Young Living Essential Oils self-replicating websites by EssentialOilsrUs.com

EssentialOilsrUs™ Self-Replicating Websites
are designed and available for selling YLEO
products and signing up Young Living distributors.

What is the CVV2 field in the shopping area?

Order Website

Here is how your personal URL (internet address) will look like:
http://EssentialOilsrUs.com/yourfilename

Site Signup

For those who are purchasing a website, the signup form asks the following information:

Name
Complete postal address
Telephone number
Email address
Sponsor ID number
A Username (this will be public in that it will be part of the URL to their website: essentialoilsrus.com/your-filename)
A password to access their site maintenance control panel
The password entered a second time

When payment is complete, you are taken directly to the password page through which you can access your site creation/maintenance control panel.

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Self-Replicated Site Creation & Maintenance

The site maintenance control panel is accessed with your Username and password. The website owner can create and maintain the website from the control panel.

The control panel are forms that are used to build the static HTML page of your website. When the website owner first uses the control panel, many of the form fields are filled in with default data (such as the Title, keywords and descriptions -- you should make up your own right away). On subsequent visits, form fields are filled in with the data present the last time the web page was built. Thus, the website owner can change the page whenever they want.

Important! If you change any of your contact information (phone number, address, email, etc.), be sure to go into your control panel and update it accordingly. If this is not done, especially your email address, you will not receive your product order notifications and etc.

Form fields include the following (all optional unless otherwise indicated):

Distributor's name (required)
Distributor's email address
Distributor's ID # (required)
Distributor's telephone number
Distributor's company name
Distributor's postal address
Up to two images - These may be uploaded to the server directly from your control panel, or they may be URLs that point to other locations on the internet. If uploaded to the server from your control panel, their file size must be within that set by the Master Control Panel. The default image size is currently 140 kilobytes per image.

If you are replacing the default image of Dr. Gary Young (ylbook.gif), go into your control panel again AFTER you have uploaded your replacement image, and do this where it says Location #2: Replace the very LAST part of the URL where it says ylbook.gif with the filename of your image (i.e. image.jpg, image.gif)

You'll need to type in the width and height of the new image that you uploaded. You probably still have the image dimensions for the picture you replaced (ylbook.gif) in the boxes. The dimensions for the new image are most likely different, so go into your control panel and type them in.

If you have your own image that you want to upload, instead of what is offered in your control panel, just open it first in Paint or some other image manipulation program, and resize it to be 140k or less. The program that you use will automatically tell you what size it is; for instance, in Photoshop you can just go to Image - Image Size, and then type in new dimensions.

Photoshop (Adobe), Fireworks (Macromedia), PhotoSuite (ULead) and PaintShop Pro (Jasc) are the most popular and most expensive image editors. But if you have Windows, you most likely have Paint. Go to Start - Programs - Accessories - Paint, and then open your image, and then use the upper menu bar to select Image - Attributes. You will see what the width and height dimensions are that you'll need to type into your control panel, and also something like "Size on disk: 31,809 bytes" -- so this means your image is 32k, which is a good enough size. If you open another image in Paint and you see "Size on disk: 6,138 bytes" then you have a 6 or 7k image which will load real fast for your visitors.

A 140k (kilobyte) image is actually quite large, and not necessarily just width- and height-wise. It should really be trimmed up some. Photoshop has a great feature for this, by going to File - Save for Web, and then clicking 4-Up to get 4 different size options (with varying resolutions, keep in mind), and clicking OK to save it (give it a new name so you don't overwrite your original graphic). The other image editing suites mentioned above probably have similar features.

Image links in the Location text box should look like this:
http://essentialoilsrus.com/your-sitename/customimages/image-filename.gif
(Replace "your-sitename" with your site name, and "image-filename" with the name of your image).

Each image has associated fields for:
Width and height of image. (In general, webpages load faster when image sizes are specified).
Content of image "alt" tag (for your website visitors who have their images turned off in their browser, this alternate text will appear, i.e. your email address for instance).

Several text areas which contain the text of the webpage. This text must be HTML formatted or, optionally, the program can insert a tag wherever there are two or more line breaks (just place a check in the "Automatically insert paragraph tags" box).

