Three Steps To Online Profits With a WordPress Blog
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Got a WordPress blog? Is it languishing for want of fresh content? Was the last time you updated it when dinosaurs ruled the earth? Want to change that?
First of all, relax. Even if you've not updated your blog in ages, it's actually quite simple. There are three main steps - and they're easy. Just read on and get ready to put the steps into place.
Step One - Get Yourself a WordPress Blog
You need the self-hosted version of WordPress, not the one you get from WordPress.com. To use the self-hosted WordPress, you’ll need hosting – preferably hosting that makes it easy to install WordPress. If you need hosting – or need WordPress installing - just ask me, as I provide professional hosting solutions. Contact me at [email protected]
Why Self-Hosted WordPress?
You need self-hosted WordPress for a variety of reasons. One important one is the ability to add plugins. These are the pieces of code that add functionality to your website. You can only add them to self-hosted WordPress, not WordPress.com.
These do everything from playing your videos online, to protecting you from hackers, to getting you found in the search engines.
Step Two - Start Blogging
Every WordPress site comes with a blog. Indeed, WordPress started as simply a blog. So you can start writing blog articles right away. It's already set up for you.
Now you need to create blog posts – your content. Sign in to your WordPress site and you are taken to your Dashboard. From the menu on the left hand side, go to Posts and click Add New.
In standard WordPress, Posts can contain text articles, audios, videos or images, or a combination of all three. Give your blog Post a title, then just start typing text. Press Publish and it's available online.
Step Three - SEO Your Content
You want your prospects to find your new content, don’t you? Then you need to SEO it – perform Search Engine Optimisation on it so that it’s easy for the search engines to find. Luckily this is a whole lot easier than it used to be.
In the Plugins section of your Dashboard, click on Add New and search for ‘Yoast SEO’. Install this plugin. It’s free, and better than SEO plugins that I have previously paid for!
If you follow the directions in the plugin, it will guide you through optimising any blog Post. You need to know what keywords are relevant to your market, of course. But I’m assuming here that you have done (or got someone to do) some keyword research for you.
Three Steps To Online Profits With a WordPress Blog
There you have the three steps to online profits with a WordPress blog. To recap:
- Get yourself a self-hosted WordPress blog
- Start blogging - add your content and
- SEO your content
Now that I’ve outlined the three steps to online profits with your WordPress blog, what should you do next? You have a choice – if you have enough information, you can just go ahead and start executing each of these three steps in order.
You may be interested in a free online training I’ve recorded that will assist you to action these three steps. My training also goes into steps 2 and 3 in quite some detail. And it's free. Just go here to reserve your place on my free online training: Blogging For Profit – http://alunloves.it/blogging And I’ll see you there.
