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WordPress Platform For Websites

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The WordPress platform was originally designed to be a blogging platform but is now widely recognized to be a complete content management system (CMS). This means that it offers an alternative method of creating and managing a website quickly and easily. If you are using one of our recommended hosting companies, the installation of a WordPress blog is very easy and fast. In your hosting account, go to your control panel (cPanel) and find Fantastico (or another script installer). A script installer is able to install a WordPress blog with a couple of clicks of your mouse button. See our WordPress Installation pages. NOTE: Your website on the WordPress platform must have a domain name before it can be visible on the internet. Alternatively, you can install it in a subdirectory of an existing domain. However, a business website *must* have its own domain name in order to be taken seriously and attract as much traffic as possible. Inside the Admin Area When the installation...
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Social Media Marketing

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Social media marketing is the process of promoting your website or online business through social media sites. When done right it can be a powerful strategy to create traffic to your website or blog. And it doesn't cost anything if you do the necessary work yourself. What social media marketing means is utilizing social networking sites (like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc.) and social bookmarking sites (like StumbleUpon, Delicious, Digg etc.) to promote your website or business. On this page and the corresponding sub-pages, we present a few social marketing ideas that you may put into action if you like them. First of all, any social networking or bookmarking strategy will only work if you provide valuable, original content to the social sites. Good, useful information is what fuels these sites, and is what people using them are looking for. So, you must have good content to offer in "exchange" for traffic from those sites. Without that, social network marketing ...
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How to Install a WordPress Blog

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There are two common ways to install a WordPress blog on your web server: 1) using the admin control panel of your web hosting account, and 2) manual installation. On this page, you will learn how to create a WP blog using the control panel within your hosting account. Install WordPress Via the Control Panel The easiest and fastest way to install a WordPress blog on your web server is to do it from the admin control panel of your web hosting account. If your hosting provider uses cPanel as the control panel, here are the steps to run a WordPress installation: 1. Log into the control panel (cPanel) of your hosting account. 2. Click on Fantastico (or another script installer). 3. On the navigation bar to the left, click on WordPress. 4. In the window that opens, click on New Installation. 5. If you host more than one domain on this account, choose which one to install WordPress on. 6. In the slot below, type in a directory name ...
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