Here's your response and it's assuming you have some technical capabilities. I have a lot of clients and I don't have time to go into a lot of further details on a one-on-one basis.
- Go to http://wordpress.org and download wordpress.
- Set up ONE database. This is for all of your sites. Change wp-config.php to the info for this database.
- Whenever you set up a new site, use the same wp-config.php and just change the table prefix in the file to something unique.
- Go to http://www.alexking.org/software/wordpress/theme_browser.php and pick a theme that you can live with for quite a while. Pick a simple theme that you like the layout of, stylesheet etc and has room for your advertising and uses only a couple images like maybe a header image and table image or something.
- Install wordpress.
- Upload the theme. Browse to the theme and CHMOD everything to 777
- Change the 2 (or however many) images to match your domain. (Hopefully, you didn't pick a theme that uses 47 images ... did you?)
- Always check your newly installed theme in IE and NS before deciding to keep it.
The plugins you will absolutely need are:
- Head meta content
- Update Pinger
- Google Sitemaps
- Auto blog content
Now:
- Activate the plugins except the sitemap plugin.
- Modify the meta area in header.php to accommodate the Head Meta Plugin.
- Modify the index.php (main blog page) to include your ad tables, I use .php includes for everything. I put the ads between the title content and the post content for the top and below the post content and before "end post" for the bottom. **If you run more than one post per page, but the ad table in the top area of the footer! **
- Comment out or drop the "comments" code unless you want to manage a whole bunch of auto-spam content.
- Edit the sidebar. Comment or pull out the "get links" code unless you want to update an individual blogroll for each site.
- Put a Google tower ad or whatever in there.
- Put in a php include that you will use for all of your sites (the same file, can be anywhere on any site), and make a link list to all of your sites. If you have a LOT of sites, break it into 10 random rolling includes or whatever you feel is appropriate.
- Comment out or drop the "meta" area in the sidebar.
Set up the admin.
- No new users can register.
- Uses must be logged in to comment. That takes care of your robot spammers.
- Set up your ping list in the update pinger manager.
- Set up the default category and get rid of the default post or re-name, re-type and change the "post slug"
- Upload an .htaccess file and CHMOD it to 777
- Update the permalinks. I always just use "Optional" and type %postname% into the field.
Set up the rest of the admin.
- Upload 2 blank notepad files to root. Rename one to sitemap.xml and rename one to sitemap.xml.gz. CHMOD both to 777.
- Set your spider to go get a few (5) posts. Set it to update them every 4 days (or whatever you want).
- Get the posts, check them for anything you don't like and post them on today's date, or last month, the month before, etc..
Now you have posts, structure, pages and archives. Check them, layout etc.
If everything checks out:
- Activate the sitemaps plugin.
- Generate the sitemap, it will automatically now and forever update itself and notify Google with a ping on every new post.
- Go spider a hundred or so new posts, set them to update every 4 days and you have a years + worth of new posts.
- Alternatively, you can BUY sites with hundreds of relevant pages already and use that text instead, just make all of your posts and set them to the future.
Everything looks great?
- Download the entire folder /wp-content/ into a folder called new-wordpress-theme or something.
- Download .htaccess, sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz and empty them (or just make new, empty ones).
- immediately change the downloaded wp-config.php to replace the table prefix, put in "####_" or something so there are NO future accidents!
- Use default wordpress to install next site.
- Change the table prefix in the newly uploaded wp-config.php
- CHMOD .htaccess and the 2 sitemap files to 777
- Upload the modified wp-content folder. Browes to your theme and CHMOD everything in the folder to 777.
- Change the theme images to match the new site.
- Set up the admin and check the site.
- Spider posts
- Add this site to your rolling sidebar include file for all sites, wherever you put it.
A couple of points:
This is not all inclusive and I may have even left out something important, but I don't think so. I do a lot more to my sites, but this will get you started if you have any tech in you. If you don't, I'm not too good at training green newbies. By trade, I work with people who are already real webmasters with skill sets and who need advancement of their skills, techniques and existing Internet business advancement.
You will develop your own "exact" way of doing things eventually, and that's what's easiest and fastest for you ... and what works.
Blogs are real sites and they do well rank wise, especially with the head-meta plugin, bring new fresh traffic, spread around robots and click well.
1 domain, 1 blog. NOT sub1.blogdomain.com, sub2.blogdomain.com, sub3.blogdomain.com, etc..
If you have a quick technical question, I'll answer you, just post it.
Good luck,
.:: DC ::.
