Wordpress Lets You Do That?

You may have noticed some people have nice looking signatures at the bottom of each blog post they write. I’m sure most of these people don’t type in this signature each time they write a post so how do they do it? Is there some setting in Wordpress that you can add this?

Well, no, there isn’t. There is however a tricky little plugin called funnily enough, Add Signature from the team at Dagon Design. Once you download the plugin and unzip it to your FTP Folder, you can upload it to your Plugin Folder on the remote server.

All you have to do now is login to your admin area and activate the it by going to the Plugin area. Once you have done this hit the settings tab and look for the DDAddSig button along the top nav bar.

Once in this page you can choose how your signature displays and on what posts and pages. Try writing your signature in HTML to get some great backlinks and anchored links back to your other Wealth Creation sites. Great for SEO. It might take some playing around but it doesn’t take too long to figure out.

First things first. There are a couple of ways to host your Wordpress blog. You can use the services of a free Wordpress host easily enough but as we know free things usually have their downfalls. By hosting on a free host your blog is at the mercy of their rules, and if your blog happens to go outside of these rules your blog can be shut down without warning. With some free hosts this can be something as simple as putting in an affiliate link. They can change the rules overnight so be warned.

The alternative to this is of course have your own host and install Wordpress yourself. Hosting these days is very inexpensive and there are some excellent services that allow you to host unlimited domains with your package. When you have a lot of blogs and websites this could save you a lot of money.

The majority of hosts use a backend platform called C Panel. C Panel is very easy to use and work with, and makes installing Wordpress a breeze as it does it all for you. Your hosting company will tell you where in C Panel you can find the install application, but usually this is found in the Fantastico script library. You simply choose  where you want the Wordpress install directed to, and it automatically does the rest. If your site is hosted with a Plesk panel, then I would suggest that you speak to the server administrator for assistance:)

If you will be using the  domain name as your blog, then you would point it to the root folder. If you want to make the blog a sub-directory, then you just type in what you want it called, and point it to that.

You can install more than one version of Wordpress on your server, it is just a case of repeating the install process.

Once you have done your install you will be automatically emailed your login details for later reference.

Now that we have a nice shiny new version of Wordpress on our server, we want to start making some modifications. To do this we will need an FTP client, and that will be the topic of the next post.

If you had asked me what Wordpress was six months ago, then I would have had no idea what you were talking about. After continuing my quest on becoming a Super Affiliate, it seems that blogging is the future of online publishing. Of all the blogging platforms available, one name kept coming up, Wordpress.

Wordpress is the blogging platform of choice for those in the know. Why is that? Mainly because of the way that you can tweak Wordpress and get it to do exactly what you want, and more importantly from the view of an  Internet Marketer, it has superior SEO characteristics that ultimately effect our bottom line.

This blog is about exploring the possibilities of what Wordpress can do for you as a blogger, and as an Internet Marketer. We’ll go through some of the basics and then get in to the little things in the back end that just could make the difference between being on page one of Google or page 487 of Google. After all, it’s no point having a blog if no one can find it right. And if you happen to monetize your blog you could do with some extra traffic I’m guessing.

So stay tuned, and I’ll do my best to enlighten you to the wonderful world of Wordpress.