Archive for July, 2009
Internet Marketing: Installing Your Theme On Your Wordpress Blog
You want to unzip the theme that you downloaded from the Wordpress theme catalog (sometimes referred to as the them viewer). This folder has to be unzipped. The way to unzip the theme is to right-click the theme folder and choose “extract all”. Then you have to FTP all the files from your computer to your server. When you connect to the FTP server of your web site, you will find that there is a folder that says “Wpcontent”. Within that folder, there is a folder called “Themes”. There will already be two themes in there: “Default” and “classic”. Now, just upload the entire folder that you unipped to this directory. You need to be sure that you upload the entire folder.
When you have finished uploading, go back and log into your blog, and find the “design” or “Appearance” tab and choose themes sub tab. Now just select the theme that you want and choose to activate the theme. It is that simple. Just go back to the blog, hit “refresh” (or F5) and you will see the theme now on your blog.
Whew!
It is a lot harder than you think it is, at least it reads as more difficult.
Tomorrow, let’s discuss posting to your blog. Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing: What The _ Is FTP?
No, it isn’t dirty. It stands for File Transfer Protocol. You may wonder what it is. An FTP program allows person to transfer files, zip files, ebooks, html pages , all sorts of files from their computer to their server, or website, on the Internet. A few years ago, I thought that I was going to get things “happening” by having a website. I went to GoDaddy and purchased a name, I got their hosting, a set up a website. I wanted to have pictures loaded of some of the work that I had done (along with my wife) 
but I never quite figured out how to do it. I called their help desk, and they said something about an FTP program.
Huh?
I was confused. Now I know better. You need an FTP program to “transfer” your files to your server. You don’t have to know all about it. You drive a car, but I am willing to bet that most of you cannot take a car engine apart and rebuild it. You don’t need to. The program that I use is “FileZilla”. You can get the program here.
Tomorrow, we will discuss set up.
Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing: Zzzzzzziiiiiiiiiipppppppppppp!
When you download your theme from http://themes.wordpress.net it will be in a compressed file. You can go to Google and type in “zip file” in the search field and get the software for unzipping files, if it isn’t already loaded onto your computer. The whole premise of zip files is to be able to sent large packets of information in a relatively short amount of time. Once you have your file unzipped.
I find that having Win-Zip software has allowed me to download programs, e-books, music…all sorts of files without spending an exhorbitant amount of time online to do so. There is another step that is necessary, but let’s save it for another day. The important thing is to “un-zip” your theme onto your hard drive. Make sure that you name the folder in an easy-t0-find location. If you are walking into the middle of this, go back to earlier post and you can catch yourself up to speed.
Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing - Finding a Theme For Your Wordpress Blog
In the early days of the Internet, blogs and discussions were text only and that was in just the standard green and black of the CRT. Boring by today’s standards, especially with the increase use of video, music, and graphics. You want a theme that is all about your product. Don’t make it too “busy” because people will be less likely to follow the content of your blog. Your blog needs to be a source of information to which people will return again and again to find that trusted information. When they trust you enough, they will reward you by referring others to your site and by purchasing things.
Just don’t choose the standard setting because some services consider it to be a spam blog or “Splog”. You can get some excellent themes for your blog by going to the following site: http://themes.wordpress.net. When you first arrive you will be given over 900 themes from which to choose. It is advised to use a theme with two columns. More than two columns can be distracting for the reader. You can choose whatever color you like, but keep in mind that black with white text doesn’t work well on all computers, and you will lose readers if you choose that color scheme.
You also have a choice on whether you want a fixed width or not. Choose the fixed width. Have consistency in your blog and people will consistently visit. The nice thing is that if you don’t like how a blog is working out for your, you can always change it. You will choose a theme and download it to your local hard drive. Tomorrow we will look at how to install this theme.
Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing - The Final Step To Configuring Your Wordpress Blog
The final step that you need to fulfill in order to fully get your Wordpress blog up and running on your website is a fairly simple one. Click on the tab “writing” sub tab on your blog. You should already be in settings from setting up your permalinks. Scroll to the bottom of the page to where it says “Update Services”.
This field should already have one pinging service listed. Copy and paste the following service into that section. Once you are pasted in, click “save changes” and you are finished,
Here is the list to copy and paste:
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing - More Blogroll Configuration
For the contact information, you will want to put the URL for your website. Putting in the other contact information is an alright option. There is an option, though, that you will want to pay particular attention to. It is the “about yourself” option. Write two or three lines about why you are an expert in the area in which your website is all about, or why you are so excited to be involved in this area. Then you select “Update Profile”. It should then say that changes to your profile is complete.
