Make Money Online - WordPress in Five Steps

It appears that more and more people would like to make money online by starting a blog, and the way in which a lot of people begin is by using a free of charge blogging platform for example 'Blogger' or other free of charge blogging services like 'TypePad'. However, eventually you will want to have more management over your blog by having your personal website name and blog, this will ensure that your blog never gets shut down. One of the best methods to get this done is by installing a WordPress blog on your own domain name and this article will show you 5 easy steps to setting up WordPress on your personal domain.

If you have never done this before it can seem quite complicated but in actual fact it is very easy to do. It can also be confusing by the fact that there are two different sorts of WordPress blogs. WordPress.com is a free blog service much like Google's blogger, whilst WordPress.org is what we will be using to install our blog on our own domain name. This gives us much more control than we get from using the free services.

Step One: In order to host your own personal blog the first things you'll need are a website name as well as a website hosting service. The actual website name will be the web address of your new blog, and if this is going to be a personal blog then it is a good idea to try to use your own name within the site. It is also smart to keep the website name as well as your hosting account with separate companies. This just keeps you a bit more in control although it is no problem for those who have them both with the same company.

Step Two: By now you will have your domain name pointing to your hosting account and the first thing you need to do is go into Cpanel. This is the main dashboard for controlling your hosting account, now scroll down until you see and icon called Fantastico and click that.

Step Three: This will demonstrate all the different scripts that you could set up from this location. From here find WordPress and simply click on it now.

Step Four: This will take you to an easy to use install page have a quick look at it and if all seems correct click the set up now button. You will then get asked which directory you will want to install your blog in, for most of us we will install the blog within the root directory, which means that we do not have to enter anything here. On the other hand if you want to install that blog in any other directory then just key in the name of the directory here and your blog will be set up.

Step Five: So that is it, your blog is installed on your personal hosting account and all you have to do now is sign in and choose which theme you want to use for your blog, and what plugins you should install, but this may be the subject of a later article.