Now that we have WordPress installed, as we did in Step 4, there are a few WordPress settings that we need to adjust and install a few WordPress plug-ins so that our site is optimized for search engines.  Many WordPress plug-ins are free, and the 3 that I recommend below are all free.

Step 5- WordPress Settings & Plug-Ins

You are ready to start writing content for your website, but first, there are a few settings that we should adjust and plug-ins we should install.

All these fixes are designed to help your site rank higher in Google.  We are going to change one setting and install 3 plug-ins.

Settings

Go into your WordPress admin panel, and select Settings/Permalinks (see image below).

Under Common settings, choose Custom Structure and write in /%postname%/

This will give you readable URLs for your posts and pages, such as:

http://googleplacement.net/master-strategy-for-a-high-Google-placement

Once you’ve installed WordPress, as we did in Step 3, the next task is to install a WordPress theme.  Themes are essentially page design templates that give your website its unique look, or utilities that provide specific “under the hood” features to make your job as webmaster easier.  Let’s turn now to what is involved in installing a theme.

Step 4- Install a WordPress Theme

In choosing a specific WordPress theme for your website, you will want to choose a theme that provides a certain look, or which provides a set of required functionality.

There are a manyWordpress themes that you could use for your website, including a large number of free themes.  You can’t argue with the pricing of free  and there are a number of attractive ones to choose from.

We now have our domain activated, as outlined in Step 2.  The next step is to install some sort of website content management software, so that we can edit the site.

Step 3 – Install WordPress

I highly advise using WordPress as your website content management software.  I use WordPress, rather than any other website management software, because (1) it’s free, (2) there are a huge number of available WordPress plugs that you can activate later, to achieve pretty much any functionality for your website, and (3) it’s all cloud-based, so you will be able to update your website from any computer or smartphone that has internet access.

To use WordPress to edit your website, you need to install the WordPress software on your Godaddy web server for each of your domains.  This is a lot easier than it sounds, and you can do it by following the 9 steps below.