Once you have new work from home blog ready to go. That is you’ve set up your sub-domain and installed a WordPress blog, if you’ve yet to undertake this step there are some video guides within the instruction site and you can also refer to the previous post on this blog (Setting Up Your WordPress Blog) once you have your blog up and running make sure you have a good look around the dashboard there are a few things you’ll want to change to make your blog much more beneficial and useful to you and your readers.

These changes include changing your permalink structure (your permalinks are your blog urls - as standard the default setting is eg http://working-from-home.vjad.net/?p=123
while this is useful you can make it much more search engine friendly by going to the permalink tab under the options menu, clicking the custom button and changing it to  /%category%/%postname% this then makes your blog url look something like this: http://working-from-home.vjad.net/work-from-home-blog/making-changes-in-your-wordpress-dashboard

you’ll see it is now my blog url/category/title of my post.

Within the Software section of the instruction site you will find a text file titled Ping List For Blogs - download this and then copy all the urls and paste into the update section of your blog - options/writing scroll down to the bottom. The ping list alerts those services that you have updated your blog.

There are other things you’ll do over time, and there’s other options etc you can change within your dashboard but those two I find are a good idea to change as soon as possible.