List of Indian Celebrity Blogs

There are celebrity bloggers and then there are celebrity bloggers. The first kind are those who have gained name and fame via blogging and the other includes the ones who are famous and are now therefore reaching out to their fans via the medium of the weblog.
This post makes an attempt at listing the Indian celebrities (mostly Bollywood people) who have taken on to blogging.
There are a number of lists listing celeb blogs in India, but I didn't find any to be comprehensive enough, therefore spent many many hours looking for them and putting them together in one place (and also adding some frills).
The opinions expressed against each blog is at the time of posting and if the nature of the blog changes later, it might not hold true.
Indian Celebrity Blog Directory (in alphabetical order)

1. Aamir Khan
   Who: Actor, director, producer [More]
   Where: His own website
   Feed: No
   Worth following: Yes
   Aamir keeps his blog regularly updated. Writes about a lot of things but many tend to revolve around his films. Good blog to follow if you want to know what The Perfectionist has to say. But the blog in itself is far away from being perfect. It even lacks many features that we non-celebrity bloggers expect as default in our blogs.
   
   
2. Abhay Deol 
   Who: Actor [More]
   Where: Celebrity Angst blog at PassionForCinema
   Feed: Yes
   Worth following: No
   Abhay's blog at PassionForCinema has a single post related to his film Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye and nothing else.
   
   
3. Abhinav Bindra 
   Who: Shooter [More]
   Where: Beijing and Beyond blog on Blogger
   Feed: Yes
   Worth following: Maybe
   The Olympic gold medallist isn't no longer an active blogger. Though he hid post a number of posts in August 2008.
   
   
4. Ajay Devgan 
   Who: Actor, producer, director [More]
   Where: His own website
   Feed: No
   Worth following: Maybe
   Ajay Devgan makes very infrequent entries on his online diary and it is more of an one-sided affair as users cannot comment there.
   
   
5. Ajit Pal Mangat 
   Who: Director, producer, writer [More]
   Where: Blog at BollywoodHungama
   Feed: No
   Worth following: Maybe
   Ajit is the producer-director of Victory and this blog is related the movie.
   
   
6. Amitabh Bachchan
   Who: Actor [More]
   Where: Big Blog at Bigadda
   Feed: Yes
   Worth following: Yes
   The Big B is a prolific blogger and Bigadda.com has provided him with a comparatively decent platform to blog on. His and Aamir's blog are the two most discussed celebrity blogs in the country.
   
   
7. Amrita Rao 
   Who: Actress, model [More]
   Where: Blog at BollywoodHungama
   Feed: No
   Worth following: No
   She's good looking but doesn't write much. Only two little posts.
   
   
8. Anant Mahadeven
   Who: Actor, director [More]
   Where: Blog at BollywoodHungama
   Feed: No
   Worth following: Maybe
   Anant hasn't been writing much recently. Maybe there'll be more updates when his next film would be lined for a release.
   
   
9. Anupam Kher 
   Who: Actor, director, producer [More]
   Where: Blog at IntentBlog
   Feed: Yes
   Worth following: No
   This blog is long dead.
   
   
10. Anurag Kashyap
    Who: Director, writer [More]
    Where: My Diary blog at PassionForCinema
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Yes
    Anurag's thoughts are interesting to read even when he is spewing fire at his detractors.
    
    
11. Bipasha Basu 
    Who: Actress, model [More]
    Where: On her own website and an old blog at RediffBlogs
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    No diary entries since March 2008. Miss Basu doesn't seem to find this blog thing interesting enough. 15 posts in all. The RediffBlogs blog is practically defunct.
    
    
12. Celina Jaitley 
    Who: Actress, model [More]
    Where: Blog at BollywoodHungama
    Feed: No
    Worth following: Maybe
    Though she hasn't yet blogged much, Celina does love to quote other people in her posts.
    
    
13. Cyrus Broacha
    Who: Television host [More]
    Where: Blog at IBNLive
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: No
    The funny man writes funny posts but the last one was dated February 26, 2007. That's ages ago.
    
    
14. Dev Benegal 
    Who: Director [More]
    Where: His own blog - The Dev Benegal Weblog
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: No
    The last post was ten months ago.
    
    
15. Dibakar Banerjee
    Who: Director, writer [More]
    Where: Oye Cinema! blog at PassionForCinema
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Maybe
    He made a couple of nice movies and his blog too has only a couple of nice posts.
    
    
16. Dino Morea 
    Who: Actor, model [More]
    Where: Blog at BollywoodHungama
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    Dino's blog seems to be as short-lived as his acting career.
    
    
17. Emraan Hashmi
    Who: Actor [More]
    Where: Blog at BollywoodHungama
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    Nothing there beyond May 2008. Maybe something would crop up when Raaz 2 releases.
    
