Here are the first 10 steps I take in setting up a blog. These steps can be accomplished in less than an hour and lead to a succesful launch.

Register Domain
Setup hosting
Install Wordpress and change Permalink structure
Install Robots.txt file
Publish a few posts
Setup on Feedburner and place RSS links on page.
Create and upload Sitemap
Submit to Google Webmaster Central
Submit to Yahoo Site Explorer
Install Google Analytics

I will go through each of these steps in individual posts.
The last blog I setup was in the Google Index within 48 hours, and away we go……

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