Setting Up Your WordPress Site Checklist

If you’re like me, you don’t do just one thing at a time. You are part of the new breed of multitaskers who have fifteen windows opened at once and you’re plugging away at your latest Adsense blog while you’re IMing your girlfriend.

So somewhere in the process you might forget something you learned, especially when building multiple sites and it helps to have a checklist you can fall back on.

I’ll be in the middle of writing a blog and John will come in with a great keyword for me to search for (the dude is a serious gold mine of ideas) and then I’m off buying another domain. I’ve bought seven in a week and only two are in any shape to roll.

Now, this is in no way an end all-be all list. It is just a list of steps I learned from all the videos and articles on Court’s site. If I have left something out, I might not have learned it yet. So, please share it with the rest of us.

1: Set up your new name server numbers

Can’t do anything without that step. Also, if you have a new website, put it in your add sub domain section of your Cpanel first.

2. Set up WordPress through your Cpanel

Go to the Fantastico Deluxe feature and install WordPress. For new websites, don’t forget to change the domain name or it will be called the same thing as your last site.

3. Go to your WordPress Dashboard and configure your settings

Remember to also change your Permalinks to maximize your SEO.

4. Go get your new nifty WordPress theme

Download at least two or three, so you can test drive them.

5. Upload your new themes and your SEO All-In-One Pack

Might as well kill both birds with one stone here. Then go activate your plugin and configure its settings.

I’m not hip to other plugins yet, so if you jiggy with them, go crazy with your add ons.

6. Gather up all your Copy and Pastes

You know, go get your statcounter, your affiliate codes, and if you have content, throw up your Google Adsense blocks. I wouldn’t advise adding this code until you have up enough content in case those damn Google Techs hit your page and wonder what the hell is going on at puppyloveparlor.com.

It seems easy, but when you are building about five sites at the same time it’s real easy to over look something. I just realized today that I skipped over a video and had to go back and load in all those SEO packs to my pages.

Look, I know there is a tone of stuff I still don’t know, but for those just starting out trying to make money with Google Adsense, one site is not going to get you rich. You need to get up multiple sites, get a portfolio going, and sometimes it’s easy to miss a step.

And to all you experts who read this, I would appreciate any comments you might have.