By Zaheer Abbas

WordPress is a wonderful blogging platform that is very versatile and flexible. One of its features is ‘tagging’ where you can add certain ‘tags’ to posts. The purpose of this is to organise your content based around certain themes, categories or keywords that your content may fall under.

Tags are also picked up and indexed as separate pages in Google so this is an added benefit for search engine optimisation reasons. So if for example you add 10 tags to a single post, all ten of these tags are likely to be indexed.

So how do we add them? After logging into your administration panel, you want to head for the section where you create new posts. This can be found under Posts > Add New. Once you enter your main heading, content and categories, you want to add all tags you feel are relevant to the page copy you are adding.

You can separate each one using a comma. Once done, simply click on ‘Add’ and they should all appear underneath. If you want to add existing tags that have already been added in previously then simply click on the hyperlink ‘Choose from the most used tags in Post Tags’, this will bring up a list of all tags in a ‘cloud’ format. The larger the text, the more popular it is.

If you want to just add tags without adding any content, then this can be done by going to the option Posts > Post Tags. You are then presented with a screen where you can add a new Tag, slug and a short description. This allows you to populate the system with those that you feel may be used moving forward.

One word of caution though, one must remember never to get too carried away, using too many can be seen as spam is used incorrectly. Always make sure that what you are ‘tagging’ is absolutely relevant to your content. From personal experience, I have found that using only a few help your rankings and in does not dilute your PageRank.

Z Abbas has been writing articles for many years and one of his many interests includes travel. One his latest websites talks about Cheap Hotels Benidorm one of which includes the Rosamar Hotel Benidorm. The aim of the site is to help people find budget accommodation in this popular Spanish town.

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By Michael J Paetzold

There are times when you have a post that is evergreen and want it to stay on your index page. WordPress will normally move each post down the page as you add additional content. This can be a problem if you want to highlight a specific post on your home page.

Now there are many reason that you might want to highlight a post.

• You create a welcome post that you want all to see first.
• You could have a very useful topic that you want to highlight.
• You want to highlight a product review.
• Or any other reason that you could thin of to do this.

The reason is not important to this article that is entirely up to you as the blog owner. The key is how can you accomplish this.

It only takes a few changes to how you normally post to have this happen.

1. Write your post as you normally would.
2. When you are ready to publish it click on edit link next to visibility in the publish area.
3. Click the box next to “Stick this post on the front page”.
4. Publish your post.

If you already have a post that you would like to show on the top of the index page the process is almost the same except you need to go into the edit post function and follow steps 2 through 4.

You can do this with more than one post but they will show on the front page in the descending order that you published them. The latest post you made sticky will always show at the top. If you had a greeting post and added another sticky post you would need to edit the greeting post again to keep it on top.

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. If you have found this article useful and want more information on WordPress and getting the most from it check out my blog at WordPress Made Easy.

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By Cathy Perkins

This is one part of your daily search engine optimization duties: to use your keywords in your title, and in your text. But it has to make sense. You can’t just say, “keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword,” for your title, and that be the same keyword. Google will frown on that because they call that “keyword stuffing,” and no one who does keyword stuffing hangs around in the Google results for very long.

So, you must think of a good title, but use your keywords in it and if you can, use one of them in the first four words and if at all possible, make one of them the last word.

Make your titles interesting for your readers. Remember, if the title doesn’t grab attention, your reader won’t stay to read what you have to say. AND – that’s a reader who probably won’t be back. Your post and page titles are your one opportunity to make a good first impression. Don’t waste that opportunity.

Capitalize every word of your title except for the small conjunctions. Research has discovered that longer titles are better than short titles, but they still have to grab the reader’s attention. Make them convey the essence of what you have to say in an interesting, attention getting manner. Questions are good for titles – they make your reader want to know the answer if it’s a question your reader has.

Think carefully as you craft your page and post titles. Grab your reader’s attention and he will read your post and likely return to your blog for more.

The Bottom Line: Isn’t it your job as a blog owner to take responsibility for properly optimizing your blog?

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By Elisabeth Kuhn

So you have installed WordPress. Now what? Read on to discover how to orient yourself in your new blog’s back office and start blogging.

