Before I go any further, I must say I am very pleased with GoDaddy’s support so far! I’ve had a DNS problem which Lauren (from GoDaddy) helped my solve within a few minutes. Wait time on the phone was approximately 6 minutes. I just wished they had a toll free number though.
GoDaddy even got a step further by calling me back the day after to make sure I was satisfied with their service and support. I think that they’ve had some negative feedback about their support in the past and now they’re making up for it.
That said, for only $4.29 a month, it just doesn’t get any better than GoDaddy.
Ok so Week #1 has gone by much too fast and I didn’t spend has much time as I would’ve like to on this case study.
We are now going to add some useful Wordpress plugins and we’re also gonna add a nice customized theme to our website.
The theme I’ve chosen is from CourtneyTuttle.com and is called News Blue 0.1. I’ve began to customize the theme a little but it’s not done yet. Still you can have a look at http://www.couponcodesvault.com to see what it’s like.
As for the plugins, I’ve decided to install:
- Add Meta Tags: This plugin adds the description and keywords META tags to the front page, individual posts, static pages and archives.
- Akismet: Antispam plugin bundled with Wordpress.
- Custom Query String Reloaded: Allows you to specify how many posts to show on the front page, in the archives and in each individual categories.
- Feedburner Feedsmith: Redirects visitors to your Feedburner RSS feed.
- Full Text Feed: Allows to display only excerpts from your posts on the front page while displaying full content in the RSS feed.
- Google XML Sitemaps: this plugin has to be one of my favorites. It builds an XML sitemap of your blog and notifies major search engines when there’s an update.
- Wordpress Duplicate Content Cure: Adds the “nofollow” meta tag to the archive and category pages so that there’s no duplicate content submitted to search engines.
I won’t go into details about installing these plugins. Basically you just upload them to [blog folder]/wp-content/plugins and activate through the control panel.
So that’s where I am at right now. I’ve got a an hour or two to finish work on the blog design (hey I know it sucks at this point, I’ve just thrown a few graphics here and there and tried to change a few CSS values).
The next step will be to choose the merchants I will promote. Most of my offers will come from Commisson Junction and Amazon in the beginning but I will add more later. We’re also going to install OpenX, a free ad server, to display ads on CouponCodesVault.com
June 14th, 2008 at 10:53 am
the google xml sitemap never worked for me,every time i tried to prepare sitemap,it says some php error,,,,searched for sol. never got it.
June 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Perhaps if you give me the exact PHP error I may be able to help you out.