Setting Up Your Wordpress Blog Like A Blogging Pro
I want to talk to you about setting up your blog
, but first I want to tell you why. Over the Holidays I went several places and on 5 different occasions had different people who I did not know tell me the same thing. I believe in fate so I will obey. I went to Walmart, Bob Evans, The Mall and rode around with my friend who came home for Christmas, who has been living in North Carolina for the past 18 years. We visited some of his childhood friends parents. From going to these places people kept telling me "if you help people get what they want, you will get what you want. You have a gift so share it". This floored me and it is the reason for this post.
Setting Up Your Wordpress Blog Like A Blogging Pro
Sharing Time:
I have a lot of WordPress blog sites that I have wonderful success on and so I thought this insider information would be useful to those of you starting a blog as well as those who have had a blog for some time and just not getting the results you desire. I'm going to let you in on some of the "secrets" of what actually works for me, techniques and strategies together with plugins I know contribute to my blogs success.
Wordpress is TOP DOG for SEO purposes and if you set it up right it will reward you.
Make sure that you at least do the following on your blog:
1) Always delete the "hello world" post and comment.
2) Delete the standard links and change your blogroll's name to general, create a new link category and name it your main keyword phrase.
3) Create at least 10 links to authority blogs in your niche and place them in the new link category.
4) Install and configure the following plugins on your blog:
* Google XML Site Maps
* Platinum SEO Pack if you use a premium theme that has built in SEO this may not be needed.
* Stealth Traffic Systems
* SEO Presser
* Use Google Libraries
* Sexy Bookmarks
* WP Super Cache
* Simple Tags
* Exec-PHP
* All In One Adsense
* ServerBuddy
* WordPress Duplicate Content Cure
* Ping Optimizer
* Insights
* Popup Domination
* OIO Publisher
5) Robots.txt File (Note: This is REALLY CRITICAL!) Copy to notepad save and upload to your domain.
* User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content
Disallow: /manager
Disallow: /article
Disallow: /files
Disallow: /installwordpress
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /downloads
Disallow: /contact-us.html
Disallow: /anything else you want to hide
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /
User-agent: Adsbot-Google
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /wp-content
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/sitemap.xml
6) "Connect" your blog to a full set of Web 2.0 accounts through Ping.fm or Onlywire.com
7) Make the front page sticky with a properly optimized "fixed" page. See Video
8.) Create 10 Unique (100%) article posts (with pictures & video) and drip them into the new blog over 30 days
* Odesk sign up for an account and place your order
9) Use an AutoBlog Plugin to add diversity on topics and to posts on an ongoing basis.
* WordPress Robot
* AutoBlog Samuri
10) Get the best spinner you can afford and create a series of dripped posts.
* Spinner Chief
* Magic Article Rewriter
11) Promote your blog with Senuke, SEO EVO II, Link Farm Evolution or something similar at least once per month EVERY month
12) Get as many backlinks, bookmarks, etc to the individual blog posts on your blog on an ongoing basis but start it slow and build up as time goes on.
13) Monetize your blog properly so it CONVERTS!
14) Promote, promote and then promote
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Visit My Blog For More Highly Effective Blogging Tips, Pointers & Information.by: Jason Gilmore
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