With the introduction of the blog, creation of a community driven,nearby and internet-based, news website is made so much easier than it was using a conventional website.

Blog Platform

Install WordPress in your new domain or a subdomain of your existing domain. A new domain for your community web based, powered and native news website is preferable for indexing, ranking and ease of search purposes.

deploy and select a WordPress theme, suitable for your community driven,online and hometown, news website, from the thousands freely available on the internet.

Design your header and customize the appearance of your community community, online and powered news website.

At the most basic level, your new community driven,regional and on-line, news website is now ready to roll.

Getting Indexed

Of course, there's much search engine optimization (SEO) work that can be done to improve your indexing and ranking online news. At the very least, you'll need to get a link from a page somewhere on the net that gets regularly spidered, so that the search engines can find your new community neighborhood, on the internet driven news website.

A link from your own home page will do the trick.

Alternatively you can join one or several of the blogging, social networks and submit your online, news website. Submitting your community around the internet, local and powered news website URL to several directories would also be helpful. These submissions of your community driven, news website will not only get you indexed but the backlinks will increase your SEO score and thus help with your ranking in the search engine results pages (SERPs).

So, using this a good deal creation exercise made, yourcity and web-based, information online shop is ready to be spidered, scored and listed for the the SEs when you you begin distributing neighborhood powered, information equipment in your community.

Getting Started

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News Sources

Apart from writing your own news stories, there are two main sources of community news:

* Press releases.

* Community group submissions.

Press Releases

In Australia there are three levels of government: community, national and assert. Each will issue frequent press releases. Also out from the totally different party's web site and the targeted politician's internet websites, even if federal and state governing administration press announcements will come, not simply of the individual govt online sites.

Pay attention to the press releases of your local member, both state and federal, whether in the government, opposition, a minor party or an independent. Also regularly check out the press releases of government ministers with responsibility for portfolios of interest to your readers or fitting in with your editorial slant.

There will probably be various business and industrial concerns in your local area as well as special interest groups such as environmental lobby groups, that issue press releases.

Community Group Submissions

Obtaining community group submissions for yourlocal area and web-based, news website is much more work. But these will have the most interest for your readers and the contact established with local people will build your readership. And, of course, community group news submissions are at the heart of your stated objective of providing a community driven, on line news service.

Locate a directory of local hobby and network groups. If e-mailbox handles are provided, e-send the teams. They probably won't be.

Write to them by snail email if necessary. Your e-mail address for news submissions will be in front of them, cutting down the chances of errors.

Speak personally to community group secretaries, giving them a business card or flyer with your e-mail address.

localized, internet and influenced news website on the net or getting your e-mail address right, phoning community groups is the least valuable option because of the difficulties for them in finding your community driven.