In this video you will learn all about the widgets that are used to manage your sidebar. You will find out how you can add Adsense to your sidebar. Also banner ads for affiliate offers or for your own product, even advertising for other peoples products or sites. With this same handy dandy little widget you can even ad in your email capture form from your auto responder service. I hear you saying what is it? Well watch the video and you will find out.
Here are two great tutorials for you on how to configure your setting in your blog. This first one covers the general settings, the writing settings and the discusion settings. In the video when it talks about the writing section it talks about auto pinging. My feeling on this is to leave it blank until you have six or eight posts up. After that the only service I use is Pingoat.com.
In this second video the setting covered are permalinks and how to make a page your homepage through the reading settings. In the permalinks section it talks about a custom permalink structure and I don’t think that you will be able to make it out in the video so here is the code:
/%category%/%postname%
You can get many new themes for your blog right from within your admin panel. This video will take you step by step through the process of picking your new theme, downloading it to your computer, FTP it up to your hosting account and installing it on WordPress. Don’t worry it’s easy and you will probably spend more time choosing your theme than on any other part of this process. Enjoy!
In this video you will learn how to install Plugins in your Blog. WordPress has tons of free plugins that will greatly enhance your blog and this will show you two of the best for getting more free traffic. One of them is All In One SEO Pack and the other is Google Sitemap Generator. All In One is fairly easy to use and this will walk you through it step by step. Sitemap Generator takes a little more work but you will not have any problems once you watch this vid.
This Video will show you how to install a WordPress blog on your domain with Fantastico. Once you see how it’s done you will be able to do it yourself in just a few minutes. Be sure to watch all the other vids on the various aspects of setting up and configuring your blog.
