ClickBump Engine V2

The Adsense Toolkit for WordPress

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Thanks for Your Purchase. This installation Guide will help to
ensure a quick and effortless install.
Step 1: Set Your Site’s “Blog Title” to Match Your Main Keyword Phrase
To prepare your site for optimum Adsense performance, there are a few setup steps I suggest that
follow. Don’t worry, these are very easy and you will done in a few seconds, but they are very powerful!

The first thing you should do is to set your “Blog Title” so that it matches your main keyword phrase. To
do this, from the WordPress admin, navigate to Dashboard > Settings. You will see the screen below.

Once you’ve checked to insure that the “Blog Title” is set correctly, move on to Step 2.

Setting your blog title so that it matches your keyword phrase is important in that It is the #1 essential
element for search engine rankings and appears in the search results for searches on your main
keyword. What’s more powerful than seeing an EXACT MATCH to what you are searching for?

Step 2: Install the Theme

From your site’s WordPress admin, Navigate to the Appearance dashboard and click “Add New
Themes“. Your screen should appear as below.

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Next, from the upload tool that appears, click “Browse” and select your template zip file from your
purchase download “clickbump_wp.zip”. The template will be installed. Finally, just click Activate to
make the template active and live on your site.

What Happens When I Activate My Template?

When you first activate your template, several automated steps occur that save you a ton of time and
set up your blog for maximum SEO. They include:

1. Your site is made “Public” and Available to the search engines. This is important because the
default WordPress installation hides your site from the search engines!

2. Your blog URLs are converted to SEO friendly (and human readable) format. This helps with user
bookmarking and, most importantly, is a huge boost to SEO.

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 3. Your site’s images will now be stored in one convenient directory (and not the month/year
based folders that are the WordPress defaults), without you having to do a thing, other than
upload them of course, which conveniently, is next.

Step 3: Upload all product images at once..

Navigate over to Dashboard > Media to upload your product images as shown in the screenshot below.
In previous versions, you were forced to name your images following a specific pattern. However, as of
version 1.3, you can name your images whatever you like, the template will load every image that you
place in the Media library (if using FTP the media library is located at wp-content/uploads).

To maintain maximum SEO potential, you might want to name your images for your main site keyword
as described below.

If you want to maximize your potential for scoring Google image searches, and for SEO purposes, you
can name your images as follows (assumes your blog title and main keyword phrase are the same: In
this example, “Blue Yoga Mats”…)

blue-yoga-mats-1.jpg
blue-yoga-mats-2.jpg
blue-yoga-mats-3.jpg
blue-yoga-mats-4.jpg

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If your site name and keyword phrase is “My Website”, you will name the images my-website-1.jpg,
my-website-2.jpg and so on. There should be NO SPACES in the filename and it should be lower case
and end in .jpg (NOT .JPEG).

Once you’ve done that, click Media > Add New > Select Files. Now locate your images from your local
machine and on the keyboard, SHIFT+SELECT to highlight all four of your product images at once, then
click OPEN to upload them all in one click!

Sizing your images

The template is fairly smart. Each time one of your post pages are loaded, it will look in the Media folder
(wp-content/uploads) and load all the images it finds there and line them up side by side. By default,
there will be 10-20 pixels of space between each image depending on the chosen template. Since you
have exactly 565 pixels of space, left to right in which to place your images, with 20 pixels of space
between each image, use the following guide to size your images in order to fit them on one line…

3 images
(565 – 40)/3 = 175 pixels per image (maximum width)

4 images
(565 – 60)/4 = 126 pixels per image (maximum width)

5 images
(565 – 100)/5 = 93 pixels per image (maximum width)

6 images
(565 – 120)/6 = 74 pixels per image (maximum width)

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Step 4: Create your home page content as a POST and MAKE IT STICKY*
By marking your home page post as “Sticky” you are letting the theme know that this post is special and
should always be shown on the home page and no other posts will be displayed on the home page (That
is unless you mark other posts as sticky, then they too will appear on the home page). Not really what
you want if you are following the Xfactor Adsense course guidelines however. Each additional post that
you create will appear as a link along the top of the template just under your site’s tagline description.

*TIP* How to Make a Post “Sticky”: In the Post editor find the "Publish" section. Next to "Visibility" click
on edit and then check the "Stick this post to the front page" option there. Click save and you're done.

Step 5: Create the About Us, Contact Us and Privacy Policy as PAGES
No need to make these sticky, since they are the only “PAGES” (vs posts) you will create, the template
will list these pages along the right sidebar under your Home Page link, just above your Adsense link unit
(if you are enabling link units, which I never do - more on that later).

*IMPORTANT: It is a violation of the Adsense terms of service to publish a site without a Privacy Policy
or to place ads on your About Us, Contact Us or Privacy Pages.

