Internet Marketing In 5 Minutes

Blog or Website?

When it comes to building your first website, it boils down to whether you want to use a blog or to build your own website.

Both options have disadvantages and advantages, but I think that going with a blog is the better option as it doesn't involve any special skills, you just write your content, just like you write your email and click a publish button and the content appears on your site.

The other big advantage with using a blog is that it gets indexed by the search engine automatically and you can easily add new content at any time.

However, it is important to note that if you plan an internet marketing career, learning the basics of HTML and uploading content to your website are essential skills to learn.

The blogging platform of choice is Wordpress. In my opinion, apart from Google, Wordpress has had the biggest impact on the internet, enabling everyone to have a website and easily publish content to their site.

If you chose one of the hosting options that I recommended in the Find A Webhost article, installing Wordpress on your site is as easy as clicking some buttons.

Login to your hosting control panel and look for an option called Fantastico. You will then see the option to install Wordpress.

If your host doesn't have Wordpress you are going to have to install the software the manual way. Visit Wordpress.org to download the software.

One of the great features of Wordpress is that it's so easy to customize by adding a different template or adding additional functionality.

Check out the huge directory of alternative themes available for Wordpress and select something to personalize your new blog. There is also a massive database of additional plugins to add more functionality to your site.

To learn more about how to set up your Wordpress site, check out this Wordpress Guru ebook - it's 100% free and a fantastic little guide.

28.09.2008. 08:25