Free blogs are great to have because they don’t cost anything, they’re quick to build and they are excellent for building links, sending traffic to your website.
If you look at http://www.WordPress.com, it has a Google Page rank of 9 which is huge. It means that the Google search engine considers it to be an authority website. A website that is very important and will rank high in their search engine results.
So if you have a free blog created in WordPress.com with your keyword in the URL such as keyword.wordpress.com it means that you are getting a link from WordPress.com.
Google will see this and therefore rank your blog high in the search engines.
If you have not already done so, go to WordPress.com and create a user account and then create as many blogs as you can under this account.
The key is to use good keywords for the name of the blogs. Get them while they’re still available.
Remember the blogs’ URL have to be unique. If you’re serious with building good links to your main blog or main website, then create as many free WordPress or Blogger blogs as you can.
With these free blogs, you can post good content and tell the visitors to visit your main hosted blog or any other websites you want.
If you look at http://www.WordPress.com, it has a Google Page rank of 9 which is huge. It means that the Google search engine considers it to be an authority website. A website that is very important and will rank high in their search engine results.
So if you have a free blog created in WordPress.com with your keyword in the URL such as keyword.wordpress.com it means that you are getting a link from WordPress.com.
Google will see this and therefore rank your blog high in the search engines.
If you have not already done so, go to WordPress.com and create a user account and then create as many blogs as you can under this account.
The key is to use good keywords for the name of the blogs. Get them while they’re still available.
Remember the blogs’ URL have to be unique. If you’re serious with building good links to your main blog or main website, then create as many free WordPress or Blogger blogs as you can.
With these free blogs, you can post good content and tell the visitors to visit your main hosted blog or any other websites you want.
Using Hosted Blogs
WordPress is the most popular blog software which people use. Many serious bloggers host the WordPress in their web hosting account because it is easy to use and it is free of charge.
Plus there are many themes which you download for free to customize your blog so that it looks different from the rest.
You can even hire a freelance programmer to design a unique appearance for your blog.
Go to websites such as http://www.oDesk.com, http://www.elance.com, http://www.scriptlance.com and http://www.rentacoder.com to find these blog designers. A unique blog design will cost around $150 - $250.
To drive more traffic to your main blog, install a lot of free blogs and have a link to your own hosted blog. But you must have at least on self-hosted blog on your web host.
The reason is that with the free blog accounts you created with WordPress.com or Blogger.com, they may find your content unsuitable. Or someone may have
reported your content as copied or offensive.
Whatever the reason, the point is you risk having your free blog banned. Now if you spent months or even years posting good content to the free blog, you may lose everything overnight.
Don’t let this happen.
Have your own hosted WordPress blog on your own web hosting server and drive traffic to it using all the free blogs that you have. This is the method which other smart bloggers are using.
With your own hosted blog, you can write about what you want and have no risk of getting shut down. Unless of course you SPAM people with the domain name (which you should never do).
WordPress is the most popular blog software which people use. Many serious bloggers host the WordPress in their web hosting account because it is easy to use and it is free of charge.
Plus there are many themes which you download for free to customize your blog so that it looks different from the rest.
You can even hire a freelance programmer to design a unique appearance for your blog.
Go to websites such as http://www.oDesk.com, http://www.elance.com, http://www.scriptlance.com and http://www.rentacoder.com to find these blog designers. A unique blog design will cost around $150 - $250.
To drive more traffic to your main blog, install a lot of free blogs and have a link to your own hosted blog. But you must have at least on self-hosted blog on your web host.
The reason is that with the free blog accounts you created with WordPress.com or Blogger.com, they may find your content unsuitable. Or someone may have
reported your content as copied or offensive.
Whatever the reason, the point is you risk having your free blog banned. Now if you spent months or even years posting good content to the free blog, you may lose everything overnight.
Don’t let this happen.
Have your own hosted WordPress blog on your own web hosting server and drive traffic to it using all the free blogs that you have. This is the method which other smart bloggers are using.
With your own hosted blog, you can write about what you want and have no risk of getting shut down. Unless of course you SPAM people with the domain name (which you should never do).
