The Wizard Recommends
If you decide to have your own hosted WordPress blog (an excellent idea) you need a few things.
1. A domain name. Choose this name carefully and whatever else you do, make it a .com name, not .biz, .org, .tv or any of the other extensions you will see. People are used to looking for .com domains. An excellent, easy and low cost domain registrar is Mustang Marketing Domains. Not only is it easy to get your domain, it is easy to point your domain to your new host when you get one. This company walks you through it step by step.
2. Excellent Hosting!
The Wizard only recommends HostGator - and here’s how you can get started for 1 penny!
3. Some SEO knowledge. WHAT? It isn’t hard even though some people want you to think it is.
Search engine optimization (SEO) pros would have you believe that the secrets to ranking well in search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN involve some sort of mysterious, magical, technological voodoo.
It’s time to pull back the curtain.
The Wizard recommends this excellent SEO book, titled TheSeoBook! You will be presently surprised at how easy this is.