When you are in your user control panel, and when you're ready to type in your paragraphs for your main page (or copy / paste them from another source such as your word processor files), you may contact the Webmaster if you need help with special formatting.   (i.e. such as italics to use for a quote from somebody, or bulleted lists for items needing such, or change the text's font size and/or color, etc).

Or, here is some code you can copy (ctrl-c) directly from this page, and paste (ctrl-v) into your paragraph boxes, and change the text accordingly, to override the basic paragraph tags in your control panel:

<h2 align="center">Your Own Heading Goes Here</h2>

<DIV ALIGN="CENTER">
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="5">
<TR>
<TD><FONT FACE="arial, helvetica, sans serif, times new roman"></FONT>
<P><B>Type your text here, between the two B's.</B></P>
<P><B>Type more text here!</B></P>
<P><B>Delete this entire line if you are done -- or, add more text here.</B></P>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</DIV>

<DIV ALIGN="LEFT">
<TABLE WIDTH="75%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="5">
<TR>
<TD>
<P ALIGN="CENTER"><B><I>"This is a good area for quotes from folks!"</I> John
Henry</B></P>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</DIV>

<DIV ALIGN="LEFT"><BR>
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="5">
<TR>
<TD>
<UL>
<LI><B>This is a good area for bulleted text!</B></LI>
<LI><B>This is a good area for more bulleted text.</B></LI>
<LI><B>If you need more bulleted items, copy and paste the following line
of code (pressing Crtl-C copies, and Ctrl-V pastes), and type your
text between the two B's.</B></LI>
<LI><B> </B></LI>
</UL>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</DIV>

If you don't want to use tables, you can just use paragraphs and left-align or center-align or right-align them if you want, with this code:
<P ALIGN="LEFT"><B>Your text here.</B></P>    (replace LEFT with your choice)

Always remember to close your heading, paragraph, font, bold, and italics tags, with the slash:
     </H2>   </P>    </B>    </I>

If you want to change the color of your text, such as the heading, bulleted items, paragraphs and etc., insert the following code right after the paragraph or heading that you want to change, so it looks like this:
<p><b><font color="#00ff00">Your text here would be green, using that hexadecimal code of #00ff00; you can also use certain actual color words, like red, white, etc. See the color code links below for more information.</font><b/></p>

To make individual words stand out, type in this code on around the word:
<font color="#00ff00">here's the word, or group of words, that you want to change color</font>

Here are some helpful URLs to read up on html:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/html.html
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/

If you would like to change the font size and/or colors on your main page, you can find the html color codes you need at the below URLs. If you have trouble, email the WebMaster for help.

http://www.theodora.com/html_colors.html
http://desktoppublishing.com/color-codes.html
http://html-color-codes.com/

Color Cube

Click on a color to lock it.
Click on any square to unlock.

Here's the color code to match up the RGB in paint.

Red	Green	Blue

If you want to create a link to another page within the site, just copy and paste the following code into any one of your paragraph boxes (either mingled in with your text such as a link you want to create mid-sentence, or as a stand-alone link), and change the text accordingly:
<p align="center"><b>To view the compensation plan, <a href="http://www.essentialoilsrus.com/cgi-bin/essentia/display.cgi?sitename=your-site-name&page=filename.htm">click here</a>.</b></p>
(Don't forget to change what appears here in red to the appropriate filenames!)

If you want to create a link to another website, insert this code and change the text and the URL accordingly:
<p align="center"><b>You are also invited to visit <br>
<a href="http://www.MyOtherSite.com/" target="_blank">MyOtherSite.com</a></b></p>

If you want to create a link to another unrelated-to-what-you're-selling website, insert this code at the bottom of Paragraph box #3, and change the text and the URL accordingly:
<p align="center"><b>You are also invited to visit <br>
<a href="http://www.Rense.com/" target="_blank">Rense.com</a></b></p>

PopUp Windows
Sometimes folks want to include more info at their main page but have "run out of room," so to speak, as long, scrolling webpages are definitely not cool. Click this link for a popup window to appear with directions on how to include popups at your own site!

