Site Management Tutorial
http://www.adsenseminisites.com/demo/tutorial
If you’ve just received your site (unique or pre-made), there are a few simple steps you’ll need to take to activate your Admin area.
* Upload everthing to your hosting account. There might be a warning that the cgi-bin folder already exists. We want the file setpermissions.sh placed into the existing cgi-bin folder.
* Change the permissions of cgi-bin/setpermissions.sh to 755 to make it executable.
* Load http://yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/setpermissons.sh in a browser to set the permissions of files and folders that need to be writeable for the PHP scripts of the admin area. This assumes that the site is placed in the main folder of an add-on domain or a subdomain. If it is placed in a subfolder the setpermissions.sh script would need to be placed in the real cgi-bin folder and edited to reflect the correct path in the variable MAINDIR.
After that you should be able to load http://yourdomain.com/admin/ without any error messages about permissions.
This is the first screen you’ll see when accessing your site admin screen which is located at http://yourdomain.com/admin
The first username & password you enter will become the login info you’ll use every time you login after that.
For your convenience, you can always change your login information using the form above. Enter your new username & password and save it.
Check this box to display Adsense on your site. If you don’t have an Adsense account, you can download simple instructions on getting one in our Quick start Guide
Adsense ads are shown in multiple places on your site as shown below
Check this box to display Yahoo Publisher ads on your site instead of Adsense ads.
WARNING: DO NOT have both Yahoo & Google ads checked.
You can use one or the other but not both.
Yahoo ads will appear in the same places as your Adsense ads and look VERY similar.
Check this box to display Amazon ads on your site. You can apply for the Amazon affiliate program here . Amazon ads are a great way to add additional content to your site that is closely related to your niche as you can see by the screenshot below.
This allows you to choose how many news feed results you would like to display on each page. We recommend using 3-5 results per page. Sample news feeds can be seen below.
Your links pages are set up to add additional content pages to your site. They are continually updated with new links related to your keywords. Use this form to determine how many links you want displayed on your Links pages
Enable or disable your Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Contact pages. These pages were added in v2.0 to make your content sites more “legit”. Very few sites created for Adsense have these pages while most legitimate websites will always have them.
The Privacy Policy page is your official statement on the type of information collected on a site, how the information will be used, how the person can access this data and the steps for having the data removed. A privacy statement will also usually include information regarding systems that are in place to protect the information of web site visitors.
The Terms of Service page is a description of a site's operating policies, often in the form of a legally binding agreement that every registered user must accept.
The contact page is where you can specify how your visitors can contact you via mail, email, phone, etc.
Enable or disable the recommended products section. The recommended products section allows you to add in any other advertising material you would like to include on your site. You can use more Amazon products or any affiliate programs you belong to. Try to display products/services here that are closely related to your niche for best results.
Turning on image rotation will rotate all of the image displayed next to your Adsense ads. This can help give the appearance that your site is updated on a regular basis for returning visitors. The images can be seen below
Unless you modify your site and move things around, you most likely will never need to alter your template folder name. Don’t change this setting unless you know what you’re doing.
You can easily change your site name here. Your site name is displayed in various places around your site including your meta tags for SEO purposes.
Your primary site keyword is the main keyword/phrase you’re targeting. You can easily modify this phrase to a new keyword if you find you’re getting better results to a specific keyword.
This is where you’ll enter your Adsense account information. If you need to add a new channel ID or even want to switch to a new Adsense account you easily can
Same as the Adsense information above. If you’re using YPN ads instead of Adsense, enter your YPN account information here
Enter your Amazon Associates ID here. Currently you can use a US or UK Amazon ID.
You can also modify the number of Amazon products you want to display on your pages. You may want to test our different numbers depending on your niche. Some niches may have to display a smaller number of products to keep them relevant.
WARNING: DO NOT enter an ID in both boxes.
You can use one or the other but not both.
Use the form above to edit your Terms of Service page. You can replace ANY and ALL of the text. Don’t be afraid to break the page. Just enter your TOS text (make sure it has proper HTML formatting) into the form and save it. The changes will immediately be made on your TOS page.
Use the form above to edit your Recommended Products. You can replace ANY and ALL of the text. Don’t be afraid to break the page. Just enter the HTML for your affiliate program or products into the form and save it. The changes will immediately be made in the recommended products section on all of your pages (if you’ve turned on the recommended products)
Use the form above to edit your Privacy Policy page. You can replace ANY and ALL of the text. Don’t be afraid to break the page. Just enter your Privacy Policy (make sure it has proper HTML formatting) into the form and save it. The changes will immediately be made on your Privacy Policy page.
Use the form above to edit your Top Links page. You can replace ANY and ALL of the text. Don’t be afraid to break the page. Just enter the HTML for any sites you want to link to into the form and save it. The changes will immediately be made on your Top Links page.
Use the form above to edit your Contact page. You can replace ANY and ALL of the text. Don’t be afraid to break the page. Just enter your Contact information (make sure it has proper HTML formatting) into the form and save it. The changes will immediately be made on your Contact page.
You can quickly edit or delete any articles on your site using the form above. If you click the edit button, the article will be loaded in the window as shown above. Make any changes you’d like to the article and click on the Save Article button. The changes will be immediately available on your site. Make sure to use HTML formatting for your article. Plain text articles won’t display properly on your site.
If you select an article and click the Delete article button, the article will immediately be removed from your website. DO NOT click this button unless you absolutely want to remove an article.
You can quickly add new articles to your site using the form above. Enter your keyword rich article name in the Filename box. Copy & paste your HTML formatted article into the New Template box and click on the Create Article button. The article will immediately be available for rotation and assignment to specific keywords.
Using the form above you can assign an article to a keyword or multiple keywords. You can also choose to have the site display a random article for certain keywords. You’ll want to do this if you don’t have any articles that closely relate to your keyword. You can come back later and add new articles that target the keywords that are displaying random articles.
Quickly add new keywords & keyword phrases to your site. Just enter the keywords/phrases into the box making sure to have 1 keyword per line
Click on the Add button and they’ll immediately be available on your site. You can then assign articles to them or allow them to display random articles.