It has been a week, actually a week and a day since I started this new blog.  I wanted to recap all that I have done after setting up the blog.  This post can also be called, “The top 7 things to do after you install your blog.”  Here they are : Content- This is a blog right, content is king.  You can have the best graphics and coolest theme on the planet, but if your content sticks or if you...

One of my biggest pet peeves when reading other people’s blogs is when they have no “about me” page or if the “about me”  page is poorly written.  The absolute worst thing is when they keep the default page, they lose all credibility with me at that point.  I am a week into this blog and have been bust adding daily content, today I took time out to construct my “about me”...

I just added a new plugin to my blog today.  It is the “no-follow free” plugin, what this does is allow people to add a comment with a link to their site in order to gain a backlink.  By default wordpress has a nofollow attribute which tells Google not to use that link as a backlink.  When this is turned off, it make your blog “do follow” and makes you popular with SEO experts and...

Yesterday, I mentioned that I spent some time submitting to blog directories.  Today, I spent some time promoting my blog on several blogger forums.  I have found that joining and becoming active on webmaster and blogger forums is a great way to gain backlinks for your blog and also a great source of traffic.  There are a lot of blogger forums out there but many are filled with spam and most do not make it...

I am four days into this blog and I have some of the basics set up.  I have changedthe theme, added a new logo, activated the “seo” plugin and added some content.  Today, I took some time and started to work on adding my blog to some free blog directories.  I have done a good deal of research on this topic and have submitted to the top 10 Free Blog Directories, all of which have a PR of 5 or 6. ...

If you have been following my blog from the beginning, you know that I am building this piece by piece and keeping you posted on each step in the process.  Today, I installed my first plug-in, there will be many more to follow, but I am taking this slowly at first.  One of the most important plug-ins and the one I recommend above all others is the “All in One Seo Pack.”  This plug-in allows you change...

As you can can see, I am still in the process of setting up my blog.  Yesterday, I wrote about the basics of setting up a Wordpress blog and picking out and setting up a theme.  Yesterday, I added a simple logo to my header.  I know, it is very simple, but much better than what was there before.  Furthermore, it was free, and as you know I am trying to make money with this blog not spend money.  How did...

In keeping with the theme of this blog, maybe the title shoud read (What I did when starting my blog)  Anyway, this is day two for me with my new blog.  I wanted to write a post about the steps that I took to get to this point.  This will be very helpful to those of you who are just starting out or maybe found this by searching Google on “how to start a blog.”  I am not going to get into the Wordpress...

This is the first post on my new blog.  I have been thinking all night about a creative idea for a title but this was the best I could come up.  I had a long day and my brain is fried right now, so cut me some slack.  Please read my ”about” page to learn about me and see where I am coming from.  The bottom line is that I have always been an entrepreneur and I run a successful “offline”...