WordPress is by far the best tool I have found for easily creating websites, and thus I will suggest as step #5 set up a WordPress blog. I’m not going to get into all the details of how to set up a wordpress blog, you can read their 5 minute install guide yourself here: 5 Minute Guide.
Setup – There are few things you need to change on your blog which are VERY important. First go to the options tab and change permalinks to “custom” and use the following:
/%postname%/
Next you should have your keywords in your title and tagline.Theme Selection – There are TONS of themes out there to choose, but I always find mine at Courtney Tuttle’s SEO WordPress Themes. I personally LOVE the Keyword Sniper theme (and it comes with a few directions). It’s easy to edit yourself (and I’ll show you how to get a ridiculous CTR on it once I’m done this guide). If you are planning on doing adsense in my opinion a theme with 2 columns on the same side is a must. Court’s SEO themes will give you the best bang for your buck.
Plugins – There are a few essential plugins for your blog: all-in-one-adsense, all-in-one-seo, global translator, simple tags, xml sitemap. I’m not going to go into how to set all those up, you can read the FAQ yourselves. There are other good SEO plugins, but this should give you a good start for sure.
Anyway it’s as easy as that to set up your SEO WordPress blog, so go ahead and give it a shot.
(Added March 28th/07) 1000 appologies, I promised to comment on Blogger blogs (not that there really is a lot I can tell you). I know they can do very well (as good as any other site) but can’t really tell you how as all I use is WP. Blogger is owed by Google so it has the advantage of being indexed very quickly. Anyway the place to go if you want to learn about using a Blogger blog is: Grizz’s Make Money Online for Beginners.
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The keyword sniper theme is sweet, I may have to use that one too. Groovy post, I can hardly wait till #6 is out.
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Spot on! WordPress is indeed by far the best tool for setting up websites. I am enjoying my WordPress experience each and every day. The plugins are just so cool.
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I couldn’t agree more. WordPress is simply the best, in my opinion. I can’t imagine going back to other, more user-unfriendly methods of managing the content of my sites…
I like WP!It is far better then Joomla or Mambo.I redesigned all of my sites,using WP.
WordPress – with its extendability and huge backcatalog of plguins etc, and opensourceness – is by far the only choise for bloggers.
Yes, the permalinks are so important. WordPress beginners should fix that immediately if they want to benefit from there blogging efforts!
I had used many tricks to get some results for my site but nothing worked. Finally i switched over to wordpress and it started to show me the results.My site got some good amount of traffic just after 15 days.Thanks to wordpress. It is really nice article for those who wants start using wordpress.
I think,wordpress is useless for seo anymore.Because everybody use it.Google doesn’t like same scripts,it wants to see different scripts,different tags system,different post system …
I really love wordpress. It is a must for SEO. It has nice plugins like commentluv and keywordluv.
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