Step 6: Use the ClickBump Theme’s Options Panel to Choose Your Colors and
Input Your Google Adsense Settings
I’ve built this template with the flexibility to morph into a variety of different color options to suit your
niche or the mood of your site. Out of the box you have options including “Xfactor” Green (the default),
Red, Blue, Gold, Fall, Pink, and Grey. Contact me if you you would like me to create a new color option
of your choice mailto:[email protected]?subject=Template Custom Color Option.

Customizing Fonts, Colors, Link Colors, etc

This version allows you to add your own custom css that will augment or override the default styles. You
can find this option in the ClickBump_wp theme options panel under the “Custom CSS Code” input field.

For example, if you want to add outbound links within your content pages (to high PR sites, for example,
to show the Google bot that you are a good neighbor) but you want those links to be the same color as
the body text (#777) then you would add the following line to the Custom CSS Code input…

//make all body text links appear in same color as body text
.entry a {color:#777; text-decoration:none;}

Conversely, if you want to reduce the spacing between your product images, you might add this line…

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//reduce the spacing between product images (default is 20 pixels)
.ximages img {padding-right:10px;}

Here are a few other tweaks you might experiment with…

//change the overall font size (cascades down to all elements, default is 85%) and font family (default is Arial)
body {font-size:75%; font-family:verdana;}

//reduce the size of the main page heading and change the color (this is the large yellow text at the top of the
template)
.xheader h1 a {color:#ff0; text-decoration:none; font-size:.9em;}

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Step 7: Get your site indexed and ranking in Google.
To help with this, I highly recommend you download and install the free Google XML Sitemaps
wordpress plug-in. Once installed, build your sitemap and go over to Google webmaster and register it.

Step 8: Enable Adsense

Once your site is ranked on page 1-2 of Google, enable Adsense using the Theme options control panel
under the WordPress “Appearance” dashboard.

*Note: There is some debate on whether to run with Adsense right out of the gate or wait until you start
ranking as I’ve suggested. Use your own experiences and judgement to decide for yourself, this is just
the way I prefer to do things and its by no means a rule.

With that said, it is my experience that it will not make much difference whether Adsense is enabled or
not until you are on Page 1 (or at least the top 20 results in Google for your main keyword phrase). The
only exception to this is if you are doing backlinking where the sites that are referencing your site are on
Page 1-2 of Google. In that case, your site is essentially made it to page 1-2, albeit indirectly, and you
should immediately enable your adense to begin capturing revenue.

If that’s not you, you will want to monitor your site’s rankings every day so that you can enable Adsense
as soon as the site is ranking in Google on pages 1-2. I find that with all my sites they either rank on page
1-2 or they are way back on page 10-12 or unranked. It’s hit or miss, but they will all rise to the top with
proper backlinking strategy as indicated by John in the chapter on article marketing.

Resource Link: To monitor your sites daily rankings and keep a historical archive of their performance,
nothing beats the FREE Rank Checker Plug In for Firefox

Now that your site is ranking in the top 20 Google results for your main keyword, it’s time to enable
Adsense. Go to the WordPress Appearance dashboard and click on “ClickBump_wp Options”. This will
load the theme configuration panel as shown below. Fill in the blanks and click Save. Your site is now
Adsense Enabled and will be showing relevant ads in a very short time if not immediately.

FINALLY: Enjoy this incredibly fun and exciting passive income stream!

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 And may you have many days like this, or even better!
(Screengrab from November 10, 2009 at 10pm US CDT)

Earnings Disclaimer
There is no promise or representation that you will make a certain amount of money, or any money, or not lose
money, as a result of using our products and services. Any earnings, revenue, or income statements are strictly
estimates. There is no guarantee that you will make these levels for yourself. As with any business, your results will
vary and will be based on your personal abilities, experience, knowledge, capabilities, level of desire, and an
infinite number of variables beyond our control, including variables we or you have not anticipated. There are no
guarantees concerning the level of success you may experience. Each person's results will vary. There are unknown
risks in any business, particularly with the Internet where advances and changes can happen quickly. The use of
our information, products and services should be based on your own due diligence and you agree that we are not
liable for your success or failure.

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Addendum
Resolving 404 Errors

To fix any issues with 404 errors, go to dashboard > settings > permalinks
and make sure "custom" is selected and /%postname%/ appears in the text
box, then click "Save Changes"

Close your browser and re-open, then view your pages. If still not found,
click CTRL+F5 to force refresh the page...

Additional Reading and Tips and Tricks

The clickbump method? all your questions answered... ( 1 2 3 ... Last Page)

“Teaching What I’m Learning”

Here are some of my "Teaching What I'm Learning" posts you might be
interested in (requires membership to XFactor Forums) < aff link

The "sneaky punctuation" trick

http://www.adsensemasterscourse.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2361&post
count=146

Setting up your sites in Google Webmaster

http://www.adsensemasterscourse.com/forum/showthread.php?t=244

Using Adsense's Manage Channels to create your Ads

http://www.adsensemasterscourse.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1533&post
count=11

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