Create A Website In An Hour Using WordPress 3

This tutorial is meant for those who have used WordPress before, though it isn’t essential. Let me know in the comments if you think any parts need further explanation.

• Download and install WordPress 3.0. The latest version finally gets rid of that annoying admin password auto-generation, and instead allows you to set an Admin username and password during installation.
• Yes, WordPress installation is that easy.
• Set remote rpc under settings>writing – I do this because I update multiple blogs simultaneously and it requires remote XML-RPC
• Set permalink structure for SEO. Click Settings>Permalinks, I usually use /%category%/%postname%.html/ or /%category%/%postname%/ (I’ve seen some people claiming this doesn’t work, or is wrong/bad/stupid, but meh – it’s always worked well enough for me, and I’m in the middle of testing alternate permalink structures to see if there really an effect)
• Delete default ‘Hello World’ post
• delete defaultcomment
• Set user first and last name for posting display purposes Users>your profile
• Update the ‘Uncategorized’ category to something juicy, so if you’re like me and forget to set categories when doing batch wordpress updates, then at least your permalink will show the right subject. No idea if this is good bad or indifferent for SEO purposes, but it hasn;t failed me yet.
• delete about page
• install theme
• Install plugins – akismet, all in one SEO all in one, feedwordpress, google xml sitemap, twitter tools. These are the base plugins I put on every blog – but I generally add them from within the new wordpress installation, to make sure I get the latest versions.
• Add the new site to your Google Analytics account.
• Add the new site to your Google Webmaster Tools account.
• Create a new ad and channel for this site in Google Adsense, and then get your new ads and put them on the site.
• Add other affiliate marketing ads/networks etc, whatever your deal is

now to create content

• import whatever blog you want (generally I create multiple blogs on the same subject to test the waters and see which design/voice/style works the best – I import another blog to flesh out the new blog – I don’t believe in the hypothetical Google penalty for duplicate content, but I could be wrong )
• Using the feedwordpress plugin, funnel some posts from your other sites to this new one – be sure not to just randomly grab other bloggers’ RSS feeds – even if you think its ok, you dont want someone sending you a nice friendly letter from their lawyer a few months down the road. That is a hassle no one needs.
• write one original posts, with keywords
• Use the Google Sitemap plugin to generate a sitemap, and add that to Google Webmaster tools
• Now the real work begins!

Notes:
With WordPress 3.0, installing plugins is the easiest its ever been. Click ‘Add New’ under plugins, do a search for the plugin names as I’ve given them, then it’s a one click install. Some of the plugins do require activation and/or settings changes, but the ones I’ve listed here all all self-explanatory.