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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