I arrived home a short while ago from work, and turned on my computer to try to do some work on my blog. When I went to check my email in box there were about 30 emails regarding the next “launch of the century”.

Did we not just do this last week ? Didn’t another one of your friends have a product that they were selling, and you tried to get me to buy that one too ?

I am very glad I haven’t bought anything from you, because it looks to me as if you are giving your last product away as a bonus if I buy your friends latest offering through your affiliate link.

I’m sure that all  the people that bought it from you will be very happy to hear that you are now giving something away for free, that they paid for a few months ago.

I really feel sorry for the people that actually believe that “this is the one”, You know the ones that bought your last offer, and it doesn’t seem to be working for them, so they think that this one will do the trick. The ones that are in dire financial trouble wanting a life preserver, and you throw them an anchor.

You Mr Guru better hope that there’s no such thing as karma, cause if there is your in trooouble !!

I noticed a few new faces in the spam that you sent me. New faces to the spam, not internet marketing, and to them I say ” it’s not to late to come back from the dark side “. I know that you can make a few fast bucks, but it’s not worth it.

Yours truly,

Neil Macdonald

Now don’t get me wrong here. I am not saying that all affiliates are bad people. I have affiliate links on my site, and from time to time, when I see a product that I think is genuinely worth it, or that I use, I will put up a link.  Some of my best friends are affiliates

If you are going to buy anything online, please check it out first !! If the person you are buying it from has been around for a while, Google their name, and find out what products they have sold in the past.

Do your due diligence, and do not buy any thing you cannot afford. Do some research, save some money, opportunities on the internet are not going away, they are increasing!!

Do your homework !! Knowledge is power… there is no magic Google dust that will have you making 6 figures in two months.

This is hard work.  Just keep doing the next right thing, and you will get there.

Take care,

Neil

I'm Going Baaaahhhk to work

In the last 5 weeks I have had the fantastic opportunity to see what it is like to work from home.

As some of you know I was blessed with losing my job. Unfortunately, in the very near future, I will have to return to the 40/50/40 plan for a while.

(40hrs a week/50weeks a year/ for 40years) …  sounds terrible ’cause it is !!!

Anyway, with this terrible event pending, and the fact that I will not be able to spend as much time working from home on my blog etc. plus the fact that I have allowed a lot of junk to accumulate on my computer, I decided to do a good thorough house cleaning.

The first thing I did was clean up my desktop.

I had free ebooks, audios, videos, and tools that I would “eventually get to”. So I deleted a whole lot of them, and the others I put in my documents.

My desk top now has two and a half columns of things I actually use, and need. WooHoo !!!

The next thing I did was tackled my documents.

This was even worse than my desktop. Not only did I have all of the above,  I  had all the screen shots from my blog posts, and nothing was in folders. So I deleted a bunch of junk, and put the rest in folders.

A lot of clicks later my documents is about a quarter of the size it was.

I just had a thought… the mess my desktop, and my documents is  like saving newspaper articles, magazines and books you never read, for a later time.

I have a picture in my head of a house with many, many cats, and piles of unread stuff around. LOL

Now I’m on a roll… Gmail…. Ekkkkkk !!!

Every morning that I opened my gmail I had a very long list of peoples latest offerings. While some of the names that I subscribe to are pretty heavy hitters in my field, they honestly do not provide me with very much value. Just affiliate offers from them, and their friends. I think some of them forgot that you need to also provide value to your list.

Sooo…… Buh Bye my old friends.

I unsubscribed from a ton of people, and deleted a bunch of emails that were put in the “read later pile”.

Next, were the Gmail folders that I had.., and I had a lot ! I would actually just file a lot of emails into someones folder without opening it, “for future use”.  Most of them I have just deleted. I figure if I didn’t even know what they were, I won’t miss them.  Sooo…..  kthxbye.

These gmail ones are funny, it’s like subscribing to all the morning newspapers from your city, and the surrounding areas, and then trying to read them before you start to work, or keeping them to read later.

It is a very strange feeling to open up your email and find nothing there. A bit of panic sets in, and then the “what do I do now” feeling, but that is good.

Now, I can concentrate on what I need to do first. What should my priorities be ?

What do I want to accomplish with this blog, and in IM?

