Green Wave Web Design

Welcome to Green Wave Web!

First of all, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for purchasing your website from us. We know that you had a lot of choices when choosing our company, but we think you made the right decision. We appreciate your business and will work hard to keep you coming back. We hope that you’ll have many successes with your online business and will come back again and again to increase your portfolio.

The Instructions: A Step-By-Step Guide

Now that you’ve purchased your website the next step is to get everything transferred over to your accounts. There are a number of steps that need to be completed to facilitate this transfer.

We’ve prepared a checklist in addition to the step-by-step instructions to help make this transfer a quick and easy process. The sooner we’re able to get everything transferred to you, the sooner you can start promoting your site and start earning money.

To make it easy, we’ve included links to the websites whenever possible. When you are offered a link always follow it. Why? Because the instructions may be dependent on you following the link as opposed to going to the site yourself. In other words, it may take you to another page instead of the sites main page. If there isn’t a link then you can log onto the main page, but always follow the link if there is one. Of course, you can email us at anytime for more assistance.

On this page you’ll find a form with the information that we’ll need to transfer everything over to you. Additionally, we’ve divided the instructions into segments for each account. As every website is different, you may come across segments that don’t apply to you. For instance, we may not have included Amazon ads on your website if Amazon doesn’t sell items that relate to your site. If that’s the case just skip over those parts. You can find out what your website comes with by reviewing the listing page from which you made your purchase.

You can copy your form into a word processing document or a spreadsheet. Once you’ve filled it out, please email it to us at info@greenwaveweb.com. Please allow forty-eight hours from the time we receive your form for us to make the transfers.

Finally, if any of the steps outlined below are not accurate, please let us know so we can update our instructions.

The Form. . .

Please copy and paste the following form into your word processor or spreadsheet. When setting up the accounts and filling out the form, be sure to use temporary passwords that you can change later.

Please note that by sending us this information that you agree that we may access your accounts using your login information and passwords or by other means and may apply for, cancel or modify accounts on your behalf.

Step 1 – Choosing A Good Web Hosting Company

Web hosting is the price that we pay for having a website. There are many, many web hosting companies out there and choosing one can be a daunting task. Actually choosing a good one is a shot in the dark. We’re here to help shed a little "light" on the subject for you.

One important thing that you should remember when choosing a web hosting company is DON’T MAKE A CHOICE BASED ONLY ON PRICE. With web hosting, the lowest price is not necessarily the best deal. Don’t get us wrong, price is important. However, there are many other things to consider. One of the most important is reliability.

If this were a family website where you would be hosting a few family pictures to show Uncle George and Aunt Fergie then reliability wouldn’t be a big deal. But your website is in the business of making you money and it can’t do that if people can’t find it. Additionally, once someone has a bad experience when they try to visit a website it’s unlikely that they’ll go back again. We can’t say this enough, find a reliable web hosting company even if they cost a little more.

With that said, we’re going to make it easy for you. We promised you a link to a good web hosting company and we’re going to deliver on that.

We highly recommend that you host your website with HostGator. This is the web host company that we currently use to host your new website, as well as this one. Their prices are very reasonable, they provide 24/7 support and, most importantly, their reliability is fantastic. Their web hosting (which starts at only $4.95 per month) comes with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. You can’t do any better than that.

A nice plus is that if you use HostGator to host your website we can transfer your website into your hosting account for you. We can’t do that with any other hosting accounts.

Also, if you host with HostGator, we can pass on to you a very special deal. Simply click on the link below, sign up with HostGator for website hosting and enter "wordpress" (without the quotation marks) into the coupon code section at checkout and your first month’s hosting is only $0.01.

That’s right, only one-cent for the first month. That’s a great deal! Here’s the link:

Instructions for setting up a HostGator account are listed below. If you choose to use another web host skip over these instructions and follow the instructions provided by your web host. Although we can’t set up your website for you, we will provide you with a zipped copy of your website complete with all of your affiliate links installed. You just have upload it into your account. Unfortunately, we can’t provide support for the upload into other web hosting accounts. You’ll have to contact your web host for support with that process.

Instructions For Setting Up Your HostGator Web Hosting Account

Follow these instructions to set up a HostGator website hosting account.

1. Click on the banner link above or on the picture to your left to be directed to the HostGator account sign up.

2. On the left side of the page you’ll see a box with the heading "Our Most Popular Hosting Plans". At the bottom of that box is a blue link that says "View Web Hosting Plans". Click on that link.

3. On the page that comes up take a look at the various hosting plans and make a selection. Stay with the Linux Web Hosting plans, not the Windows Web Hosting. We recommend the "Baby" plan for $7.95 per month. It offers unlimited domain names, which means that you can host more than one website at no extra charge. This will come in handy once you start expanding your business and hosting more and more websites. Once you’ve made your decision, click on the "Order Now" link in the center of the page under the plan you’ve chosen.

4. On the Order Wizard Page select the option that says "I will use My Existing Domain and update My Nameservers only." Type in the name of the domain that you just purchased in the first part. Type it as "http://www.yourdomainname". Be sure to change the "yourdomainname" part to the name of the domain that you just purchased. In the next box, type "com" without the quotation marks. Click on the "Next" button to continue.

