What To Do After Installing WordPress
WordPress is the most common publishing software for those who want to make money blogging since it’s free and user-friendly. After installing WordPress on your web host, there are many things you need to do before adding blog content for your money making ideas. These include getting various plugins, making the right settings for your blog and choosing your blog design.
- Set Permalink Structure
Go to “Options”, “Permalinks” and click on “Custom, specify below” and input the options you want. As a guide, have “/%postname%/” as a default. The permalink should preferably include some kind of numerical reference to help WordPress identify posts since sometimes posts can have almost identical titles.A permalink with post title and post number identity:
/%postname%/%post_id%/If you want to include the date, it would be:
/%postname%/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/Try to keep “/%postname%/” in front and permalinks as short as possible to avoid having them cut off in search results. You can find other permalink tags here.
- Get WordPress Themes
There are many places to get free WordPress themes or designs. You can find more by doing a Google search for “Free WordPress Themes”. - Create Feedburner Account
Sign up with Feedburner and put the FeedFlare code in your index template. That’s the line of text – Subscribe to this feed. Email this. Add This! Stumble It! – you see at the end of each post. Get the email subscription option code and paste it in the sidebar template of your make money blog. - Put An RSS Button
Many WordPress themes come with RSS buttons already included but if there isn’t one, get an RSS button and place it in a prominent position near the top. This is crucial for getting RSS feed subscribers who may want to follow your blog. - Get Plugins
Install, activate and configure the following plugins for starters:
Platinum SEO Pack
Google XML Sitemaps
WordPress Database Backup
Secure WordPress
Enhanced WP Contact Form - Create A Robots Txt File
Basically, a robots .txt file tells search engine bots which pages in your blog to crawl and index so that unnecessary pages and duplicate content won’t be indexed. WordPress Org recommends the following robots .txt file:User-agent: *
# disallow files in /cgi-bin
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /z/j/
Disallow: /z/c/
# disallow all files ending in .php
Disallow: /*.php$
Disallow: /*.js$
Disallow: /*.inc$
Disallow: /*.css$
Disallow: /*.txt$
#disallow all files in /wp- directorys
Disallow: /wp-*/
# disallow all files with ? in url
Disallow: /*?
# disallow any files that are stats related
Disallow: /stats*
Disallow: /about/legal-notice/
Disallow: /about/copyright-policy/
Disallow: /about/terms-and-conditions/
Disallow: /about/feed/
Disallow: /about/trackback/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /tag
Disallow: /docs*
Disallow: /manual*
Disallow: /category/uncategorized*Just use your notepad to copy and paste the above list and save as “robot.txt” and upload it to the root directory of your blog.
- Sign Up With Google Webmaster Tools
Submit your sitemap created with the Google Maps Generator plugin which you downloaded earlier to Google Webmaster Tools. - Set Your URL Preferred Domain
Go to Tools>Set preferred domain in your Google Webmaster Tools and set your domain name either with or without the “www” prefix. Not doing so will adversely affect search engine results and pagerank. - Add Content
If you’re still interested to make money blogging after all that, you can start adding blog content to your make money blog.
There are many more plugins and other security measures you will have to take in order to prevent your money making blog safe from hackers.
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Hi!
Sorry to ask.
How to add plugin in wordpress?
Thanks
Hi,
Great information !
Thanks a lot.
I am totally newbie, and still not understand how to install WP etc, your simple short guidance really help me.
Rgds,
JF
That is all really good advice the only thing I would say is I realise that you have commented on finding a free wordpress design and there are some really good ones out there if you do want to change the design or create something a little unique it is not expensive to have a wordpress theme designed for you. This gives you the ability to have the widgets where you want them and show recent posts.
I agree with everything but I don’t agree with your point 3. Many rss feed directories are not accepting feedburner feeds anymore.
I prefer using my own feed
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