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Installing WordPress For a New Blog
Jul 19th
Step 1 – Find Your Host
If you have not already done so, then you need to decide on where you will be hosting your website. Look around for a website host that offers the services that you need at a price you are happy to pay. To install WordPress, you will need basic hosting along with a MySQL database, so look at the price of that. If you are creating more than 1 blog then maybe look at accounts that will host multiple websites, even reseller accounts.
If you are lucky you might choose a host that has one click WordPress installation. If so, then do the next step and the one click installation and forget the rest of the steps!
Promoting Your Website Without Paying Anything
Jul 5th
Promoting a website will usually cost you some money. The online business, like any other business, does not come free. But let me tell you this, there is a simple way of beating that system. Yes, you can and should promote your website free. Below are the hot tips you need to avail of this promotion and I urge you to implement them immediately:
1. The easiest and surefire way to promote your website is through enlisting it to Online Directories. You have to beautify your site first so that it will get a good chance of being accepted, not a bad deal right?
Using Forums to Generate Website Feedback and Visitors
Jul 1st
To know how your website visitors experience a specific topic on your site, see to it that you offer away for them to share insights and honest comments.
People generally like to be able to voice their opinions, experiences, concerns, and questions.
Several internet customers these days are becoming extremely participatory in sharing their thoughts and possessing community forums is a good way to take advantage of this outlet. Both the participants and the webmaster benefit.
What Could a Blog Be Used For?
Jun 28th
A blog can be your personal inspiration!
Are you training for a marathon or trying to lose weight? Do you often wander from your goals and need a helping hand steering yourself back on track? Then blogging in a community could be just what you want. Start a simple blog, using a free community blog, and start describing your goals and ongoing training and exercise regime. Thinking of missing a session or just feeling low after a bad session? Then write a new post and share it with others and hope to get some positive comments back. Read through other blogs in the community and share your thoughts with them.
Top 10 WordPress Terms You Should Know
Jun 23rd
My new WordPress clients are often confused about some of the terminology of WordPress. This makes it more difficult to communicate effectively with them about what they want from their WordPress sites and blog. So, I’ve decided to list the top 10 WordPress related terms everyone who uses WordPress should know.
Term 1: Themes
A Theme is a collection of files that create the visual look of your WordPress website or blog. Themes are kinda like ‘skins’ that you can easily download, install and start using on your site. Themes also can include some custom features to give you greater control over the presentation and functionality of your site. In general, only one Theme can be used at a time.
What is a Blog Used For?
Jun 22nd
Blogs are everywhere on the internet now-a-days and people are asking the question, what is a blog? And what is a blog used for?
WHAT IS A BLOG?
What is a blog? According to Merriam-Webster.com/dictionary/blog, a blog is defined as – A website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer, also: the contents of such a site.
In other words, a blog is an active website. Typically for blogs to perform well, content needs to be added regularly (preferably daily for a better ranking in the search engines) in the form of post.
Your 7 Second Internet Presence Secret
Jun 15th
People Crave Clarity
You can count on the fact that the most elaborate efforts to develop your internet presence won’t matter 7 seconds after someone has found you unless they’re captivated by what they see. People are conditioned to expect stimulation and they’ll lose concentration fast unless they get it.
Too much happening on your landing page or home page is like the neighbor with a yard that looks like they’re always setting up for a yard sale.
If it takes more than 5 seconds for someone to identify with something of value to them, they won’t give you the 2 seconds it takes for them to scroll down. Keeping your sites clean and professional makes it easier to draw the focus onto what you want to communicate.
The Best Blogging Software
May 12th
In my view, there is only one truly great piece of blogging software on the internet. But it is not always the best for all people, there are sometimes alternatives whilst not the best for the masses, are better for distinct niches?
So what attributes make up the best blogging software on the market? I believe that it has to:
* Be free to use – there are so many paid for blogging tools about, why pay for software?
* Be flexible and extendible – if you want to add a feature to it, such as site maps, captcha checked contact forms, this must be easy to do.
* Be easy to set-up and install.
* Be easy to make it look different to other blogs – there is no point in running a professional blog that looks like 3,000,000 other blogs.
* Have ready made (and free) off-the-shelf styles readily available to install at the touch of a button.
* Be well search engine optimised and accepted by the search engines.
* Ideally, it should have a community of other bloggers that can also drift over to your new blog from related blogs.
Tips For Choosing a Domain Name That Works
Apr 23rd
1. Keep it short and simple
People have poor memories, so the shorter the domain name the better it is. Choose words or phrases that are easy to remember.
Ask yourself:
- Is it hard to spell or read?
- Does it reflect what the website is all about?
Try to avoid too many hyphens in the name, people will not remember them.
2..COM.NET.ORG.TV.MOBI ETC
Question is dot what? People are used to
.COM as this was the first one around.
.NET has also gained popularity.
.ORG usually indicates a non profit organisation.
.TV aims high, use it if you plan to upload loads of movies and videos.
.MOBI is the latest trend and targets the internet on your mobile community.
If your target market is country oriented, you might be better off choosing an extension which reflects that, like.co.uk for the UK,.fr for France,.de for Germany etc etc. However if you plan to target the global market.COM is still the preferred TLD (top level domain – extension).
3. If you can afford it, register more than one domain name. If you’re in the UK it would be wise to register both a.com and a.co.uk simply to avoid other people registering the same name and you losing business as a result. Some companies even register popular misspellings for their company name. It’s amazing how many people type domain name in search engines when looking for info on domain names. Goggle.com could make a fortune!
4. Last tip – check availability using a domain checker and as soon as you find a good one, grab it. Things on the internet move very fast. Do not sleep on it or you’ll end up missing out.
M Causon is a web designer / developer with a passion for web video – filming and editing. All web design follows SEO guidelines to give your website the best chances of ranking well in search engines. For more information go to www.websiteUKdesign.com Web design and web video prices are very reasonable as can be seen at Web Design Prices.
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Choosing a Cheap Web Hosting Service For Your Website – 5 Essential Points to Consider
Mar 30th
In choosing a cheap web hosting service for your website there are some things that you need to take into consideration. While your number one priority right now might be pricing, just focusing on that could lead to you making a bad decision. There might be just minor differences in pricing and value between some of these providers, but it can make a big difference in whether your business succeed or fail.
There are some web hosting providers out there that offer similar service to others, but have different costing. While there are some who charge the same price, yet there are differences with the services that they provide. The only way to figure out what is going on and make sure that you get the “best bang for your buck,” is to do some research. If you are planning to be in business for a while then you need to make sure that you get the right hosting now
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