Newbie Help with website Cpanel and products

Todd,

My advice would be to look back at the ad or listing you bought the website from. If there are promises you were counting on that are not being delivered upon, then contact the seller immediately.

If you simply have a website, then the updating is part of the marketing in most cases. I would suggest finding out if you have just a website or if you have a website on a platform like Wordpress or Joomla. This will help to lead you in the right direction as to what is necessary to update your site and market it properly.

Most likely you need to take a look at the backend or the code to find out where your affiliate ads are and to change things. This is part of the learning process and I would suggest you start breaking it down into smaller pieces.

For example, start by looking for your adsense code in the actual code or in the backend if it is on Wordpress or another platform. Once you have found it, understand what it is, and where it is move onto the next thing.

Benjamin Ehinger

Todd,

Send it my way and I can take a look at it for you.....if you can't PM email it to me from my site in my signature below.

Benjamin Ehinger

Todd,

First go to the site your visitors go to. You can't mess anything up on it simply by clicking there, so don't worry about that. On that site, if you see "Adchoices" or "Ads by google" you have adsense installed. Adsense is contextual, meaning it tries to pick up on the topic of the page it is on. If you hover over a link and it has "hopfeed.com" in the URL you see at the bottom of your browser, you have ClickBank links installed. If you have links or pictures that say "Amazon.com", you have amazon affiliate links installed.
As for SEO, it stands for "search engine optimization", and is harder to tell if you have it on your site. The main thing to look for would be to google your site and see if it is on the first page of search results for your keyword(s). If it isn't, it doesn't necessarily mean you don't have it, because it depends on your competing websites and how much the search engines "like" them.
If you want to see if your site is running on wordpress, probably the easiest test you can do is to put "wp_admin" or/and "admin" after the trailing slash "/" of your website URL (address). If a new page comes up with a login, you probably have WordPress installed, or at least some type of script. If you get a 404 error page, you don't have WordPress installed in the main part of your directory.
If you know your login information for your hostgator back office, you can easily install a wordpress blog if you want by using the 1 click install link on the left side of your back office. You'll need to choose a user name and password for that.
Without seeing your site, I'm unable to help you more. I hope this points you in the right direction. Let us know if you need more help.

Jim

P.S. if you want to see examples, go to my website from the link in my signature and look for the Glee blog. It has all three types of affiliate links so you can get an idea of some things to look for on your site.

Thanks for help. I already feel a lot better about this. I have everything setup I believe so maybe I am good.

I sent you my site Benjamin.

Jim, a lot of questions you answered for me as well. Thank you...