront you could pop that in right here and then if you go up to design you can obviously change things like the font the weight maybe want it to be you know semi-bold and we'll actually change the button colors um in a different way a little later cuz we do actually want all them to match but I'm actually going to just get rid of the button as well now for the really important stuff you definitely want to add in your own logo here so let's just click on logo here and then when you see the preview over here let's click on the little pencil icon and then you just find the logo file on your computer and you would drag it right onto the screen and then click on select then you can change the size of it with this little slider to wherever it looks good to your eye so now let's edit this menu right here so we'll just click on menu and you can go down and do things like item spacing if you want to give everything a little bit more space between and there are different things you can change too like the font and the colors we're actually going to handle all of that in a future step just to make things even easier but let's say we want to give this a little bit less space between the logo and the menu all we need to do is choose this row right here and click on the gear and then we're just going to go to row minimum height and we're going to drag this to where it looks better something like that and then we're going to do the same for this row too we're just going to click on the gear row minimum height and let's just drag it around to see what looks good and I'm pretty happy with that and obviously we can change the background colors for this if you wanted to do that if you wanted to go with a dark just choose each row go to design and then just choose the background color you know if you want it to be kind of a dark gray we can do that and then you can do the same thing for the bottom row but I'm just going to go ahead and put it back on white i think that looks good for this and we can also do things with the search icon so let's click right there we could make it a little bigger if we want so it's a little more in your face and if we go up to design we can change the color to make it a little darker so it's easier to see and we can even move it over to the far end of that column if we wanted to do that so it's super customizable you can make this arranged any way you want okay so now you'll see as we scroll down the header goes away the header stays right up top generally speaking we want that to scroll down with us so that people can always kind of get to the menu they can always search whenever they want to so the way we're going to do this is we're just going to go back up here and we're going to click on headers then global header and we're going to turn on sticky functionality and there's different options here let me just quickly go through this so if I scroll down now you see the top row is sticky this row isn't so what do we have here we have a main row and a bottom row so we need to choose main and bottom row as being sticky here so now when we scroll down everything scrolls along with us okay so that's it for the header so I'm going to click out of here i'm going to go back so under general options now I'm going to choose footer so if we scroll down to the bottom here this is what our footer looks like so we have three rows again the top row middle row bottom row and this all works the same way if we want to get rid of the top row for instance there's no option to delete a row all we have to do is delete everything in that row just click on the X's so then in this row that we have left here we've got three different widgets widget area 1 two and three if you want to edit what's in here you're just going to go over to the sidebar where it says widget area one click on the little arrow and here we've got popular posts and if you want to add something to it you'd click on add block you could add a gallery or a quote or anything like that it's really customizable again and you would do the same thing for the other widgets and just kind of edit what's inside there but for a blog I don't know how needed this really is so I'm just going to go ahead and get rid of everything in here so then we just have a simple copyright line right down here which you can change by clicking on it and then changing the text over here now you might want to put in the name of your blog and in terms of changing the colors of like the background here or any of the buttons on the whole site anything like that we're going to take care of all that right now so before we do though let's go ahead and click on publish we do want to make sure we're saving our changes as we go it's a huge bummer to do all this work and then something goes wrong and then you've lost all of it so let's click on the back button now and we're going to go out all the way to where we get back to general options and we are going to choose colors so the easiest way to change your colors is to go right up here to global color palette and we'll click on advanced and then on color palettes now they've got all of these pre-made pallets for you that are you know designer selected designer approved so you really can't go wrong with these as long as it's appropriate for your own blog and your own audience i might just go ahead and choose pallet 8 here and then of course if you want more close control over what colors you're going to use you can click each of these colors and you can choose whatever you want and it'll be reflected throughout the site but if you're not really a designer I highly recommend just sticking with what it's got so I'm going to go back and I'm just going to choose the same palette I chose here so basically this first color is going to be you know these boxes right here this color looks like it's pretty much the the hover state whenever you hover over