How To Start A Blog Page

Once you have filled out the details, chosen a site name, username password etc the site will register you. It is very important to have your chosen category in the name of your site eg: if you are going to provide information about Lamborghinis then put this name in your sitename when registering. It will give you options to buy a domain. This is simply the name of a website, you can buy a domain if you wish to make your site sitename.com or use the free option eg: sitename.wordpress.com This is how to start a blog page on wordpress on a budget, you can create a free site or alternatively purchase a domain from namecheap.com

How To Start A Blog- Setting Up

It will ask you to confirm the link with the email address that you have registered your site with. Once you have confirmed the link it will take you to your site admin (below) this is where you set up all the functions of your site and the control panel. You will need to access this regularly to update any content so here is the site to log in from

http://YOURSITENAME.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
Log in with your password created earlier

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So you will need to set up the site info, put in all your details etc

As you can see on the right hand side there some options eg: general settings, profile etc please set all this up and watch the welcome to wordpress video shown above.

General settings: change the tagline from ‘Just another WordPress.com site’ to whatever your blog is about. If you are going to write about latest mobile phones a tagline could be something like ‘Latest iPhone Smart Phone reviews ’ … etc Don’t make it too long and include the main objective which you will be giving information on. The keywords here are latest iphone, iphone smart phone, latest smart phone, iphone reviews, ….

How to start a blog and personalise your settings. On the right hand side you can even upload a picture for your blog username, this will show when you leave comments on others sites from yours.

Once this section is complete, go to the ‘appearance’ section on the left column and click on themes. This will allow you to change the picture and layout of your main site. There’s lots to choose from simply choose a category eg: a-z, random, popular
then preview or activate. You can play around with the previews and choose a theme you like.

Now when you visit your site http://YOURSITENAME.wordpress.com/ it should have been updated.
To visit your site simply type your chosen sitename into the net broswer
eg: http://YOURSITENAME.wordpress.com

When you do this a site like this will be shown, this is your site.

As you can see on your site it will say hello world. So what you want to do to remove this is go back to the site admin and click on ‘posts’ at the top the left column and click on the drop down arrow then click ‘all posts’.
You will see the post which says hello world appear.

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Hover over the name  ‘hello world’ with your mouse and it will say ‘quick trash’
click this and it will delete the post.

So now you’re ready to start adding your own content to your site.

Simply click on posts again and ‘add new’

This site is like a magazine so each post is like a new page/story to your magazine.
Each time you want to add something to your site use the title very carefully, try to use words which people will be searching and which is related to our site content.
Eg: If I am making a site related to mobile phone reviews then my title may be iphone 4 review

In the main body of the post would be my content which I have researched online and simply type into this section. The images along the top of the body where it says upload/insert are tools to add images/music etc

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