WordPress Blog Installation and Set Up Service!

Wordpress Blog Installation

Having Your Own Professional Blog that Serves as Your “Central Hub” for Your Online Business is an Essential Tool that Can Serve You Well.

Not only will it build your credibility with potential clientele, but it can build your brand, generate countless leads for your business, build relationships with potential prospects, and can generate multiple streams of income.

Having a Wordpress blog is also known to be one of the greatest Networking Business Tools for any Internet Marketer to succeed!

Wordpress which is used by over 25 million people is the number 1 rated Content Management System (CMS) which is a very user-friendly and customizable platform that allows you the freedom to add or delete pages, upload documents and images yourself.

Setting up a blog can be a time consuming, hair pulling process for those not familiar with what is required to get the job done, we recommend, and only install self-hosted Wordpress-based blog sites. Google LOVES WordPress blogs and rank them higher than other blog platforms, you also own the blog so it can’t be removed, and they are also highly customizable.

We Have Two Wordpress Blog Installation Packages to Offer:

The First and Most Basic Wordpress Package Installation:

If you are the type of person that would like to learn everything possible for creating your own blog, but don’t want the initial headache of dealing with the installation process on the server, including the attachment of the database, then the basic package will give you the hands-on learning experience you desire.

The Basic Package - $57.00 This package will include the install of the latest and greatest version of the Wordpress Core on your server in the root directory, folder or added to an existing website.

The Wordpress core, along with its new database will be ready for you to upload the theme you intend to use and the plug-ins that you would like to install.

The Second Wordpress Blog Installation Option is…

The Turn-Key Package - $177.00 Are you wanting everything to be done for you, so all you need to do is add your content? If your answer is yes, then the Turn-Key package is the one for you.

Blogs are notorious for loading slowly due to all the scripts that are needed to run the blog. As of April 2010, Google is using your site’s download speed in their ranking algorithm (this is the mathematical algorithmic equation that will judge your site for indexing in the search-engine results pages).

Without changing the core scripting of your provided blog theme, we will be able to recognize areas that we can tweak to gain faster page, down-loading times.

We will make sure all of the images on your site are optimized for fast loading times, a step many website design services overlook. Images can be optimized for the Internet without reducing the quality of the image?

Optimizing images reduces the KiloByte size of the file, allowing for faster page loading times… most website owners don’t have the expensive image editing software for this step, nor are they aware that this can be done.

Having too many images, plug-ins, widgets and scripts on your site comes with a slow loading penalty of sorts… besides Google ranking your site accordingly; a person’s patience is being tested for the speed your site takes… if it takes too long to load, in most cases they will move on.

With this thought in mind, we will only load necessary plug-ins, widgets and images that your blog requires to be interactive for your business. If there is a certain plug-in that you would like to use, and we have an optimizing solution for, we will make a recommendation.

Here’s What Our Turn-Key Blog Installation Service Provides:

  • A Phone Consultation - To get the ball rolling, we will need to discuss your options so we are on the same page for what you are wanting.
  • Web Hosting - Whether you already have your hosting lined up or not, we will assist with the information needed to make your blog live for the Internet.
  • Install Your Theme - Once your Wordpress Core is installed, we will upload the theme you intend to use.
  • Create a Professional Looking Banner – We have Photoshop experience, so we can discuss your intentions and options for your banner (Up to 3 hours block of time).
  • Protect Your Blog Against SPAM – From those annoying commenter's that intend to use your blog as a dumping ground for the trash they offer.
  • Protect Your Blog from Being Flagged as a Spammer! - Did you know that your WordPress blog pings unnecessarily every time you edit a post? There is a WordPress plug-in that we will install to keep you from being labeled as ping spammer.
  • Protect Your Database - We will install a plug-in that will enable daily or weekly database backups! These back-ups will be sent to your server, computer, or an email of your choosing.
  • Make Sure Your Blog Theme is Search-Engine Optimized – Your finished website will include built-in SEO features that will help your site achieve better results in search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. Included will be the All-in-One SEO Pack, the Google XML Sitemap, plus a custom permalink structure, which will ensure that your URL will meet one of many crucial SEO elements.
  • Setup a Contact Form – So potential customers will have a method to contact you with questions or concerns.
  • Install Your Opt-in Form – We use GetResponse for our email marketing program... this is an email list sign up box to generate leads from your site for products or services that you can offer (you can see our Opt-in box in the upper right corner of our blog page: http://SEOBlogTips.com/SEO-Boot-Camp-Bloggers/).
  • Install Videos – If you have videos for introduction, etc., we will install them using the embedding code you provide.
  • Install Required Theme Plug-ins - We will install the required plug-ins needed for your theme (most themes require certain plug-ins for functionality), plus the ones you ask for from our checklist of vital plug-ins.
  • Install and Configure Essential Social Media Buttons - Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon or any others you’d like to have on your site.
  • Install Facebook Fanpage Box - Using Javascript to reduce HTTP server requests as opposed to the Facebook Like Box plug-in which will make upwards of 40+ individual server calls.
  • Configure your RSS Feed – Depending upon the theme you use, we will either install your Feed URL through the theme’s dashboard, or hard code it directly into your site (ours is hard-coded into the scripting).
  • Create a Custom Email Address – To look professional and have the personal touch, you should have an email address with your name attached to your website address… example, ours is John@SyattWebDesign.com.
  • Add a Favicon – A Favicon is the small image next to the URL in the address bar and tab of your browser. With a Favicon, you can choose to make your site eye-catching and recognizable by visitors. We will install a plug-in which will make it easy for you to have a Favicon using your Gravatar photo or just about any image you choose.
  • Google Analytics – We will walk you through the set up of Google Analytics which will help you with your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. The analytics will provide you with powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features that will let you see and analyze your traffic data.
  • Install an XML and HTML Sitemap – Both of these sitemap's are crucial for Search Engine Optimization. The XML sitemap will be installed via plug-in. The HTML sitemap will be installed if it's an available option with your theme.