First of all, you need to find your blog. It’s easy. Just type in your chosen domain name, and if you have installed it on a subdirectory, add that extension, i.e., /blog.

You’ll now see your new blog, which is blue and says “Hello World.” That’s what they all say when they’re fresh out of the box.

But it won’t stay that way for long…

How do you get into your back office to customize your blog?

You type your domain name back into the browser, but this time, you’ll add /wp-admin. If you have installed it on a subdirectory, add the /wp-admin after the subdirectory.

Now you need to log in. And, then you will be taken back to your blog’s back office, also known as the dashboard.

The dashboard has all kinds of interesting items. Along the left hand side, there are some icons lined up, plus some labels.

Try to hover over them to find out what they all stand for. The most important ones right now are for posts, which is the icon that looks like a thumb tack.

So, you have an icon for posts, one for media, one for links, one for pages, and more for comments, appearance, plug-ins, users, tools and settings. And all of these are really useful.

Then, in the middle of the dashboard area, it says dashboard on top, along with “at a glance.” This tells you how many posts you have, how many pages, how many categories, and so on.

Underneath it, it has the comment section, and on the right hand side, you have some more administrative tools.

The exact configuration may change slightly, depending on which version of WordPress you have installed, but basically you’ll have all of this in one form or another. You may just have to look around for it.

It also varies a little bit depending on the theme you have, because not all themes have the same ingredients (though most of them do).

You’ll want to get a new theme soon, but the first order of the agenda is to fix the settings and then to start posting.

Go to the first post, which is “Hello World” and either edit it to say what YOU want to say, or delete it and start a new post of your own.

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By Justin Phillips

So you have decided to get into the world of blogging and need wordpress install help? Great, let me give you a hand in the step by step process in getting your blog up and going!

Welcome back to Day 2! Congrats on taking the first steps yesterday to becoming an internet entrepreneur! Now its time to create your blog and install some essential plug – ins that will help in your blogs S.E.O. as well as other convenient features.

Since you have signed up with Hostgator for hosting services I’m going to describe to you the process for getting your single click install for wordpress. Start by logging into your email, the one that you signed up with Hostgator under.

Under the email look for the following:

“Until your DNS has changed over to our nameservers, you can access your cPanel at:”

Under that you will have an IP address with the ending having /Cpanel. Go ahead and click on that now and login using the login that you created, if you forgot it is also in this email. Once logged in you will be presented with a screen that looks like this.

Great, now as in the picture click on the Fantastico De Luxe. This is where you can do single click installs on hundreds of different web based softwares. It’s a great utility and that’s one reason why Hostgator sets themselves apart from the rest!

After you have clicked on that you will now be presented with this screen

Click on the Wordpress login and just follow the instructions, this will now install Wordpress on your Domain and you will be ready to plug away in less than 30 seconds. Now you have your first Wordpress blog installed on your own domain!

After everything is installed you will want to visit the following URL. Point your browser to http://YOURDOMAIN.com/wp-admin. This will allow you to login to your new blog with the password and login you created in the Cpanel single click install. This allows you to have access to everything that Wordpress has to offer.

Now it’s time to install some necessary Wordpress plugins and themes if you choose to change the theme of the blog. Again it is up to you if you want to change the theme, but I highly suggest installing the following plug-ins for your Wordpress blog. These will help you in the process of gaining high organic search results and having the necessary tools to be an internet entrepreneur.

Here are the plug-ins that you will want to download. Please RIGHT CLICK and go to Save As!

• All In One S.E.O.
• Google Sitemaps

Now you have the necessary tools to have your Wordpress optimized for Google’s search engines and other major search engines as well as having a Google sitemap! You will now need to install these plug-ins into your Wordpress. This may seem complicated or technical but it really isn’t! As long as you follow exactly what I say you will be perfectly fine.

Head over to the SmartFTP website and choose your Operating System for the install. Smart FTP Website. After installing the Smart FTP program you will want to go to the main screen. Under the main screen you will see the following fields.

Enter your domain in the YOUR-DOMAIN.COM field, with your username and password to the right of that. Go ahead and click the green arrow once those fields are filled in. The program will login to your website and you now have access to all you folders on your website. DO NOT PLAY AROUND, this is your whole web-site and you don’t want to go and click around if you aren’t familiar with everything. You can ruin your website and everything you have done up until this point.

