As your blog begins to gather traffic and loyal readers – you are likely going to want to start communicating with your readers. This post is mainly for authority style blogs that the owner is passionate about their niche and plans to be in it for a long time to come.
When you begin to talk back and forth with your readers you don’t want to communicate with them on a free email address, you don’t really want to use a Yahoo or Gmail account or anything like that. If you want to create a sense of authority you should have an email at your site itself.
I typically create emails with the same template – first initial and last name @yourdomain.com. So if your name was John Doe then your email would be JDoe@yourdomain.com. If you are blogging under a pen name, then just use that name for the same template. I’ve heard lots of different opinions on email but this is the one that I feel looks the best.
By having an email address at the domain itself you help to build your brand. If you email back and forth with members then they will start to recognize your domain name more and more. You’ll also want to utilize this email address to sign up with all of the services that we will be utilizing through this tutorial.
If you need help creating your email address you’ll want to check the documentation at your host. Since every host is different I can’t show you exactly how to do it for your specific host.
Today’s post is short and sweet because I figured that most of you would still be deciding on your domain name. Once you have your domain name ready and your email is set up you are ready to move on. The next step that we’ll be going over is actually setting up WordPress itself. They are tons of tutorials out there for this already so I’ll be pointing you in the right direction for that.
I’m taking it step by step for you guys so you don’t become overwhelmed creating your first site. When you are ready to create your second site, and every site after that you’ll be able to fly through most of the steps and create a site very quickly.
Today you need to purchase your domain name if you haven’t already, and create your email address.
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Great advice. This approach has never changed. When everyone was enamored with AOL, they used that for their business and personal mail – It was not professional
But, something else is happening. Many people are using their web mail accounts for business. I don’t know why but I see gmail and yahoo as often as I see a name with a business URL as an email.
Do you happen to know why?
It is definitely worth it to have your own email address that is based off your domain name, it just sends wave of trust and security to the user. If you have our own dedicated server, its not that hard to set it up. If you’re using a host like Godaddy, depending on your plan, you will likely have to pay for a separate email service so you can use your own email address but it is very much worth it!
Great advice. This approach has never changed
This is great advice, having your own email makes you look more professional and also makes it look like you care about your blog and are gonna stay for a while. Google apps also allows you to make emails your domain name on them.
This way can somewhat show your professionalism toward your business. But, many bloggers fail to check their email consistenly and some of them would prefer gmail instead of email of their own domain. As long as you can reply your email within the satisfaction period, I believe whatever email account you use would be just fine.
Great advice. This approach has never changed
I will try it soon for my Blogs , Thanks for this help
This is very true. I myself would prefer to be able to use my favorite web-based e-mail service as well. But whenever I see a company doesn’t have an e-mail ID using their own domain, my opinion of them might go down slightly.
I’ve realized that Jkang@jeffreykang.com seems a bit crowded with my name so I’ve used “admin” in place of my first initial and last name. It still gives the trust while saying “I’m the one in charge.”