All websites have 3 things in common, it doesn’t matter what type of website you have, be it for information or sales they all have 3 things in common.

1; they all need a domain name, which is simple enough. You visit sites like 1&1 or D9 Hosting and purchase a domain name of your choice.

2; they all need to be hosted, which, again, is simple enough. Especially if you use a company like D9 Hosting, as their service is second to none and they will upload your site for you, should you need them to.

3; they all need TRAFFIC, which is where so many websites fail. Generating traffic to your website can be somewhat difficult if you’ve never been shown how to do it. Sure there are plenty of eBooks on the various ways to generate that desperately needed traffic, and most of them say pretty much the same thing.

•    Write an eBook with links back to your site

•    Buy some PLR material and include your site details in them

•    Buy some Brandable eBooks that will allow links back to your site,

•    Write articles for ezines

We all know that Google Adsense generates a small income and that Clickbank pays affiliates a percentage of any products that are sold via our affiliate links. I decided that of the two, I would rather have the Clickbank ads displayed on my blog, as it has the potential to earn me far more than Google Adsense.

I had noticed that some of the Masterclass students had Clickbank ads instead of Google Adsense. So yesterday I got in touch with Michael Haught of michaelhaught.com and asked him about the Clickbank ads on his blog, as I was very impressed by them. He replied, telling me that it’s a free tool from Clickbank.

So this morning I looked into it, and have now set it up on my blog, it took about 30 minutes to complete and I was amazed at just how simple it was to do.

This is how I done it:

I logged into my Clickbank account and clicked on the Account settings tab, from there I selected HopAd Builder (far right).

From the next window I selected Text Ads Builder and filled it in accordingly.

Now that I had my eBook website completely set up with my newsletter opt-in forms in place, as mentioned in my last blog post. It was to time to start trying to attract visitors to my site.

As I have previously said, as I had bought the website from PlanetSMS I was automatically made a lifetime member, and, obviously, allowed into the members area where I found out about Brandable and PLR (Private Label Rights) products, (eBooks).

A Brandable eBook is an eBook written by somebody else that contains links that can be branded with your details. Some are affiliate links, which can earn you an affiliate commission; however the majority of Brandable eBooks allow you to add a link to a website. That website can be your own site or your eBay shop, and on occasion you may be able to place both your website and your eBay shop URLs.

Please look down the Column on the far right for Categories and then click Getting Started for the previous entries leading upto this subject.

Following on from those earlier blog posts:

Ok, I had my 1st professional website and had uploaded it to my web host. I had the staff at MyDD (My Digital Dispatch) load the software onto my site and I had loaded it up with my inventory and items for sale.

I knew that my next step was to create a newsletter and place an opt-in form on my website. An opt-in form being the little box on websites that asks for your name and email address so as to join their newsletter.

Why did I need a newsletter? As I have said before I was selling on eBay, and once I had sent the eBook, received and left feedback; not only was that transaction over but so was my contact with the customer.

By having my own newsletter I was able to:

Stay in touch with my previous customers,

Attract new prospects that visit my website,

Offer them new products,

Promote other peoples products.