something then this one I believe is the body copy font and then I think this is the headings but there's one thing that's not really controlled here that we want to actually scroll down to and that's your site background color so this is really important in kind of establishing an overall mood for your site so by the way nothing at all wrong with just keeping it nice and simple like this at the end of the day people are coming to your site to really figure out what products best for them and all that stuff so you don't have to get too designy with it but in case you want to let me just show you your options so right now it's set to to white i'm just going to click on this and obviously if it's under color you can choose any color you want to you can choose to go dark you can choose to go bright don't necessarily recommend that option unless you really know what you're doing the other cool thing is gradients some of these can look really nice if you have like a tech blog or something like that you know something like this would look great for that you know we've got all these different options here that can look pretty cool and then we've got these down here which these could actually look pretty cool for a travel blog i think they've got that kind of soft look almost kind of like an Instagrammy quality you know and you can also do a background image i wouldn't recommend that i think that's almost always going to look really bad so I would resist the urge to go with the background image whenever you can but I'm just going to stick with this i think this looks pretty nice so with colors out of the way let's go back and now we're going to choose typography so this is where we choose the fonts for the site now if you were to go to fonts.google.com google.com this will give you a preview of all the different fonts you have access to and there are literally thousands of options like it can be overwhelming but you can kind of uh filter through them by you know if you want display or you know if you know you want a serif which has these little kind of ridges on all the letters or sand serif which is just cleaner i think I like this one the Josephin Sands i It's kind of a favorite of mine so let's go ahead and go back to our site and under base font I'm going to type that in and here it is right here and I'm just going to click on I understand and click on continue and so when you set the font at the base font level that's going to filter through all of the different headings body copy it's basically going to take over all the text on your site if you don't want that if you want your headlines to be something different you just want to go through headings 1 2 3 you just want to go through all of them and set the font that you want for your headings and then keep your base font as your body copy font that you want so I'm going to go ahead and do that right now i'm just going to choose a different one here that's a little more appropriate for body copy i'm going to choose Monserat and then I'm going to go through and choose the Joseph in Sands for the rest of them okay so I've done that and I'm happy with how this looks so let's go back out we'll click the back button again here and now we're going to choose how we actually want this whole page and all of our individual blog post cards to look so this is where it starts getting good and you can really have close control over all this stuff so we're going to go down to under post types we're going to click on blog posts now here's where we can choose the general layout so we've got five different options here i'll just show you what they what they look like so if we click on the first one we get a layout like this where everything is stacked the next one it's stacked but the words are underneath versus to the side you can basically see the previews here there's a straight up grid and then this is my favorite one the enhanced grid that's what it comes with i just like the variance of having two then three then back to two it makes it interesting for people subconsciously as they're scrolling down and now we can choose how many posts will be displayed on one page i think 10 is a good number before they have to click on next if you make that number much higher load speed will be affected and if you make it less then people are going to have to click through too much so I think 10's the sweet spot there we'll get to card options in a minute um but let's look at page elements right now so right now we do have this sidebar and while I think it's good to have a sidebar when you're actually reading a blog post itself to see the other posts I don't see much need here because we're already looking at all the different blog posts so we don't really need this it kind of gets in the way if you ask me so I'm going to turn that off right here just by clicking that little toggle and then pageionation you want to keep that on that just is uh this guy down here that lets people go from page to page and then something fun i'm just going to click on right here is the cards reveal effect let's turn that on and see what it looks like as you can see the cards just kind of animate in as you scroll down the page it's a little thing but it can kind of make it feel more interactive and more engaging so I'm going to leave that on okay so now let's go back up to card options and let's see what we're dealing with so what we have here is these are all the basic building blocks that are going to make up each of your blog post cards is what we're calling them post meta right here that refers to the categories right here like this one would be considered nature and travel this is the title featured image excerpt and then another post meta where it has the author and the date it was published so anything here that's grayed out like the read more button or the divider that just means they're being hidden