Responsive Blog

Unleashed

Copyright 2015

Ali Al Aynati

www.simple-traffic-list.com

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Disclaimer

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contained in this eBook for any purpose. Any use of this information is at your own risk.

The methods describe within this eBook are the author’s personal thoughts. They are not

intended to be a definitive set of instructions for this project. You may discover there are

other methods and materials to accomplish the same end result.

The information contained within this eBook is strictly for educational purposes. If you

wish to apply ideas contained in this eBook, you are taking full responsibility for your

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Table of Contents

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 4

Buy Domain ............................................................................................................................................... 6

Host Your Domain .................................................................................................................................. 10

Install WordPress ................................................................................................................................... 17

Choose Theme ........................................................................................................................................ 23

Install Plugins ......................................................................................................................................... 26

Basic Configuration ............................................................................................................................... 28

Blog Posts ................................................................................................................................................ 33

Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................... 35

Resources ................................................................................................................................................ 36

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Introduction

Hello and thank you for purchasing this E-Book!

This E-Book is a step-by-step towards making a highly responsive blog.

Blog is a site where you post articles about different topics of a particular niche and have

a place for the audience to put their own comments.

This makes a blog an interactive platform between you and your audience. This is very

important as you can communicate with your audience and see what their needs and

opinions are.

By posting high quality blog posts and have informative replies in the comments, you will

be shown as an authority and professional to the audience as it shows that you know

what you’re talking about in your chosen niche.

You can even know how your visitors think and grasp what their needs are and, if treated

properly, they can become your most valuable assets on building and expanding your

own online business.

I’ve decided to make this E-Book because I’ve seen the necessity of making your own

blog and how it could impact your online business growth.

This E-Book will get you started on creating and configuring your blog to help you get

started and put information content that you feel will engage and excite the audience to

be attracted to you and realize you as an author of your niche.

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This E-Book will cover the following steps to create a highly responsive blog:

Buy Domain

Host Your Domain

Install WordPress

Choose Template

Install Plugins

Blog Posts

You need to go through this step by step and, if applied properly, you’ll have your own

highly responsive blog ready to get you to the next level of your online business.

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Buy Domain

A domain is a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that identifies your website. So, to create

your own website you need to buy a domain. The good news is that you can buy a domain

for a cheap price of about $10 at Namecheap.

I do recommend Namecheap because of its simplicity and their cheap price. I haven’t got

any problems with them and their customer service is really helpful.

When you enter Namecheap website, you’ll see their homepage as shown below:

In order to get started, first you need to think of a domain name. A domain name is the

name of your website. For example, my domain name is www.simple-traffic-list.com.

I would recommend that you choose a domain name that is around your niche because

otherwise it may not make sense.

For example, if I want to make a website that is concentrating on weight loss, it won’t

make sense if I choose my domain name to be makemoneyonline.com.

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Or you may even make your domain name as your name if you want. For example, my

name is Ali Al Aynati and so my domain name could be www.alialaynati.com.

The naming of your domain your choice actually and it’s not something very serious, but

as I said try to choose a domain name that at least makes sense.

So once you have chosen your domain name, just write it up in the search area in the

above image and click “Search”.

Once you click “Search”, it will tell you whether this domain name is available or not.

That’s because each domain name should be unique and so if your choice of domain

name is already used then you will be informed that this domain name isn’t available.

But you still can have your domain name if the “.com” isn’t available but “.net” is for

example. The most important thing is that each full domain name is unique.

So once you choose a domain name that is available you’ll be directed to the page below:

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Once you get to this page click on the button shown above (the red arrow) and then click

“View Cart”. It will get to the page below:

Just click on “Confirm Order”.

Once you confirmed your order you’ll get to a page where you sign up for a new account

as shown below:

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Just fill in new account details and click “Create Account and Continue”.

Finally, you’ll be redirected to the below page:

Finally, you can either pay using Paypal account or you can choose other payment

options and insert your credit card details.

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Host Your Domain

So far you have a domain name that you bought and own, but without hosting it there’s

no use of this domain name. That’s because your domain won’t be shown online without

it being hosted.

So, let’s start right away with hosting your own domain.

There are many hosting companies out there, but the one I really recommend is

Hostgator.

Hostgator is an excellent domain hosting company in terms of stability, capacity and

capability. Even its price is reasonable in comparison with the services it provides. The

price is as low as $9.95/month.

To get started, go to Hostgator, the page will be shown as below:

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Click on “Get Started Now!” and you’ll be redirected to the below page:

As you can see, you have 3 plans shown above. What I recommend is that you choose

the “Baby Plan” as you’re only just starting out.

However, while you’re business grow you may need to change it to “Business Plan” but

that will be on a later stage and upgrading your account won’t be a big problem for you

later on.

This will direct you to the page below:

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First thing you need to do is click on “I Already Own This Domain”. This is because you

already bought your own domain from Namecheap, and thus you know your domain

name. Just enter your domain name there and wait until the loading is complete.

Then make sure first to change the “Billing cycle” to one month.

As you can see above, the price will be $9.56 for the first month. However, I will provide

you a way to pay one 1 penny on your first month instead.

This will be very useful for you as you’ll save around 9 bucks which you can either keep

or use it on any other investment for your online business.

