Implementing and registering WordPress

Relevant article writing adds value to your website as it not only gives the search engines fresh content and enhances the content provision on a website, it is syndicated to all the news feed aggregators. Each word and phrase from an article will be indexed and therefore searchable. To install WordPress, all that is required is that the hosting package supports PHP and MySQL. If so, the database can be set up in minutes. The admin section allows users to post, edit delete and categorise articles quickly.

Implementation
Set up a MySQL database on the site, using for example:
define(’DB_NAME’, ‘yourdb’); // The name of the database
define(’DB_USER’, ‘username’); // Your MySQL username
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’); // …and password

When this has been set up, the config file will need to be amended so as to read and write to the database as defined above.

When all of the system files have been uploaded to the server, open [domain_name]/wp-admin/install.php in your browser. This will set up the tables needed for the blog. The install script will then send you to the login page. Sign in with the username admin and the password generated during the installation. You can then click on 'Profile' to change the password. Change the directory name from /wordpress/ to something more relevant. Then change the address in Options for 'Blog address (URI)' and 'Blog address (URI)' to the new directory.

Next, define the theme template and categories. They may take a while to install and test. Some of the lesser used templates don’t work or are particularly buggy, so it's best to stick to a tried and trusted template like the default, Minima or Blix, etc. The graphics and any font changes can be adapted to style and colour and uploaded to the server in the wp-content/themes directory.

It should be mentioned that if you are using protection software such as ZoneLabs, the website must be set to a 'trusted site' and the browser option set up to allow type 1 referrers if using Firefox. If there are any problems accessing the admin site, help can be found at http://codex.wordpress.org/Enable_Sending. Next, create any links that are of value in the side panel. You may want to implement FeedBlitzwhich alerts users by email, each time any new article is added.

Start posting the first few articles, then register the site with FeedDigest. Include the code generated in a relevantly-named page on the website. An example of the PHP code is as follows (add the RSS icon linking to it):

Next, go to http://pingomatic.com and ping all of the major news aggregators; register with http://www.bloghub.com and http://www.technorati.com. There is a list of sites to register with at http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm for the remaining sites. By pinging these sites, they will then register and index the blog. Articles added are automatically written to in the feed RSS file and made available as news. Also, go to http://blo.gs/ and sign up / ping your site.

Next, activate the Technorati plug-in and for each blog and add in keywords at the foot of the article with the simple statement: KEYWORDS1, KEYWORDS2. This will alert readers that there’s an article available using those keywords. The blog will also become visible on the search engines. Create an account at http://www.technorati.com and claim the blog, including any blogspot blogs that have been set up.

Last, you can monetize the site by setting up an account with Adsense (https://www.google.com/adsense/) and adding in the Adsense plug-in once you have generated the code.

Hi

just been reading through the above which is a great post !!

As its written in 2006 could someone in the know add anything to it by way of bringing it up to date or should it be viewed as current.

Thank you

jerr00