WordPress For Small Businesses
Anybody can lean this in just a few days. It’s not brain surgery by any means. That is the brilliance behind WordPress. It will save you tons of time and money with a web designer(s) and/or programmers.
Day 1
Non-Wordpress Tutorials: (But necessary to use WordPress)
- Buying Domain Name
- Hosting
- Changing Name Servers
Activating WordPress:
- C-panel
- E-mail – (how to Gmail as your email client video tutorial)
- Fantastico
Day 2
Setting-up WordPress: (The essentials for a Small Business Website)
- Settings & Permalinks
- Akismet
- All in One SEO
- WordPress Contact Froms: Contact Form 7 Vs. Cforms
- Google XML Sitemap
- Redirection
- Robots Meta
- Google Analytics
- WordPress DB Backup
- Sociable
- Mappress Easy Google Maps
- Calendar
- GWA Auto-Responder – Great & Free
- Reveal ID’s for WP admin
- No Self-Ping
* Visit Yoast’s Post for a advanced tutorial on WordPress SEO
Day 3
WordPress Intro:
- Introduction to Navigation
- Difference between Posts & Pages
- How to write a post
- How to write a page
- How to upload and embed a image
- How to upload and embed a document like a pdf
- How to upload and embed a video
- SEO friendly Titles/Headlines
- Using Tags
- Using Categories
- Using ‘SEO all in One Pack’ plugin
Summary
If you follow the above tutorials you should have a pretty rocking small business website all running on the easy to use WordPress CMS. WordPress also (finally) offers their own video tutorials which covers just about everything and can be found at WordPress.tv .
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Other Related Tutorials:
- Google Analytic Tutorials
- Google Webmaster
- Google Local Business Center