right now so if you want to bring this back you just click on the little eyeball icon and then we have the read more button so just like we unhid that we can hide anything we want to so let's say we don't want the category cards showing up here well all we need to do is just turn them off by clicking the eyeball we can also rearrange things so let's say we want the title to be underneath the featured image which I think is a much cleaner look that way all the text and the card element itself is all consolidated together and I don't feel like there's much need usually for the excerpt people will decide if they want to read an article or not based on the title and the image this isn't going to be too enticing and it just makes for a longer scroll so I'm going to hide the excerpt and then for the read more button we have a few options i'm going to click on the downward arrow we can do uh simple which is just going to be a simple text link or background is what we had or outline is a more simple version of that i might just keep it there i think that looks nice you can change the text maybe you want it to say read story now if we click on post meta and then click on the little downward arrow we can control what's shown here so maybe we want the author to be shown but not the publish date the reason for me liking to hide the publish date is simply because a lot of your articles may be evergreen right they may be able to help people at any point in the future but people tend to have a bias against older content so anything that looks like it was published a while ago it may not get the click so I like to just hide publish date i don't think there's any need for it and then if you want to hide comments you can do that too there's no comments on this post so that's why nothing was showing up there but just for the sake of making this super clean let's go ahead and hide that post meta al together and that just has a nice clean look and we can change the cards gap by uh sliding this around to where it looks exactly how we want it to look i think something like this looks pretty nice and then inner spacing that is where we can just make basically the padding on the inside we can make that a little bit larger or smaller if we want to do that i don't remember what it was set to before but I think this looks pretty good to my eye okay so now let's go up to design and obviously the colors are already set so we probably don't want to change them here we would just want to change them in the global color palette like we did before but we can change things here like the card background color um if you wanted it to be more like black and then you obviously have to change the text to white to be able to be read over it you can do a gradient all these different gradients here just like with the background color but I think nine times out of ten white just looks the best here it just looks clean you know we can add a border to the card we can change the shadow i don't know if you can tell there's a really subtle little drop shadow behind these that looks pretty nice i'm not going to mess with it because I think it looks good but you can click on adjust and change all these values if you want to do that then border radius is going to give that little uh the roundness to the edges so if you want to play around with that let's just type in maybe eight to see what that looks like i think that looks pretty nice total judgment call whatever fits the look you want and now there's one more thing to know that can really customize the look of this as well let's go back up to general and here's where we can choose card type so right now we have boxed okay this is my favorite one i think it just looks the cleanest we also have simple where it gets rid of the white box behind it or the colored box behind it so that's one way to go or we have cover now this one's a little trickier so I'm sure you've seen blogs where it's it looks a little bit more like this where we have the text and the button kind of overlaid on top of the image this can be a really cool look but it takes a little bit more kind of finagling with all the elements to get it to look right so if we go to design you can change the overlay color to a different color you can change how transparent or um see-through it is and if you go to general you can change the the height of it if you want to do that i'm just going to put it back and you can change the alignment here too so let's say you wanted to have all this stuff on the bottom not on the top i happen to think that looks a lot better so you can go this way if you want to just make all the changes necessary the main reason I like this one less is because you have to put this overlay on top of the images and to me it just makes all the colors more muted and I feel like with the blog the images do so much of the selling for you that you don't want to put a dark overlay on top of your images as much as possible but if you like this look you can absolutely go with it okay so I'm just going to go back and I'm just going to choose boxed again this takes care of the look of basically the homepage right when you get to the front page of your affiliate site this is what people are going to see this is the look but what about what it looks like when someone clicks on an actual post so I'm going to click on the first one here now we're going to go about changing the look of this page so it it can look exactly how you want it to we're just going to click on the back button here again and one more time we're going to get back out to under post types we're going to go now to single post okay so the first choice we're going to make here has to do with this top hero section so we're going to click on where it says post title we'll click on the little arrow next to that so you can choose this look where the title is overlaid on top of the