This guide page will help you setup a WordPress blog to act as your Nerve Center, which is a central place where all of the major traffic sources can be funneled to build your email marketing list.

• Your blog is a place where you can passively market you and your business to visitors from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
• It can help you attract leads through Search Engine Optimization.
• It will allow you to actively market using Pay Per Click strategies.
• It allows you to build your email marketing list, which is your most valuable business asset.
• It allows you to market online, with a reduced chance of violating your network marketing companies policies and procedures.
• And it will let you take advantage of multiple streams of income, to monetize your traffic and your leads through affiliate marketing.

First of all, you want to get a WordPress hosted blog

Free WordPress or Blogger pages are owned by those companies, and they can revoke your website at any time. Recently, they have been focusing on removing network marketing and affiliate marketing sites.

Free blogs with a yourdomainname.wordpress.com address just isn’t professional looking.

You’ll be able to get ranked in the search engines easier with a self-hosted blog, with your own domain name.

Choose a domain name that will brand you.

That may be your firstnamelastname.com. Speaking of, always use a .com domain name if possible, because people now just assume the www and .com, so they only care about the name in the middle.

If you don’t use your name, try using your target audience keywords. The keywords should describe what they will find on your web site.  Ex. www.MLM7FigureNetworker.com

Don’t use hard to spell words. Be careful in using numbers or abbreviations, such myblog4u.com, which can be spelled myblogforyou, myblogforu or myblog4you

I use and recommend GoDaddy for all of my domain names.

Now you need to host your blog with a service that is easy to use and fast-loading

Don’t host at GoDaddy as the load times are slow on WordPress blogs.

I use and recommend HostGator which is only $9.95/month for the Baby Web Hosting Package, and WordPress is easy to load with the Fantastico tool. The Baby package is a bit more, but you can host multiple domain names on one account.

Now you’ll want to get a cool WordPress theme to stand out in the crowd.

The standard WordPress themes are well… boring.

WooThemes have great themes, that are easy to use, and they are social media and SEO friendly

Recommended WordPress Plugins

Log into your WordPress account can click on Plugins on the left side of the page, then select ADD NEW, type in the Plugin name, and then click Search Plugins

Use the All In One SEO Plug-in to help optimize your site for the search engines.

I highly recommend a new plug-in called Scribe SEO, which was developed by Copyblogger’s Brian Clark and other SEO copywriting experts.  It will grade your blog post to give you feedback on how to optimize your post for SEO.

I use Google XML Sitemaps, which automatically generates updated sitemaps of your blog, and submits them to Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Comment Luv is a great comment moderator Plugin

I use Discus for my comment moderator Plugin

I use the Sociable Plugin to make it easy for people to share my blog posts

I use the Tweet MeMe ReTweet Button to make it easy for people to ReTweet my posts

The Onlywire for WordPress plugin lets you alert all of the popular bookmarking sites about your new blog post, with a couple of button clicks.

You’ll want to get an Email Marketing Account

The fortune is in the list, so you’ll want to have a form on your blog, so that people can opt into your email list.

I use and recommend GetResponse to build your Email Marketing list, as it’s easy to use and it is compatible with the TheMLMMastermindSystem.com that I use for Internet marketing.

Additional WordPress Blog Nerve Center Training

Mike Dillard is one of my mentors and I highly recommend his Traffic Formula II training to help you develop