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All you need to do is enter “sankoo11penny” in the Coupon code and untick all additional

services as shown below:

When you enter the coupon code and click on validate you’ll see that the price will change

immediately as well as when you untick the additional services as shown below:

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As you can see above, your final payment is 1 penny which is great as a start. Once your

first month has passed you’ll be hopefully getting some commissions so the future

payments won’t be a big deal.

Just tick the checkbox as shown in the image above and then click on “Checkout Now!”

Once you complete your payment, you will receive an E-mail of your username and

password as well as your Nameservers (1st and 2nd) as well as IP address.

So, what you need to do is go to the Namecheap Login and sign in (you should’ve gotten

your sign in details by E-mail).

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Once you sign in, Just click “Domain List” and then Manage as shown below:

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Once you click on Manage, type your Nameservers (1st and 2nd) as shown below:

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Install WordPress

WordPress is one of the easiest and most friendly website creation platforms existing

today. You need no technical skills to use it.

Within WordPress, you can have you own blog and webpages that you can create easily.

So, the first thing to do is to go to the HostGator Portal and it will show the page below:

Enter your email and password (you should’ve gotten your sign in details by E-mail) and

click “Login” to proceed.

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Then you’ll be redirected to the below page:

Just as shown in the above image, click on your Package ID to proceed. This will lead

you to the page below:

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Click on the link shown in the above image. You’ll see the page shown below:

Just enter your username and password (you should’ve gotten your sign in details by E-

mail) and click Log in. You will be redirected to your control panel page as shown below:

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In the control panel page, click on “QuickInstall” as shown in the image above and you’ll

see the below page:

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When you click on WordPress as shown in the above image, the below page will be

shown:

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Once you click on “Install WordPress” as show in the image above, you’ll need to fill in

the information shown below:

Once you fill in the above information and click on “Install WordPress”, the installation will

take place.

Once the WordPress is installed, you can then go to domainname/wp-admin (for example

simple-traffic-list.com/wp-admin) and enter your username (admin) and password (you

should’ve gotten your sign in details by E-mail) and click “Login” to proceed. The page

below will be shown:

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Choose Theme

There are lot of themes for your website that you can choose from, some are free and

other are paid. You can choose from any of these themes and it will be applied to your

webpage.

In order to choose a theme, login to your domainname/wp-admin and click on

“Appearance – Themes” as shown below:

Then click on “Add New” as show below:

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In order to choose a theme, you can either choose one of the available themes or upload

a theme as shown below:

What I recommend and use is OptimizePress, which is a great tool to use. It contains

attractive and highly responsive blog themes which are mobile friendly as well (which is

very important).

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If you decide to go for OptimizePress, you can download their themes and upload them

as shown above.

Once you make your choice of the theme and install it, you can just go to your domain

name and you’ll see your choice of theme with sample text that you can change

accordingly.

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Install Plugins

You need to install some plugins to make your blog more responsive and flexible and to

be able to increase your SEO rank as well.

The plugins needed are shown below:

Plugin Description

Akismet Quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from spam

bbPress Threaded Replies Adds threaded (nested) reply functionality to bbPress

CommentLuv Rewards your readers by automatically placing a link to their last blog post at the end of their comment

Contact Form 7 Adds a contact form easily

Google Analytics Enables Google Analytics on all pages

Jetpack Includes many features that you can use to customize how your site looks and functions. These include Contact Forms, Tiled Photo Galleries, Custom CSS, Image Carousel, and a lot more.

WordPress Popular Posts Highly customizable widget that displays the most popular posts on your blog

Wordpress Thread Comment Allows user can reply comment and same comment On display, can choose ajax or not.

WP-Optimize Helps you to keep your database clean by removing post revisions and spams in a blaze

Yoast SEO The first true all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more

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In order to install each of these plugins, go to “Plugins – Add New” as shown below:

Then search for each plugin (copy and paste), click enter and install it as shown below:

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Basic Configuration:

So by now you should have chosen a theme to use and installed the plugins shown above.

Now what we need to do is configure your WordPress settings to make your blog more

responsive and increase its SEO ranking.

So, the first thing you need to do is go to Google Webmaster Tools. The page below will

be shown:

Once you copy the above code, access your domain-name/wp-admin and go to SEO as

shown below:

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Once you save changes return back to the Google Webmaster website and click verify

as shown below:

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Now that you’re done with Google Webmaster, go to Google Analytics and the below

page will be shown:

Once you click on “Create New Account” shown in the above image, the below page will

be shown:

Just fill in the details and click on “Get Tracking ID” and you’ll be redirected to the page

below:

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Once you copied the above code, go to your website admin as shown below:

By this you’re done with Google tracking and analysis.

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Now what you need to do is make your comment configuration an below:

Change you settings to be exactly show above. Then you need to change your permalinks

as shown below:

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Blog Posts

Now you have your blog settings all done and you’re now ready to feed it with rich content

posts.

Yoast SEO plugin will help you with making blog post with better SEO rank. Just see the

image below on how its done:

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The more tips, shown in Yoast SEO, you fix the higher ranked your blog post will be in

search engines.

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Conclusion

By completing all the steps in the previous chapters, you’ll have a very highly responsive

blog and you can just keep putting great content that will make your website with higher

SEO rank.

However, the SEO rank of your blog will be determined by how rich and good your blog

posts are. This E-Book guides you to setting up your blog correctly and helps you with

making better content.

I hope you enjoyed reading this E-Book and most importantly found it very informative

and helpful.

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