I decided to create a brand new affiliate site recently and have been adding some details about my progress to the forums at Wealthy Affiliate.
I’ve started more than one in the past and many of them have ended up unfinished or abandoned so I really want to talk about my progress in the hope that it will keep me on track.
Since it is an affiliate site and I’m going to earn money from it, I’m not going to reveal the name or the niche, but as with almost all of the sites I’ve got there’s an element of personal interest in it.
I bought the domain years ago and have done almost nothing with it since then.
Today, determined to get some work done I read up on the pomodoro technique and ended up reading through delicious tomato recipes. My procrastination abilities remain strong.
Moving on, I logged into my hostgator account and added a sub-account for this particular domain. Once that was created I logged into the new site account and found an option for a one click install of wordpress.
Very convenient.
Except it didn’t work.
I went to the site root and found some pretty php errors about files being missing. I’ve done a bit of php programming and if there’s one thing I know well it’s error messages.
While cursing the software that had done the installation I noticed that the sub-account I’d created had just 1 MB of space, which is far from enough for wordpress ( since the compressed 3.3.1 download is more than 4 MB )
Back to the drawing board ( webhosting control panel ), upgrade the account to a more robust 1000MB and delete the small number of wordpress files that did make it.
With a fresh start I decided to go for a regular install of wordpress by downloading, uploading and editing some database settings.
Worked like a charm 
WordPress is incredibly easy to upgrade as well, there’s a link on the dashboard which tells you there’s a new version available and you just need to click to get up to date.
With a blank install done I went and did some keyword research for the site, looking for search phrases are used fairly often but don’t have much competition in existing pages.
I just used the google keyword tool and jotted down my results in a google document.
I’m going to associate these efforts with my first memory map keyword – which is hydrogen.
I’m not sure whether to try and create a parallel memory map for different tasks like programming or language study. It’d probably be best to try and stick to one list so that I learn it more quickly and see all the items in consecutive order.
Not much point in associating hydrogen with Ireland and its capital, Dublin – other than the O’ Hindenburg disaster.