A field for the Title of the webpage.
The Title is what EVERY search engine reads, so it should be a descriptive Title, and not more than 60-70 characters, including spaces. Look up at the very top of your browser's window right now -- way up in the Title bar -- you should see: 'Essential Oils self-replicating websites from EssentialOilsrUs.com' -- this is actually the Title of this page, but can also be used for the heading on the page itself, too. Doubling up like this helps.
A text area for the META description tag.
Think of a description of about 180 characters in length (including spaces). The description is the text results you see when you do a search for something on the internet, like at HotBot.com, InfoSeek.com, Lycos.com, etc. Just take a bit of time to think of a good sentence or two, keyword-rich, that makes sense to read. In a word processor the description will be about 2 lines of text. This description can also used again on and near the top of one's main page, doubling up again.
A text area for the META keywords tag.
Keywords are hidden from view and are embedded in the webpage itself, as is the description, but they do not show up anywhere else. They are used for indexing your page, and should be taken from the paragraphs that you make up for your webpage (so you will want keyword-rich paragraphs as well as a keyword-rich description). Think of what people are most likely to type in at a search engine when they are looking for your products, home business opportunity, etc. Website owners will be emailed three free internet marketing reports which explain all this in greater detail, along with their EssentialOilsrUs website purchase.
A text area for counter HTML code if such a service is to be used (tracking statistis is included with your site, but you can use an outside source if you like). This HTML code would be retrieved from the website that is providing the service.

Send a blank email to this autoresponder to retrieve another Free report by email:
report8@essentialoilsrus.com
Report #8 - How to Optimize and Submit Your Webpages for Search Engines & Directories

When you click the Update Website button, the program stores the answers and builds the webpage. It is a static page that can be spidered.

The static page's URLs are something like http://www.essentialoilsrus.com/your-filename (with the text following the last "/" character being the Username).

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Site Statistics

The web sites will automatically collect statistics for each page containing the several lines of special code. The entire statistics collection will be transparent to the visitor.

The log files will record:

Individual page hits. The page hits might help to determine popularity.
The referrers (if available). The referrers show where the hit came from. (Referral data is usually available when the visitor's browser is JavaScript enabled and if they arrived at the site by clicking on a link at another web page.)
Search terms used when arriving from several of the top search engines. These might be helpful when trying to determine which search terms people use to find sites such as yours.

The website owner views the statistics from a link on their control panel. The statistics for hits and referrers are presented as totals with bar graph for the period selected and also as a daily count with no graph. The statistics for search terms are presented as totals with bar graph.

The file size of the statistics logs for the web sites is set at the Maintainer's Control Panel (individual website owners have no access to this setting). When a log grows beyond the set size, the oldest logs are removed.

Young Living Virtual Office

Virtual Office is a suite of powerful and, best of all, free electronic tools available to all Young Living Distributors. Order downline reports, check downline volumes in real time, gather contact information on downlines, check on past or current orders and more. This service is offered free from Young Living Essential Oils™.

Follow the link above, or click on the image to the left, and this will open a new browser window so that you can easily return to this site later. Click on Virtual Office in the gold band along the top of the page that opens, and enter your Member number and security code and you will instantly have access to information that will help you maintain and GROW your organization!

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Distributor Signups

The product prices at this website are Young Living Preferred Customer prices. If you want to sign up to be a Distributor to get discounted wholesale prices, you first need to purchase the Starter Kit for $20. You will then be considered a Distributor and you'll begin receiving the average 10% discount throughout your relationship with Young Living, as long as you place at least one order within that 12-month period of time. Preferred Customers are charged 10% more than Distributor prices, so it is cheaper for your visitors to buy product as a Distributor.

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The Shopping Experience

The site visitor can search for specific products or view categories of products. If the resulting list is more than one page, links at the bottom can be clicked to see the other pages. Products can be ordered from the same page they are displayed. A shopping cart using JavaScript and cookies keeps track of their purchases.

Each page the visitor views (except for the one "home" page of the website) is generated on demand. The distributor's name, email address, telephone, and ID# are on every page. When they're ready to check out, their purchases are totalled and essential information is collected.

