Automattic Kismet in short called as ‘Akismet’ is a service which offers differentiation between real comments and spams based on previous history. If some comment is marked as SPAM by the blog owner, Akismet blacklists the website & the commentor based on name, IP and email address.

Login to your wordpress admin panel at yourblog.com/wp-admin/ and click on Plugins option and click on ‘Activate’ to activate. Once you click on this you will be asked to enter the ‘WordPress.com API key ‘ which you can get from your wordpress.com account. Just signup for free at wordpress.com for a account and get a ‘WordPress.com API key’, enter it in your blog’s admin panel and the Akismet plugin starts working.

If you feel that some comment is not a real one and may be SPAM, you can ‘Mark as SPAM’ and move the comment to Akismet Spam section where all the Spams are automatically moved and if you want you can recover any specific comment or Delete all.

Its very important to deal Spam very smartly and not approve any comments you recieve on your blog without checking out if they are real or not, you can even copy paste the comment’s text and search in google to find if this is a automated comment with the same message posted on multiple blog’s because approving this can add duplicate content on your blog and get you penalized. There are many more Anti-Spam wordpress plugins like Spam Karma but Akismet is one of the best ones and the official Anti-Spam plugin from the Wordpress Team!

Click on the Permalinks Section in your wp-admin which would be available at http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php and here you will be able to tweak into the permalinks and change them. By default the settings would be like http://www.makemoneynext.com/?p=123 which you need to change. Select the second option ‘Day and name’ if you want a permalinks structure like ‘http://www.makemoneynext.com/2008/06/19/sample-post/’ but i would prefer you to remove the date section from the URL because it would just make the URL longer without forming any real use. It comes in use if you are developing a news kind of website using wordpress because that way the readers can find the post’s date easily from the date structure in the post’s URL. In order to keep just the ‘name’ of the post in the URL select ‘Custom Structure’ and add ‘/%postname%/’ under it. This way the Blog Post’s would be like ‘http://www.makemoneynext.com/sample-post/’ which are the most recommend url structure.

Once you complete the ‘Common settings’ customization under ‘Permalinks Structure’ the next option is to select a ‘Category base’ and ‘Tags base’. Generally most wordpress blogs has a structure for categories like ‘http://www.makemoneynext.com/category/blogging’ and this can also create a duplicate URL structure and does not help in the search engines factor, if you have a established blog there is no point in changing your URL structure but if you are starting a fresh new blog its recommend to use a ‘Category Base’ which is relevant to the niche of your blog like if its a Travel Blog use something like /guide (or) /travel etc. If you are going to start a career related blog it would be recommended to use a category base like /career etc.

Its not recommended to make any changes to the ‘Tags Base’. You should also note that when you already have a option to categorize your posts in the blog, there is no need to use the Tags structure because it just creates some extra duplicate content pages and would devalue the inner link building value. Decide from the Day#1 itself which format you are going to use ie Categories (or) Tags and go with only 1. Once you try to click on ‘Save Changes’ the wordpress script will ask you to add ‘Writable’ permissions to your .htaccess file. For this you need to first open ‘Notepad’ and save the blank ‘Notepad’ file as “*.htaccess” and upload it to your root section of your web hosting account where the wordpress is installed. Once the file is uploaded you need to Right-Click on it and select Properties/CHMOD option to change the permissions.

Change the Permissions to ‘666′ and click on Apply to save the changes and after this all the changes made from the wp-admin panel in the Permalinks section would be automatically updated. Click on Save Changes in the Permalinks section and your customization completes here.

If you have any problems in setting up Permalinks (or) if you are looking for help in what kind of URL Structure you should select, feel free to ask your doubts using the comments section below. This ends our Wordpress Permalinks Setup Guide.

The Moment you complete wordpress installation and you first login to your admin panel you will be directed to the General Settings page which you need to configure in order to get started.

The First step would be to assign a Blog Name to your wordpress blog, followed by a Tagline[description] which would be in around 5-10 words maximum because this appears in the header section of your blog under the title. Try to keep your Blog Title very short and relevant to your blogs domain name. Its recommended to use the same name you have in your domain name because people remember your blog’s based on the name.