featured image or you can choose type one where it's just the title without that featured image now if you go this way you're obviously going to have to go to design and you're going have to change the font color here and then you would do the same with this text right here by clicking right here but I'm actually going to go back i'm going to go back to general and I'm going to choose type two i prefer the look of this one now we just have to change the font back go to design title font color i'm just going to make it white okay so we've made the changes to the hero section up top here now we need to figure out what the layout is going to look like down here so let's click on the back button here so these are the options we've got so right here it's on narrow width and it's just a one column layout here we have the same thing but it's a little wider i tend to like narrow width more than normal the reason being it's easier for people's eyes to scan you know from here to here versus all the way from here to all the way over here so it's just kind of a a usability thing then we have an option of a left sidebar where we've got all the you know people can search or look at the latest posts or we have a right sidebar so for my money I recommend this layout because when someone's on your blog post you want to give them easy access to see other articles they may like too unless you're really just trying to get people into one specific article where you're trying to sell them on one of your affiliate offers you would maybe not want to give them that option in which case you would choose narrow i'll leave that up to you and the other thing we have here is wide or boxed so let's This is what wide looks like let's look at boxed so that basically just puts a white box around the content now I actually happen to like this the best especially if you've got a color background going on here you definitely don't want people reading on top of like a gradient or anything like that so I think this is going to be the safest option so these are the different elements you can have showing or hidden so right now the featured image is already taken care of because we've already selected this layout for it but if you had chosen the other layout remember where the the title goes above the featured image or just goes on like a white plain background in that case you would want to check this on and then it's going to show again underneath the title but we'll turn it off here because we've already got it there post tags like categories you can turn that on if you want you definitely want to turn on the share box the reason is if someone's reading your article you definitely want to give them the easy option to be able to share it and that appears underneath the article down here so we've got all these buttons so people can easily share it you might also want to turn on the author box so let's say you take guest posts or you write everything and you just want to be able to have a bio of yourself you can turn that on there and I think having related posts is a good idea as well so those would show here and then comments that is completely up to you i like to turn them off because I feel like the engagement you get is not nearly as good as the trolls you get are bad so you know between trolls and just spam I I I recommend just turning comments off unless you really want to go for lots of engagement okay so those are all the major decisions here so this is what it's going to look like or whatever you chose for you then we're just going to click on publish to save all our changes remember to do that periodically and then we're going to go back out next we have to style our categories page now what is a categories page well let's say you have this article right here and the category assigned to it was trends you know if you have a pet blog maybe there's a dog's category a cat's category and we just need to style what that page is going to look like once people land there so let's see what we're dealing with now let's click on this for trends so this is the trends category so we just need to style this we need to mimic what we've already done for the homepage we basically want these cards to look the way we've already styled them to look there so what we need to do is go to categories right here and we're just going to make all the same choices we did before i chose the enhanced grid for mine you may have chosen one of these other looks that's fine i'm still going to go with 10 posts card options i would highly recommend keeping the same style so if you chose this style before the cover style you'd probably want to choose that again here but I chose box so I'm going to stick with that and if you remember I'm going to hide the category up here i'm going to drag the title below the featured image i'm going to hide the excerpt and for post meta I'm going to hide that as well and I'm going to add the read more button and I'll choose outline there and I will change it to read story like I had before but again you're just going to be doing the same thing you did the first time and you could choose to turn on the sidebar here if you want to that's up to you but I'm done here this looks pretty much exactly like we styled the homepage to look so I'm happy and I'm going to click on publish and then let's click on the back arrow and we're going to do the same thing now for the author page so first of all let's click on one of these because we need to see what we're doing right so we need to actually get to an author page so right now once we're on an article I'm going to click on the author name here and this is what that page is going to look like so it's going to have the author's name the date they join and how many um articles there are you can change the background color here if you want it's probably not super necessary this is a pretty utilitarian page