Get your internet marketing blog online

This post is part 3 of the make money online beginners guide

Right. I assume you want to start an internet marketing blog and got yourself a nice .com domain. If not, no problem, just get yourself a nice Blogger blog or Wordpress blog and skip this post. We are about to install WordPress, a very helpful Content Management System (CMS) and get your first post online.

WordPress, easy, simple and FREE

WordPress is a CMS. A CMS will help you publish your ideas, without having any HTML, PHP, or mySQL knowledge. It’s that simple. The concept of WordPress is “Write and Publish” and I like it.

Installation
When you get your FTP log-in from your host, use a FTP program to upload the latest WordPress installation to your server. Make sure you upload it to the root of your server, so you don’t get a messy URL (eg. yoursite.com/wordpress/postname). U can use this documentation, which is very helpful.

Now, make your site look pretty
Get a nice theme, that you feel comfortable with, from the WordPress theme viewer. If you have downloaded a theme, upload it to your FTP server in the following map: yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/. When you login to your WP-admin, you choose “Presentation” and choose your uploaded theme to activate it. You can edit the theme later on, but now you want to write your first post.

Edit or delete the old WordPress post, and welcome your future readers. Congratulations, you are now an official blogger :)

In the next post, I will talk about optimizing your WordPress blog for Search Engines.

July 5, 2007 | make money online beginners guide

 

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One Response to “Get your internet marketing blog online”

  1. Chris on July 31st, 2007 10:46

    this might be helpfull:
    http://www.seo-portal.com/10-seo-tips-for-wordpress/2006/07/09/

    SEO tips for WordPress

    one more tip in general:
    write “Top # …” posts and submit them as articles.. they spread like crazy :)

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