n this article I will look at the 7 settings I adjust as soon as I install a new WordPress blog.
1. Setup blog title and tagline
(In Settings - General)

You don’t want your blog to be branded as “just another WordPress weblog”
Write your blog title and explain why your blog is unique in the blog tagline

2. Change permalinks
(In Settings - Permalinks)

You don’t want your blog articles to be called something like:

http://www.yourdomain.com/?p=123

You want to make your URL’s unique, keyword-rich, SEO and user friendly
On HowToMakeMyBlog.com I use the custom option field like this:

/%category%/%postname%/

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This is step-by-step detailed guide to how to setup domain name and hosting, setup MySQL and how to install self-hosted WordPress on your own server.

Get domain name and hosting

First step is to buy your domain name and hosting.
At GoDaddy domain name is $1.99 when buying it with hosting
Hosting plan I use is economy ($4.74 a month when buying a year)

Setup your hosting account

Login to your GoDaddy account
Click on Hosting and chose My Hosting Account
Find your hosting plan and click on Setup Account
Select the checkbox and click Next
Chose username and password you would like to use …

WordPress is well known for its ease of installation. Under most circumstances installing WordPress is a very simple process and takes less than five minutes to complete. The following installation guide will help you installing WordPress blogging software onto your web hosting. Here’s the quick guide:
1. Download and unzip the WordPress package, if you haven’t already.
2. Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it.
3. Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php in the WordPress folder.
4. Open wp-config.php in your text editor and fill …

I would recommend to use WordPress. I use WordPress on this blog and it is the most popular blogging software online. It is also free blogging software.
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
On WordPress website …

As you have consider the content theme of your blog and you have decided on your blog domain name, it is time to look at which domain name and web hosting provider you should use to host your blog.
I recommend GoDaddy.com. These days it is fairly cheap to register a domain name and to have a web hosting. You will need less than $10 US Dollars to register your blog domain name for a full year.
GoDaddy have several blog hosting options but to start off I would recommend just the …

Before you publish your blog site online, it is important to consider several things.
1. Consider the blog topic
It is normally best to have a primary theme of the blog and to be consistent in writing about the chosen theme throughout your blog site. So the question to ask is what can you write about? What topics are you interested in and have knowledge about? If you are very knowledgeable on the subject you chose to write about on your blog, it will be much easier for you to create interesting content that people would …

The advantage of blogging is that it is very simple for a beginner. Unlike creating a website, creating a blog site is an easy process which does not require any technical, designer or any other HTML knowledge. Your download free blogging software and you install it on your website hosting. And you are ready to talk to the world.
This whole process makes it fairly easy for people to create new blog pages. This is especially useful for first time users, as they can start blogging right away. It is a very quick process, …

In simple terms, a blog (a contraction of the term “Web log”) is an online website, usually maintained by an individual or a corporation with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries.
Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what’s new first. Then they can comment on it or link to it or email you.
Your blog is …

Did you know that Noah from the Bible is writing a blog. It is written from the day he wanted to built an Ark. I was very amused reading it, so I am giving you this link to check it out: Noah’s blog

a2a_linkname=”Noah’s blog”;
a2a_linkurl=”http://www.onlinegodfather.com/noahs-blog”;

In this new era of delivering massive social media sites to us, as it is Twitter, there is  a question that pops-up and would go something like this for bloggers of course and for those who are starting to blog, if it is still worthily to writing a blog if there are so many different services to use and express yourself.
Why is Twitter actually so popular?
Beacuse it is very easy to use and it don’t take too much of the thinking process on what to write or how to write. …