I’m still working on that, and will probably write a  post about it, but getting rid of some of the distractions, and the time sucking useless tasks has freed up a lot of valuable time. For now though,  I’m going to tackle my Favorites,  Bookmarks, and RSS feed that I have never read.

What have you done to declutter your working environment ? Are you doing things in your business that are beneficial, and are in line with the direction you want to go, or are you on the wrong side of the 80/20 rule ?

Please leave me a comment, and funny stories etc. I really want to know your experiences… I can’t be the only one that does this… can I ? LOL

Thanks,

Neil

As I said in my last post, Keywords for Beginners I jumped the gun a bit showing you the keyword tools, but didn’t want you to feel overwhelmed by all the information without, showing that there are ways to significantly reduce the work needed to do good keyword research.

Just one thing that I didn’t mention last time. The search engines recognize singular and plural,  so keyword, and keywords are two separate words to them.

That said, I wanted to show you a couple of more ways to and find some more keywords.

Let’s get started by entering our keyword into Google. On the left side of Googles results page you will see the wonder wheel.

When you click on it you will get the following pages, they are Googles suggested related searches.

Another place to find keywords is at the bottom of Googles results page.

Ok, so hopefully you have a very long list of keywords, some people more organized than me create Excel spread sheets to keep all the data together.

You could go to Traffic Travis right now and start entering in your keywords to check out if they are viable, but I’m going to take it a step further. Go back to Google External Adwords Tool.

First I want to add a column called estimated average CPC

There are a few things to look at in the image below.

First the difference between Exact and Broad Matches. An exact match is you guessed it exact. A broad Match uses any combination of the words in your keyword phrase, and the individual words by themselves. I am going to use exact.

Second is the competition.

Third is Global Monthly Search Volume, and the last is Average CPC.

While judging competition from the keywords tool isn’t the best way to do it. It does give you an idea of how many pages are competing for that keyword. You could have very high competition for a keyword, but the pages have not been optimized for it. Conversely, the competition may be low for a particular keyword, but the pages are highly optimized. That’s why we use a tool like Traffic Travis.

By looking at the Global Monthly Search Volume for Yoga Clothes, we can see that has 33 100 searches, also the Estimated Average CPC is $1.49 (which means someone is willing to pay for advertising on that keyword) . Take a look at Cotton Yoga Clothes just below. The Search Volume  is only 170, and the CPC is $0.05.

Yoga Clothes is worth further investigation, Cotton Yoga Clothes is not. Remember even if you get the number one spot in Google, you still only get about 40% of the clicks.

So lets take our list that we have reduced and go to Traffic Travis. This is the free download link if you don’t have it already.

What we are looking for here is to see if we can rank easily for the keyword we chose. Low PR, low domain age, not to many back links. Don’t worry about the total back links for Zappos, Nike, Amazon, etc. Those are going to be very high.  What we are looking for are websites that are ranking in the top 10 that are not well optimized, possibly an affiliate site that someone didn’t do a very good job optimizing. Which you will see by the number of X’s.

As you can see in this image, it would be easier to rank for the keyword plus size yoga clothes.

I just made a quick 2 min. video. Please take a look at how I am now on the first page of Google for the keyword “Keywords for Beginners” with very little effort in a few days. I think this video will clarify what keywords not to go after, and this is one of them.

Keyword Research for Beginners Video Click on the Back < button to get back to this post.

I hope you enjoyed this post. Please leave a comment, and share with my cool new share buttons.

Thanks,

Neil

Photo Credit : Salvatore Vuono

The basic definition of a keyword, is a word or phrase, that is typed into the search box in your browser.

The Search Engine then decides, based on the keyword that you have entered, the most relevant information, and displays it on the results page.

The reason that keywords are so critical is, that you want your page to be in the top results in order for anyone to find it.

The keywords that you use tell Google, and the other search engines what your page is about.

Keyword research is not something to be done once when building a website , and then forgotten, it should be a something that you do regularly.

You need be constantly analyzing  what keywords are working for you and which aren’t.  Focus on your good keywords, get rid of the bad ones and keep looking for new ones.

If you aren’t constantly doing keyword research, your competition sure is. Some of the big guys have hundreds, even thousands of keywords.

You are writing articles anyway, you might as well optimize them when you do it.

