5 Reasons to Start a Blog

Blogging is becoming more and more popular everyday. Most website owners are now converting over their existing sites into blogs. Why is this so?

Well for one thing blogs are really easy to update, plus you need little or no programming knowledge to start your own blog. Here is a video that I did in one of my earlier post showing my blog readers how to install your very own blog in 5 minutes.

In this post I will give you 5 great reasons why you should start a blog.
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How To Install WordPress On Hostgator In 5 Minutes – [Video]

In one of my previous post I explained why I moved my blog from Godaddy to Hostgator, and as promised I will be showing you how you can install word press on your account in less than 5 minutes.

There are many ways of installing WordPress on your site. You can download the script from WordPress.org then upload it through your file manager or uploading it via ftp and then install it.

In this post I will be showing you, in a video tutorial, how to install WordPress with a few clicks of the mouse and install a theme within 5 minutes.

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10 Reasons Why I Love WordPress

I love to blog and I love WordPress. This is me in the picture with my iPod Touch showing an image with “I Love WordPress” on the screen.

I have been using WordPress for the past 1 month and 4 days now. I launched this blog 3 weeks and 4 days ago, and I have loved the content management system (CMS) that WordPress has.

In this post I will be stating 10 reasons why I love WordPress. I would recommend it to anybody who wants to start a blog.

Check my reason why I love WordPress.
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Securing Your WordPress Blog

Is your WordPress blog secured? Is your blog spam proof and hack proof? How sure are you that it is secured?

If you are a blogger and (or) a blog owner you should be thinking about these questions. Each and every blog is prone to spammers and targeted by hackers. All they want to do is bring down your blog for there own good. If you are not protecting your blog, you might be destroying your blog.

This post came to my attention when I saw other blogs beings spammed and hacked by these “Internet Criminals”, as I call them. So I wrote this post to help those non-secured blogs get secured. I am pretty sure you don’t want your blog get hacked or spammed. Read these steps below on how you can make your blog safe from hackers and spammers.
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Buttons For Your WordPress Blog – [Video]

In my previous article, I talked about Using Your Readers For Promotion. Today I want to target the WordPress blog users and how to add the TweetMeMe, adding the TweetMeMe to your Thesis teaser and the Sexy Bookmark.

Sexy Bookmark

Sexy Bookmark is a plugin that adds a list of social media buttons below each article post. This will make it easy for readers to share the article. You can customize your buttons, add or remove buttons, display buttons on index or only post or pages, and many more.
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My Favorite 18 WordPress Plugins

Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. WordPress.org Plugins Directory has some 8,830 plugins and 81,433,552 downloads, and counting. That’s really great.

I have some WordPress plugins that I use on this blog to make it user friendly, SEO friendly, and much more. I am going to share with you my 18 favorite WordPress Plugins. This may seem like a large list but all I have to say is, the more the merrier. 🙂 (more…)