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And check out our free WordPress installation offer.
It’s our goal to provide professional WordPress blogs without you having to even think about all the technical details.
We provide all of the following for free, if you sign up for hosting from one of our partner links.
A step by step overview
- You fill out a simple form to give us the information we need to setup your blog
- A Ninja will begin your blog setup including:
- creating a professional email address for your blog (eg. yourname@yourblog.com)
- testing your new email address
- creating WordPress.com account for you so you can use the Akismet Spam protection plugin
- creating a FeedBurner account for you so you can take advantage of FeedBurner stats with your RSS feed
- installing WordPress on your hosting count and domain name
- configure WordPress:
- increase the size of the post writing box - makes writing posts much easier
- setup search engine friendly URLs (permalinks) - more traffic
- add a complete list of services to the ping list - tells various websites every time you write a story
- install a robots.txt file - secures your WordPress admin pages from search engine spiders
- create your user account within WordPress - so you have access to write on and administer your site
- delete the standard links (blogroll) that are included in WordPress
- install and activate over 20 essential WordPress plugins ( see list of plugins )
- setup an automatic WordPress database backup to be delivered weekly via email
- install over 50 theme choices so you can easily change the look and feel of your site (see the themes )
- We’ll mail you all the details of your installation including a short roadmap of optional configurations that you may want to setup.
- You’ll receive a video guided tour of the WordPress administration area so you can easily learn your way around.
That’s it. From your point of view, you just fill out the form, and about 24 hours later, login and start blogging on a fully configured WordPress blog.
You can get started by signing up for hosting with one of our partner links:
Or if you already have hosting or would like to use a different company, you can contact us to inquire about rates and other options.
All the best,
Blog Setup Ninja (Jon)