How to Start a Blog

Perhaps you have a passion to start blogging and have no clue as to how to start a blog. There are many ways of starting a blog. You can set up a blog for free at no cost to you.  Personally I prefer WordPress blogs because their blog system is more secure with much more features than blogger or typepad. You also get the added benefit of backing up your blog with WordPress. To start a WordPress blog just go to WordPress.org and you can sign up for free. Blogger.com is another source that you can visit to sign up a blog for free. 

There are many reason why one would start a blog. Many people are into starting a business blog, starting a family blog, starting a political blog or starting a food blog to name a few. A personal diary blog is probably the most common use for blogs where people will just write about the process of there day or a particular event.

If you are seriously considering using WordPress as your blog source and you are looking to host your blog. Click here for a video tutorial that gives you step by step visual instructions on how to set up a professional wordpress blog from beginning to end as well as numerous other add-ons that you can use to custom your blog and make it your own personal blog...

Blog Tips

Perhaps you have a passion to start blogging and have no clue as to how to start a blog. There are many ways of starting a blog. You can set up a blog for free at no cost to you.  Personally I prefer WordPress blogs because their blog system is more secure with much more features than blogger or typepad. You also get the added benefit of backing up your blog with WordPress. To start a WordPress blog just go to WordPress.org and you can sign up for free. Blogger.com is another source that you can visit to sign up a blog for free. 

There are many reason why one would start a blog. Many people are into starting a business blog, starting a family blog, starting a political blog or starting a food blog to name a few. A personal diary blog is probably the most common use for blogs where people will just write about the process of there day or a particular event.

If you are seriously considering using WordPress as your blog source and you are looking to host your blog. Click here for a video tutorial that gives you step by step visual instructions on how to set up a professional wordpress blog from beginning to end as well as numerous other add-ons that you can use to custom your blog and make it your own personal blog...

Accessing the maximum potential of what the WassUp offers us, and using it to our benefit, can be a helpful tool in optimizing our blog site.

Today’s blogging entrepreneurs go through all the steps in optimizing their blog sites and with a little help from all the impressive plugins, it is a guarantee that our blogging experience will be more pleasurable. It’s no wonder WordPress has gained the credibility that they’ve rightfully earned. With the creative genius of quite a few WordPress plugin inventors, we have access to the perfect WordPress plugin tool WassUp.

Got WassUp?

Compatible with WordPress versions, 1.4.9 - 2.5, WassUp has taken many WordPress users by storm. By installing itself as an additional tab in the WordPress administration area, WassUp provides blog site traffic information to WordPress users indicating when and how often a visitor visits your site. It also provides detailed information such as what sites refer your visitors, which search engines referred those visitors to your blog, the visitor’s IP address, search engine spider, S.E.R.P and Keyword..

I must say it took me a while to really understand and appreciate the usefulness of WassUp.  While it was very helpful to be able to see how often I have a visitor and how they were referred to my site, I did not maximize the full potential of the plugin until I recently analyzed every specific detail of the information that it provided me.

It is nice to be able to keep a track on your site traffic progress, which ultimately was the reason I downloaded this plugin, however I want to share with countless entrepreneurs out there an idea that sparked my attention as I was analyzing one of the great features that this plugin has to offer.

I do understand, as a blogger myself, the importance of optimizing your site and keeping tab on how well your blog is ranking with the selected keywords. However, in addition to my chosen keywords, I found it interesting that my site is ranking fairly well for keywords and keyword phrases that I didn’t know it is ranking for.

The aha moment

As we all know, when someone is looking for information on a particular topic, they go to a search engine and type a keyword phrase based on that topic. That being said, wouldn’t it be nice to know how well your site is ranking with keywords that you didn’t even know you rank for.

If someone goes to google and keys in a keyword related to your site and they see your site in the Search Engine Results Pages (or S.E.R.P) and they click on your site, WassUp will let you know what keyword the visitor used to find your site. Which I think is a helpful tool when keeping tabs on what keywords your site is ranking well for. I was able to find quite a few keywords and keyword phrases that are related to my site. These keywords are very similar to my main keyword, only they differ in a slight variation.

WassUp will also tell you what S.E.R.P page those keywords will appear on. It turned out that many of the keywords that I discovered through WassUp were keywords in which my page landed on the first page of those Search Engine Result Pages.

WassUp is free and available for download at http://www.wpwp.org/

To Your Success,

Jarrod Clark