While social media, is great for spreading the word about your site, what would happen if you stopped ?

Keyword research is one of the ways to optimize your website, to get free traffic from the search engines. That traffic won’t stop  if you  keep on doing , and improving your on site optimization.

Large companies pay unbelievable amounts of money to have good ranking in the search engines, but you can do it for free, with good keyword research, and some other simple methods for increasing your rankings.

So where do you start, well there is a saying out there that you write for people not search engines. In truth you can do both. A good idea when first thinking about what keywords to use is to think of what words you type into the search box.

If your site was selling Yoga clothes, and Yoga accessories. You need to think of a lot of  keywords that you think people will search for. Yoga clothes probably has a lot of competition, but you still want to use it, so you will start to rank for that keyword.

How about Yoga clothes for kids, men,women . Yoga mats, yoga mat bags,  yoga rugs, yoga pants, yoga apparel.

Use some qualifiers, plus sizes, cheap, hot, organic, people who do yoga are probably interested in being green, or some brand names.

I hope you are starting to get the idea, and am going to stop now, so I don’t start ranking for yoga clothes. LOL

You still need to use your  main keywords, but will have a better chance of ranking for the longer ones. They are known as Long Tail Keywords, or as some people call them, the low hanging fruit. That’s another post

Keyword Tools

Ok, so now you have your preliminary list of keywords, you now need to find some more.

Lets go to Google Adwords External Keyword Tool

Put your keyword into the searchbox, and hit search Google will then find you a list of keywords that relate to the one that you entered.

A lot of people will stop here grab the keywords with the most traffic and start popping them in their website. This is a really bad plan, and is doomed to fail. You need to do some further research.

In this image you can refine your search by country,  filtering out keywords, and adjusting the monthly searches.

You now have what I hope is a long list of keywords, so what do you do with them now ? More research !!

Don’t worry it’s easy.

There is a really cool free keyword tool put out by Mark Ling of Affilorama, and its called Traffic Travis.

Not only can you do keyword research there is also , Search Engine Tools, Page Analysis, SEO Analysis, PPC Analysis, and Keyword Tools all for free.

Simply put your keyword into the search box, and Traffic Travis will pull information from the internet telling you how tough the competition will be for a certain keyword, or keyword phrase, what the page rank is, how well the site is optimized, for the first 20 websites that rank for that keyword. Cool eh !

Before each module there is a detailed video explaining how it works, so I won’t go into anymore detail.

Download Traffic Travis

One more Free Keyword Tool.

Keyword Eye

Enter the keyword.

Red is a high competition keyword, orange medium, green low.

I have rushed over the last part on purpose. I wanted to show the tools, so you could see how easy basic keyword research can be, but am going to go into more detail in my next post.

There is a lot more to keywords, and keyword research,  but this should give you a basic understanding.

In my next post I will go into more detail on these keyword tools, competition on a keyword, is it worth going after a keyword, and more.

I have put a few links below of some great resourses.

A tutorial on keywords  Word Tracker- Keyword Basics there is a product for sale here, but you can just read the tut’s

Google Webmaster Tools   The Google Bot if you have a website and don’t have Google Webmaster Tools you really, really need to get it !!

Googles Matt Cutts on Keyword Research Youtube videos.

Learn from other website owners at Google Webmaster Central Forums

Please leave your comments, Tweet and share if you liked this post.

This is an addition to my original post. I use Market Samurai for keyword research, and was hesitant about mentioning it because I am an affiliate. A couple of the commentors have mentioned it so I have added my affiliate link.

The videos on keywords are excellent, and 100% FREE. There is also a free trial offer.

Thanks

Neil

This post was precipitated by a couple of events that have happened to me recently.

The first one was a conversation that I had with a co worker.

The second one is that I recently lost my job.

I’ll start with my co worker first.

We were going to lunch one day, talking about a variety of things when the subject of paying for daycare for your children came up.

She has two kids who need to be in daycare while she, and her husband go to work. I knew daycare was rather expensive, but when she told me that she paid $240 per week I almost fell down.
We started to talk about it further, and I asked her if it was even worth it to go to work.

I mean, even at first glance, if she took home $500 per week and you subtract the $240 for child care, it’s really $260 she’s taking home per week.

