This is the second post in our ten week Multimedia post series on the power of blogging for success selling online. The series is called “Blogging Leads to Online Greatness“, or B.L.O.G. for short!
Greatness may be a bit much, but other “G” words didn’t sound as nice. Goodness? Glory? And hey, I think blogging is great and you really can do wonders for your success online if you stick with a plan for your blog.
I’m a believer in having a WordPress Blog on your own domain. If you look around at the largest and most fun blogs online, you’ll see that the vast majority are on their own domain (such as EverythingEtsy.com) and that most run on WordPress.
So the first step is getting an actual blog up and running, and that’s what this video is all about. I lucked out with just a little intro and closing role, while Tim gets to go through the techy details with you.
You’ll see that it’s not hard and Tim (my husband and cohort) does the whole thing in the video, from selecting a domain name, to having WordPress up and running, in less than 15 minutes!
Setting Up Your WordPress Blog on Your Domain
In the video, Tim mentions including more information here in the post. It’s coming! We’ve run into a few delays today and are barely getting this published in time to meet our posted schedule.
Help us know what kind of additional information might be helpful to you by leaving us a comment right here with your question or thoughts. We hope you enjoyed the video.
If you already have a blog and aren’t looking to do the whole WordPress thing right now, you still want to see the rest of this series. Here is the whole schedule…
Posts In The {BLOG} Series:
September 12th – Blogging Leads to Online Greatness! {audio}
September 19th – Setting Up Your WordPress Blog on Your Domain {video}
September 26th – Make It Your House – Themes, Styles, and Plugins for WordPress {video}
October 3rd – Content is King – 10 Secrets of Great Blog Content
October 10th – Using Social Media to Support Your Blog {audio}
October 17th – Using Your Blog to Promote Your Etsy Shop
October 24th – Using SEO to Build Your Blog and Business {video}
October 31st – How and When to Make Money from Your Blog
November 7th – Must Have WordPress Plugins for Etsy Sellers
November 14th – Planning For Greatness – Tips For Advanced Blogging and Selling Online {audio}
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And while you’re here, let me wish you a great week!
~Kim
Wow Tim and Kim, this was so helpful! I was contemplating using WordPress and this video really broke it down and answered some of my questions about hosting and all. Thanks for the help and I can’t wait until the next video!
Hi Kim and Tim,
I’m new to your site but just love it so far. I’m so glad that you have put this video together about setting up a wordpress blog. I currently have a blog.spot.com account and a separate website that I built on my own in Adobe Go live. I’m looking for the best SEO for my website and blog, so I’m wondering if I should be switching my blog and website into one site using WordPress. What are your thoughts on this? You can check out my website and blog at http://www.JacquePierro.com and http://www.JacquePierro.blogspot.com
Thanks, Jacque Pierro
If one already has a WordPress blog, but also has a web page through Godaddy, can I ‘import’ the exisiting WordPress blog without losing anything?
Hi and thanks for a great video – very well explained. I second MCatherine’s question – if you have an existing WordPress blog as I do how do you go about moving to self-hosting while keeping your content intact?
I chatted with a Godaddy rep. and while there is a way to ‘migrate’ the existing HAH WordPress blog which would allow advertising, etc (and not allowed on the free blog through WordPress), he suggested that I simply add a link to hide a heart blog on the HAH.com web site for the time being to avoid adding more monthly fees to the HAH bottom line. Always the up and the down eh?
Hi MCatherine – I’m not sure I totally follow what you’re trying to do, but it’s very easy to migrate a WordPress.com blog to a WordPress.org self-hosted blog on your domain. Really very easy. You just use the export tool. Here is a link to a ProBlogger post that talks about it in-depth: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/01/03/how-to-move-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg/
If you already have a self-hosted website to which you could add a link, then you should be able to add a WordPress blog to that hosting account for free. GoDaddy does have an option you may have that might cause trouble with that. I think it’s called Website Tonight or something. It’s a simplified hosting that doesn’t give you access to your hosting files. Without access to your hosting files you can’t add WordPress. But if you can see the file tree of your website which included folders such as “public_html” then you should be able to add a sub-directory such as yourwebsite.com/blog and install WordPress there.