WordPress was originally created as a weblog or blog platform. But now WordPress has grown so powerful that you can use it to create any type of website and use it as a Content Management System (CMS), e-Commerce site, Auction site, Product Review site, etc …

One of the reasons why Wordpress has become so popular is that it really makes publishing content to the world wide web a total breeze. You simply insert your article title, article body text and images or media into the Wordpress text editor and click a button to publish. Your new content is then automatically available for all visitors to your site (unless you want to keep some of it private – with WordPress, you can set up pages so that content only displays to certain people – e.g. paid members!)

At SelfPublishWeb.com we currently provide a service where we can either fully install, set up and configure a business blog for business owners, or you can purchase a step-by-step video training tutorials package that we recorded where we show you exactly how to get a professional business blog up and running in 48 hours or less. The videos take you through the exact same process of installing, setting up and configuring the blog for business use that we would do if we were setting up your business blog, but we make it available to business owners for a much cheaper price, as they do not have to pay for our service costs.

If you want to set up a professional blog using WordPress for your business, therefore, we highly recommend you visit our site for more details about our step-by-step video training tutorials. We not only provide all the instructions using simple and easy-to-follow videos, but we also include all the files you need to turn your business blog into a powerful business marketing tool, as well as additional training and ongoing support via a member’s area, a private business forum and a customer support helpdesk.

For more details about our step-by-step video training tutorials click here …

Hosting Your WordPress Site On Your Server vs Hosting It On Their Server (WordPress.com)

WordPress has two components, one is a free, Web-based blog-hosting service called WordPress.com. The other one, called WordPress.org, is a free to download application that you then install, set up and host on your server.

Please note that for businesses, we recommend hosting the site on your own servers, as you then have full control over many important aspects associated with things like maintaining your site, content and data (for example, adding scripts, making modifications to files and performing regular backups).

You don’t need to set up a dedicated server to host a business blog. Webhosting companies like HostGator, for example, provide an extremely affordable hosting service that is ideally suited for running a WordPress blog. For a few dollars a month, you can host your WordPress business blog using one of the HostGator starter packages.

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How To Set Up A Blog Using WordPress

Our step-by-step video training tutorials take you through a 5-stage process to help you get your business blog fully up and running, with an additional section designed to help you grow your business online profitably and successfully and help you dominate your niche market:

1) Planning Your WordPress Blog
2) Installing Your WordPress Blog
3) Setting Up Your WordPress Blog
4) Configuring Your WordPress Blog
5) How To Use Your Business Blog
6) Advanced Business Online Marketing Strategies

1 – Planning Your WordPress Blog

This step of the process involves helping you decide how to best use a business blog to grow your business online. We walk you through a decision process flowchart and help you weight the benefits of setting up your WordPress blog as your main website, or as a complement to an existing website you may have already installed.

2 – Installing Your WordPress Blog

There are two main ways to set up a blog using WordPress. One method is known as the “Wordpress Famous 5 Minute Install” and involves downloading all of the WordPress files to your computer, then setting up a MySQL database, editing some files, uploading the files to your server via FTP and going through an installation process which takes several minutes to complete (if you’re experienced with installing scripts it will take you only 5 minutes – if you’re not, then expect it to take much longer than 5 minutes!).

The other method of setting up a blog using WordPress is a lot simpler, quicker and easier, especially for people who don’t want to mess with stuff like setting up MySQL databases, editing files, etc ….

To use this simpler, easier and quicker method, you will need to host your domain on a server that offers “cPanel” access with a feature called “Fantastico” installed. Again, we recommend using a webhosting service like HostGator if you don’t have a host yet for your blog, or if your current webhosting provider doesn’t offer cPanel with Fantastico for quick WordPress blog installations.

In our video training tutorials, we take you through this entire process with step-by-step screenshots and a video that will show you how to have a WordPress blog installed in 5 minutes or less.

For more details about our step-by-step video training tutorials click here …

3 – Setting Up Your WordPress Blog

Once your blog is installed, the next step is to set it up and then configure it.

