First Post
June 21, 2008 – 12:22 am |The first post on your blog can be crucial to the life of the site. The reason for this is that you have an important job to do with your first post. You have to provide any search engine that has a link to your site or that gets pinged by WordPress something quality to read.
The sort of content that you need to provide in your first post can be a mission statement, statement of purpose, a paragraph about yourself, your history with the topic you will cover, and/or the reason you started the site. This sort of content will help you to focus your mission, and to give the search engine an idea of the types and frequencies of the keywords you will be using on the site.
Also, your first post will help users to put an age on your blog. If a user comes to your site and sees only one post and the title is “Hello World” and the content is “Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!”, they are going to know one of two things:
- That you are so new to WordPress that you don’t know how to change/delete the prefilled post on your own blog. Or
- That your site is so new that you haven’t even had a chance to change the first post. (btw, if you are getting traffic to your blog and you only have the one post on your site, you are doing something right!)
The mission of this site is to provide quality information to people who need a little relief from what can be confusing about wordpress, its functionality, and SEO for your blog.
Why such a range of topics? The reason is that as a developer, I run into WordPress constantly. I have been called upon to make an entire content managed website for a newspaper using wordpress. That system gets an entire newspaper’s worth of articles every two weeks. The best part of it is, that just looking at the site, you would have no idea it is running on WordPress. It was a completely custom build without doing any more interaction with the core than just creating a quality theme.
I work with sites that are intended as casual blogs, full fledged websites, business card websites, and revenue generation sites. I personally run between 5-10 different blogs at any given time, some that are personal and some that are for clients. Included in these sites, is another WordPress blog that I have quickly built to house and support plugins for WordPress that are no longer being supported.
Please ask questions and make comments on posts. I will do my best to answer your questions. If your WordPress question can be made into a full post covering a topic, I will make sure to give you the credit you deserve for asking the question (typically this means a free link to your site at the bottom of the post).
I made this blog with the intention of being a resource for your WordPress needs and to help you make your site into the user friendly, traffic supporting, money generating site that it can be. I will try to provide quality content, examples, and information that you can use on your own blog to make it perform for you.
Do not let your blog be just a dump of information, take steps to make it give back as much or more than you put in.
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