Make Money Online Blogging Tips For Beginners

What To Do After Installing Wordpress

After installing Wordpress on your web host, there are many things you need to do before adding blog content to your make money blog. These include getting various plugins, making the right settings for your blog and choosing your blog design.

Wordpress Plugin

  1. 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.

  2. Get Wordpress Themes
    There are many places to get free Wordpress themes or designs. Just to list a few:
    http://wpthemes.info/
    http://wpdesigner.com/
    http://themes.wordpress.net
    http://www.johntp.com/wp-skins/

    You can find more by doing a Google search for “Free Wordpress Themes”.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Get Plugins
    Install, activate and configure the following plugins:
    All-In-One-SEO-Pack
    Google Maps Generator
    WWW-Redirect
    Feedburner Feedsmith
    Enhanced WP Contact Form

  6. 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.

  7. Sign Up With Google Webmaster Tools
    Submit your sitemap created with the Google Maps Generator plugin which you downloaded earlier to Google Webmaster Tools

  8. 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.

  9. Add Content
    If you’re still interested to make money online blogging after all that, you can start adding blog content to your make money blog.

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