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Hosting Your Own Blog
Hosting your own blog gives search engines a reason to keep revisiting your website. It is important that you update your blog several times per week. Below you’ll find a link to the free Wordpress software for hosting your own blog.
We at BloggingTimeSavers use WordPress exclusively, as we believe it is the best blogging script available. It’s very easy to install, easy to use, and you can go live within just a few minutes.
By default WordPress gives you the ability to choose if you want Search Engine Friendly URLS for your blog, but we’ve taken that a step further. You will only be able to follow the instructions given below if you already have WordPress installed.
If you have WordPress installed add this line of code to your “Permalinks” section:
/%category%/%postname%/
Input the above code into the line that says “Custom Structure” and ensure that you have the check placed in the “Custom, specify below” under Common Options.
Search Engine Optimization
What this does is give your blog highly optimizable search engine friendly URLS. Every blog post you make will have a keyword rich URL based on the subject of your blog. For example if your blog post was “Caribbean Recipes” and your category was “Food” your URL would be http://yoursite.com/food/caribbean-recipes/
It’s a nice handy trick to get more search engine friendly URLS out of WordPress to ensure that your keywords appear not only in the subject but also in the page URL.
Blogging Themes
Now that you’ve got your blog setup, we know that by default WordPress default or classic templates may not be too pleasing to you. Let’s change that by installing a new theme. The sites below offer some free themes that you can use and customize.
WordPress Themes Viewer
Browse through those four websites and select a theme that you like best.
Installing Themes
If you are not familiar with installing Wordpress themes, we have a step-by-step video that shows you exactly how to do that, easily and quickly.
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