Almost.
You still need to set up your permalinks, and again you will go to the upper right corner and click on the “settings” tab. Choose the sub tab, “permalinks”. Choose the very last option that says “custom structure”. Type in the following line exactly as it is:
/%postname%.html
Once that custom structure is entered, click “save changes” . Now your permalink is updated. There is one last step to setting up your blog.
That will be covered tomorrow. Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing - Clearing the Blogroll
Today, we are going to set up your Wordpress blog to clear the blogroll.
What you need to do is click on the tab that says “Manage” , and the sub tab for “Links”. Once you have clicked on the “Links” tab, it will list a bunch of other web sites that are related to Wordpress. The simplest thing is to just select each and every one of those links and click on “delete”. It is that simple, because now you have cleared your blogroll.
You will now move to set up your profile. You will find what you need to do in the far right corner in a link called “users”. You will find your admin name and click it, which will give your several options. You will have the ability to change the color scheme for the admin control panel and other actions. The most important thing is putting in your first and last name as well as your nickname. This will be the name that will display every time you post to your blog, so it is important that you choose your nickname wisely.
Tomorrow we will finish exploring the setup for your blog.
Have a GREAT day!!
Internet Marketing - Configure Your Wordpress Blog
There is a little left to do to properly configure your Wordpresss blog on your website. It is a few little steps that will save you headaches later on down the road.
First, you need to activate the Akismet plug-in. This is an anti-spam plug-in that will check comments left on your blog against the web service of Akismet to see if the comments look like they might be spam or not. This has been very effective for me, and has kept numerous comments (that link to unwanted sites) from being attached to my site. Look for the link that says “Plug-ins” in the upper right of your blog. Select the Akismet plug-in and you will notice that it is “deactivated”. Click on the button that says “activate this plug-in”. As the popular commercial says, “so easy a caveman could do it.”
Once you have clicked the activate button, it will ask you for your Wordpress API key for it to become functional. Click on the link and enter your Wordpress API key. Getting the Wordpress API key is free. Just go to the Wordpress.com website and set up an account. You will then go into that account and click on the link that says “edit your profile”. In your profile, you will see the Wordpress API key.
Copy and paste the key into your blog, then click on the utton that says “Update Options”. Your key should be activated.
Tomorrow, well will explore how to set up your Wordpress blog to clear the blogroll.
Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing - Installing a Wordpress Blog On Your Website, part III
The next bit that you have to do is to click on the button that says “Install Wordpress”. You will then have some information provided about your blog, like that a data base was created, what your username and password is, and other bits of information. You could write all that information down, but look instead for the button that says “Email Wordpress installation to” or “Email installation details to”. Just enter your email address to that screen, save your email to a file that you can find at a later time.
That’s all that is required, and now you will have your very own blog installed on your very own website. That’s a great first step to having success with your Internet Marketing. Now you can begin writing a post on your blog. You will be able to set it up so that it will “ping” your website each time that you update it and make it available to the search engines and the whole World Wide Web will be able to find you. Of course, there are a few small steps that you have to take that make sure that your blog is properly configured, but we will cover that in the next few days.
Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing - Installing a Wordpress Blog On Your Website, part II
So yesterday, you began the process of installing a Wordpress blog on you website. We will continue today. By now you should have already secured a hosting account like HostGator, set up an administrator name and password. Now it comes to choosing an administrator nickname, which could be anything of your choosing. Some people choose to use their first name because anything that you post to your website via the Wordpress blog will have your administrator name attached to it. You can use a pseudo name or a pen name. The choice is entirely your to make.
Then you have a place to put your administrator email. You can enter your personal email here, which some say is a good idea. Any blog activity will be sent via email to this email address. The next field is the site name. For this, you can simply put what your site name is. At this time, it is best to use a word or a keyword phrase that is related to your subject matter. This will help you to gain more traffic to your website.
Tomorrow, we will finish up on installing a Wordpress blog to you own website.
Have a GREAT day!
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- advertising
- blog
- blog design
- blog post
- blog theme
- choosing a domain name
- credit scores
- Debt reduction
- financial independence
- FTP program
- goals
- happiness
- installing a blog
- internet marketing
- internet traffic
- money, wealth, financial independence
- positive mental attitude
- private label rights
- saving
- success
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- web hosting
- writing