New To Blogging
 

My link list Girls That Squirt has some link trades with a few blogs that send a lot of traffic so I figured I would jump on the blog bandwagon and have my own. Some questions:
1. Should I get a new domain for the blog or would it be OK to use http://www.girls-that-squirt.com/blog?
2. Is WordPress the easiest/best to use?

Getting a unique domain will depend of weather you are going to start a real blog or just a splog.

Id put a real blog on its own domain, and splogs id just organize into folders.

wordpress is very powerful and easy to use, another option is Joomla which is a little more diverse but a little harder to get the hang of. I would stick with wordpress.

I don't think there are any real blogs run by porn webmasters. We put links to a sponsor in there along with the posts and that's the spam. We call it advertising...I'll look into names that are available for a squirting blog and maybe get another domain.

Personally, I'd put it in a folder or a sub-directory off of your link list and I'd more than likely just do it as a folder.

That way you add a lot of related depth to you LL and hopefully both will benefit from all your hard SE work.

here's an example of a real porn blog http://fleshbot.com/

That's what I'm aiming for, only squirting :D

Not that many anyway. :D

I don't think a few ads here and there disqualifies a blog from beaing "real", but if your blog primarily exists to attract surfers to click on your links/ads it's a splog, no matter how well written it is. Nothing wrong with that.

I don't have much experience with software other than WP and I don't see how you can go wrong. I've also played around a tad with Joomla. If you have no plans of ever going beyond basic blogging it's probably overkill, but if you down the road plan on expanding you certainly have more options.

WRT domains/folders I have no idea what might be best. Domains come cheap and you should probably be buying some anyway (you know, expanding your empire and all that). Why not install a blog in a sub-folder on your squirting LL to play around with just to see if it's something you want to do. Just remember that a quality blog (real or splog) will take up quite a bit of your time.

Well, I knew it wouldn't be easy. I got WP and I'm supposed to open wp-config-sample.php and fillin my database connection details. WTF?|huh

You need to create the DB with your host first, then fill in the DB name, user, PW and host.

Have you set up a mysql database on your server before, or installed a script? The first one is always a little confusing, but it's really easy. Your hosting service will probably install it for you, but it's a good thing to know how to do.

I sent a ticket to my host telling them what I want to do and what folder I want the blog in. I'm sure they'll get it handled.

Huh? How does that matter? You can put a blog or a splog anywhere you want.

If you want the best chance of a blog doing well, get a domain for it and put the blog on the index of the domain. and make sure to use the latest version of wordpress. Plus give it a few months to get going.

As far as a real blog or not, seems that is more up to the surfer. I have blogs that have ads all over and in most every post, but many surfers think it's a real person blogging, or a real blog..:)

Damn, my host has it all set up but I threw them a curve, I got a domain for the blog so now they have to move the info to the new domain :D

Probably not. All they needed to do was set up a database for you. If all your domains including a new one are on the same account, you can access the database from any domain.

Well that's kewl, I guess I'm good to go. Just need the new domain to propogate or whatever

That's how it's worked for my last couple hosts, can't say 100% for yours. If it's "localhost" for the database host/server, then you should be set, just need the DB name, user name and password.

Give you time to upload wordpress. Make sure to go to wordpress if you haven't already and get the latest. Last I saw it was 2.3.3

I notice a lot of people using subdomains for blogs. Someone in another forum was claiming Google seemed to like subs at least as well as the main domain.

Maybe some do well, never worked as well for me. Comparing sub domain blogs against index based blogs. Just my experience.

Porn Blog
 

I sure doesn't look like porn blog to me. I looks like regular websit. I sure would like know I could get one like done. Was it costly to set it up. I am not a webmaster and not very good with the techy stuff.

Thanks,

Franko

Actually, the blogs I get the most traffic on are the ones that I piggy backed with one of my blog directories.

Domain Registration $10.00 per year
Hosting: $15-20 a month
Wordpress - Free
Templates - Free or Paid
Plugins - Free

But before you do any of it, I highly suggest you read multiple topics here in the forum. There are some basic how-to info as well as some more advanced.

Like I said, from my experience, guess millage will vary..:)

Just what I've seen from my blogs, comparing index placed blogs and sub directory blogs.

Just like Licker, I just picked up blogging..work on it soem each day..so I get the hang of it. Ive learbed alot form this forum, ronnie, t pat, walrus, art, LD, have all had a lot of great things to say/teach/advise/share/bounce ideas off..that type of thing is priceless

OK, I put the database name, username and password in the wp-config-sample.php file and saved it as wp-config.php per the ReadMe instructions. I uploaded everything to the public_html folder on a new domain. Now I'm supposed to open /wp-admin/install.php in my browser but when I double click it it opens in Notepad. I copy and paste it into my browser and I get an error message:

This program cannot display the webpage

Most likely causes:
You are not connected to the Internet.
The website is encountering problems.
There might be a typing error in the address.

What you can try:
Check your Internet connection. Try visiting another website to make sure you are connected.

Retype the address.

Go back to the previous page.

More information

This problem can be caused by a variety of issues, including:

Internet connectivity has been lost.
The website is temporarily unavailable.
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is not reachable.
The Domain Name Server (DNS) does not have a listing for the website's domain.

What am I doing wrong?

Sounds like the domain isn't fully propogated