28 June 2010 ~ 6 Comments

How To Set Up A WordPress Blog

So, you’re ready to create a self-hosted wordpress blog but you don’t know where to start.  Yes, it can be very intimidating and at first you will feel like you’re all thumbs but the best thing to do is just get started.  Over time, things will eventually fall into place. The following steps will guide [...]

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26 June 2010 ~ 7 Comments

Format Your New Blog’s Permalinks

When setting up your wordpress blog, you will keep most of the default settings ‘as-is’ but there is one that you definitely want to change and that’s your permalinks. When I first set up my blog, I wasn’t aware of this until a few weeks into it so thought I would put together a quick [...]

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17 February 2010 ~ 3 Comments

The Basics of Search Engine Traffic

You’ve created your blog, added some great content and now you want to start generating traffic to your blog.  So, how do you get traffic to your new blog?  Well, first you need to figure out what kind of traffic you want to generate.  Do you want to generate social traffic or do you want [...]

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08 February 2010 ~ 4 Comments

My Top 10 Favorite WordPress Plug-ins

WordPress.org is really the preferred blogging platform because you host your site and have complete control.  When you first install WordPress.org, it comes as a blank slate so you are responsible for adding all the different plug-ins that add the various features and functionality onto your blog.  While, researching and playing with the various plug-ins [...]

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