If you want more services, you can get a plus account, but then you agree to let LiveJournal run their ads on your blog. If you want to turn their ads off, or buy your own domain name to use with your blog, then you need to have a paid account ($3 per month).
All I needed to do was simply to chat with real person operator via the "Live Chat" and asked all sorts of questions I wanted to know. It was that simple.
Article writing. The next step is to use article writing as a way to drive traffic to your site. Don't get nervous...it's actually very simple. You are going to write short articles (250-400 words) about your town, neighborhood, schools etc. Again, make sure to include your keywords in the title of your article and roughly once per every hundred words within the body of your article.
Go Bluehost or Siteground and type in the URL you want that is available. Sign up, make payment (credit card or Paypal) and you should receive a welcome email with the login details of your website. It's worth paying that little extra $10 a year for the WHOIS privacy protection so people can't find your personal details when check here they look at who owns the website. And to prevent them from spamming your email.
Set Up Your WordPress Blog - Once you're in the Bluehost cPanel, just click on the WordPress icon, and you'll be taken through a series of steps on how to set up WordPress. You'll be asked where to install it, what your username and password should be. For the most part, you can just go with the default options. You can also have the login information sent to the email address associated with the Bluehost account. Now that WordPress is set up, you can start posting content!
Now that you have your site up and running, you need to start driving traffic to your site with things like search engine optimization (SEO). Go to forums on your topic and answer questions. Do research on the keywords that will help Google give you a higher page listing.