Creating Quick Videos at Animoto
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You’re probably well aware that video is a fantastic way to get links and visitors to your web pages and it is. I’m seeing excellent traffic levels from videos. Creating a video can be expensive and time consuming, but Animoto have solved all that with a fantastic service where you can upload still images and add music, press a button and after rendering..hey presto, you have a very cool video, all ready to upload to the video directories!
Here’s one example of a finished video.
Watch the video run through below for more info on creating an animoto video.
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Adding WordPress Themes
Just a quick video tutorial on changing your wordpress theme, a very simple process 
Social Bookmarking WordPress Plugin
This Socialable WordPress plugin gives your posts and pages those little social bookmarking logos so users can boomark (almost like voting for) your blog post.
What would Seth Godin Do WordPress Plugin
What would Seth Godin Do? Probably the strangest named of wordpress plugins out there, but one I put on all my blogs. Give your web visitors a warm welcome, no matter what blog post they arrive at – and better still – a welcome back message for returning visitors and an invitation to subscribe to your RSS feed for first time visitors.
All in One SEO Plugin for WordPress
This essential SEO plugin gives your blog extra weight for the battle of the search engines. Check out the video below on installing this plugin.
Google XML Sitemap for your WordPress Blog
Having a Google XML sitemap on your website or blog is highly recommended as it gives the search engines a quick way to index your site.
Watch the video below on installing this plugin.
Adding Google Analytics to your WordPress Blog
Google Analytics is another very useful tool provided by Google for webmasters to track and analylize visitors and traffic. Adding this to a static html website is a case of copying and pasting the generated code onto your web page.
With WordPress it comes in the form of a plug in.
Watch the video below for a quick run through of how to install this great plug in.
Permalinks on your WordPress Blog
This is a quick run through of a couple of things to do straight after installing your wordpress blog. The important part is the permalinks, this is the part of the URL that displays in the browser bar.
By default WordPress runs a not so search engine friendly URL which looks something like this:
http://www.yourwebsite.com?=yourpostname
Now while this is fine they don’t tell the search engines or anyone else for that matter what this post is about.
Watch the video below for the preferred method.
Installing WordPress Tutorial
WordPress is the first choice for many and installing WordPress on your own server is even better because this will give you more control over the plugins and themes, as well as customizing it to your needs. Some online blog services can shut you down without any reason just from recieving 1 complaint. Imagine that? losing however many months or years of content at the press of a button!!
If you have C panel with your web host you can usually install via fantastico clicking one or two buttons. If you have fantastico on your C panel you can avoid doing this way of installation, although this gives you a better understanding of the process. Click here for a Video tutorial on installing WordPress via the C panel.
Step 1.
Go to wordpress.org and click ‘downloads’ from the horizontal menu and download the zip file. Extract this to your local folder.
For Initial Steps of setting up hosting and using winzip and ftp files please refer to these resources:
http://www.winzip.com
http://www.ftpplanet.com/ftpresources/basics.htm
Step 2.
Once uploaded, you’ll need to create a MySQL database. Find the MySQL in your host’s control panel.
Then create a new database:
· Fill out the name of the database
· Click to go back
· Create a user and password
· Again click to go back
Then select ‘all’ under Privileges and add user to the database.
Step 3.
Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php
And open in a text editor to fill out your database details
Step 4.
Upload the files to your server either onto the top root if you want the blog to be your main website or into a subfolder, usually named ‘blog’.
Or just drag the whole ‘wordpress’ folder to your root directory and rename it.
Step 5.
Run the install script by going to it in your browser.
* If you installed WordPress in the root directory, you should visit: http://yoursiteexample.com/wp-admin/install.php
* If you installed WordPress in its own subdirectory called blog, for example, you should visit: http://yoursiteexample.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php
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