Avoid Looking Like A WordPress Beginner Even If You Are
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Some starting WordPress hints. Change you login name to the name you want people to identify with the site. Don't use the default name 'admin' to post articles unless you really want to get into the admin niche. Seeing your name makes it more personal and professional.
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Create a Category
WordPress has the default category called uncategorized. Having any articles uncategorized is bad SEO and similar to calling a Word document 'Untitled'. If it is called Untitled, it actually does have a title and if you put a post in the category uncategorized, well, it has been categorized. Hasn't it? This setting can be changed in WordPress by going to Manage and selecting Categories
Sample of a Category
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Make a Blogroll
People that come to your site will leave at one point or another. No one gets to one site and remains there for weeks on end. With a Blogroll you can at least point your visitors to places that you like, those sites may point visitors back to you. This setting can be changed in WordPress by going to Blogroll and selecting Categories
Link to other sites
Visitors come to your site from somewhere, often through comments you leave on other blogs. You should not just make comments on blogs, but write articles on your blog about other blogs and people referencing people by name and by website. This post: http://cindyking.biz/web-content-conference-in-french has links to 5 people and 3 other sites. This generates good will and encourages the people and target sites to link back to your site.
Then go to the blog you reference and in your signature link back to your post and not you home page. A link on a blog should be a cull link to a relevant post from your site like http://cindyking.biz/foreign-film-festival/ and not just the home page http://cindyking.biz as most people do.
Customize Your Permalink Structure
Which of these two links tells you something about the topic of the post that is presented on the website?
http://cindyking.biz/?page_id=121
http://cindyking.biz/get-international-clients-newsletter/
Both may get you to your destination, but the top option - the default - does nothing to help a reader get an idea of your post. This setting can be changed in WordPress by going to Options and selecting Permalinks
Writers Block
When blogging a post you discover that you don't have a topic in mind - true writers block.
Go to a blog related to your topic and give pointers that makes a 6 point how-to article.
Write all your own articles
Or at least you should write most of your own articles. This is not a plan to pull sales from any PRL site, just stating that readers can tell when the article is not original. If really necessary, when you have a real writes block and can't write one post you can use them for the base on an article that you build on. Don't use them for your core.
Will you guess where the idea for this article came from?
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I'm forwarding your article to my daughter, who has just set up a WP blog for her place of work. I think she'll find it very helpful!
Thank you Cindy. Very good tips on setting up a WP blog. I have a blog set up a few months ago and your tips help me to make improvements to my blog.
Funride, Sally and Jackie - I'm happy you like the tips. I do like WordPress.
I signed up with GoDaddy before reading other people's advice on a WP blog. Many people say to go with a host service that provides the Fantastico interface. GoDaddy does not. I can't give you any first hand comments on Fantasico. If I had to do it over again, sure I would have chosen a host with Fantasico to check it all out. I think it would have cut out alot of the WP code learning curve.
Cindy
good tips Cindy, I used fantastico which was very easy, but I have not yet started blogging but I think I will now
Have not started, blogging
Get beaten to death by GoDaddy.
I like your fantastico.
Thank you
Great advice, Cindy! People are often afraid of linking out of their site, thinking people will leave and not come back. But doing so adds to the user experience, as well as helping your SEO as the SE's like to see quality outbound links, too.
Thank you!
Great tips... I've been using blogger but having been planning to switch to Wordpress.
Thanks
Ueah linking out is important... it always amuses me when people put up info about what to do if you get writers block... how about watch tv!!
Blogging can be habit forming, and people do feel like they "have to post every day", but it shoudl not be like that, they should just post when they feel like it, IMO... otherwise you become a slave to your blog and that is not a good thing!
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funride says:
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Good tips. I have been thinking about starting my own blog at WorlPress and this hub made me go forward, thank you ;)