First of all, you need the correct kind of WordPress blog, and that's the version of the blog that you host on your own hosting account. It's not a huge hardship, neither work-wise nor financially, and it's more than worth every penny you put into it.
Why WordPress blog? Because Google loves them. Of course you'll have to do your part too -- by picking good keywords and posting a lot of content.
Here's how to get started:
First of all, you'll need a domain name. Before you pick that name, think about what the main theme of your blog will be. Then do some keyword research, and find the domain name that fits it most closely and contains your keywords. Try to get one that ends in .com if at all possible.
Next, you should make sure that you have a hosting account that offers C-Panel and Fantastico. You'll need those to easily manage your blog. In fact, Fantastico allows you to install a blog in minutes. No kidding!
You also want to get a theme that you like. Don't stick with the WordPress generic theme -- that just screams "amateur." You can find many free ones all over the internet.
You also want to get some plugins, one that sets up a sitemap for you, which is basically a table of contents for Google. And one that makes sure that your posts are SEO optimized.
Then start writing away. Make sure each of your blog posts is focused on one narrow topic, one that is related to the overall theme of your blog. And use the keyword in the title, plus assign it a suitable category as well.
And before you know it, you'll be climbing on Google, and you'll start getting visitors, especially if you do a few other things to drive traffic to it as well.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Why Does Wordpress Blogs Disappear From Google
Wordpress engine has made it easy for your blog to be appeared on Google Search Engine. The use of meta and descriptions, tags, ping trackback, headers, and other SEO related things, are by default included in every wordpress installation. When you launch a wordpress blog on the internet and updated it regularly, your wordpress blog will be appeared on Google Search in just a few days.
But a wordpress blog also can be disappeared from Google Search after it has made its appearance, even if it has reached a high rank position before. There are internal factors and external factors that could cause this.
External Factors
There are more than 10,000 dedicated servers from which Google Search Engine pulls its search results. With this huge number of servers, it is impossible to update their index at the same time. So Google updates their indexes one by one at a time.
Because of this, some websites could be dropped from Google's rankings temporarily, or even disappear all together. But after a while, the Google's index updating process would be complete and restored the disappeared websites back to the list again. This process often called "Google Dance", and usually happened at the average rate once per month.
This is one of the external factors that could cause your wordpress blog disappear from Google Search. The other factor could be from the presence of Copy Websites. A Copy Website is a website that copy the contents of another website and publish them as its own page. This would make identical pages appear on the web. Google would judge one of them as the original page and deemed the others as copies, and thus banned those websites from its listing. But sometimes, Google fails to identify the real original page, and ban the wrong websites.
Internal Factors
The internal factors could came from the use of uncontrolled SEO techniques on your wordpress blog, like using cloaking or hidden links to redirect Google crawlers, or using too much affiliation links on a page with a relatively short contents, or publishing contents that are irrelevant with your wordpress blog's description. Google said, "Do not make websites that cheated or lied to their visitors, or targeting on web search engines instead of real visitors."
So, your wordpress blog should be designed with real purpose on giving what the visitors' need, and avoid slick web tricks that could be deemed by Google as cheating.
But a wordpress blog also can be disappeared from Google Search after it has made its appearance, even if it has reached a high rank position before. There are internal factors and external factors that could cause this.
External Factors
There are more than 10,000 dedicated servers from which Google Search Engine pulls its search results. With this huge number of servers, it is impossible to update their index at the same time. So Google updates their indexes one by one at a time.
Because of this, some websites could be dropped from Google's rankings temporarily, or even disappear all together. But after a while, the Google's index updating process would be complete and restored the disappeared websites back to the list again. This process often called "Google Dance", and usually happened at the average rate once per month.
This is one of the external factors that could cause your wordpress blog disappear from Google Search. The other factor could be from the presence of Copy Websites. A Copy Website is a website that copy the contents of another website and publish them as its own page. This would make identical pages appear on the web. Google would judge one of them as the original page and deemed the others as copies, and thus banned those websites from its listing. But sometimes, Google fails to identify the real original page, and ban the wrong websites.
