If you have a new wordpress blog !
Now what you have to do ?
This post will tell you what you have to do after you have a wordpresss blog .If you already have a wordpress blog, you can still do these things if you haven’t done them yet 
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1. Decide whether you want to ‘www’ or not .
If must have noticed, some blogs, like http://social-catalog.com, don’t use the ‘www’ in their address. And some blogs, like http://www.techcrunch.com/, use the ‘www’.I am not using ‘www’ .
So if you type http://www.mashable.com, it will redirect to http://mashable.com.
One advantage of having a www is your blog address will look more formal.
And if you don’t use the ‘www’, your address would be shorter.
To makethis changes, go to yourblog.com/wp-admin/options-general.php and change both the ‘WordPress address’ and ‘Blog address’ to http://www.yourblog.com, or vice versa.
2.Change the permalink structure
A permalink is the address of a blog post. This post’s permalink is
http://social-catalog.com/what-to-do-after-starting-your-wordpress-blog
By default, the permalink structure is like this: http://yourblog.com/?p=123.
Instead of the post ID, I suggest changing it to http://yourblog.com/your-post-title in order to gain SEO benefits. Also, if a visitor looks at it, he will know what the post is about before clicking it.
To do this, go to yourblog.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php and then, type in “/%postname%/” in Custom Structure.
3. Write Your About Me page
An ‘About Me’ page is essential for every blog. When your readers are interested in your content, they want to know who wrote it. That’s when they go to the ‘About Me’ page.
Basically, it is just a page that tells who you are, what is your blog about, interesting things about you, and of course, a picture of yourself.
It really helps your readers to know you and your blog better! (Here’s my ‘About Me’ page by the way.)My about us page is still not complete .
4. Set up a contact form
A contact form is an professional and easy way for your readers to contact you. It also protects your email address from spammers.Contact form of this website looks like this .
5. and don’t forget the archive page !
An archive page (this is mine) is where people can find all the posts on your blog, from the first post to the latest post.
An archive page is important because it lets people discover your older content easily (and generate more pageviews).
To make an archive page, I recommend SRG Clean Archives, but i am not using it now i have inbuilt archive page with this theme . It’s clean and displays all your posts neatly.
6. Install WordPress DB Backup to schedule blog backups
WordPress Database Backup, a wordpress plugin, allows you to schedule blog backups (hourly, twice daily, daily, weekly) easily and have them automatically sent to you by email or stored in the server.
Backups are really important because if anything ever happens to your blog, you have the backup, your best defense.
7. Change the admin username
This is very important and recommend by many bloggers .
Most of the login usernames of wordpress blogs is ‘admin’. If your wordpress blog’s login username is ‘admin’, too, you should really change it to something that can’t be guessed easily because the default name makes hackers’ lives so much easier.
Changing it is super duper easy. Here are the steps to do it:
1. Go to the wordpress admin area.
2. Go to Users >> Add new
3. Fill in the details with a different username and give it administrator privileges.
4. Log out and log in with the new username.
5. Delete the ‘admin’ user.
6. When you do so, it will ask you whether you want to move the posts and links of ‘admin’ to another user or delete them. Attribute the posts to the new username you have just created.i have changed my admin username .
8. Install the All-in-One-SEO Pack Plugin
All-in-One-SEO-Pack is a really popular wordpress plugin to do all the basic SEO things on your blog like page titles, post titles, meta tags, descriptions and those kinds of stuff. By default, the browser title of a wordpress blog post is:
Blog Title >> Blog Archive >> Post Title.
If you install All in One SEO, the structure will be changed to (or you can customize it):
Post Title | Blog Title
Which looks simply much better and shorter.
9.Write a post!
Still, without any content, a blog won’t be a blog.
So go on and write a post! Write a unique high-quality thought provoking post on a topic you are passionate about!
After that, promote it on twitter, facebook, stumbleupon, and so on and on. Ask your friends to read it too! 
So thank you friends for reading this post . If you know other things to do please tell me by leaving comments .If you like this post then subscribe to the blog and take some moments to share this story .
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very useful no doubts. but anyway i always feel the success of selling online lies on effective marketing (a bit off topic here but i cant help it.
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admin (403 comments) Reply:
March 25th, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Thanks for your comments and your site is nice .:)
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Are you sure you’re writing your blog entries in WYSIWYG(“what you see is what you get”) and not HTML view? There should be a button that lets you switch between the two. Using a Mac vs PC should make no difference.
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There are many ways to market a small business on the web. You can buy banner ads, text links, or use PPC. However, the best way is to get listed in a bunch of portals. Portals and directories are like phone books, and they often provide a lot of traffic because they tend to rank high on Google.
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The answer to me, is to have your own website. Your own host, and your own domain, then put WordPress on your website. Its much cheaper than what you are doing, and at least the website is your own and can get a lot of traffic. You also get a lot from your web host, blogs, forums, autoresponder.
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admin (403 comments) Reply:
March 31st, 2010 at 4:09 AM
I am not talking about wordpress.com blog . I posted this what to do after having own hosting and domain name
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I’ve already bookmark this article and will definitely refer this article to all my close friends and colleagues. Thanks for posting!
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Nice content. Thank you for your information.
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Wow very effective stuff
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OMG I was missing 2 important things till now, archive page and db backups. Will set those up now. Thanks
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excellent post for new bloggers. it is very helpful for wordpress users
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