Blog Action Plan Report

HOW TO SETUP YOUR FIRST WORDPRESS BLOG 

(STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS)

Over the last couple of years blogging has become very popular and a lot of major websites have created their own blog for consumers to view. Blogging is a great way to have up to date content which is easily created and is by far the best way to get traffic to your website. The best blogging software available is
WordPress which offers an easy to use system that allows you to set up and install a blog at your current domain name. For example, if your website is www.yourdomainhere.info, your blog address would be
www.yourdomainhere.info/blog or you can register a site for your blog only and thus install the blog in the “root” of your server – that way your blog address would be www.yourdomainhere.info. Although it isn’t a requirement to have your own domain name for the use of WordPress, I’d recommend that you do
because if you’re serious about blogging your way to success then having your own domain name will seriously help you. WordPress was started in 2003 and has since become one of the most popular blogging software available.

Setting up a WordPress blog is easy and fast and not only does it improve your website but it improves your search engine rankings and your popularity with consumers. However, there are a few requirements that you need to make sure you have in order to successfully create a WordPress blog which can function on
your website and be an asset rather than a drawback.

Firstly, you will need to ensure that your web host supports PHP files because WordPress is written in PHP code. Your web host must also support at least one MySQL database because you’ll need this in order to make posts – WordPress is a database based program and stores your blog posts and information in a
MySQL database so that you can easily retrieve and access your blog posts for editing etc. You must also be using a paid web host which doesn’t force ads onto your website. It has become common knowledge that forced ads on a webpage interfere with WordPress and its general functioning.

Ok, now to setting up the blog. This is relatively easy and some web hosts even offer to do this for you depending on the package you have with them. Installing WordPress onto your website can be done in the following 10 simple steps.

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