How To Create A Wordpress Blog

WordPress is a popular blogging software that you can use to create a very professional looking blog on your existing Watersweb Hosting or Shop Kit Plus website. Blogs boost your site’s traffic and help you build relationships and trust with your visitors. The more trust your readers’ have for you, the more likely they are to become your customer.

There are two ways to set up a WordPress blog. You can install the blog on your own server. If you’re a Watersweb Hosting or Shop Kit Plus customer your cpanel includes Fantastico, which allows you to install your blog with the push of a button. The benefit to this is that you can pick your own, unique blog address. For instance, your blog address can be www.yourdomain.com/blog.

You can also get a free blog at www.wordpress.com and let WordPress host it for you. I don’t recommend this for business blogs, because all of your hard work will benefit the wordpress.com domain name, instead of your own. Under this system, your blog’s URL will have “wordpress” in the domain.

However, if you are new to blogging and do not yet have your own domain, this is a great way to get started with your blog. You simply enter the username you would like and your email. WordPress will create your blog and email you the password.

There are many different themes to choose from, enabling you to create a blog that fits your website and target market. You can further customize your blog by adding widgets, such as a calendar, RSS feed, links and other items to the sidebar. You can also change and customize the entire theme by editing the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) of your blog.

Additionally, if you already have a site design for your Watersweb site, take a look out our Wordpress customization packages.

How To Create A Blogger Blog

If you read my blog or subscribed to my Product Seller’s Tips newsletter, you know that a weblog is an excellent tool for increasing the targeted traffic to your website. Of course, that’s the easy part. Now, you have to figure out how to put the blog on your website.

Blogger is one solutions that’s relatively easy. Blogger helped create the blogging explosion that hit the internet recently. Blogs are a great way to connect with your customers and build relationships.

It is very easy to set up a Blogger blog. Simply go to www.blogger.com and enter in some basic information. Blogger has quite a few different themes to choose from, and you can further customize your blog by choosing the colors and fonts.

Blogger makes it very simple to add page elements to your site, such as RSS feeds, Google Adsense, and other items.

If you want to further customize your blog, Blogger allows you to change your template by editing the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) of your blog.

You can host your blog for free by using Blogger’s host service. Your blog’s URL will have “blogger” in it, for example http://yourblog.blogger.com. While this is great for personal blogs, as a business, you need to have your blog on your domain name, to help increase your site’s popularity in the eyes of the search engines.

You can host your blog on your own web host by changing the ftp settings in your blog. This will allow you to customize your domain, such as www.yourdomain.com/blog.

Blogger will also allow you to write your posts in advance and set them up as drafts. When you are ready to publish them, you simply press a button and your post is on the web.

Inserting pictures and links in your blog posts is also very simple using Blogger’s editor. Blogger’s comment section allows you to control who can post comments and whether or not they can add links to your blog.