Video By Commoncraft
“Blogs in Plain English” introduces the concept of a blog as a way for every person to have the power to share news. The video includes:
So, as it turns out, with very little research, you can easily install a wordpress blog on your site, especially if you have the right hosting. My husband and I host all of our websites on www.BetterWebBusiness.com. It has all the right stuff (like wordpress, Joomla!, Lifetype, and many other applications) and it’s a great price.
That’s not my point, though. My point is with wordpress you can add plugins, like the social bookmarking one below that let’s people easily add a post to digg.com, del.icio.us, technorati, etc. You can also change themes (look and feel) easily. Or, if you know HTML and CSS make your blog have any appearance you want! You can add to, and take away things at any time quickly and easily. It’s very impressive.
I did find out, however, that wordpress isn’t SEO friendly as it stands “out of the box”. There are ways to optimize it though. Here’s a couple tutorials on this:
WordPress SEO: Beginner’s Guide
SEO for WordPress, the complete guide
I’ll be posting links to information on installing, upgrading, and using a wordpress blog here, as well as other information on social media, and on SMM (social media marketing).
I’m venturing into somewhat unfamiliar territory these days. While I’ve had many blogs, I never set up a WordPress blog before. Additionally, on some of my other sites, I’m setting up Joomla! and Lifetype. Joomla! will be used for a community site for those interested in contributing healthy living information. Lifetype, if I’m ever successful setting that one up, will be multiple blogs for members in one of the many niches I have.