These two steps are crucial to the success of your business blog. We created our step-by-step video training tutorials to help you save both the time and money you would otherwise need to spend figuring these two steps out.

If you don’t know what to do, you will end up with an ordinary default WordPress blog which will do very little to help you grow your business online. Although it will still be a better and cheaper solution than paying hundreds or thousands of dollars to create a static website for your business, it will probably not be very effective when it comes to helping you grow your business fast,  getting your site to rank higher in the search engines, or driving a growing and constant stream of visitors and potential buyers for your products and services to your site.

Below is a video where we show you how we set up a demo business blog on a brand new domain name and how, in less than two weeks and with only one post having been made to the blog, Google and other search engines had already indexed the site and the blog was already receiving a growing number of visitors on a daily basis:

We then made another video a few weeks later that shows you how the blog continues to grow and how the number of pages indexed in the search engines has begun to multiply significantly, driving more visitors to our site almost on auto-pilot as a result of the systems added during the set up and configuration stages of the blog installation process. Here is the video …

We will continue to post videos showing you the progress of this site as far as it relates to getting higher search engine rankings and driving more visitors to the site. The techniques and strategies used to create this growth will also be shown, explained and discussed in our member’s area and business forum, so that our results can easily be duplicated.

As mentioned above, by setting up and configuring your business blog as shown in our video training tutorials, your web presence will continue to grow online almost as if on auto-pilot. The only work you will do is to simply write about your business and press a button to publish your content online.

4 – Configuring Your WordPress Blog

There are many sites you can visit that will show you how to install a WordPress blog. As mentioned earlier, however, it’s what you do after you install your WordPress blog that will make all the difference to the success of your business blog.

Our step-by-step video training tutorials will show you how to set up and configure a complete “set and forget” business blogging system for you that will be set up for optimal performance in the following areas:

• SEO (Search Engine Optimized) ready
• Automatically notifies all major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) whenever you post new content
• Syndication ready with self-updating rss feeds
• Social bookmarking / social networking ready – visitors can readily share your content on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, via email, etc …
• Internet Marketing ready (Add lead capture forms, monetization, affiliate marketing, advertising banners, etc)
• Information Systems ready (Visitor tracking and analytics)
• Ready to grow as your business grows

We also provide all the files shown in the videos that you will need to complete this stage of the blog installation process successfully.

For more details about our step-by-step video training tutorials click here …

5 – How To Use Your Business Blog

Once your WordPress blog is installed, set up and configured, you are ready to go live. Our step-by-step video training tutorials will show you how to take your business blog live in 48 hours or less, and how to fully manage your site. As the aim of this stage of the process is simply to get you up and running as quickly as possible, we provide you only with the absolutely essential information you need to get started and to prevent you from feeling overwhelmed. As stated earlier, you also have access to all the support you need via a forum and customer helpdesk.

6 – Advanced Business Online Marketing Strategies

As a SelfPublishWeb.com customer, you not only get access to a Member’s Area that is regularly updated with new training tutorials on advanced marketing techniques and strategies for growing your business online and a business forum where members can network and share their experience, knowledge, tips, useful resources and information with each other, but we also include as a special bonus, free access to over ten excellent paid membership sites that specialize on helping online businesses in areas like increasing web traffic, email marketing, monetizing blogs through affiliate marketing and other online revenue sources, creating effective sales copy that converts visitors into buyers of your products and services, creating new products and services, setting up membership sites, developing a successful business mindset, and much more!

We hope that, if you arrived here looking for information on how to set up a blog using Wordpress, you now have a better understanding of the process required to set up a successful blog for your business.

If you would like to grow your business online fast, dramatically reduce the learning curve and save yourself a great deal of time and money, then we recommend you check out our step-by-step video training tutorials where we show you how to set up a fully configured and completely “ready to go” business blog in less than 48 hours.

For more details about our step-by-step video training
tutorials and fantastic FREE bonuses click here …