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Top 10 tips after installing wordpress

You want your posts to be easily reached from search engines and your visitors remembering your page. So here are Top 10 tips after installing wordpress.

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Tip Nº 01. You already know what you want to do with your page/blog, so choose the theme which will support your efforts. There are many themes on the market today. So perhaps in google search input top wp theme june 2008. You can specify if you want magazine, forum, adsense, gallery, video, podcast, social network, tutorial theme. There are many options and you can choose the best at the moment. Later on you can change it again. Once you´ve got the theme running you may make a rule insert excerpts with small image into each and every one of your posts. This will allow in your archive page shows photos and short excerpts of the articles. As well as it’s useful include thumb as several of the themes depends on it.

Tip Nº 02. Wordpress installation get default permalinks http://username.com/?p=123 which is representing the name of the new post. So every new post will look like those ones. If you want to be easily reached from search engines please change the default option to post name + category and/or date. If you want to excel in title of your post use google adword tool, good keywords or any other good keyword tool.

Tip Nº 03. Choose favicon. What favicon does is that permits anchor your page in the memory of your visitors and on their toolbar. Here is it’s creation and installation. As well as you may choose more easy way by plugin-Maxblogpress Favicon. You can see youtube video about it’s installation.

Tip Nº 04. Write About page. Small bio or/and photos or/and videos + contact page Who, when, what, where and why you are doing this. Update your blogroll

Tip Nº 05. Ping services. By default wordpress in Settings/writtings get one ping service. You can add few more so yahoo, msn and other engines will get sooner to your updated posts. Subscribe to feedburner (in google hands) for Publicize your content and make it easy for people to subscribe. Optimize distribution so that your content is properly formatted for all of the major directories and can be consumed by subscribers wherever they are.

Tip Nº 06. Learn to import and export your blog. The XML file will contain your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. It’s always good to save your hard work before something unexpected happen. And if you do this as a rule you will save yourself a valuable time.

Tip Nº 07 Plugins. There are many of them. Some are better than others. But all of them are in need to be updated in time for current installation of Wordpress. So if for instance you consider popularity contest plugin which is must for some themes on the market today you may: a) learn how to update php, b) look for other theme. Plugins are slowing load of the page so the rule More plugins/slowest the page is valid viz. full page test of how fast you page is loading. Plugin are developing every day so I do recommend date 06.11.2008 just 3 essential in my view akismet, wp-super cache, Google XML sitemap. Spam, fast loading page and sitemap of your site. There are many tutorials. I just recommend, get the plugins which are supported and updated by author in time.

Tip Nº 08. Admin - some of you and you know who you are install wordpress with username admin (default). Later on writing the posts you find that all post are written by admin. To change this go to Profile/Display name publicly as and chose your option. Once you are there you may as well fill Biographical Info.

Tip Nº 09. Subscribe to social networks websites and submit all new articles relevant to the sites design. This will accomplish two things. First you will get more traffic and readers from first article you wrote, second you will explore more rapidly share knowledge of the people and perhaps even find new souls.

Tip Nº 10. Google webmaster tool. Get Google’s view of your site and diagnose problems. Discover your link and query traffic. Share information about your site.

Small tips:

* Get other domain (perhaps even free) and install other wordpress on it. Use this installation as a “try before demo“. In this way you get all errors, slowdowns and crashes before you implemented them in real installation. You can as well as prepare all images etc.

* Get themes and plugins from official sources and get always the ones which are alive - updated by author to day and perhaps even with support forum.

* Get a grip and look out what other bloggers are doing (or competition) before you decide what you want to do. I can always learn more from someone who is better.

* Did you know that music is preferred over the sex. Enjoy yourself while learning, doing, reading and writing.

* and here is other nice article what you can do - 40 most wanted wordpress tricks and hacks

So here we are. You found that each and every day something is changing for better or worse. And if you put your piece of what you learn to help others you may realize that world is changing steadily to be a better place.

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