How to Install a Wordpress Blog on Your Server?

Wordpress blog creation will take you about 30 minutes. It is not a complicated thing to do provided you follow all the instructions. The whole process consists of several main parts:

1) Wordpress.2.0. installation pack downloading;

2) Wordpress 2.0. installation pack uploading on your own server;

3) My SQL Data base creation;

4) Your Wordpress blog installation and setting up.

Let’s now scrutinize the mentioned above actions step-by-step.

1. You can download a wordpress.2.0. installation pack at http://wordpress.org/download/.

Click on DOWNLOAD.ZIP button and start downloading your wordpress installation pack.

2. As soon as you downloaded the installation pack onto your computer, unzip it with the help of some decoding software like WinRar or WinZip, or any other you will find available to decode zipped files. After that, the next thing to do is to open up the FTP connection for your server yourdomainname.com.

As soon as you get access to your server, open your root directory (meaning the public_html directory) and upload the unzipped wordpress installation pack right into the root dir. (Do not create any subsidiary folders – your wordpress blog should be placed in the root directory to be then available at http://www.yourdomainname.com).

We shall now prepare for our My SQL data base creation. For this we need to edit our wp-config-sample.php file. Let’s now make it clear what changes we should make to this file to make our My SQL data base function properly. Look at the content below:

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define('DB_NAME', 'your FTP username_blog'); // The name of the database

define('DB_USER', 'your FTP username_ blog'); // Your MySQL username

define('DB_PASSWORD', 'any password you like'); // ...and password

define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value

// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix

$table_prefix = 'wp_'; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'

// to enable German language support.

define ('WPLANG', '');

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');

require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');

?>

Underlined is the info you should change. You see that your database name should consist of your FTP username and any name you like, for example, blog, separated from each other with underscore _ .

Your database username should be the same as your database name (this is important!)

You can choose any password you like. Only, remember it – you will need it soon to create a My SQL database.

After you made the necessary changes to wp-config-sample.php file, rename it into wp-config.php.

3. Now, you are ready to create you’re my SQL database.

The first thing to do in to enter your c-panel, which is available at: http://www.yourdomainname.com/cpanel. As you get in your c-panel, press the “My SQL Databases” button. Remember you edited your wp-config.php file? Now, you will need the information you entered in there to enter into these lines:

New Database: enter the name of your database which follows the second as you entered for your wp-config.php file. Click on Create Database button. Go back.

Then below you’ll see the passage: Current Users. Here you will need the username and password that you used for your wp-config.php file. Your username should coincide with your database name. Click on Create User. Go back. Then, look below: Add Users to Your Databases. Find the User you just created, find the Database you just created and click on Add User to Database.

That’s it. The main thing is to have all the information you enter here identical with the infomation you entered for your wp-config.php file. Otherwise, you’ll get a Wordpress error.

If everything is ok, you can log out and go to http://www.yourdomainname.com/ - this is the destination of your future blog. If you did everything correctly, you’ll get a message at the top of the window: “It seems like you did not install your wordpress blog yet. Please, try running install.php”. Click on install.php link and it will automatically bring you to http://www.yourdomainname.com/install.php.

50 Blogs a Good Promotion Solution?

Imagine that you are the owner, of some business, let's say, you sell vacation packages online, decide to launch 50 different blogs? Not for fun, of course, but to promote your business on the Web with the help of 50 blogs, which you will create using domain names different from each other, but related to the topic of your business. Let’s say, “blablablavacations.com”, “blablablabeaches.com” or “blablablavacationtalks.com” (these domain names have just been randomly invented by me – do not consider them as links to wherever). They say, blog is one of the most readable resources on the Web. If so, why not try deepening into the enormous blogosphere? What will you have to do to succeed?

1) Post the blogs at least once a day (on the initial stage) with unique content;

2) Add a SEO package to the blog to be able to insert meta tags and thus to increase the number of keywords;

3) Add a picture to the post for the same reason;

4) Somewhere on the blog place a reference to your business’s website – your vacation packages online shop for example.

5) Install a statistics plugin to your blog to be able to track the visitors and the traffic coming to your blog. This can be either “wordpress shortstats” if you have a wordpress blog, or Google Analytics, which will give you a more detailed picture of what’s going on with your blog.

Then, you will have to draw some SEO techniques to the promotion campaign. You will at least have to submit the blogs to more than 10 blog catalogues, like http://www.blogcatalog.com/ and http://www.mybloglog.com/, place at least 3 links pointing to each of your blogs on other blogs, and ping, ping, ping each time you said something new on each of your 50 blogs.

This is something I am working on at the moment and I am looking forward to the results. Let's wait and see.

Why Blogging at all?

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I have recently become a member of the blogosphere, and, now, I am going to spread my ideas about blogging, copywriting and Internet Marketing all over the Web :-) This is a joke, of course. In fact, I just want to share my observations and ideas with all those who are concerned about the same issues that I am.
Well, my professional activity at present is very closely connected with content writing, blogging and to some extent search engine optimization. This blog will help me understand how successful can be a SEO campaign if it is implemented through blogging. Hopefully, I will find a distinct answer to the burning qustion if CONTENT is really the king of SEO, and if so, what type of content (structure, keyword density, quality etc) contributes to the greatest Internet marketing sucess. Stay with me, and let's make this research together, the research that will eventually help us answer the question: Why blogging at all?