but if you want to click on edit and then design you know you could change the container background color to pretty much anything you want it to be but I might just kind of put it back more or less the way it was or we can change the type to this one completely up to you and then we can change what shows up here maybe you don't care about you know the date they joined for instance you just click here under author meta and uncheck join date you know whatever you want to have there and if I click on back now we can just make all the same changes to the cards that we did on the homepage and the categories page so I'm just going to choose the same enhanced grid make it easy and go to card options and we're just going to do every single thing that we already did and then I'll go up to design and I will change the border radius i think we have that at eight and then click on publish and then we'll go back out and one more time and then finally we're going to do the same thing on the search page let's get a little preview of what that's going to look like so I'm just going to click on the magnifying glass here i'll do a search for just the word welcome just so we can see something okay so we have one post with that so once again we're just going to make all the same changes we just made a few times already okay done with that now I'm going to click on publish okay so let's go back out to our homepage remember whenever you click on the logo that will take you home now this is looking pretty good right but I don't know if you know this more than half of your blog's visitors are going to be coming from a mobile device so you really want to make sure that it looks good on all devices and the way we do that we're just going to go down here you'll see these little icons for a desktop that's what we've been on a tablet and then a mobile device so I'm going to click on that and this gives us our preview of what it's actually going to look like now the good news is with this theme all of this has pretty much already been thought out for you so there shouldn't be too many changes to make you just want to make sure that everything looks good you kind of want to reality check it and if we click up here on these horizontal lines that opens up the menu that's all looking pretty good now let's say you wanted to get rid of some of this stuff all you need to do is click on main row here now we're back to the header but for mobile okay so let's click on this again just to get the preview so mobile menu this is it's called off-c canvas area this is this stuff right here so we've got the menu the mobile menu here html so that's just going to be like the address here and then socials so if you want to keep your address here but you just want to change it just click right here and then you can change it to whatever you want it to be over here if you want to delete it you can just click on the X and it's gone and then with socials again you get rid of anything you don't want we've already done this work so it should already be how you want it to be but make any changes at this point you want to and of course these colors don't really match these are just the the placeholder colors I chose before but if we click on design we can just choose our colors right here and we're good to go i'm just going to click on publish now okay so let's click on our desktop icon again all is looking good except for you'll notice the menu here what are these pages even doing here like what are these pages how do we change this ideally what you'd want on a blog or any kind of affiliate site is you want to be able to get people quickly to the categories that they're going to care about the most you may even want a direct link like let's say you're an Amazon affiliate and you have an Amazon storefront maybe you want to direct people to that storefront so let's talk about how we can change the menu to have both you know direct links as well as categories that people can find your best content so we need to exit this area the way we do it we're going to click on the X and then we're going to click on the little WordPress icon here so let's go down to appearance and then menus okay so if we scroll down here we have the main menu that's what we were looking at at the top there so we have all these different elements let me actually I want to open up another window here so you can see exactly how this translates to what we currently have so you'll see we have Gutenberg blocks then we have all these other things kind of nested underneath it so if you were paying attention that's what this looks like so Gutenberg blocks is the main navigation element all these other things are a drop- down menu under it pages has the same thing about us and contact are just standalone pages does that all make sense okay so let's say we want to get rid of everything that's here already i'm going to click on bulk select and then I'm just going to choose all of these one by one and then remove selected items okay so now we have the main menu and it's totally blank so how do we add our categories to that main menu well we're just going to go under categories click the little downward arrow and you can click on view all now I don't know how many categories you're planning on having i'm just going to choose you know five here just for instance like maybe these are the five you want and if you had more I'll show you how you can actually fit in more in a bit so we're just going to click on add to menu now all of those categories have been added to the main menu so let's see what this would look like i'm going to click on save menu first so that we can preview that so let's go back to our site and I'm going to refresh the page now we have all of our categories right here and if you click on one obviously there's nothing in that category but if we had something there we go now they start popping