How to put a Blogger Blog on to your Plug-In Profit Site

You may know already that adding content to your Plug-In Profit site regularly will help your search engine rankings, especially if that content is fresh, original content.

If you are not sure how to add new pages to your website an easy way to add content is by posting regularly to your blog. As long as your blog is hosted on your site rather than at blogspot, every post you make to your site will count as content.

For example my blog is http://www.homebiz-direct.com/blog is hosted on my site and the blog you are reading now, http://pluginprofit.blogspot.com/ is hosted by blogspot.

So how do you go about doing this? I have put together some step by step instructions below:

1. Open a new blogging account at Blogger if you don't have one already. It's free by the way.
2. Follow the instructions to create your blog. Use a classic template.
3. Login into your WebEpanel e.g. http://www.homebiz-direct.com/menu (replace homebiz-direct.com with your own domain) using your Host4Profit username and password.
4. Click on "File Manager"
5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and type the word "blog" inside the "Create directory" box then click the "create directory" button.
6. You have now created a sub directory on your site, so when you move your blogger blog to your site it will be published at the URL http://www.homebiz-direct.com/blog (again replace homebiz-direct.com with your domain)
7. Go back to Blogger and click on the "Settings" tab for your blog
8. Click on the Publishing Link
9. IMPORTANT: If you see the Hint "if you want to publish to an external FTP server you will need to set Blog readers to anybody and use a classic template" then you will need to follow Blogger's instructions to change to a classic template
10. Click on the "Switch to FTP" settings
11. Fill in the boxes as follows:
12. FTP Server = your domain e.g. homebiz-direct.com
13. Blog URL = what I said in #6 above e.g. http://www.homebiz-direct.com/blog
14. FTP Path = /username-www/blog/ - replace username with your Host4Profit username
15. Blog Filename = index.html
16. Feed Filename = atom.xml
17. FTP Username = your Host4Profit username
18. FTP Password = your Host4Profit password
19. Send Pings = yes
20. That's it - you're done. You can click "Save Settings" now and republish your blog

If you don't want to do this yourself you can use Darrin's Self Hosted Blog Upgrade Service or alternatively become a member of the PIPS Power Group and we will install a Wordpress blog on your website.

Try to post to your blog as often as possible and you will see the benefits. Every day is ideal, but if you can't do this try to blog 3 times a week.