She told me the main reason she worked was for the benefits. You can buy a lot of benefits for $240 per week. Oh, by the way we were on our way to buy an $8 Chicken Caesar Salad which we did at least three times a week. There’s another $24.

I think you can see where I’m going here, but I want to tell you about my situation.

Like I said ealier, I lost my job.

In my eyes this has been an extremely good thing. It has given me a chance to build this website, connect with some really great people, and learn in the last three weeks, what would have taken me months to learn.

“In my life nothing ever goes wrong”  Wayne Dyer

Anyway, like I said I haven’t been going to work, but I noticed that I seemed to have more money. I live in a fairly big city so for me taking public transportation makes more sense than driving, but it still costs $6 per day.
I have also not been buying any clothes. (I’m a bit of a clothes horse), watching what I buy in the grocery store, etc

Keep in mind all the money you spend is also after tax dollars,  speaking of taxes, while I’m no authority by any means, but I do know there are some benefits of having an at home business.

Here in Canada, if you use a room specifically for your business you can write off that part of your rent or mortgage, utilites, phone, and even that $8 Chicken Ceasar Salad, as long as your discussing business while eating it.

You must check the tax laws in your area. I am not a professional.

Wrapping it up here’s just some ideas I thought of just off the top of my head.

Daycare, Lunches, Clothes for work, Travel expenses, Tax benefits.

So,  how much money do you really need to make to start a business from home. Just by barely scratching the surface, I have come up with quite a few. I’m definitely going to delve into this a lot further, and I think that the goal of how much to shoot for just got dramatically reduced, and more within reach.

What are some of the ways that you can think of to put owning your own business, and working from home closer to becoming a reality ?

Please leave your comments, Tweet and share.

For those of you that have already made the transition, I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences. Lets kick this around a bit.

Thanks as always,

Neil

If you would like to see step by step instructions on starting a blog,  please click this link  How to Build a Website.

In an earlier post I talked about free wordpress themes, but want to briefly cover Premium Themes, and tell you about the Socrates Theme.

When I first got interested in blogging and started to look around the internet for information on building a site, the first ones that I found were a lot more difficult to set up than WordPress.

At first I thought they were wonderful, however you had to copy/paste parts, and pick fonts, and colors. It was very time consuming. They’re still out there half finished. Then I found WordPress and the free themes I absolutely loved them. It was so much easier.

There is however an even better alternative, and that is Premium Themes.

Some of the  companies that specialize in them are DIY themes, Elegant themes, Woo Themes, Theme Forest and Thesis Themes.

They range in price from about twenty dollars to a few hundred, and offer a more professional look, and more versatility. Don’t worry if you don’t want to spend any money right now, but you might want to plan for one when you can.  Just keep a list of the ones you like. That’s what I did.


Anyway, I was surfing the net one day, and happened upon a video for the Socrates Theme.

I was completely blown away at the versatility, and the ease that you could set up it up. The theme was designed by Joel Comm, and Dan Nickerson, two guys that have been around  for a while.

On the video Dan explained that they had a forum especially for the theme , and not only do they answer questions about Socrates, they answer questions on problems people were having with WordPress, because a lot of Newbies were buying the theme.

That absolutely blew my doors off, they were going that extra mile for their customers, and didn’t have to.  So I bought it.

In case you’re wondering it’s $47 for the Single Domain License, and $77 for the Unlimited Domain License. The unlimited package allows you to build as many sites as you want.  Comparable themes charge $150-$300 for Unlimited Licenses, and it also comes with a 60 day money back guarantee.

Anyway, don’t take my word on it check out the video and the forum below.

Here’s just a few images of my dashboard. Don’t look at my site and think that this is all you can do with the Socrates Theme. I have by no means even started to use all the options that Socrates has to offer.  It’s on my to do list

Click on the Images to enlarge them, and back < to come back to the post.

To put the Twitter, Facebook, RSS buttons like at the top right of my page on your site,  all you do is type in your ID and Socrates does the rest.

I could take screen shots all day, but wanted to show you one more.

Here is a screen shot of some of the headers for a pet niche site. The last time I checked they had over 200 , and also take requests for niche sites.

This theme is not just for newbies, it has an Integrated Affiliate Program with banners, sales pages, and videos, Sales Page Template, Squeeze Page Template, advanced SEO features, and much more.