up so that is categories what about if you wanted to have a custom link to your Amazon shop or wherever you have your products you're actually trying to sell well we're just going to go down to custom links here's where you type in you know your Amazon store you know you'd pop that right in there and then link text you know something like our Amazon storefront however you'd want to phrase it we'd click on add to menu and then there it is we click on save menu then that shows up right there and if you wanted to add more categories we can actually do it this way so let's say we actually wanted to have two menu items where it was categories and then our affiliate links underneath it where like maybe you have different stores you sell things through really easy to do let's just go to custom links again so under the URL I'm just going to put the hashtag sign and then link text i'll say categories add to menu and then I'll do it one more time i'm going to do a hashtag and I'm going to say something like our best deals i don't know click add to menu okay so now I'm just going to drag categories right up top and I'm going to take all the categories and I'm just going to drag them over to the side nope we don't want to nest under nest so we're just going to like do it like this and then our best deals I'll put here and our Amazon storefront here then you could add another thing for you know whatever else you sell you'd add that and you'd nest it under here too so I'm going to click on save menu to see what that looks like and then refresh it and now we've got So you can choose all the categories or you can choose your affiliate deals so now obviously this is great right but these aren't your posts how do you add your posts how do you get rid of these posts that are already here really easy to do let's just go back over to the WordPress dashboard we are going to go over to posts now this is where you're going to add new posts and we'll show you how to do that in a second but first um we just want to delete all the dummy posts that are currently there so we're going to click on all posts so these are all the ones that came with out of the box we're just going to click right up here to select all of them then under bulk actions move to trash apply okay so now we're starting from scratch with no blog post at all so adding a new one is really easy you're just going to go to add new post and here's where you're going to add your title and then right underneath it that's where you're just going to type in the actual text for your article so I just had chat GBT come up with a little something so I'm just going to paste it right here chatgbt gave me the headings so those um just automatically get formatted as headings so here's something that's really cool about the Bloxy theme and it's why I recommend it it's a great free option because it comes with a ton of different blocks that you can use to help sell your affiliate offers so it doesn't have to just be text or images so if you go like wherever you want to add an element you just hover your mouse there click on the plus icon and we've got some basic stuff here right these are pretty basic things but if you click on browse all you know you have a ton of different blocks you can add in here everything from a carousel to a feature grid an icon list you know pricing box there's so many different things you can add in here that are going to help you you know a table where you can compare different options and then link to the one you choose so there's so many different things you can do here but just to keep things easy let's go ahead and just add in an image here i'm just going to click right here and I'll choose image and then I'll say media library and then I'll just take an image I have and I'll just drag it right into the window and then select cool just like that now let's say you wanted to have insert your link here you could say something here like book your trip now then you would just highlight the text and you would click on the little link icon and you'd pop in your affiliate link right here now there's one more important thing to do here because we need to set the main image remember how every article has a main image right here so that's called the featured image now just having put an image here that's not going to take care of it for you this is not a featured image this is just an image within the article itself so what we need to do is go to post then we'll scroll down oh first of all we want to add a category right so if you're going to be categorizing all of your articles let's click on categories you know these all just came with the Bloxy theme so we're not going to probably use that i might add a new category of you know Mediterranean for instance and then add new category and then I would choose Mediterranean now it is categorized as that and it's searchable with that category but now let's take care of the featured image so we'll click under featured image set featured image so you just drag it right on over and then set featured image and then once you're done you're just going to click on publish and then publish again don't know why they make you do it twice but they do and then let's just click on view post to see what we've got looks pretty nice so we've got everything here we've got the the little image we popped in here we've got all the headings we have our link all that good stuff that's going to help you sell your offers much faster okay okay so now that we have the website our next step is to add lots of articles to attract traffic and sell your affiliate products so used to be really timeconuming but thanks to ChatGBT it's incredibly easy now so in this video I'm going to show you my exact system for using chat GBT the right way to generate unlimited SEO optimized content that's ready to sell your offers so click here and let's finish this
