1. Prior

a. a blog, but why?

Creating a blog is like trying to talk about oneself, an association which you belong, a passion that drives you to push the "coups de gueule" or "beating heart". The best way to blogger is writing about his passions! The more passionate you are, the more it will be visible in your writing. So go ahead and throw you in creating your blog! Exchange ideas with users who share the same passions as you, feed your regular blog to be well positioned on search engines.
But beware: you will always be held responsible for what you write on your blog.

b.Choisir a name for his blog

The domain name of your blog should reflect clearly its content and possibly contain the keywords on which you want to communicate. Also choose a name that is the subject of much research in Google, the domain name is one of the keys to good referrals. Furthermore it should be easy to remember, it must also be striking and original.

c. Choose an accommodation.

After identifying the subject and set its name, it is time to choose an accommodation!

1. Staff accommodation:

You can host your website on your own computer. But the costs in comparison to the pay or free offers do not lean in favor of this solution (electricity, time ...)

2. free hosting:

Most ISPs offer hosting included in your subscription. Many free hosts do exist but have uneven quality. However, these accommodations do not guarantee anything about the total visibility of your site and many problems can affect these hosts, making your site inaccessible at times during
several hours.

3. Accommodation fee:

Here hosts should keep their servers connected 24 hours on the web 24 with a connection to high speed. They should especially ensure high availability of your pages. For servers that are monitored to prevent any failure, and secure (installation in a clean room with fire-suppression devices, backup, ...).

In terms of proposed deals, you have two choices: shared hosting or dedicated hosting.

The solution is shared more widely: in fact, each server hosts multiple sites, even up to several dozens, and this in order to share the costs. The main advantage is price, the main disadvantage is that the server capacities are also distributed among various users.
About dedicated hosting, the customer has its own server, and can in general to administer as they wish, which is the main advantage of such offers. The price is about him
much higher than shared hosting.

2. Installing wordpress

Now that you know where you host your blog, it only remains to install wordpress. A very good documentation is legible on the wordpress site francophone: Installing Wordpress

But once the WordPress installation is complete, there are a number of operations you must perform to make the most of your blog.

3. Installation of plugins needed

The main reason that makes a WordPress blog platforms the most used, is its infinite possibilities for extensions through a wide selection of plugins. But to avoid having to test them all, I offer my thoughts: The question we must ask ourselves as part of our blog is: what are the plugins that are considered a luxury for those who are deemed necessary or essential ?
In this regard, here are the essential WordPress plugins that you should install: The Indispensable Wordpress Plugins

4. Strengthening the security of your blog

a. Plugins Security

Security is often a neglected aspect of bloggers, but a few minutes of work enough to save you hours and hours of "restoration of your blog, if someone decides to hack. Then secure wordpress!

b. Setting up an automatic backup of your blog

To protect itself from all disasters (hacks, crashes, errors) I advise you to regularly back up your blog.

5. Optimization for search engines (SEO)

a. Modifying the structure of your permalinks: permalinks

A permalink (formed by the contraction of linguistic words "permanent" and "link") is a type of URL designed to refer a piece of information (often a novel or a blog entry) and to remain unchanged permanently, or at least for a certain period of time. Permanence in links is useful if your pages are linked (backlinks), or quoted in an external source.
But how to choose the structure of permalinks wordpresss?

b. Creation of robots.txt file

The search engines navigate your blogs and websites looking for content to index. Unfortunately, these robots are greedy and take everything they find during their exploration. In order to curb their appetite, it is recommended to put a robots.txt in the root of your blog. This file provides the robots directives on how to navigate your site. Let's see how to create your robots.txt file to your Wordpress blog: "Wordpress and spam"

c. Generating sitemap file

A sitemap is literally in English, "plan a website. This is a representation of the architecture of the site, which lists the resources available, usually in outline form.
The Sitemaps protocol, proposed by Google and later adopted by Live Search, Yahoo, Ask and Exalead, can specify a site map in a format readable by spiders, plain text or XML. The text file format is a simple list of pages with a full URL, "http://" protocol included. The XML standard also includes the URL:

• intervals to scan the page,
• date of last update
• the relative importance of the page from other pages.

Once the card site registered with Google, you get the statistics when the search engine results in your pages. All search engines do not provide an interface to submit this list to their index, another method is to add the path to the sitemap in the robots.txt file using the syntax:
Sitemap: http://www.example.org/sitemap.xml
But how to generate it in your Wordpress blog? : Automatic generation of sitemap Wordpress

d. Choosing keywords

The key words are small phrases for which you want to find your site in the results of search engines.

But how to choose those keywords?

To increase your chances of appearing in the first results page of search engines, no need to use keywords too popular. Use instead of keywords less
currents, but the sum of the visits will be higher than the popular. This theory is called the long tail and is detailed here. To facilitate the creation of these keywords, here's a little tip: automatic generation of keywords.

6. Optimizing Performance

In order not to scare your visitors with slow loading of your blog, I offer to help you improve. Indeed simple things can be
made to optimize the loading time: Optimize the loading time of your blog

7. Introduce yourself

You want to boost your stats. There on the canvas a large number of tools at your disposal to publicize your blog:

• Search engines;
• RSS feeds;
• Forums;
• The Digg-Like;
• The Social Bookmarking;
• Social networks;

See it in detail: "Promoting a blog".

8. Measure the audience of your blog

There are four ways to calculate the statistics of connections to your blog:

1. Through a Wordpress plugin: Wassup, StatPress
2. By installing an external tool: Webalizer, AWStats
3. By using the services of a supplier: Google Analytics, Piwik, Woopra ...
4. Or that of your host

A presentation of these tools is available here: Statistics from your blog

9. Customizing Your Blog

Being written

10. Submit your articles

It'll just create your categories and publish your articles. Take as much fun as me!

Read also

You can continue your reading on similar topics by visiting the following items:

1. Book - WordPress, all keys to create, maintain and evolve your blog!
2. Complete and automatic backup of your Wordpress blog.
3. Promoting a blog
4. Automatic generation of sitemap Wordpress
5. Secure Wordpress