Web 2.0 sites are perhaps some of the well advanced site in the contemporary world and perhaps it would be a great relief for you to know that you can utilize the flexibility of WordPress to come up with a Web 2.0 site or better still; convert your WordPress blog into a Web 2.0 portal. This article explains in details how to go about this process step by step.
It is pretty obvious that the first thing you will need to do is get yourself a domain name and a hosting account. For advanced users, it is recommendable that you use different services for hosting and domain name registration. After that, you need to install WordPress Blog Software. Download the latest version of WordPress and install it. In case it gives you any problems you can make use of online tutorials, some of which will give you the full package with all the plugins you need. You then proceed to download and install a Web 2.0 ready WordPress theme. Some of the parameters you might want to have in this theme will include a right sidebar, 3 columns and Adsense readiness. There is a plug-in that allows you this functionality. Of course you can choose a theme from the numerous available one on the internet. You will also need a couple of plugins for navigation on your site such as WP-PageNavi and WP-Print.
After that, you need to get your blog optimized for search engines. Search engines favor blogs whose articles achieve top-10 rank within a few days of being posted. Make use of WordPress features such as Google XML Sitemaps, Dagon Design Sitemap Generator, All in One SEO Pack and simple tags. The next step is to make your blog ready for Social Networks Bookmarking. This can easily be done by the use of plugins such as Share This and Sociable. Social networking sites will definitely yield a lot of traffic for you.
Once you are done with the above step, you need to make it easy for users to subscribe to your content and also to make comments. Even though WordPress will offer you features to do this, it does not provide a way of tracking your RSS Feeds. To solve this problem, get an account with Feedburner. This will enable you to use plugins like What Would Seth Godin Do and Feedburner Feedsmith.
Proceed to enhance the comment system on your blog and also to protect yourself from Spam by using widgets such as Recent Comments Widgets, Dagon Design from Mailer, CommentLuv, Lucia Linky Love and Chunk URLs in the WordPress. The next step is to add interactivity to your blog which is essentially what Web 2.0 is all about. You can use some plugins such as WP-Polls to do this.
You will need to simplify your Administration functions and also customize your blog by the use of text widgets. You can easily create custom widgets for your simple functions via the administration panel. Once you are done with all this, the only remaining thing is to monetize your blog to make it a Web 2.0 site.
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