There's something very important you need to know about setting up a new wordpress blog on your own hosting server. Once you have gone through the process of installing wordpress which is easy to do if you are using a cpanel server, as most are, as all you have to do is go use the Fantastico button and select wordpress and click install new. Entering your chosen login details and password entry and a click and you will have wordpress installed on your server. It doesn't get a lot easier than that.

Once you have installed wordpress there is a certain amount of setting up to do before you start posting blog entries. I may explain more about the specifics another time if people ask me to but there is one very important thing you should do before you begin posting to your blog.

I am assuming you want to get visitors to your blog and for that you will want the search engines to check out your blog and link to it when searches are made for what your blog is all about. If this does apply to you read on.

When you install wordpress, version 2.8.6 is the current one as I write this, you must click on settings and then on privacy. You will see two options and if you do want the search engines to see your blog you should change the setting to Visible to everyone as by default it seems to set your blog to be private and invisible to the search engines.

Blog Visibility
I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers

I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors

Once that is done you will find that you have a ping list visible on the 'Writing' settings page and you can add a list of sites to ping when you make a new post, which all goes to help your blog become more well known and helps attract visitors.

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