I am not doing Socrates justice here you have to check out the video below. In the video Dan puts a site together all monetized and ready to go in 10 minutes. It is quite fast but there are more detailed how to videos in the members area.

Here’s a link to the Forum. Check out how newbie friendly it is.

Here is the Video

These are affiliate links, and I would appreciate the referral fee, but if you want to just go directly to the site. You’ll be glad you did.

Let me know what you think in the comments, as always please Tweet and share.

Thanks

Neil

Click here for How to Build a Website Wrap Up Pt 1 , also if it’s your first visit here click my first post in the series

on  How to Build a Website , for step by step instructions.

I just wanted to do a couple of thinks to our websites before I got into Premium Themes.

So if you go into your dashboard, remember its www. yoursitename.com/wp-admin.

You need to set some things up,

One ) go to Settings > General.

There is no wrong answer here, and you can’t mess it up, plus you can always go back and change the settings.

Two) is your tagline, so just write a little blurb about your site.

Three) enter  your email address.

Four) adjust to your time zone.

Five) the way you want your date formatted.

Six) the way you want the date formatted.

Seven) save changes

Ok,  one more for now. Click on the Image for the text.

I have updated the image below. I originally suggested that you have the date in the permalinks.  Steve and Ana made the comments below that for better SEO to use ?/%postname%/ in the Custom structure field.

Thanks for the tip !!!

Well, that’s it for my series on How To Build a Website.

I really hope that you found it helpful.

My advice to you is to get your hands a bit dirty and check to see what’s happening under the hood.

Mess around a bit.

As always, if you’ve enjoyed this post please Tweet and share it, and if you have any comments or suggestions please leave them.

My next post will be on Premium Themes, and my personal favorite, The Socrate Theme….. I promise.

I didn’t want to mix up the two posts, but had to show you the tweaks to your dashboard first.

Take care,

Neil

If its your first time here and want to start at the beginning of the series,  go to my first post in this series called

How To Build a Website.

This is going to be my last post in this series on Building a Website. I have broken it into two parts because it was getting quite lengthy, but don’t worry I am publishing them at the same time.

I always hated those TV programs that were continued next week.

In this post we are going to clean up the website you built , and in Part Two discuss paid or Premium Themes, and I want to show you the theme I use for Newbie2Newbie.  Socrates

The first thing that you want to do is access the back end , or dashboard. In my case it’s www.yourspringwedding.com/wp-admin , enter user and password, and you should be here.

Click on Posts

Remember to click on the images to enlarge them, and click the back button to return to this page.

You will see a default post Hello world. Mouse over the area and you will see this.

Hello world!

Click Trash to remove the post.

Next, we are going to remove all the default links,  so click on the Links button.

Tick all the links, change the setting to Delete in the box with the arrow pointing to it at the bottom, and click Apply.

One last thing we need to remove a plugin and activate a Spam plugin called Akismet.

For a detailed explanation of Plugins go to WordPress .

Click Plugins.

Delete the Hello dolly plugin, and  activate the Akismet plugin.

As you can see by this page you will need an API key to activate Akismet.

Click on API Key

You will then see the following page. Akismet is free if your blog doesn’t make over five hundred dollars a month, so I think we’re both safe….. at least for now

Check the Free Akismet radio button, fill in your details, and hit next.

You will next get a confirmation page , go to your email, copy the code,  come back to your plugins page, and enter your Akismet API Key.

You will the get a Confirmation Page like below, and that’s it.

If you are wondering, like I was, what’s all the fuss is about spam. I mean nobody even knows about your blog yet.

Check this out. Akismet has caught more spam than I have real comments LOL.

You have to read these they’re quite comical.

Oh, and check to see if your real comment’s are mistaken for spam, just like your email. It happens once in a while.

Take a look at these…..

I think this one is my personal favorite though.

Well that last part was a blast. I think I might make it a feature and call it Sunday Spam or something, let me know what you think.

In part 2 of this post on Building a Website, I will be talking about paid or premium themes for wordpress, and showing you the Socrates Theme which Newbie@Newbie uses.

If you liked this post please share and Tweet, and if you know of any Noobs that could benefit from this blog, please send them my way.

