WordPress Guide for Begineers 2017- GS Web Tech

Ultimate Beginners WordPress Guide

WordPress Guide for For Beginners - GS WEB TECH

Welcome to this exclusive edition of GS Web Tech where you will be learning how to engender and setup your WordPress blog. This guide is exclusively for incipient bloggers who want to establish their blog on the WordPress platform.

For subsisting WordPress bloggers, I have additionally listed some pro tips that you should commence implementing right now to make your WordPress blog more professional.

This WordPress guide will show you the following things:

    How to buy web-hosting and a domain name for your WordPress blog.
    Essential things to setup after installing WordPress.
    Things that you require to do immediately after the initial WordPress configuration (Step by step).
   
WordPress plugins that you require to install and how to set them up.
    Pro tips to make your WordPress blog grow more expeditious.
    Essential SEO of your WordPress blog.

You can have your WordPress blog up and running in the next 10 minutes.

Do recollect, this WordPress for beginner’s guide is crafted with the utmost care and is conventionally updated. You should bookmark this page for future reference. You are emboldened to browse our WordPress catalog where you can find more articles apart from what I have listed here.
Engendering your WordPress blog (First step)

The first thing that you require to do in order to engender a WordPress blog is to buy web-hosting and a domain denomination.

    Web-hosting is where your files are stored.
    The domain is the denomination of your blog.

You can buy hosting from Bluehost, which comes with a free domain and costs only $5.95/month for illimitable hosting space and bandwidth.

Other hosting recommendation:

    Kinsta Hosting: For high traffic site & this is where GS Web Tech is hosted. Plan commences from $100/month
    InMotionHosting: An alternative to Bluehost & perfect for those who are looking to host their website in U.S.A.
    WPEngine: Commences at $29/month.

This process will take 5 minutes and here is a video guide to avail you along the way. Click on the below link and get a hosting package now.

    Sign up for Bluehost (Exclusive discount + free domain name)

The next thing you require to do is install the WordPress blog onto your domain designation. This process will take another 5-10 minutes. Below is the step by step tutorial:

    How to install WordPress on Bluehost within 5 minutes

Once you have your WordPress blog Installed, you require to make a few changes such as establishing permalinks, updating the ping list, establishing discussion settings, etc. Don’t worry, it’s not technical and you can expeditiously do it with the avail of the guide below:

    Essential settings after installing WordPress blog

Good job on getting this far! Your blog is now up and running.

But a fore you play with more stuff, let’s expeditiously watch a few videos that will make you understand WordPress preponderant.

    Free WordPress videos for neophytes

A few things to learn afore peregrinating to the next level:

Here are a few more things that you require to learn afore peregrinating to the next level. This will avail you to move through everything more expeditious and without getting stuck anywhere in between.
WordPress For Neophytes:

Utilize these guides as your reference:

    How to Install a WordPress Plugin
    How to Install WordPress Themes

With all of the above steps consummated, you have graduated from neophyte to tyro!

Alright lets commence by installing essential WordPress plugins:

    Start from here: Subsidiary list of WordPress plugins for an incipient blog

Now it’s time to pimp up your blog with some consequential things.
Here they are: Burn your blog victual utilizing Feedburner (This will sanction your readers to subscribe to your blog via RSS aliment or email updates.)   
Integrating Google Analytics to your WordPress blog (This is paramount as it’s here that you will be able to optically discern how much traffic you are getting and where it’s all emanating from.)
Set up Google tag manager (This is remotely of a pro-tip, but you should read it and implement it right now. This will avail you to manage all tags, including the Google analytics tag, from one place.)

Update WordPress ping list (Peregrinate to this post and replicate/paste the list as guided. This will avail you to get more traffic to your blog.)

Neophyte Tips To Blogging Like A WordPress Pro:

One of the major mistakes that many tyros make after engendering a WordPress blog is they don’t bother establishing some of the things that can engender an astronomically immense difference.

These few setups will avail out in every aspect of your incipient website and each step won’t take more than 5 minutes.



Now it’s time to establish a few WordPress plugins that are very paramount:

    Activate the Akismet plugin (You will require the Akismet API key. This tutorial will avail you get your free API key and edify you how to integrate it on your blog.)
    Install and activate WordPress SEO by Yoast (This is an astonishing free plugin to make your blog SEO amicable, and this tutorial will guide you on how to set it up. This is quite facile to do and if you are stuck at any step, just drop me a comment and I will avail you along the way.)
    Shortpixel WordPress plugin (Compresses images on your blog. Paramount for maintaining an expeditious website.)
   
WP Most expeditious Cache plugin (This plugin is paramount for making your blog load more expeditious. Ascertain you don’t utilize any other cache plugin with this one.)
No self-ping WordPress plugin (Don’t ping yourself!)
WordPress cognate post plugins (Utilize any of these plugins to integrate cognate posts with thumbnails after each individual post. This will avail your readers to discover more content on your blog.)
    SocialWarfare WordPress plugin (These will avail you to get more shares on gregarious media.)
    OptinMonster plugin (This will let you capture email leads for your auto-responder accommodation such as Aweber, MailChimp, etc. It’s responsive and offers yare to utilize opt-in forms.)
    PushEngage (Free WordPress plugin to make your blog web-push yare. Highly recommended .)

WordPress SEO: From Abecedarian to Intermediate Level

Welcome to the next level!

These steps are going to engender the most immensely colossal difference for your WordPress blog.

You will require about one hour to understand everything here. If you have been learning and implementing everything perpetually thus far, take a break! Come back with a fresh mind as you will be learning the things that will make you stand apart from other bloggers.

    Exclusive WordPress SEO training video from WordCamp (This video will answer most of your SEO queries in the next 30 minutes.)
    A DIY guide for WordPress Blog SEO
    How to SEO optimize individual posts in WordPress
    How to submit your blog sitemap to Google webmaster implement
    How to submit your blog sitemap to Bing

WordPress Pro Tips:

As promised, here are some tips for those WordPress bloggers who have been utilizing WordPress for a long time and optate to learn some advanced tips.

    How to reduce database size of your WordPress blog
    Broken Link checker plugin:
        This plugin will find all broken links (internally and externally) and expeditiously fine-tune them.

WordPress Security:

    Use WordFence plugin for hardening overall security
    7 Essential WordPress security tips
    9 steps to secure your WordPress Blog

Do let us ken if you optate to integrate any categorical WordPress topics into this WordPress guide.

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