I am a Wordpress fanatic, and I hope I can convince you to be one too – if you’re not already.

The site’s in it’s very early days, so there’s not much on it at the moment, but expect it to expand rapidly over the coming weeks and months.

Sign up to my newsletter – I’m giving away some great Sales Page Templates for Wordpress immediately, and will follow up with some more superb free gifts, many of which you could find for sale on other websites. I’m certain that you won’t be disappointed. But do get in quick as I am limiting these gifts to my earliest and most loyal subscribers.

And if there’s anything you want me to cover, drop me an email through the ‘Contact Us‘ page, and I’ll try and oblige.

Thanks very much.

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I installed a test site, played about with it for a bit, before finally deciding that it was CRAP! To this day, I really don’t know why I came to this conclusion. I can only say that I was TOTALLY and UTTERLY as wrong as wrong can be.

I went through spending a small fortune on Dreamweaver, XSitePro and others (don’t get me wrong – I would highly recommend these programs in the right circumstances), before returning to Wordpress sometime last year.

How things had changed. Wordpress is now the only website software I use for my own purposes, and for my clients websites.

The range of templates and plugins available is massive.

You can produce a simple ‘blog’, or a fully blown business site with e-commerce, membership and other facilities – and easier and quicker than any other software out there.

I am now a Wordpress ‘groupie’ – I love it! … and now, over the coming weeks and months, I’d like to show you everything I know about it.

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Choosing the right name can be extremely important if you are a commercial business and are wanting to attract visitors through the search engines organic (free) listings.

• In most instances, a good name would be in the form of a word or phrase that people are searching for, rather than the company name – eg floridacarsales.com not jbloggscars.com
• A Dot Com (.com) domain extension is by far the best to use if you are doing business worldwide, regardless of which country you are based in, or in the USA. If you live in a particular country, and will only be doing business in that country, then a domain name with that country’s extension should be used (eg .co.uk)

There are hundreds of companies where you can register your domain.

The one that I personally use and recommend is Namecheap.

Once your domain is registered you need to enter the DNS settings. What this does, in effect, is to let your domain registrars know the location of your website. These settings will be given to you by your Hosting company.

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They seem to have all the requirements you will ever need (and more!), are competitively priced, and customer service and support are very good. And of course they use the standard CPanel, and therefore WordPress installation is completely automatic.

Go and have a look at their website and see a full list of features. One of the benefits of using Hostgator is that you are not tied to a contract. You can pay monthly, and cancel at any time. Alternatively you can pay for longer periods and get a discount on the monthly price. And if you use the above link and coupon code, you get the first month for 1 cent!

Hostgator – HIGHLY recommended for your hosting

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There’s a couple of ways to install Wordpress – either automatically or manually. Either way is quite simple, but obviously the easiest is the automatic option. If you use a host that uses cpanel – which most do nowadays – you will need to find and click the ‘Fantastico’ icon. This will open a new window showing the list of available automatic installation programs on the left hand menu. Find and click the ‘Wordpress’ option. From the next window click ‘New installation’.

The next window requires you to set up the following:

• Install on domain
  This will be the domain you wish your site to be installed to.
• Install in Directory
  If you wish to install to the root directory (meaning that you want your wordpress site to appear when you visit www.yourdomain.com) then leave this blank. If you want to install it to a different directory, enter the name of that directory here (for example, enter ‘blog’ in this text box, and your site will be accessed at www.yourdomain.com/blog)
• Administrator username & Password
  These next two boxes are for you to enter the username and password required to access the ‘backend’ of your site – i.e. the admin area where you will add pages, posts and catgories; enable plugins and enter their settings; and enter other settings and details. Make sure that you use a password that will ensure the security of your site.
• Admin nickname, Email, Site name and Description
  These are pretty self-explanatory. Just bear in mind that the Site name and Description will appear in your sites header graphic as the Title of the site, and a sub-header or tagline, respectively, so pick these carefully and make sure they relate to the content of your site, as they will help in the Search Engine Optimization of your site. These can be changed at a later stage in the admin of your site so don’t worry too much.

When you’re happy with the details click the ‘Install WordPress’ button, which leads to a new window showing some details of the installation. Click the ‘Finish installation’ button and that’s it! Ready to go.