The customer chooses a shipping method. Shipping costs are calculated from dollar amount of order and the shipping method the customer chose.

The customer has a place to enter their tax rate:

"NOTICE: If you aren't sure what your tax rate is, you may call your state's revenue agency for it, or just leave it blank and Young Living will adjust your credit card charge to reflect the correct tax rate, if required, along with any current promotional distributor discounts."

The Sponsor's (website owner) name, and ID# are displayed on the checkout page. The purchaser is asked to provide her/his personal ID#. If the purchaser has an ID#, they fill it in and are asked to verify that the Sponsor name and Sponsor ID# are correct. If not correct, they type in the correct information.

The website Sponsor receives an email with a notification that an order has been placed at her/his site. The Sponsor then retrieves the order from our secure server, and calls or faxes the order in to Young Living on the new distributor's behalf. New distributors will receive their ID# and other information in postal mail.

The order is placed on the secure server in a file also containing the distributor's ID# and other data such as name, email, and telephone. With your browser you can retrieve and print the order, through your control panel. The printed page can then be faxed or mailed in to Young Living. After the order has been retrieved, and processed by Young Living, you tell the program to delete the file.

Website owners may wish to check the secure server at least twice weekly, in case they missed a notification email. For instance, let's say you are on vacation or out of town and can't check your email: You can, from any computer with internet access and a browser, go straight to your control panel and, after typing in your password, click on "Retrieve Product Orders" to see if you have any new orders.

If you prefer, the Webmaster of EssentialOilsrUs can process the order/application and bill you a service charge of $3 per order/application, plus $8 per month. The monthly service charge must be paid in advance.

Notice to AOL users: If you know you have added products to your shopping cart but your cart appears empty, it is most likely because of the limitations that AOL imposes upon its customers. You may need to call your order in to Young Living, but first be sure you have the Member name and ID# from this website which is at the bottom of all pages.
Hooking up with a regular ISP (internet service provider, as opposed to an "online" service provider) will do wonders for your internet experience, not only with this website but all websites. AOL dictates where you can and can't go and what you can and can't do on the web. Your phone book's Yellow Pages can help you find an ISP, or try Earthlink, the #1 rated national ISP.

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Video Clips

The video clips provided with each EssentialOilsrUs website are in Windows Media Player and RealPlayer format. If you have a computer running Windows, you most likely already have the Windows Media Player.

If you or your visitor cannot view the RealPlayer video clips on your main page, RealPlayer is not installed on your/their computer. To get the free RealPlayer, go to http://www.real.com/realone/index.html?src=011218realhome_2 and click on the link "Our Free Player"

Or, go straight to
http://www.real.com/realone/trial.html?dc=117116115&src=011218realhome_2,020111r1choice_h1
and click on "Download the Free RealOne Player Only"

You can also click on the 2nd animated video icon to go directly to download RealPlayer.

If video appears jerky, and/or sound is fuzzy, let the video play through once and then play it again. Once we are all on DSL, satellite, or cable modem, video will be able to be uploaded and displayed in better ways.

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Essential Oils Racks, Carrying Cases and Portfolios

The storage containers offered at these websites (racks, carrying cases and portfolios) are sold separately from Young Living products and thus have their own order form. A 10% commission is paid to individual website subscribers for the subtotal of each order for these items that are ordered through their site.

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EssentialOilsrUs.com Website Approvals
Mary Christensen of Young Living has reviewed and approved this site and its contents since its original conception November 1996. Each individual site's URL (your internet address: http://www.EssentialOilsrUs.com/yourwebsitename) must be sent in by email by its creator to approvals@youngliving.com (Justin Harrison, website field coordinator), as soon as you have included any textual or graphical content to your main page. Be sure you have read and understand the Terms of Service for EssentialOilsrUs Websites.

The author/owner of the EssentialOilsrUs.com domain, Jeff Tollefson dba Genetrix Systems, shall keep all copy rights to the code. Nothing in this document may be construed or interpreted as meaning that any person or entity other than the author/owner is the copyright owner of the programs written for this website.

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