Blogs Tutorial At Crabbysbeach | Set Up

Taking the time to set up your blog before you make your first post is important for two reasons. The first is you start a routine that can be repeated time and time again, which is very important in niche blogging. By following the same steps with each new blog you will find that the time between grabbing a url and the first post will get shorter.

The second reason is, you (the blogger) will start building relevance into your blog from the first post forward. Blog posts get indexed by the search engines more often than pages, so when the spiders start comparing the posts inside of your blog they look for relevance or 'authority'. The more posts that are relevant to each other, the greater the authority.

Crabbysbeach Squidoo Blogs Community offers some powerful tools for your free blogs that, if used correctly, can broadcast the authority of your blog and its content far and wide. Some of the SEO tools included are:

All In One SEO ~ Not only the blog, but each post can be armed with well structured meta titles, descriptions, and keywords to build deep relevancy throughout the blog structure.

Simple Tags ~ Own your tags. Automatically suggest tags as well as includes tags in meta keywords. You can list categories as tags as well. These features and many more to help establish authority with the search engines.

XML Sitemap Automatically re-constructs a sitemap after every publish and sends it to the important search engines.

Of course the SEO tools take care of the search engines, but what about Web 2.0? Your blog(s) are readied for sharing and promotion with these social plug-ins; Tweetsuite, Sociable, and Add|Share.

The following tutorial should teach you how to have your blog set-up in less than an hour using the simple blog themes. The Magazine and Grid themes will always take longer due to having to get out some bailing wire and duct tape to get them to work properly. Also, this tutorial does not allow for advanced fine tuning of the plug-ins, but they are very solid tools even with the simple set-up.

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