Free Blog Installation

There are two types of blogs which you can install and use. Free hosted, which are free to register and create. Examples of free hosted blogs are:

Wordpress (http://www.wordpress.com)

Blogger (http://www.blogger.com)

Here is a step by step on how to set up a free blog using Wordpress.com

1.Go to http://www.wordpress.com and click on the big Sign Up button which you can’t miss.

2.Choose a username for the blog. The link will become username.wordpress.com so choose one which is short and easy to remember.

Many people will have created a blog using the free hosted Wordpress so they will have taken up a lot of usernames. You need to find a unique username to login to your Wordpress account with.

3.Then enter a password that you will use to login to your free blog account and also an email address to send the login information to.

Choose the option “Gimme a Blog”. Make sure it is checked. Otherwise you will just create an account with Wordpress with no blog.

4.In the next screen, you can enter the title of your blog. This is very important for search engine optimization.

Use a title which has the keywords for your business at the beginning. In the example I use, I have the words “Buy Guitar Music” which is meaningful and has a lot of searches for this phrase.

It would be a waste of time placing a title such as “Jimmy’s Blog” since it doesn’t tell the readers anything about the blog.

Plus people will not search for that keyword phrase to find what they want to know about guitar music.

Domain Naming

5.After you have clicked Sign Up, the system will send you an email which you need to confirm to activate your account. Once you click on the activation link in the email, you can then login with the username and password you created.

Now that was easy wasn’t it?

Installing A Hosted Blog 

Next we will look at how you can set up and host your blog on your own web hosting server. If you don’t currently have web hosting, I suggest you get a good one at Hostgator which is excellent and reliable service.

Their prices are also very reasonable.

Get a Hostgator web hosting package at http://www.hostgator.com

1.After you have setup your domain name with your web hosting account, login to your Hostgator Cpanel which should look like

    http://<<yourdomainname.com>>/cpanel

2.Then you will need to click on the icon, Fantastico De Luxe. This is a great tool which is available with Hostgator’s cpanel. It allows you to create blogs, forums and other useful features quickly. 

Hosing Site

3.Next click on Wordpress under the Blogs section on the left hand menu.

4.You will then see the screen to install WordPress. Click on the link New Installation

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5.For the Install in directory field, type in the directory where you want to install your blog. If you want to have a blog using the domain name, the leave this field blank.

If you want to install your blog using the same website as your business website then you can install your blog in a directory called blog.

So, http://www.xxxx.com will show your business website and http://www.xxxx.com/blog will show your blog.

Next enter the username and password which you would use to login to WordPress from the browser.

Finally, you should give a nickname for the administrator. This is the name that is used to identify who posted to the blog. For search engine purposes, put your keyword as the nickname. 

If my business was in selling cell phones, I would use cell phones as the nickname.

Same applies to the Site name. Place your keywords near the beginning to improve search engine rankings.

Install Word Press Considering SEO

6.Click the button Install WordPress and your blog will be automatically installed.

7.You will then get instructions on how to login to your blog and you can start blogging.

A little bit more complex than creating a free blog but it’s not rocket science.

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