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Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 5:00 pm

The Idiots Guide to Setting Up WordPress

WordPress is simply the best blogging platform on the planet! Being open source software, developers around the world have produced hundreds of plugins to enhance core functionality such as blogs outcome has never been easier, and search engines love it!

Blogs with WordPress offers two major advantages:

1. It's free to download and use
2. Search engines, particularly Google, love WordPress blogs

WordPress is open source software, which means free to use. When you choose a hosting account, try and pick one that uses a control panel called "CPanel", because the WordPress Installation is as easy as clicking a few icons, really is easy!

So you have purchased a domain name, found a hosting company with CPanel and installed WordPress on your new domain! In theory you are ready to make your first post! But before doing so, keep reading!

Before you post, you must configure your blog and optimize it for search engines, do this before publishing makes life much easier for the future.

As WordPress is open source, developers around the world have written hundreds of plugins that enhance the functionality of his blog, and again most are free to install. Check out WordPress.org plugins where you will find hundreds of free. Those who recommend are:

- Installer (Install this first, simplifies the installation plug-in)
- All In One SEO Pack (optimizes your posts)
- Adsense Manager (adds Adsense blocks in your posts)
- Google Maps Web XML (create a sitemap for your blog)
- Ultimate Tag Warrior (essential plugin for tag management)
- Sociable (help with social bookmarks)

Then in your control panel, select Options from the menu and then Permalinks. You must change the configuration of this page with the URL to optimize your message to the search engines, this change will ensure that your keywords appear in the url. Table of custom options insert the following:

/%% From the category /% postname% /

Typing this will optimize your messages, but beware selecting only once per category on the future and not change the category of an entry after it is released!

When you post with WordPress, that automatically notifies (known as ping) blog directories of your new content index is based on the labels assigned. The search engine robots regularly visit these directories, and as a result of his new position will be indexed by them very quickly. Rapid indexing is one of the big advantages of blogging!

In setting up blogs, you must add that many directory sites as possible to ping, in addition to the default url. Simply search on the Web "list ping. "

Finally, it is necessary to optimize the look of your site. You do not want to use the basic model that comes with WordPress. If you do a search Online WordPress themes, you'll find hundreds of downloads for free.org back into your theme directory. Although there are hundreds of free themes at all, does not seem to find one that perfectly meets my needs, so they often end up buying one!

Once you have installed the topic of their choice, which is activated all the plugins, and has made the configuration settings you've recommended, you're ready to publish, what are you waiting for!
About the Author

Get a copy of my personal "ping" list at http://www.essentialseotools.com/seoblog , where you'll also find lots more information and tips on blogging with WordPress. For some great looking themes visit Instant WordPress Themes.

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