The next thing would be to change your Wordpress address[URL] from http://makemoneynext.com to http://www.makemoneynext.com because in SEO terms its always recommended to have a www in the domain URL and it gives a little boost in your search engine rankings. You also need to redirect all your http:// readers to http://www using a permanent 301 redirect about which we will discuss in the later posts.

E-mail address section is the place where you need to enter your email in order to recieve email notifications when new comments are recieved, when new contact form emails are recieved etc.

The next section is Membership under which first option is : Anyone can register which means that you allow any of your visitor/reader to become a member of your blog and this way you can create a membership commmunity and also allow your members to make posts on your blog as contributors. For this setting you need to setup the next option under : New User Default Role you need to change the default value from Subscriber to Contributor or author.

Its generally not recommended to change any other settings on this page except the time zone if you are located in a place which is not in sync with the universal time. Click on Save Changes at the end of the page to save all the settings you have changed. You will be asked to relogin to your wordpress admin section and once you do that you will find that your blog’s URL are changed to http://www format. This completes our session on setting our wordpress General Settings page.

Once you Login into the Cpanel with your login credentials. You will be directed to the cPanel X page where you can access to all the control panel settings like setting up mails, installing available scripts etc. Just move towards the end of the page and click on Fantastico De Luxe under Software/Services section.

Once you are into the Fantastico section you will find ‘Wordpress’ section under ‘Blogs’ under Navigation. Click on it and you will be given some options to install a fresh new installation of wordpress. You can also find the currently installed version and have option to remove the current instantly.

Click on Install Wordpress and proceed to installing wordpress copy on your web hosting account. Check out the following options given in the screenshot for easy tutorial. If you are installing wordpress in the main domain rather than sub domain or sub folder you should leave that option empty. Then you need to give your login data and email details with your Site name & Description. Then click on Install Wordpress to proceed to the next menu.

In this Next step you will be just shown a confirmation of your new blog setup with the database name and the location where your blog will be installed. Click on Finish Installation to completed.

The next page would show you the newly installed blog’s URL and this completes our process to install a wordpress blog within minutes. Feel free to add comments if you have any doubts while installing a wordpress based blog.

What is a Domain Name?
A Domain Name is a name using which you can create a identity on the internet ie www. A Domain Name consists of 2 main items ie ‘name dot com’

Example : makemoneynext dot Com | The first word is the domain name followed by a dot and the Tld[Top Level Domain] which can be .com, .net, .org, .in,. name, .biz, .info etc. There are a lot of different Tld you can select for registering your domain name which are based on different categories like country based TLD like .in – India, .us – United States, .uk – United Kingdom, or based on generic top-level domains like .gov – Government, .mil – military, .aero – air-transport industry, .com – commercial etc list of Tld

Selecting a Good Domain Name :
Its very important to do a high amount of research for selecting the best domain name because its your online identity and you cannot change the name in the later stage.

Register a Domain Name :
Most Domain Names are registered for a minimum of 1 year term and you are originally leasing the domain name from the registry and you need to make a registration fees every year to make sure you can handle it. Once the Domain name is expired after the term, its expired and available to everyone. You can register a domain name for as low as 9USD[350Rs] fees and get started. The pricing of domain registration depends on the TLD you are looking to register.

Make sure you register with a reliance domain registrar like Godaddy , HostBrains.com etc and try to avoid companies like register.com which charge 4 times the general pricing which is around 35$/year. Its also always recommended to register all your domain names from a single registrar because you can handle all your domain names easily and get notified in case there are any renewals etc.

Domain Name Privacy :
if you are not interested in giving our your business information / contact details in public, then the best option for you would be to register your domain name with Privacy Protection. As per the registrars policy you need to have real legit information to be submitted for registration of a domain name, or else it can get cancelled at any time. In order to prevent this you can go for WhoisGuard Subscriptions for hiding your contact details.

Domain Registrar Support :
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