Secrets of Creating a WordPress Blog
When I attended the Blogging and Social Media Marketing seminar on August 21, 2009, Jason Berman of “The J. Berman Group” touted WordPress.com for blogs. I had just been researching WordPress.com and WordPress.org for blogs. I covered this aspect in my blog on August 26, 2009 titled, “How to Set Up Your Blog.”
I have set up my first WordPress blog for a real estate client and had fairly little trouble. I was lucky to have my daughter sitting by my side to answer my questions as she had done one (1) WordPress.com blog and two (2) WordPress.org blogs. She is more willing to click and see what happens than I am.
I had some specific things I was looking for in a theme. I wanted my client’s blog to look much like her website with a custom header, a left navigation bar and the right side available for pages. I chose several themes that I thought my client might like and asked her to decide which ones she liked the best. Her first choice was Celestial Aura and second was Atahualpa. Both of these would work well so I used Celestial Aura.
The next step was to decide which plug-ins would work the best.
My client suggested I put some events on her blog for local sporting events. Since she lives in the wonderful city of San Diego, I found many other venues that would be wonderful for visitors.
Deciding which pages to put on the blog was fairly easy as I had already installed many plug-ins that I wanted for pages, contact form, about page and events. It just came down to adding the pages and sub-pages.
I needed photographs of my client and what she wanted for her header. I needed to resize the header photograph and crop some of it so it would fit in the 880 x 125 space in the header.
The final step was to start getting blogs posted. As my client had already subscribed to Lead Booster Club blogs, this is a monthly job I do for her for both of her blogs.
If you would like my assistance in setting up your WordPress.org blog, contact me at Nancy@LightenYourWorkLoad.com
Here's Another Feather In Your Hat!
I have set up my first WordPress blog for a real estate client and had fairly little trouble. I was lucky to have my daughter sitting by my side to answer my questions as she had done one (1) WordPress.com blog and two (2) WordPress.org blogs. She is more willing to click and see what happens than I am.
I had some specific things I was looking for in a theme. I wanted my client’s blog to look much like her website with a custom header, a left navigation bar and the right side available for pages. I chose several themes that I thought my client might like and asked her to decide which ones she liked the best. Her first choice was Celestial Aura and second was Atahualpa. Both of these would work well so I used Celestial Aura.
The next step was to decide which plug-ins would work the best.
- Akismet - checks your comments to make sure they are not spam.
- WordPress.com Stats - tracks the number of views you get on your blog.
- Fast and Secure Contact Form - this is a very simple contact form, but allows your visitors to send a quick e-mail message but block spammers.
- All in One SEO Pack - as described on WordPress it is “Out-of-the-box SEO,” which all blogs need.
- FT Signature Manager - allowed me to put in HTML so visitors could click on the signature and go to my client’s website or click to send an e-mail. The signature is at the end of every blog post.
- Social Bookmarking Reloaded – puts links like Twitter, Facebook, etc. at the end of ever blog post so it is easy for your visitors to share your blog.
My client suggested I put some events on her blog for local sporting events. Since she lives in the wonderful city of San Diego, I found many other venues that would be wonderful for visitors.
Deciding which pages to put on the blog was fairly easy as I had already installed many plug-ins that I wanted for pages, contact form, about page and events. It just came down to adding the pages and sub-pages.
I needed photographs of my client and what she wanted for her header. I needed to resize the header photograph and crop some of it so it would fit in the 880 x 125 space in the header.
The final step was to start getting blogs posted. As my client had already subscribed to Lead Booster Club blogs, this is a monthly job I do for her for both of her blogs.
If you would like my assistance in setting up your WordPress.org blog, contact me at Nancy@LightenYourWorkLoad.com
Here's Another Feather In Your Hat!
Posted by Nancy Strong at Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:41:00 PM 
Categories: Blog,Website
Tags: blogging clients Realtors
Categories: Blog,Website
Tags: blogging clients Realtors
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