2. Why Wordpress?
• I’ve tried about everything:
Joomla, Drupal, Mambo,
B2Evolution, e107, Geeklog,
Xoops... etc.
• Wordpress is simple. Your
Projects & Clients will love it.
• It’s Standards Compliant
• It has wonderful built in SEO,
and fantastic SEO Plugins:
HeadSpace2, All-in-One-SEO
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3. Focus on Your Content
not your software
•Most Users utilize a small % of their software
•Your Blog should be Fire & Forget
•Development takes time away from Content
Wordpress and Content Management Systems are the ultimate time
savers.
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5. CHEAT - Up, Up, Down, Down, B, A, B, A, Start.
• Don’t design.
Customize templates from
ThemeForest, WooThemes, &
Elegant Themes for a kick start.
• Pick out the best plugins.
Don’t look for the exact match,
but instead those well
supported.
• Incorporate Social Media
Include your life feed content, Don’t get stuck in development limbo!
twitter, flickr, last.fm, et al Your website will be the best, just not at
the start.
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6. Install Wordpress - With It’s Famous 5 Minutes Installer.
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7. Treat SEO and Metrics as a Science.
Research SEO Metrics
Hypothesis, Experiment, Data, Conclusion. Think about your SEO plan,
implement it, track it, and improve it using new data.
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8. Wordpress Plugins
Plugin Function
All-in-One-SEO SEF URLs, Meta Info, Titles
Google Analytics for WP Inserts Tracking Code
Google XML Sitemaps Sitemap & Reports
WP-PageNavi Helps Index Posts
WP SuperCache Prevents the Digg Effect
Dandy ID Services Your Social Media Contact
Twitter Tools Lifefeed for Twitter
Sociable Automagic for Social Sites
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14. About the Rest
WP SuperCache
Creates cached pages reducing the load
on your MySQL server. This will save you
from the “digg” effect.
Dandy ID Services
The ONLY plugin as of yet to list all your
social media contacts in one place.
Twitter Tools
Updates your blog with your Tweets.
Can also make blog post collecting tweets.
Sociable
Submits your content to the popular
Web 2.0 systems such as Reddit and Digg.
As for further plugins, It Depends, is the golden rule. For podcasting use
Podpress. Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu adds admin functionality.
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15. Questions,
Comments,
Anything?
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