5. On the next Order Wizard page choose the billing plan that you want from the "Billing Cycle" drop down menu. You’ll notice that the prices are slightly higher than reported. That is because the lower price is based on a yearly contract. It’s slightly more for the monthly plan. Once you’ve made your decision, be sure to enter "wordpress" without quotations in the "Coupon Code" box. Then click "Calculate Totals".

6. On the next Order Wizard page you’ll see a summary of your charges. Notice that your "Total Due" is only one cent. Click on the "Continue" button to go to the next page.

7. Fill out the customer information page and decide whether to pay by credit card or PayPal. Choose a unique user name and a TEMPORARY password. Remember, you’re going to give this password to us, so choose one that you can change later. After you’re done click on the "Verify My Order" button.

8. At this point your screen will change depending on how you choose to pay. Continue following the prompts. When you’ve completed your checkout you will receive a welcome email from HostGator. Copy the following information from this email into the information form that you copied earlier:

a.) The URL for the cPanel. It should be "http://" followed by numbers and then "cPanel". An example would be: "http://123.456.789.012/cpanel".

b.) Your login or username.

c.) Your password.

d.) Your DNS NameServer #1 (DNS1). An example would be: NS1234.Hostgator.com

e.) Your DNS NameServer #2 (DNS2). An example would be: NS1235.Hostgator.com

Step 2 – Your Domain Name

Your new website’s domain name is currently registered with Go Daddy. As part of the transfer process, we’ll need to transfer this domain to your Go Daddy account.

Unfortunately, we cannot transfer this domain to another domain registrar. This is because of ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names & Numbers) regulations which prohibit the transfer of a domain name for the first sixty days after registration. After sixty days has expired you’ll be free to transfer the domain to the registrar of your choice. However, for now it will have to remain at Go Daddy.

If you already have a Go Daddy account, simply add the account name and/or number along with the email address associated with your Go Daddy account into your information sheet.

If you do not already have a Go Daddy account, we’ll walk you through that process.

1. Go to http://www.godaddy.com or click here to be transferred there.

2. Click on the "Create Account" link located at the very top of the page in the center.

3. Fill out the information page and click the "Create Account" button at the bottom.

4. Follow any additional prompts to finish creating your account.

Once this is done, please add the account name and/or number along with the email address that is associated with your Go Daddy account into your information sheet.

Step 3 – Set Up Your Commission Junction Account

Commission Junction offers ads from major suppliers who pay commissions on products that are sold as a result of clicking on your links. Although it depends on the product, you can earn big bucks from these ads.

Here are the steps to setting up your account.

1. Go to Commission Junction at http://www.cj.com or click here.

2. In the green bar near the top, hover your mouse over "Publishers" and then click on "Application" from the drop down menu that appears.

3. Fill out the first page and then click the "Next" button.

4. Click on "Close" to close the pop-up screen. Then fill out the client information sheet. Use the following information when prompted:

a.) Note that in order to agree to the "Commission Junction Publisher Service Agreement" that you have to read through the document and click the "Accept" button at the very bottom.

b.) For the heading "Web Site Or Newsletter Name" use the abbreviated version of your domain name. For instance, if your new website name is "http://www.yourdomainname.com" then use "YourDomainName" in this field.

c.) For the heading "Web Site URL" use the full website name. As an example, "http://www.yourdomainname.com".

d.) For the heading "Describe Your Web Site" use the following:

This is a website that offers visitors great information about "INSERT YOUR WEBSITE’S SUBJECT" and also offers them great products related to that "INSERT YOUR WEBSITE’S SUBJECT" from Commission Junction.

d.) For the heading "Email" heading use an email address that’s not associated with your new domain name so that you’ll receive the email from them.

5. Click the "Accept Terms" button.

6. Check your email for a welcome letter. Enter your "Account Identification Number", "User Name" and "Password" into your information sheet. Please note that this information is case sensitive. Please enter it carefully.

Commission Junction supplies your password so you can’t just choose a temporary one. However, you can create a new one after the information is changed by going to Commission Junction, logging on and editing your "User Settings".

Please Note: We will attempt to create relationships with the same advertisers that are currently on your new website. However, this may not be possible. Sometimes the programs close. Sometimes their affiliate program is full and they aren’t taking new applications. If this happens we will attempt to create a relationship with a comporable supplier for you.

Your Almost Done!

Once you’ve got all of that completed all that’s left is to email the information sheet to us at info@greenwaveweb.com. We’ll take it from there.

Although we can’t guarantee it, we try to have everything done within 48 hours. Sometimes we can even get it done sooner. When your website is ready we will send you a link or an email with all of your login information.

We want to thank you again for choosing to purchase your new website from us. We appreciate your business and will look forward to seeing you again soon!

Step 4 – The Last Step. Your Bonus Items

Wait! Don’t leave yet. You almost forgot your bonus items. We’ve gathered up several great ebooks as our way of saying thanks for your business. Click here and you will be taken to a page where you can download these books. They’re yours. You have the master resell rights. This means that you can read them, sell them or give them away. Enjoy!