Login to your Wordpress Dashboard. Locate Posts from the left-hand naviagtion and select Add New. Name the post under Title (example: Mosquitoes Eating up Your Summer Fun? We’ve Got Your Back!)
Add Body Content (Full paragraph(s) with special attention paid to meaningful content– All over the area, folks are out enjoying the start of the summer season in parks, ball fields and backyards. Unfortunately, so are pesky mosquitoes. At XYZ Hardware, we stock a full line of citronella candles from XXX brand, patio torches with proven mosquito repelling oil from XXX brand as well as screens for your porch or sunroom ……..
A title and body is all you need for a blog, but if you want to optimize it for search engines, see below:
Under All in One SEO (if installed at the bottom:
Copy and Paste Blog title (from the top) into Title
Add description – limited to 160 characters though you can go a bit higher (220-ish…it provides a count). One or two sentences that sum up the post. EX: The hardware pros at XYZ Hardware of Philadelphia have all of the supplies you need to keep mosquitoes away from your BBQ or summer gathering this year.
Add Keywords and phrases comma separated like: Philadelphia PA, Mosquito repellent, citronella candles, screen replacement, hardware store, etc
Under Tags (to the right) copy and paste all keywords, click Add
Check the box for Blog on the right hand side (above Tags).
Click the blue Publish button upon completion (above Tags.
To learn more about adding images and other functionality, look om the left hand side of the Dashboard when you are logged in. Low on the left hand sides, you will see the word Manual (if Installed). Click on that and then Video and you will see a video gallery of short instructional videos on items such as adding images, posting new blogs, changing page content, etc.
