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I’ve been reading a interesting post done by copyblogger, that really cought my eyes, about RSS and email subscribers. We’ve all seen sites with thousands of subscribers and i don’t know about you but i’ve always wondered how they manage to get so many people to subscribe.

According to this article the secret lyes in making unique and “Remarkable”  content, that will make you blog “sticky” and make users to revisit, thus gaining a stable reader community, that will eventually turn into a subscriber community.

I’ve reached the final step in my websites development. I uploaded my CMS, set it up, downloaded or designed a theme and am now ready for posting on my blog. I first deleted the default post from Wordpress ( Attention: it is very important to delete the first post from wordpress, as it may cause some users to think that you don’t give jack about the website as your to lazy to delete a simple post. We all know how important first impressions are ) and firstly posted a debut post on each of my blogs, it’s nice not to start the website with immediate random, out of the blue content and makes it look more professional. After that your free to put anything on your site, of course in your targeted niche. That’s it for setting up the blog/website, we’ll be covering from now on SEO facts. Be sure to revisit for some solid SEO knowledge

So, yesterday we set up our domains ( resolved our DNS) and host (added the domains and databases), today we’re gonna actually create our websites. To do that i’m going to use Wordpress as my websites will all be developed as blog platforms. I prefer Wordpress from other CMS, such as Joomla or PHPnuke or so on, because of it’s easy interface, easy theme selector, easy customization etc. it’s basically the best thing that i work with, for what i’m intending to do. I downloaded the latest Wordpress version: v2.2, with which i’m very pleased with and began uploading it to my 2 websites: ZMEtravel and ZMEmusic, via ftp. After i installed Wordpress on both sites, after like 5 minutes , the real hard part began: searching for the right theme. After 1 and a half hours of searching i couldn’t find jack, i’m more of the meticulous and perfectionist type of guy so i’m hard to please . I found a temporary template for my music site ( here ), it will help the blog look decent until i can find or develop a theme that suits my needs. I did the same thing for my travel blog, i put a random theme that somewhat inspires travel, though i don’t really think it does . So all is ready for the final step: posting and optimizing, well talk about it later. Love <3

Ok, so just as you all know: this is the first web project i ever undertaken. What project you ask ? It’s about a little idea me and a few colleagues of mine have, making a web brand and marketing it from the beginning and hopefully ’till the top. The brand is called “zme” and comes from a romanian mythological creature “zmeu”, it will be a web blog network with sites that cover everything from travel to computers, “ZMEnetworks”. In this project i’m collaborating with 2 good friends and colleagues of mine, we’ve bought a pretty decent host from steadfast.com, and 2 webdomains from godaddy.com for starters: zmemusic.com and zmetravel.com. I’ve changed my DNS for the domains to match the DNS of my host and all’s ready for some web action . Tomorrow we’ll cover the second step, which i consider to be setting up the websites them selfs.

Puiu Tiberius, i’m currently 18 years old and live in Pitesti, Romania, a town that i love from with all my heart. I recently launched this blog to share a little from my SEO and webmastering experience to the common internet user, eager to learn. I’ll be covering a vast subject, my knowledge in SEO, web design, programming is some what limited so i’m sorry if i won’t be able to answer to much questions. That’s all i could think of, for the first post, feel free to check on my blog as often as possible and leave some feedback .