Installing Wordpress On Your Host’s Server
Wordpress.com Or a Stand Alone Solution?
There are two roads to take if you want to have a Wordpress Blog. You can choose to simply sign up to wordpress.com and get a free sub-domain on their server (eg www.yourdomain.wordpress.com) or you can choose to purchase your own domain name and get your own hosting and install the platform yourself.
Choosing the first method is very restrictive and you are at the mercy of wordpress.com’s rules which can change overnight, and sometimes with disastrous results if they see your site as violating their terms and conditions. If you are an affiliate marketer then you definitely do not want this as it can put you out of business right away.
The easy solution, is to install it on your own server, and these days it is as simple as pushing a few buttons in your hosting account backend C Panel.
For the sake of this post, I will assume that you know how to purchase a domain name, and how to forward the nameserver settings to your hosting account. Once you have done this you will want to install Wordpress through your hosts Cpanel backend software. Your host will have sent you instruction of how to log in to that when you ordered your hosting.
Once in Cpanel, you will want to scroll down to the Software and Services module and select Fantastico De Luxe, and from there select along the sidebar Blogs>>Wordpress. Press new installation and select on which domain you would like it.
There are two ways you can install Wordpress on your domain, and that is in the root directory so the index page will be your blog (eg 222.yourdomain.com) or you can have it as a folder or sub-domain (www.yourdomain.com/blog or www.blog.yourdomain.com).
Now put in the user name and password that you would like to use, and your nickname and email address, and finally the site name and a description of the site (these can be changed later).
Click install Wordpress and the job is complete. That now leaves you to log in to your wordpress control panel and begin tweaking and writing your blog. You log in through this link:
www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin
In the next post I will show you how to make some changes to your blog before you post anything, that will make life a lot easier for you.
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Hi ccdoshi,
Wordpress.com will not allow Adsense or other advertising programs on their servers, so if you do want to go down that track then you will have to self host your Wordpress blog. To see what is and is not acceptable, check out this link here: http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
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