Easy Money Making Website

Get A File Transfer Program (FTP)

Now that you have created your web site page or pages, you have to put it up on the internet so that everyone can find it.  To do that we have to "upload" (copy) the website you created to you web hosting account at Blue Host.

We could use NVU to do this but it's much more complicated than using a special piece of file transfer software to upload files to your web host.  This will also make it easier when you have multiple websites.

Click the link to download a free file transfer program called Filezilla.   Click on the version that will work with your computer's operating system (Windows, Linux or Mac) and download  Filezilla.

Upload Your Pages to the Internet

Now that you have downloaded Filezilla, we have to tell Filezilla about our web hosting account so that it knows where to put the files when we "upload" them.

Open Filezilla and click File and then Site Manager.  The following window will open up.  Click New Site.


When you Click New Site, the window will look like the following picture.  The red circles are where we will enter information.


There are several panes in the Filezilla window.  The top portion are commands to the server and you do not need to worry about what this says (unless it says unable to connect - then you have to go back and fix anything you may have entered incorrectly in the above step).

The section on the left called Local Site is a view of your computer.   Directly below that is a list of the files in the directory you have selected in the Local Site section. You will navigate around your computer to find the file or files that you want to copy to the Internet web host server.

The section on the right called Remote Site is the web host machine that you will copy your files to.  You will always copy your files to the directory "www" so double click on that file to open it (it should be empty when you first start).

The bottom section is a status window.  If you are uploading many files at a time, you will see a list of those left to be uploaded.  We don't have to worry about this section.

Uploading:

To upload a file from your computer to the web hosts computer, you will find the file on your computer using the navigation on the left side of the screen.  When you have found the file, you can double click on it and it will be copied to the web hosts computer.  You will see it appear in the window on the right.  Make sure that you have uploaded the file to the directory www (if not, do it again, this time double clicking on www before you upload the file from your computer).

Downloading:

Downloading is not something we will do in this exercise but just to cover it here, it works exactly the opposite way.  You copy files from the right side (web host) to the left side (your computer) by double clicking the file you want to download.   You might want to download a file if you have lost the file on your machine and need to get it back off the Internet.

View and Test Your Site on the Internet

Congratulations!  If you've gotten this far, you now have a website on the Internet.

It's always a good idea to test your website once it is on the Internet to make sure it works the way you expected.

To view your website on the Internet, open the Internet web browser on your computer and type the address into the address bar.  The address of your website will be www.yourdomainname.com.   (obviously you have to change "yourdomainname" to your own domain name).

Your website will appear.  (If it does not, you may have uploaded your web page to a directory on your web host other than www.)

To test your website, click each link on your website to be sure that it takes you where you expected it to (except any Google Ads - never click on those).  If there are errors in your links, you will have to make corrections to your website and upload it again.

When you have your website working properly, it is time to start promoting it and getting traffic (and earning money!)

TIP - At this point, it is important to have your links working and your ads set up to work properly but please, don't get hung up on having the PERFECT website before moving on.  You can tweak your website at any time.  So long as your website is generally working and has most of the content that you want on it then start promoting it!




If you don't think that this tutorial is for you, feel free to visit some of the links below for other options for learning to use the Internet to make money.