Internal Factors
The internal factors could came from the use of uncontrolled SEO techniques on your wordpress blog, like using cloaking or hidden links to redirect Google crawlers, or using too much affiliation links on a page with a relatively short contents, or publishing contents that are irrelevant with your wordpress blog's description. Google said, "Do not make websites that cheated or lied to their visitors, or targeting on web search engines instead of real visitors."
So, your wordpress blog should be designed with real purpose on giving what the visitors' need, and avoid slick web tricks that could be deemed by Google as cheating.
Choosing Perfect Templates For Wordpress Blogs
Whether you are deciding to start blogging for leisure or for a career in terms of making money this is the most important starting step. There are some steps to consider so here we go:
Step 1: Deciding How The Blog Looks Visually
I'm guilty for not pointing to the fact that Wordpress blog templates have technical compatibility issues tagged to them. For instance some templates are made for Wordpress 1.5 and some made for Wordpress 2.3.
So if you choose the wrong template and later decide to upgrade your blog it could cost you months of work on your blog. Now, to combat this you could decide a certain format you always want to maintain.
Doing this will ease the workload for your technical helper to make some debugging on your template when there are things that 'does not look right'. Plan your visual outlook to be a standard type of formatting.
Step 2: Color Does Not Really Matter Anyway
Formatting can be how your blog layout looks in terms of your sidebar, two column positioning and so on. However, when you want to make a decision on Wordpress blog templates color is not a crucial component.
These colors can be changed at anytime with ease so make your focus to be more towards how your page views and the entire layout of your blog site.
Step 3: Make Your Blog Long Lasting
By this I mean that if you were to look at your blog 1 year from now, would you be satisfied with how it looks? If you cannot feel some sense of inspiration when you look at it day by day then something is wrong.
In the very same way, one Wordpress theme will not satisfy everyone every single day so you will need to review your layouts and themes often. Make it a habit to continue to search for fresh templates or design your own customizable layout.
How Do You Design Your Own?
Now, thats another topic but Wordpress blog templates can be easily made customizable if you have some PHP or CSS style programming knowledge. Many technical programmers are for hire at reasonable rates online if you are keen to go look out for them.
Step 1: Deciding How The Blog Looks Visually
I'm guilty for not pointing to the fact that Wordpress blog templates have technical compatibility issues tagged to them. For instance some templates are made for Wordpress 1.5 and some made for Wordpress 2.3.
So if you choose the wrong template and later decide to upgrade your blog it could cost you months of work on your blog. Now, to combat this you could decide a certain format you always want to maintain.
Doing this will ease the workload for your technical helper to make some debugging on your template when there are things that 'does not look right'. Plan your visual outlook to be a standard type of formatting.
Step 2: Color Does Not Really Matter Anyway
Formatting can be how your blog layout looks in terms of your sidebar, two column positioning and so on. However, when you want to make a decision on Wordpress blog templates color is not a crucial component.
These colors can be changed at anytime with ease so make your focus to be more towards how your page views and the entire layout of your blog site.
Step 3: Make Your Blog Long Lasting
By this I mean that if you were to look at your blog 1 year from now, would you be satisfied with how it looks? If you cannot feel some sense of inspiration when you look at it day by day then something is wrong.
In the very same way, one Wordpress theme will not satisfy everyone every single day so you will need to review your layouts and themes often. Make it a habit to continue to search for fresh templates or design your own customizable layout.
How Do You Design Your Own?
Now, thats another topic but Wordpress blog templates can be easily made customizable if you have some PHP or CSS style programming knowledge. Many technical programmers are for hire at reasonable rates online if you are keen to go look out for them.