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You may believe now that a CMS is good only if you see it has many interesting features or if it apparently fits your preferences…but you might be wrong. A CMS is not only about how many features it contains or how it looks, the CMS should offer you stability, trust and speed. Those things are currently available in few CMS’s and just believing you are not an expert there might be only one best solution for your website or blog. If you don’t have web programming knowledge or if you don’t have enough money to pay someone to create a script for your website you should definitely use WordPress.

WordPress is in my opinion one of the best existing CMS and like you might know is very popular too. WordPress is flexible and it will let you to create any type of website or blog no matter which theme you will use on it’s content, WordPress will serve you right.

The complexity of it’s code allows you to share, get information and build high quality content in seconds without getting you any trouble. Because WordPress is so famous, many people decided to join this great CMS community at WordPress.org. This is a great thing thinking about the fact that in the community are now available thousands developers wheeling to create a better CMS.

In just few years, WordPress has generated happiness for millions of bloggers which are now grateful and are trying to do their best to serve WordPress community. Those people are now a part of the community and currently are building plugins and themes for you.

Think about how many great things you can do using WordPress. Visit WordPress.org and you will see.

The fact that having a website is good for your business may sound like a cliché given the number of times you may have heard it already. But what you may not know yet is that just having a website is not a guarantee for success. With so many websites on the internet, your business will only do well if people actually find your site. This is why you need to do search engine optimization or SEO. This helps your site to come up, on or near the top of search results and so people visit it more frequently. And with some good WordPress plug-ins for SEO, you work can become that much easier.

In case you are not yet aware, WordPress is a free and open-source blog publishing application that can be used for basic website content management. It is powered by PHP and SQL data and can help you select the right tags that can help your site zoom up on the pages of search results.

Here are some good WordPress plug-ins for SEO that you may consider using.

1. All-in-One SEO pack: this is a very popular plug-in and can help you choose the best titles, keywords and avoid duplicate content too.

2. Automatic SEO links: this particular plug-in has advantages such as:

• The freedom to choose a word for internal as well as external automatic linking.
• Setting anchor texts
• Selecting between ‘nofollow’ and ‘dofollow’ tags.
• The linking will only be done for the first appearance of a word in your site and so there is no fear of spamming with numerous links of the same thing.

3. Google XML Sitemaps: although the name suggests that this is exclusively for Google, this plug-in can create sitemaps which can also be read by Ask, MSN, and Yahoo etc.

4. HeadSpace 2: if you are looking to add meta-data, specific JavaScript’s and cascading style sheets this is the plug-in that you need. It can also suggest tags for your blog posts.

5. Meta Robots plug-in: this particular plug-in can,
• Help add metadata to any page of your site
• Prevent indexing of search and log-in pages
• Disable author and date-based archives

6. Platinum SEO: the main features of this plug-in are:

• Automatic redirecting for link changes
• Meta-tags generated automatically
• Helps in avoiding duplicate content

7. Redirection: this plug in can be very helpful when you want to move a particular page from one spot on your site to another. While the page status in search results would normally be lost in doing that, Redirection ensures that it doesn’t happen. It maintains a log of the previous settings and thus the page status remains intact.

8. SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings: if you are using WordPress themes, some of them can confuse your sub-header tags, but this plug-in automatically resets them, thus making them more SEO friendly.

You might find these WordPress plug-ins really useful in improving your sites’ popularity. And since they are free, so it’s definitely a win-win situation for you!

Many of us now know that WordPpress is one of the most widely used blogging platforms available on the internet today. What you may not know is that many static websites and smaller service oriented companies can gain from the many benefits WordPress has to offer.

WordPress is a php based weblog software created by the open source community meaning that it can be installed and used free of charge. This dynamic platform allows users to quickly add posts and pages to the existing site with an easy to use interface and built in wysiwyg editor. Each new post automatically creates a new page and new links linking to that page throughout the website. Each post also creates an automatic listing in the archive. Page titled after the post and links throughout the site back to the post as well as the archive listing are just a few of the attributes that the search engine sees as helpful in classifying and listing your website. A search-engine friendly website is key to coming up high naturally in the search engines.

