Some tips to get started

I'm going to give some free advice pointers because I'm feeling really kind -

Point One - don't buy any ebooks or similar "programs" unless they are genuinely new and you see recommendations for them from strong sources. Yesterday's info can be useless if Google change something. If it's been out for 3 months, avoid it.

Even then, only buy if they cover something you need to know and can't learn enough about.

There's a lot of e-books and products people are selling which deliberately don't tell you how to get started. They don't tell you how to build a site, but they tell you what to do when you have created one. In that situation the info is incomprehensible. It is sound advice, but you need to learn how to understand it. Once you have learned to do that the info will be out of date, if it isn't already out of date.

You can get a lot of out of date ebooks from the Black Hat World download section. Some of that stuff is useful.

Points two - building sites.

a) It takes time to build up traffic to a site. It is hardest to get traffic when you build a site from scratch. Easier to buy a cheap site with proven traffic and rebuild/improve it. There is no "good place" to buy sites, especially cheap ones. Read about diligence on EP before you even think about it, then try looking around at Digital Point.

b) If you are intent on starting from scratch, do not build on a new domain - better to find a useful used domain and build on that. Scrape through the Bargain Bins at the registrars who sell domains.

c) Don't worry about how to upload a site. You can do it by ftp or the host's file manager. Basically, you dump all your site files in the site's root directory on the host server. If you mess up, your host's help system is your first place to ask.

Points three - advertising

a) Adsense are looking for a well built site with no broken links and unique, useful info. You can check how good your code is by testing with the W3 HTML code validator. A three page site without code errors can be enough to get approval (5 is better). Don't be tempted to work on it until it has been inspected, you don't want them to check it the day it has a code error - and it does take them a couple of weeks to get around to inspecting.

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