Comments on: Building a Wordpress Blog From Scratch – Some Feedback?

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Artisteer2 ($50 and a free demo version) will let you create a great looking theme, quickly and easily. I have an old godaddy blog I have been living with and I never liked the look. Artisteer2 has been fun to play with and produces dozens of great looking formats fast. I know $50 is high compared with free, but after hours of looking at free and not finding anything I really liked, $50 started to come into focus as reasonable.

I'm working on it now so this is a guarded recommendation. I'm new too…so my advice is based on limited experience.

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UK PUBS FOR SALE — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:55:08 +0000

All good tips. I hope to get a reply on the use of Facebook. I know everyone has one, but how does it generate anything of use?

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ukpubsforsale — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:46:08 +0000

I have copied this list as a 'to do'. But having spent time on facebook, I cant see it working. Do you really think its worthwhile?

By: Aaron Moore

Aaron Moore — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:43:29 +0000

Thanks for all the useful tips and tricks to get my blog up and running. Special thanks to Drew Meyers for getting me pumped about the social media scene.

Hopefully I will make some serious progress this week. Thats the plan and I am sticking to it.

Thanks again

By: lindaslocum

lindaslocum — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:19:24 +0000

Here are my observations and suggestions:

* Create categories for posts. The first post is under "uncategorized".
* Use descriptive words for links, not the naked (and long) url. Same goes for the internal link structure for post permalinks. Even "click here for pdf" would be better than the long url.
* Verify that widgets like "Local Market Explorer" are working properly. Quite often they don't select the right region, or they select multiple regions.
* Get IDX that you have some control over, not a freebie. You want to keep leads to yourself, not send them back to another hungry agent.
* Remove the calendar and replace it with something useful.
* Use tags to define keywords for searches.
* Don't send visitors off site when it's not necessary. You could write a complete article on the homebuyer's tax credit yourself instead of sending them off to read about it elsewhere.
* Make sure that all links within posts open in a new window.
* Post more than once a week!

Great start, now it's time to tweak it and make it better!

By: drewmeyers

drewmeyers — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:50:36 +0000

Hey Chuck-
Don't worry about it – I totally agree that Aaron should sign up with an IDX vendor for his listings search rather than sending that traffic to Zillow. The Zillow search box is a short term solution for him until he gets up and running with someone like Diverse, IDX Broker, Wolfnet, Real Geeks, etc.