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Thursday, February 10th, 2011 at 5:36 am

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Configuring the 2 part blog of Peter Wolfing

Blog Settings

Now it has its place, now we can actually create the blog.

There are three main steps in this process:

1) For your Domain Name and Hosting and configure

2) Installing and configuring WordPress Your blog up

3) Optimizing your WordPress Blog

Remote lodged against self hosted blogs

The two most popular media to create a blog is through Blogger.com or WordPress using. Blogger.com offers a free option for creating a blog and is really simple and easy to install, However, although this may sound good, there are some serious drawbacks to the use of the Blogger.com free option: - Google owns Blogger.com so essentially means that Google also owns its content. This also means that at any given time, Google has the right to close your blog down or remove only that for any reason. Imagine if it was a year of work!

- It's hard for you and your brand, for example, companies can not put your logo in the header of the blog.

- Blogger does not have many options and features so it can be difficult to create things due to some limitations. You can not create categories and it is difficult to apply format. If you are serious about building an online business that is profitable and sustainable that will have a difficult time making a free Blogger blog. Due to these reasons, we always recommend the use of a self-hosted WordPress blog.

The reason the people get out of creating a WordPress is because they think it is difficult and complicated to install. However, this is not the case! It's so easy and does not need much in the way of technical skills and can be done in just minutes!

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Get a domain name and hosting

Choose a domain name

In choosing a domain name, I suggest you look at your list keywords you have collected above and the search for a high search volume and see if it is available as a domain name.

Go to http://www.urlcombplete.com or any other domain registration and start typing in the keywords domains found earlier until you find something that is available. Try to get a domain. Com.

If most of the good domains are already taken, try adding other words, the end, as 'advice', 'guide', etc "solutions" Having keywords in the domain name that really helps in terms of SEO and ranking below, which in turn helps determine the amount of traffic received through search engines.

Setup your domain name with hosting account

Then need to get a hosting account. There are plenty of hosting companies there are to choose, I suggest using Hostgator.com http://www.hostgator.com. They are very realiable and easy to use, so I personally recommend them. Accommodation should cost less than $ 10 a month usually, depending on what type of accommodation and options there.

However, as mentioned above is the same price www.BlogToolbox.com use Host Gator as well as get all their property and a blog seemed superior established why not get it.

For the purposes of this demonstration I'll use the example I used earlier, raw food diets. The following process should be similar, even if you have a different provider of lodging.

Once you have your domain name and have resolved their hosting, then you will follow the following process:

1) Setting up name servers

The first thing we do is set your name servers so your domain name point to your hosting account.

(A) Log into your GoDaddy account and click 'Domain Manager'.

(B) Click on the domain name to see its details.

(C) Click on "Name Servers" and "Set name servers." A pop-up window with 4 options. Select "I have specific name servers for 'my. Enter your 2 name servers associated with your hosting account (Hosting provider sent you this information). Click OK. This may take a few hours to propagate.

2) Create an Add-on domain

Then, you have to login to your hosting account or "C Panel. You can find the cpanel in http://www.yourwebsiteaddress.com/cpanel.

(A) Log on to your hosting account username and password. Scroll down to where it says "Domains" and click 'Add-on domains'

(B) Now, enter your "new domain" and the next two entries will be entered automatically for you. To create a password for the site and be sure to take note.

Installing WordPress

Now we can install WordPress!

(A) Back to start in Group C and scroll down until you see "Fantastico De Luxe" is a small blue icon of the smiley face and click it.

(B) will be given a list of scripts to install. Select WordPress.

(D) Where it says "Install on domain 'select your domain name. Add' Install directory 'blank. Choose a username and password to use to access your blog when editing content. Enter the name you post, e-mail address, name of the blog and the blog description. By name the blog and the description, try to use keywords as this will help your SEO.

(E) Click Finish Installation '. Now you have installed WordPress!

(F) Now go to your domain name and make sure your blog has been installed correctly.

Installing a WordPress Theme

The image above is the default theme that you get when you install WordPress. Now I will show how to load and change the subject to something that you like that also suits your topic.

There are plenty of free WordPress themes that are in the internet. A good place to start is the WordPress site itself: http:// wordpress.org / extend / Themes

You can also try:

http://www.topwpthemes.com

http://www.wordpressthemesbase.com

http://www.wordpressthemespot.com

To find a theme that fits your specific topic, just do a search like health etc wordpress theme "Just make sure the Widgets topic you choose support.

Once you have found one, download and unzip it.

1) Now, to raise the issue (or anything) to your account will be hosting something called an FTP client. To recommend Filezilla (which is what I use) and it's free and very easy to use.

Go to http://filezilla-project.org and download it.

Then install and open it and connect with your information hosting account (username, password and IP address (host)). Below is what appears when you open Filezilla up and go to the left are the files on your computer and on the right side is the files on their websites:

2) On the left side (your computer files), find the place (eg your desktop) where you put the WordPress theme that found earlier that upzipped.

3) On the right side (the side web files), find the folder called "wp-content 'and click it.

4) Make click the folder "themes"

5) Now drag the theme from left to right, in its "themes" folder:

6) Now go and enter your blog, enter your blog URL followed by 'wp-admin "at the end. For example, http://www.yourwebaddress.com/wp-admin

A box popup should appear and sign in with your user name and password you created when you installed the blog in panel C. Now you will be taken to 'Dashboard' your blog.

7) On the left you will see a category called "Apparitions". Click it, then click "Themes".

You should see a few themes available, including the default theme and the theme you just uploaded. Find the theme you just uploaded and click "Enable".

9) Now quickly check your site to see if the subject has been uploaded successfully.

Then we have to optimize the site to make it ready to make money!

I hope you enjoyed this article on the blog about your blog.

Peter Wolfing

About the Author

Peter is a master marketer online and have over 20 years experience online. He has created dozens of sites and products and has helped over 300,000 people reach their online goals with innovative software, websites and systems that help people grow online faster, cheaper and more productive than ever. His latest release is www.blogtoolbox.com which is a free blog system with top wordpress plug-ins and templates to get you started on your road to success. Peter can be reached at support@blogtoolbox.com

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