From here you are going to to want to click on Public_HTML folder that is displayed on the left side screen. Then click on YOUR DOMAIN folder that is listed underneath the Public_HTML folder. Great, you are almost finished. Now click on the WP-CONTENT folder. This will open the WP-Content folder and you will have access to the plugins folder. This is displayed directly under the WP-CONTENT folder that you just clicked on. Go ahead and click on the plugins folder. This is where you are going to copy those 2 files I told you to download above. Go ahead and open the folder that you saved those to and drag and drop them in the PLUGINS folder. Make sure that you have the plugins folder highlighted when you drag and drop them into this folder!

Now you are almost finished, just go ahead and close out of the Smart FTP program once you see that the files have transferred and the Smart FTP program has completed its tasks. It shouldn’t take very long to upload those files, maybe 2-3 minutes at most.

Head back into either Internet Explorer or Firefox, or whatever you use and go to you YOURDOMAIN.COM/wp-admin and login to your Wordpress blog.

From here you will want to click on the Plug-Ins tab on the far right of your Wordpress admin screen. Now you will see the two plug-ins that you just uploaded to your Wordpress blog. Go ahead and find them listed below and click the ‘Activate’ button to the right of them. This will now activate and install those plug-ins!

Now comes the part where you actually have to think a little bit. Once you have activated both of those plug-ins head over to the ‘Settings’ tab which is right next to the Plug-ins one that you just selected.

Now look for the All-In-One SEO and the XML Sitemaps buttons that were just added to your blog. Let’s start with the All-In-One SEO. Select that option now.

From here you will need to enter the following fields to make sure that your blog is optimized correctly for the keywords that you are trying to target.

If you are little lost on which keywords you are trying to target let’s go back to the bass fishing theme that we used in yesterday’s guide. Open up the Wordtracker Free Keyword Tool this will bring us back to the tool that we can get some ideas for keywords to use for our title and our description and keywords.

So by typing in Bass Fishing into the keyword tool we are presented with keywords that are similar to the bass fishing theme and that are searched frequently. You want keywords that are actually searched, you aren’t looking for keywords that are never searched because its most likely you won’t get much traffic from them.

For the bass fishing theme we will try and target the following keywords; bass fishing techniques, bass fishing homepage, bass fishing reports, bass fishing tips.

In your title under the All in One SEO plugin, choose a title that is your MAIN keyword. In this case let’s use the title Bass Fishing Techniques – The Complete Bass Fishing Homepage.

This will really help for the keywords Bass Fishing Techniques and Bass Fishing Homepage. Now use the Wordtracker tool to find keywords for your description and the ‘home keywords’ fields. Your description shouldn’t be ONLY keywords and should sound like a human can read/wrote it. So try and create a captivating message to have people click on your homepage from Google and that has a few keywords in it.

The ‘Home Keywords’ that you use will be found from the Wordtracker tool. Just fill them in with a comma between each keyword!

Ok! Almost done, leave all the other fields alone unless you know what you are doing. Scroll down to the bottom and select the Update Options button. Don’t do the ONE CLICK upgrade button at the top of the screen, that only updates the plug-in with the latest version. It doesn’t update your S.E.O.

Almost done, I know it has been a long day but you are almost finished. We just need to create the Google Sitemap and you are finished with Day 2! Great job today by the way, I’m very proud of you.

Go back over to the Settings button on the right side of your Wordpress admin login. Select the XML-Sitemap button. This is the easiest plug-in to configure. Just click the ‘BUILD sitemap button’ or whatever the variation is. That’s it! Once it tells you that the sitemap was updated you are finished! You have built the sitemap for Google and notified Google that you are human and exist.

Tomorrow will be another HUGE day, I’ll discuss some very crucial techniques to begin bringing in the money and traffic. For now go ahead and relax, you had a busy day.

If you are looking for the pictures and additional information please refer to my blog which has an in depth step by step guide at http://internet-marketing-data.com You won’t be disappointed!

Looking for the rest of the 30 Day Guide? Check out my blog at http://internet-marketing-data.com Just choose the 30 Day Guide Category on the right hand side.

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