WordPress Plugins
The most powerful feature with a WordPress blog is the ability to install WordPress plugins to your hosted blog to make it much more advanced.
Here are the brief steps on how to install a plugin:
1. Download the plugin to your hard disk and then using a FTP program, upload it your blog in the folder /wp-content/plugins
Depending on the type of plugin you’re installing, you may need to upload the whole folder or just a file.
Read the instructions of how to install the plugin in the plugins web page.
2. Once the plugin is uploaded, login to your blog and click on the Plugins link on the left hand menu. You will see a list of plugins you have available.
Click on the link Activate to start your plugin. Depending on what plugin you installed, you may need to configure it.
Check the web page where you downloaded the plugin to see what configurations you need to do to complete the installation.
The most powerful feature with a WordPress blog is the ability to install WordPress plugins to your hosted blog to make it much more advanced.
Here are the brief steps on how to install a plugin:
1. Download the plugin to your hard disk and then using a FTP program, upload it your blog in the folder /wp-content/plugins
Depending on the type of plugin you’re installing, you may need to upload the whole folder or just a file.
Read the instructions of how to install the plugin in the plugins web page.
2. Once the plugin is uploaded, login to your blog and click on the Plugins link on the left hand menu. You will see a list of plugins you have available.
Click on the link Activate to start your plugin. Depending on what plugin you installed, you may need to configure it.
Check the web page where you downloaded the plugin to see what configurations you need to do to complete the installation.
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That is all there is to installing a plugin. The best places to find plugins for your blog is at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
Have a good look to see what kind of plugins are suitable for you.
Make sure that the plugins matches the version of the WordPress software you’ve installed.
Here are a list of WordPress plugins which are useful to have:
1. Stat Press (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statpress/)
A traffic monitoring tool which gives statistics on the visitors to your blog. Know which pages and posts people are visiting.
2. All In One SEO Pack (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/)
Further enhances your blog for the search engines. Essential if you want to rank high in the search engines with your posts. You can place keywords you want to target for each post.
3, Askimet (akismet.com/)
Comes preinstalled with your WordPress installation. You need to activate it so that SPAM comments are filtered.
4. Only wire Auto submit (www.lionstarr.de/onlywire-autosubmit-a-wordpress-plugin.html)
Uses Onlywire, a cheap paid service (http://www.onlywire.com) which submits your new posts to many social bookmark websites once you publish it. Effective for driving traffic.
5. Sociable (push.cx/sociable)
Adds social bookmarking site links to the end of your posts. Your readers can use them to tell others on social bookmark sites how great your content is. Good for getting additional traffic to your blog if your posts are good.
6. WhatWould Seth Godin Do (www.richardkmiller.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-what-would-seth-godin-do)
Posts an announcement to your visitors asking them to subscribe to your blog’s RSS feed. Good for increasing your RSS feed subscribers which means more traffic.
Have a good look to see what kind of plugins are suitable for you.
Make sure that the plugins matches the version of the WordPress software you’ve installed.
Here are a list of WordPress plugins which are useful to have:
1. Stat Press (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statpress/)
A traffic monitoring tool which gives statistics on the visitors to your blog. Know which pages and posts people are visiting.
2. All In One SEO Pack (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/)
Further enhances your blog for the search engines. Essential if you want to rank high in the search engines with your posts. You can place keywords you want to target for each post.
3, Askimet (akismet.com/)
Comes preinstalled with your WordPress installation. You need to activate it so that SPAM comments are filtered.
4. Only wire Auto submit (www.lionstarr.de/onlywire-autosubmit-a-wordpress-plugin.html)
Uses Onlywire, a cheap paid service (http://www.onlywire.com) which submits your new posts to many social bookmark websites once you publish it. Effective for driving traffic.
5. Sociable (push.cx/sociable)
Adds social bookmarking site links to the end of your posts. Your readers can use them to tell others on social bookmark sites how great your content is. Good for getting additional traffic to your blog if your posts are good.
6. WhatWould Seth Godin Do (www.richardkmiller.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-what-would-seth-godin-do)
Posts an announcement to your visitors asking them to subscribe to your blog’s RSS feed. Good for increasing your RSS feed subscribers which means more traffic.
To Be Continue.........................
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