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. Wordpress is the platform of choice.  

Why?

An advantage here is that as it is open source, there are 1000’s of free themes you can use.  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!  For someone that stuggled to make money as a PPC affiliate with iPhone offers, this is totally the best aspect.From my iPhone I can update all my blogs from anywhere.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 always in contact with my auidence.

So you are ready to start blogging?Don’t get caught like a lot of people that stop blogging only a few posts in. Tie in your hobbies and passion to ensure great content and longevity of your blog. This will keep you blogging and make money.

Let’s briefly look at installing wordpress, the easy way.The first thing you need to do is register a domain name. That’s the simple part. There are plenty of domain registrars to choose from. I use Planetdomain.com, simple and straight forward to use.

I don’t use their hosting for my sites though. I use another excellent provider that allows unlimited, disk, bandwidth and websites. All very important if you end up with a online empire across many sites and niches.Then get FileZilla. This free FTP program is essential to upload themes, plugins and widgets to your new blog sites.

With everythihng set-up. Simply log into the cPanel of your hosting provider.  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.Very simply, click Wordpress and ‘New Installation’.  Complete all the details, enusre that you remember your admin name and password, you will need to to log into worpress admin area to post to your blog etc.

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

Log into the admin area and delete the “Hello World” post and any other posts/ comments wordpress installs. Just go to manage and then posts and from there delete.

Then go to Manage and Pages and click on ‘About’.Change the ‘About’ information to wherever suites you best.

Go to the wordpress site.org and click on the menu item ‘extend’ and then ‘themes’.Once you have selected your free theme, simply download it and then extract locally.

Open your FTP program, place in your FTP details and upload your new theme to WP-Content->Themes.  Note that the file path is. Public_html ->wp-content -> themes.

Now that you are done you can blog away and start to generate that 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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