Most blog themes that I’ve seen have the option to attach an HTML sitemap… if your theme has this option, you will find the sitemap installed with the link listed at the bottom of your page in the footer links. If you’d like the link at the top of your site, that can be done too.

An XML Sitemap file lists URL's for your site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URL's in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

An HTML sitemap is actually an HTML page with links to internal pages. They are used to list all hyperlinks of different sections and pages of your blog. Although an HTML sitemap is primarily created for human visitors, this page acts as proxy for internal pages and their primary scope is to reduce the number of steps the crawler should follow to reach the final target (the url).

  • Stay in Contact – We will stay in contact with you throughout the process of creating your blog… during the modification process, your blog will be live for you to see.
  • Personal Consult When Complete - We will contact you once the blog is finished… We will then walk you through the basics in the dashboard (your back office to control the blog). We will also give you some ideas and blogging tips to help you succeed.

Our blog installation services will normally take between 2 and 4 business days to set up.

Additional Blog Service Available:

- Virtual Dedicated Server Hosting - for $8.69 per month, billed monthly, quarterly or yearly, you can be on a server operating system with less than 20 other sites. Normal, shared hosting can have anywhere from a few hundred to thousands of websites.

* First 3 Months Hosting FREE with Blog Installation Set Up Service!

* Servers Monitored 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week, 365 Days a Year by Godaddy.com.

A virtual private server (VPS, also referred to as Virtual Dedicated Server or VDS) is a method of splitting a server. Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system, allowing your site to operate at a much faster speed, without being bogged down by the other hundreds or thousands of sites on the same server.

How To Get Started With Our Blog Set up Service:

Before we speak, you should have an idea in mind for the color and functionality of your blog. You should have a theme in mind along with the colors you like. You should also have an idea for the layout of your blog, whether you want it to contain 2 columns or 3 columns, introduction video, etc.

Choosing a Wordpress Blog Theme!

Whether you want to go with a free Wordpress theme or a premium theme is up to you. A premium theme will cost you some money, but will be of higher quality, better built, plus naturally optimized better for search engines and future add-ons.

The premium theme will also come with support; whether for upgrades, bug fixes or how to use their theme. Just remember the old adage when determining the theme you want to use for your blog... you get what you pay for.

Recommended Premium Themes:

Moving ON... To get started, follow the link below to fill out the form! Once we receive your email we will then respond via email to let you know that we received your request for our blog installation services.

Depending on the package you have chosen, we will include a link to a downloadable file that will list the information we need from you in order to get started; this will include information that will help you prepare for our consultation! Print off this list and make notes of any additional questions you may have.

Please reply to our email to let us know that you received the downloadable file, and ask us any questions that you may have at that time in order to full-fill the list. If you don't have any questions, please let us know the approximate amount of time that you will need to complete the list and a good time to contact you using the phone number that you put into the form.

If you do have questions we will answer them as quickly as possible to assist you in completing the list.

Once we have spoken on the phone about your blog set up and we are on the same page for what you are wanting, we will require a 50% payment. At this time we will give you a link to where you can make your payment.

Once we receive your payment we will start the blog installation process... from this point, we should have your blog completed with-in 2 and 4 business days.

Below are Just a Few of the Wordpress Blog Installations and Website Merges We Have Done:

Syatt Web Design - This Website you are looking at started as a static HTML website, we then added a blog to it a few months ago. Along with adding the Wordpress Blog Platform, we redid the scripting so it will match the look and feel of the existing website.

SEOBlogOptimizer - This Search Engine Optimization Wordpress blog gives Search Engine Optimization Tips to the Online Entrepreneur to start them on the Road to Becoming an SEO Expert!

Learn About Us - This blog helps the Entrepreneur with Business Strategies, along with Marketing Tips! This site was broken and not a happy camper to say the least! It was on a server with messed up scripting, which would take at least a minute to load any given page. Our job was to remove the site from its existing server, move it over to ours, then add a new database, a new theme, then modify it to the owner likings.

Crystal Clear Solutions - Crystal Clear Solutions was similar to our site SyattWebDesign.com. In this case, the owner had an existing Wordpress blog with the Plain-Jane, Default Wordpress theme, not pretty! What she wanted to do was to wipe out the existing blog and theme, add a new one and change the scripting so the blog would match the look and feel of her existing, Static HTML website.

Health and Relationships - This blog started out as a Health and Relationship, advice site, but not much has taken place with it for over a year now. Creating the banner image was fun, and believe it turned out nice; I'm proud of... take a look, I think you'll like it!

If you are ready to get started, or have any questions about the installation, follow the link and fill out the Blog Installation Form!