Posts Tagged wordpress

How to start a WordPress blog

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I don’t consider the topics I write “advanced” but as it turns out, I need to reach back to the fundamentals once in a while. Apparently, there is so much info on the web on SEO and making money, a lot of basics get lost — like actually creating a blog! Look, I get it, [...]

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Getting started with WordPress – the newbie guide

Alright, so I didn’t scare some of you away with yesterday’s post, Top 5 myths of blogging for money. If you’re new, where do you go from here? Although Blogger (aka Blogspot) is a great tool for beginners, serious bloggers flock to WordPress. (BTW, when I mention WordPress in this article, I’m referring to … [...]

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I use a frugal theme and couldn’t be happier

Since I’ve had this site up and running, the most common question I get is what theme I’m using. There are so many themes to chose from, from free to several thousands of dollars; admittedly, the decision can be overwhelming. Throw in the fact that some of us are new to blogging and really aren’t [...]

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Fight blog spam with Akismet

In my last post, Blog spam: yuck!, I described the annoyance that spam brings bloggers every day. In fact, right before I started writing this post, I just deleted four more spam comments (BTW, it’s a good habit to check your comments the same time every day — I check mine every morning). Guess how [...]

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Create free blogs

So I was just looking at my Google Analytics report on the keywords that drive the most traffic to this site. It’s a tie for first place: “create free blog” and “create free blogs”. Looking back in my archives, I realize that I haven’t blogged about creating a blog since I wrote How do you [...]

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From Blogger to WordPress, part II

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As you can tell, the new site is up and running. Obviously it’s not perfect yet. I still have a lot of work to do! Nonetheless, even if it’s currently bare bones, it’s up-and-running. And as of this post, there are no ads anywhere! (Note to blogself: get ads on pages soon!) More importantly, I [...]

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From Blogger to WordPress

Currently, I have all my blogs on blogger.com (alias blogspot). Although I have used wordpress.com before, I have yet to try wordpress.org. Basically, wordpress.com is the free “lite” version. I’ll breakdown the details between the two in another post. Anyway, I’m going to take this site, www.freebloghelp.com, from blogger to wordpress.org. Some of the things [...]

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