How to set up a Wordpress blog the easy way so you can earn money online

I have set up about 50 Wordpress blogs on the two hosting companies that I use (Bluehost and Hostgator) so I thought it was time to make a tutorial for you to learn how to set up your own Wordpress blog.

This is, in my opinion, the first step in creating your own profitable niche website. There simply is no better way to run a money-making website than by using Wordpress as your content management system (CMS) - it makes updating easy, it organizes your content for you, and you do have flexibility in your format.

You don’t have to use the blog format with entries arranged on your home page starting with the most recent…etc. You can put all of your content into traditional pages, with any page you want serving as your home page. It becomes more clear as you do it, but the first step is installing Wordpress if you have a domain name and hosting.

If you haven’t gotten a domain name get one now.

If you don’t have web hosting set that up now with Bluehost or Hostgator.

Now go into the Cpanel for the site you just set up hosting for.

Find the Fantastico smiley face and click on it.

That will take you to this page:

On the left side you see a menu - click on Wordpress.

Then you will go to this page:

Click on “New Installation” which will take you to this screen:

You will be installing Wordpress so that it is the home page of your site - meaning you don’t have to go to your home page and then click on “blog” to get to this Wordpress install. So in the “Install in Directory” field you will enter nothing - just leave it blank.

Next is the admin name and password. You can enter whatever you want (I usually enter “admin” as the user name) but you will be entering this every time you get into Wordpress to work on your blog, so pick something that won’t give you any trouble. One of my blogs has a really long user name - it’s a pain. You can always add users later on, too, but this is your primary admin user name/password.

Next…admin nickname. That’s what will appear as your author name so I sometimes use keywords here. You can enter your e-mail address next, then with thesite name and description you can change that later so I always skip it for now.

Next you will enter e-mail info for “blog by e-mail” which I never use, so I just enter a password and leave the default user name and server info. This is also something that you can change later so I don’t pay much attention here, just enter a password and then hit…INSTALL! You can’t see it in my screen shot, but there is a buttin below those fields you just filled out that says “install” so go ahead, install!

Click finish if everything looks ok.

The last screen will show you that it installed ok, and a little lower down on the page it will offer to send the intall details to an e-mail address for you. Good idea, since it will give you the access URL along with your user info. The access URL is going to be http://www.your-domain.com/wp-admin.

That’s it, that’s all you need to do to set up your own Wordpress blog. Now start blogging! You can earn money online with blogs - look around my site for niche topic ideas and more “how to” info.