The First 10 Days

I launched the Shaver Dude website 10 days ago. Here is what I have done since then. Note, before I launched the website, I already had a topic and a name.

I setup all the social media accounts at: Facebook page, Instagram, TikTok. I already had the YouTube created

I setup the website on the domain using WordPress hosted at EasyWP from NameCheap. I use NameCheap to register my domain names, so it made sense to use their WordPress hosting. It is fairly inexpensive and fast.

I themed the website and added a few pages: Homepage, Blog, About

I created a Daily Deals page to highlight shavers on sale. This required a bit of coding and integration with Make dot com. It auto updates every day with the top shaver deals.

I added forms to the homepage and all blog posts to sign up for the Shaver Dude email newsletter.

I installed a few WordPress plugins: Yoast, JetPack, Mailerlite, Make Connector

I wrote the first blog post to make sure the blog was working.

The Yoast plugin created a sitemap.xml and I submitted that to search engines: Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools

Setup a Make dot com scenario to automate sharing of text blog posts to social media accounts. If you are reading this post on LinkedIn, it was automatically shared via this process.

I created The Process page to document the process I am using to build Shaver Dude.

I started building out the content by creating a blog post highlighting my favorite shavers at any budget. Then I wrote 5 more detailed blog posts about shavers on that initial list.

This post is intended to help me remember the process, but if anyone finds it useful, then great!