08-24-2007, 10:48 PM
its super easy to slap up a blog with fantastico and just start posting, or even spend a spare evening researching, collecting posts and scheduling them to post on a later date so it looks like you're posting daily. (use the timestamp in the pull downs on the right while posting.
Heres a great place to get free themes for blogs. I get all of mine from here. (not spam)
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/02/...vent-seen/
also download a plugin called seo title tag
http://www.netconcepts.com/seo-title-tag-plugin/
this will help with seo a lot.
you also want smart update pinger
http://daven.se/usefulstuff/wordpress-plugins.html
add this to URIs to ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
one last tip on wordpress blogs for seo
go to options>permalinks and type the following in custom:
/%postname%/
this will use what you type in your post slug (on the right when youre posting) as your url, instead of a blog looking url or php.
if you have any questions about blogs, PM me.
I also made a blog about blogging (yes its funny)
its step by step how to set up wordpress
http://hostyourownblog.com/
ive looked into this niche. it is popular. wont pay much with adsense, but if you have other things to sell it might be profitable. but traffic is mostly what youre looking for for development and resale, correct???
best of luck
Trisha
Heres a great place to get free themes for blogs. I get all of mine from here. (not spam)
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/02/...vent-seen/
also download a plugin called seo title tag
http://www.netconcepts.com/seo-title-tag-plugin/
this will help with seo a lot.
you also want smart update pinger
http://daven.se/usefulstuff/wordpress-plugins.html
add this to URIs to ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
one last tip on wordpress blogs for seo
go to options>permalinks and type the following in custom:
/%postname%/
this will use what you type in your post slug (on the right when youre posting) as your url, instead of a blog looking url or php.
if you have any questions about blogs, PM me.
I also made a blog about blogging (yes its funny)
its step by step how to set up wordpress
http://hostyourownblog.com/
ive looked into this niche. it is popular. wont pay much with adsense, but if you have other things to sell it might be profitable. but traffic is mostly what youre looking for for development and resale, correct???
best of luck
Trisha