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10 Steps To Setting up your blog as your web site.

Setting up your blog does not have to take days or weeks. It can be done in as little as few hours or a few a days if you simply have a good idea of what you want to accomplish with the blog, and the right header, images, software and web site host.

Here are my 10 steps to building and marketing your blog.

1.       Register domain name.

2.       Set up hosting for your domain.

3.       Use the Fantastico interface to save time installing the Word Press blog software.

4.       Create header image and upload it.

5.       Install plugins to make your life easier!

a.       Adsense manager – Control and arrange your AdSense & Referral blocks on your Wordpress blog. With Widget and inline post support, configurable colors.

b.       WP_ContactMe is a free WordPress plug-in that provides you with a very configurable contact form. Allowing multiple subject and also SPAM protection By DCoda Ltd.

c.       Multi Author Comment Notification – Get email notifications for comments made at other author’s posts as well.

d.       Article Templates – Enables template support for posts and pages.

e.       My Page Order – Allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface. The default method of setting the order page by page is extremely clumsy, especially with a large number of pages.

f.         Insights – Allows you to quickly access and insert information (links, images, videos, maps..) into your blog posts.

g.       All in One SEO Pack – Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.

6.       Set up your google Adsense if you want to generate Adsense income.

7.       Create ads on the side of the blog if you want to generate ad income.

8.       Start posting articles to your blog.

9.       Start posting the articles to Article submission sites to drive traffic to your site.

10.      Add your tags and key words to your All in One SEO Pack plugin to drive traffic to your site.

If you feel you learn better by watching videos of me building a blog, you can check out my  videos showing you how to do all this at http://www.howtobulidablog.com if you learn faster by watching it done!

My best business ideas to you,
John Davin

Your homepage is generally the first thing that people see when they visit your website. That’s why it is so important to make sure that your homepage quickly engages the visitor and lets them know exactly what your website has to offer.

If you have a business website that offers a product or a service then it is your homepage’s job to let people know exactly what you are offering and what solutions you can provide to help solve their problems.

The overall design of your homepage is very important as well. The design of your website is one of the first things that people will notice, and as a general rule the design of your homepage is going to set tone for the look and feel of the rest of your website as well.

As you can see the home page of a website is an extremely important, often times the most important, part of a website design. It needs to communicate to visitors the purpose that your website serves, have a design that is pleasing to the eye, and have an intuitive navigation system in place of visitors can quickly and easily find the information they’re looking for on your website.

If your website is designed to sell a product or service it is also a good idea to have a lead capture mechanism on the home page of your website. This allows your homepage to collect highly targeted leads from your customers and give you the ability to market to them for a long time even after they leave your website.

A good service to use for building an e-mail list is Aweber. Simply sign up for the service, they will generate a small piece of code that you can put on your website to create the opt in form, after that it’s simply a matter of writing e-mails. Everything else is handled automatically by Aweber.