I was first introduced to Wordpress after taking the Bloggers Paycheck course by John Yeo who showed me that Wordpress is by far the best blog platform that you will use if you are looking to make money blogging or start an internet business.

While it is true there are many other blogging tools, if you really want to establish yourself online and make money. The best choice is Wordpress.  

Why?

As this is an open source platform you have access to free themes for your new site.  You also get literally thousands of free plugins. Plugins are additions to the platfrom that enhance the blog and the user experience. 

Wordpress is also a state of the art platform with many big name companies using them, such as The New York Times and CNN.

Let me tell you a secret, you can also blog from your iphone!As someone that did not make money using PPC with iPhone, this was the best aspect.It does not matter where I am as I can update my blogs simply from my iPhone.I actually blog whenever and wherever I want. The train, airport, even the beach. I put out the right message and information as soon as I think about it.I am in constant contact with my readers.

So you are ready to start blogging?  Keep in mind that you need to know what your passion is as you may  struggle to produce the content and longevity to keep blogging to make money.

Let’s briefly look at installing wordpress, the easy way.To start with, you need to register a domain name. That is the easy part. There are plenty of registrars out there. I personally use Planetdomiain simple to use and straight forward.

Now, I don’t however use their hosting services, I use Hostgator for the reason you get, unlimited disk, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited number of websites, which is very important if you find yourself with an online empire.Last, get FileZilla. This is a free FTP program that you will need to upload wordpress themes and plugins to your site.

Now that everything is setup, simply log onto your host account and acces the cPanel.  Within cPanel there is a tool called Fantastico, this is a utility that has a lot of scripts that you can install for your webiste such as ecommerce, forums etc.  But the one we want is Wordpress.

There are a number of options here, but Wordpress should be udner ‘blogs’ in the second header.  You simply need to click on Wordpress and then ‘New Installation’.Once you complete the details, take note of your adminstration username and the password. You will need these to log into the Wordpress admin area.

Your blog is now up and running!  I strongly recommend that you do the following straight away.

Now log into the administration area www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin and delete the “Hello World” post and any other posts or comments that are there by default. Simply go to ‘manage’ then posts and delete.

Go to Manage’ and then ‘Pages’ and select ‘About’.Change the ‘About’ information to wherever suites you best.

Now head over to wordpress.org and click on the menu item ‘extend’ and then ‘themes’.Select from one of the many free themes that you like, download and then unzip it to your local computer.

Open Filezilla, put in your FTP details and upload your new theme.  Note that the file path is. Public_html ->wp-content -> themes.

There, you are now complete and ready to start blogging and generate traffic.There is a lot more to Wordpress then just posting.  There are a lot of plug-ins that really enhance your site and can add a lot to user experience, everything from social bookmarking tools, automatically insert adsense to postings and many more.

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