WordPress offers many features that any “techie” would find helpful and worthy of praise, but how can this help the business owner you ask… The answer is simple.

WordPress maintains a directory of the themes and plugins that developers in the open source community create and share with other WordPress users. It is these WordPress themes and WordPress plug-ins that really give a unique look and feel to your website. There are themes that match many different styles and genres. These themes are free download and simple to install. They simply need to be uploaded and then activated. The entire process takes seconds and makes the options for the style of your website nearly limitless.

The themes available for download at the WordPress press website offer the typical website owner options that can help set your website apart from the others. Features like a contact us form, instant call back feature, weather updates, calendars, membership sign up and many more, you truly can customize to your hearts content.

The powerful combination of WordPress blogging software, the themes library, and an assortment of plug-ins, make for a dynamic and truly effective website. Before running out and paying a web design company what could be thousands of dollars for a custom website consider running a customized version of WordPress instead.

A lot of blogs are using WordPress because it is one of the most SEO-friendly Content Management System (CMS). So here i am going to list some SEO tips to improve your WordPress blog. These are important things to get your WordPress blog optimized. It will help you gain more traffic and rank better in search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.

• Install WordPress Plugins
  You can get a lot of free plugins online and they will help a lot in optimizing your blog.
• Optimize permalinks
  The default permalink is not SEO-friendly and should be changed right away. For me, the most SEO-friendly would be to use /%postname%/ which will make something like this yoursitename/yourpostname . You can change your permalink by going to Settings >> Permalinks and choose custom structure and input /%postname%/ .
• Optimize page titles
  Page titles are the most important in your single page and should be placed between h1 tags. Titles should be short but keyword-rich.
• Remove hyperlink of the Title of your single posts
  I saw a lot of blogs that hyperlinks the title of their single posts and this is no longer needed since it will still link on the same page. You can easily edit it at Presentation and edit the single.php file.
• Validate your code
  There are a lot of tools online that you can use to validate your code. By validating your code, it will help search engines to crawl your site easier. This requires knowledge in web design to fix these codes so if you can’t do it, you can hire a web developer to do it for you.
• Add Meta Keywords and Description
  Always add meta keywords and description to your blogs because it will help the search engines to identify what kind of blog you have. Choose your keywords wisely (means that you choose keywords that are not so competitive but has a good search volume).
• Deep-Linking your posts
  Deep-linking is where a post of yours links to another related post of yours. Choose the keywords to hyperlink wisely, choose the one that fits most to the post that you’ll be linking.

Are you still designing static HTML to make your affiliate review sites? I can say that it is really time-consuming to design a static HTML page. It will take you almost a week to design every page of a whole website from scratch. And when you want add a page or make some changes, you will have to redesign again. What a pain in the neck!

I highly Recommend using CMS (Content Management System) to build your website. There are a lot of popular free CMS including WordPress, Joomla, Xoops, Plone and so on. Most CMS are open source and available for personal use! Comparing all aspects, I recommend affiliates to use WordPress to build review sites! Because it is simplest and easiest to use and install.

Use WordPress To Create WP Review Site – Easy and Simple!

I have build numerous WP review site, it is easy and simple. I don’t need to use any page designing tools to develop a single page of my website now. All I have to do is to install WordPress in my domain, configure a SQL database, find a good theme and install needed plugins. Then I have my review site up and running in just a few minutes! It is that simple and easy! Now don’t design any static HTML pages any more, use WordPress!

What Kind of Themes/Templates Are Suitable For Review Site?

Not all the themes are suitable for building review site. A theme should be properly optimized and redesigned as a landing page. What should you take attentions to, when redesign a theme?
Here are points you need to be alert of to:

1. Delete navigation on top of your homepage.
2. Deactivate your widgets. You don’t anything that distracts your prospects!
3. Using White or light color background and black text are the best for readability!
4. Sort the sequence of the posts. Put the No.1 product or service on the first place! Then sort the sequence by descending!
5. Enable your visitors to leave a comment or rate the products!

There are just a few tips to set up a WP review site. You need to find themes that are suitable for building review sites and some affiliate plugins.

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