Thanks

Neil

In this post I will be talking about :

How to Install  Free Themes in WordPress

Before we get started though,  I said in my last post on How to Install WordPress that we were going to do a bit of housekeeping,  but I am going to save that until we have finished installing our theme.

The first thing you need to do is access your dashboard, aka your back end,  so enter your domain name followed by , /wp-admin, example : www.yourspringwedding.com/wp-admin.

That will bring you to your login page,  enter user and password,  and you will be in the back end of your website.

If this is the first time you have seen your dashboard,  don’t worry it just looks a bit overwhelming,  but once you start to play around it will get  less intimidating.

***I added this comment when I was about half way through this tutorial.  If you see on top of the screens below it says update to WordPress 3.0, well I didn’t, I thought I would do it later, well when I tried to install the theme that I chose, I got this message and couldn’t get back into my dashboard. ***

Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_nav_menu() in /home2 wp-content/themes/wedding-bells/functions.php on line 16

Eeeeekkkkkk

Luckily, when I searched the code in Google,  some other people had the same problem, see WordPress Forum anyway I had to go through FTP (File Transfer Protocol),  delete the theme manually, and then update  WordPress.

Not recomended,  so update your theme first. LOL

How to Install a  Free Theme in WordPress

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Click on Appearance, as shown below.

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You may get a page that says Install Themes at the top.

or you may get this one, click Add New Themes.

The smaller arrows show the currently installed theme at the top. The one at the bottom is a WordPress Original Theme.  Any Themes that you download will be here if not activated.

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There are three ways to choose a theme here.

Starting at the top,

Featured/Newest/Recently Updated.

Click anyone of those to get a selection.

The next arrow down is a search box, so type in a topic and there might be a theme especially for it.  Like weddings for instance.

The option in the red box allows you to pick certain features, ie: three side bars, color, etc. If there is a theme that has all your requirements, this option will find it when you have selected your preferences, and hit Find Themes.

For this demonstration I am going to pick the first option, but am going to go back later, and change it,  because I know there’s a wedding theme I want to use.

So, I’m going to select recently updated. You should play around with the options, and get used to the dashboard.

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You can preview any theme, or click install when you have found one that you like.

and Install Now

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Activate

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You can now see that your new theme is now at the top of the page as Current Theme.

Click on your site name to see your new theme.

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There it is. You have now successfully installed your new Theme.

I do like this theme, but it’s not exactly a Wedding feeling…. unless your Marylin Manson… be right back.

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Well that’s better.

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In my next post I will be covering.

Various Premium Themes

The Theme I use for Newbie2Newbie… if you thought this was cool, buckle up , cause this theme is amazing !!!

and, a little tidying up of our theme.

I promise….LOL

I hope you found this post in my series on How to Build a Website useful.

Please leave a comment,  Tweet and share.

Thanks,

Neil

In this installment of  How to Build a Website we will be installing WordPress.

If it’s your first time here please click on this link to go to my first post in the series.

So let’s get going. Remember to click on the images to enlarge them, and hit your back< button to come back to the tutorial.

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First, enter you sites url into your browser , followed by /cpanel.

See below.

Site URL

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You will then see the following screen.

Or this one.

Enter the username and password, from the confirmation email that Host Gator sent you.

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You are now at your websites cpanel.

I must admit I’ve never taken the tour, so I just click No Thanks.

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Scroll down to the section Software/Services and click on the Fantastico De Luxe icon.

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This is the next screen you will see.

Click on WordPress.

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Don’t worry if your screen isn’t exactly like the one shown.

I already have a website registered with Hostgator , that’s why you see the Current Installations on the screen shot.

Click on New Installation.

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Which will bring you to this page.

Fill in all the areas with arrows pointing to them.

In the areas that I have blacked out you will need to pick a User Name and Password.

Do not forget it, you will need it when you log in to your websites dashboard.

When you are done, click Install WordPress.

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Well, that’s it. You are all done installing WordPress, and you have a blog.

To see your new blog simply enter the address into your browser, and there she is…

Don’t worry if it’s “a bit” plain right now. In the next installment of How to Build a Website, we will be choosing and installing a theme,  also we will be doing a bit of tidying up of your website.

As always,  Please leave me a comment.

If you liked this post , and this series on Building a Website, please Tweet and Share.

Thanks, Neil