Creating Eye-Popping Custom Wordpress Blogs
How times a day do you run across somebody's blog when you are web-surfing and ask yourself, "how did they DO that!?" You see the beautiful wordpress header graphics, the custom weblog setup, the individualized administrator names, the custom wordpress category names and all those other bells and whistles that make the site look so good compared to your plain vanilla straight from wordpress blog.
A wordpress blog is easy to set up right from your website's control panel. Once you have it set up, it is easy to use to update your site's content. Best of all, it is free. But, if you are a computer-dunce like me, it is almost impossible to imagine doing anything with the site beyond just making posts and managing comments. Fortunately, I found an incredibly inexpensive e-book called SITES THAT SOAR! that I use to customize my wordpress blogs to make them look like I paid a professional web designer thousands of dollars to set them up for me.
SITES THAT SOAR! was written by an artist who wanted her website to look good, but didn't want to pay out the nose to have someone else do it for her. So, she set up a basic wordpress blog and then spent days and days scouring the internet for resources to help her customize her site. She found what works and what doesnt't work and then she took the time to organize her notes into an easy to read e-book and made it available to everyone who wants a great looking website that is easy to use and that ranks high in the search engines.
Wordpress is an incredibly flexible product, and there is a vast amount of free advice out there for using it, but until now it has never been all brought together into one easy to use guide that a non-geek can understand and use.
SITES THAT SOAR! leads you step by step through the wordpress setup and customizing process, so you can:
# Install a customizable magazine style theme (skin) to make your site unique.
# Modify your wordpress header graphic for your own personal branding.
# Change your wordpress navigation bar to fit your own needs.
# Do a few simple changes for wordpress search engine optimization.
# Enable the placement of photographs and other images inside your articles.
# Use wordpress and custom plugins for special functions.
# Set up the wordpress sidebar the way you want it.
# And, much, much more . . .
If you sit down with SITES THAT SOAR! and use it to set up your first blog, you can finish the whole process in less than a day, instead of spending weeks scouring the internet trying to figure things out for yourself. After your first blog, you will cut the time for each new one more and more until you will be able to get a new wordpress blog based website up and running in just a couple of hours from start to finish.
A wordpress blog is easy to set up right from your website's control panel. Once you have it set up, it is easy to use to update your site's content. Best of all, it is free. But, if you are a computer-dunce like me, it is almost impossible to imagine doing anything with the site beyond just making posts and managing comments. Fortunately, I found an incredibly inexpensive e-book called SITES THAT SOAR! that I use to customize my wordpress blogs to make them look like I paid a professional web designer thousands of dollars to set them up for me.
SITES THAT SOAR! was written by an artist who wanted her website to look good, but didn't want to pay out the nose to have someone else do it for her. So, she set up a basic wordpress blog and then spent days and days scouring the internet for resources to help her customize her site. She found what works and what doesnt't work and then she took the time to organize her notes into an easy to read e-book and made it available to everyone who wants a great looking website that is easy to use and that ranks high in the search engines.
Wordpress is an incredibly flexible product, and there is a vast amount of free advice out there for using it, but until now it has never been all brought together into one easy to use guide that a non-geek can understand and use.
SITES THAT SOAR! leads you step by step through the wordpress setup and customizing process, so you can:
# Install a customizable magazine style theme (skin) to make your site unique.
# Modify your wordpress header graphic for your own personal branding.
# Change your wordpress navigation bar to fit your own needs.
# Do a few simple changes for wordpress search engine optimization.
# Enable the placement of photographs and other images inside your articles.
# Use wordpress and custom plugins for special functions.
# Set up the wordpress sidebar the way you want it.
# And, much, much more . . .
If you sit down with SITES THAT SOAR! and use it to set up your first blog, you can finish the whole process in less than a day, instead of spending weeks scouring the internet trying to figure things out for yourself. After your first blog, you will cut the time for each new one more and more until you will be able to get a new wordpress blog based website up and running in just a couple of hours from start to finish.
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