Now that you have your new blog set theme activated and you’ve changed your footer.php file you will also want to activate the suggested plugins and change your sidebar to suit your needs.

Within the software section of the Million Dollar Blueprint instructions you’ll see a zip file for your SEO plugins, there is also a video that shows how to upload those plugins to your blog.

As you begin to build more blogs you’ll will often come across other useful plugins but those in the zip file are very useful and well worth activating in every blog.

Here’s another plugin video guide as a refresher:

You’ll also need to change your sidebar to be similar to mine. With regards to the Million Dollar Blueprint theme we are going to keep it as uncluttered as possible to make it easy for other members to find what they need, and only add things that are appropriate to the program.

I’ve added a feedburner subscription button to mine (top right) this allows those in my team and others to subscribe to this blog so they can be informed easily of any updates. You’ll need to sign up for feedburner first and then burn your new feed. From there you can just follow the instructions for anything else you want to use within the service - as a side note I use bloglines as my feedreader but there are many others available.

Also to the right of screen you see a section title My Projects, these are some of my other sites and blogs etc that I have set up using the program so you can see examples of the things we learn, as you build your online business you will do the same.

The pages section covers pages you will set up within your own blog, the affiliate page covers all the affiliate programs we join as part of the program, those in my team will join from this page and then set their own page up the same way - replacing my urls with their own. I have also set up a traffic page for those times when you want to promote in a traffic exchange as well as a short about me page.

When you edit your sidebar.php file you do it in much the same way as when you edited the footer - decide where you want each piece of information to go and paste in your chosen code or urls etc (I will add a new post soon showing how to add your links within a scroll bar to save on room etc)

As you write your posts on this blog - and these posts will cover things you’re learning within the program along with any success or failures, a form of journal describing your experiences with the program etc you will put those posts into your chosen category headings and they too will show in the sidbar.