There are so many steps to follow when building a wordpress website that even I still need a checklist next to me to make sure I do not miss anything. There are ten steps included in “How to start a Wordpress Website” and I probably could have added more. However this report focuses on getting you to the point where you can start adding content to your website.
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Table of contents
#1 Buy website hosting
#2 Buy a domain name
#3 Point the dns server settings to your hosting
#4 Put the domain name into your website hosting
#5 Upload Wordpress through fantastico in your Cpanel
#6 Sign into your Wordpress Dashboard
#7 Choose a theme to install
#8 Change important settings in your Wordpress installation
#9 Install plugins
#10 Configure plugins
There are some great Wordpress website themes out there on the internet and most are free. However if you cannot find what you want then I suggest you make your own with this simple program.
When developing a Wordpress website I highly reccomend that you plan what categories you are going to have. You shouldn’t just create Wordpress categories on the spare of the moment, they should be search engine optimized.
The first way to SEO your categories is to use a title, preferably, that has your keywords included in it…If you look over to the right of this post you will see that my categories all try to have my keywords in them. (Same with my domain name). The second way to SEO your categories is to write an appropriate description for it. Most people neglect to write a description for their categories at all. This is a big mistake!
Watch this video to see how I Optimize my Wordpress website and create SEO categories.
Installing a Wordpress theme onto your Wordpress installation is easy. Even if you already have a Wordpress website you can easily go back and change the theme at a later date. I am a bad example for this and seem to change my themes at least once a month. It’s not my fault that the Wordpress theme designers keep releasing fantastic looking FREE themes for me to download!
In this video you will see how to install a new Wordpress theme from the themes available at Wordpress.org and from a downloaded theme on your computer.
Here are some of my favorite sites for free Wordpress website themes:
I actually teach people how to make a Wordpress website, add content to it, and get found by the Search Engines. The biggest problem I have found is that they forget to fill in all the details when attempting to publish a post. Some beginners have been know to even forget to put a title to the post.
I have developed a quick checklist that you should get familiar with when posting content to your Wordpress website.
- Write a descriptive title to your post. Try and think what people would type into the search engines for this subject. What words would be the most common. Make sure your title has at least 5 – 10 words in it..Anymore is overkill.
- Fill in the body of your post. Make sure each post is over 250 words. visitors do not like to go to a webpage with two sentences of information on it. They will leave in a second. Also add subtitles with your keywords throughout the post, and bulleted lists. Google loves good information and you will be rewarded for it.
- Fill in your tags. These are basically keywords that apply to your post and title. They are not about the website. It’s all about what’s in the post. This is how you let people know what it is about.
- Choose a category. Do not publish posts in the uncategorized section. If you do then this will show up in your category list. You should try to choose a category that relates to the post. So therefore if the person clicks on the category, they know there will be posts related to that.
For more information please watch the video below.
The great thing about using Wordpress to build your website is that it has a plugin for almost everything you can imagine. I have a bad attitude about websites now…It is almost a lazy attitude. I no longer worry about designing or tweeking my website as I know I can easily fine a great wordpress theme and a handy plugin to enhance my website.
Plugins can do Search Engine Optimization for you, get you traffic, make auto links, make auto posts, make different sections on your website, and more.. Installing a plugin is so easy, a two year old could do it.
In this video below I will show you how to install a plugin to your Wordpress website. Plugins will save you many hours or messing around with html and php code. I like to avoid all the un-necessary work and therefore I think plugins rule!
It sounds like a daunting task, however it is very simple. To install Wordpress using fantasico in cpanel hosting is by far the easiest way to get the job done. I wish I could have found a video tutorial like this when I was struggling to work it out some years ago.
If your website hosting comes with a cpanel that includes fantastico then you are laughing. You can have a website installed within minutes. Hosting such as hostgator and Just host can help you out with this.
I was hanging around on Youtube and found this video. Usually when you see a video that has a title with the word secret in it, you know it is a scam. However this video is very interesting and gives you another cool way to use your sales page and opt in page. After all the name of the game is to build a great OPT in list for your website, and this guys method would guarantee sales as he has already figured out that the OPT in is a buyer.
Please share your great ideas on how to attract solid OPT in email addresses.