    
18. Farhan Akhtar 
    Who: Director, writer, producer, singer, actor, television host [More]
    Where: His TV show's website
    Feed: No
    Worth following: Yes
    Farhan is a wonderful director and a so-so singer-actor-host. This blog is more about his show on NDTV Imagine, but he also does write about other things too. But there are only four posts, therefore can't say more.
    
    
19. Gul Panag
    Who: Actress, model [More]
    Where: On her own website
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Maybe
    The lovely Gul isn't seen much besides the Tata Sky ad with Aamir Khan and even her blogging is erratic, but it seems to have picked up pace of late.
    
    
20. John Abraham
    Who: Actor, model [More]
    Where: On his own website
    Feed: No
    Worth following: Perhaps
    The functionality of John's blog is a bit strange and moreover there isn't much in there too. Only a solitary post. But he might get on to writing soon.
    
    
21. Karan Johar
    Who: Director, producer, TV host [More]
    Where: His own website
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Yes
    When KJo writes, he writes a lot. But of late there isn't much happening on his blog.
    
    
22. Khalid Mohamed
    Who: Journalist, writer, director [More]
    Where: Cinema Ray at PassionforCinema
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: No
    All that the acerbic film critic wrote on the blog was a couple of posts related to Satyajit Ray.
    
    
23. Kiran Bedi
    Who: Ex-cop, social activist [More]
    Where: Crane Bedi blog on Blogger
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: No
    Nothing in there since November 2006.
    
    
24. Koena Mitra
    Who: Actress, model [More]
    Where: Blog at BollywoodHungama
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    Three posts, nothing worth the while.
    
    
25. Krishnamachari Srikkanth
    Who: Former cricketer, cricket commentator [More]
    Where: Blog at IBNLive
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: No
    Last post is dated March 18, 2007.
    
    
26. Kunal Kohli 
    Who: Director [More]
    Where: Blog at BollywoodHungama
    Feed: No
    Worth following: Maybe
    Kunal tends to be repetitive in his writing.
    
    
27. Kundan Shah
    Who: Director, writer [More]
    Where: Simply Kundan blog at PassionforCinema
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Maybe
    Kundan writes about his area of expertise, comedies, even if his later ventures were nowhere close to Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro.
    
    
28. Lalu Prasad Yadav
    Who: Politician [More]
    Where: Blog at MyPopcorn
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    Lalu's blog had generated quite a lot of interest, but the idea seemed unsustainable right from the start and also proved to be so. Just another attempt by a website to generate pageviews.
    
    
29. Lisa Ray
    Who: Actress, Model [More]
    Where: Blog on Wordpress.com
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Yes
    Lisa started to blog on September 2009, "to give people an insight into" her life after she was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma.
    
    
30. Nandita Das
    Who: Actress, director [More]
    Where: Nandita Writes section on her own website
    Feed: No
    Worth following: Maybe
    Known to be a thinking actress, her writing also reflects that thought. But she doesn't seem to write too often.
    
    
31. Madhavan 
    Who: Actor [More]
    Where: Blog at Galatta
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    Maddy's writes short and irregular posts. There doesn't seem to be much interest in his blog either, assuming from the few comments it received.
    
    
32. Mammootty
    Who: Actor [More]
    Where: Mammootty With Love blog on Blogger
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Yes
    Mammotty just started his blog, the first post was on January 1, 2009 and he already has hundreds of followers on his blog. The only problem being that it is in Malayalam and therefore I can't understand a thing. Moreover Google lists Mammootty's official website (not the blog) as a Reported Attack Site.
    
    
33. Manoj Bajpayee
    Who: Actor [More]
    Where: Two blogs at ItzMyBlog (powered by Blogger) in Hindi and English
    Feed: Yes - Hindi | English
    Worth following: Yes
    The two blogs are just translations and the content is essentially the same. There are atleast a couple of posts every month.
    
    
34. Milind Deora
    Who: Politician [More]
    Where: Blog at IntentBlog
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Perhaps
    Most of Milind's blogging seem to be concentrated to a few months in 2005. There's not much here beyond that.
    
    
35. Mohan Agashe
    Who: Actor, psychiatrist [More]
    Where: Blog at RediffBlogs
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    This blog was primarily for the promotion of the movie Apaharan.
    
    
36. Muzaffar Ali
    Who: Director, fashion designer, painter [More]
    Where: Blog at IntentBlog
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: No
    Only two posts. The last is from 2005.
    
    
37. Nana Patekar 
    Who: Actor, director [More]
    Where: Blog at RediffBlogs
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    This blog was primarily for the promotion of the movie Apaharan.
    
    
38. Omar Abdullah
    Who: Politician [More]
    Where: On National Conference party's official website
    Feed: -
    Worth following: -
    The blog is presently inaccessible due to technical reasons.
    
    
39. Onir 
    Who: Director, producer, writer, editor [More]
    Where: Dream Seller blog on PassionForCinema and another one on BollywoodHungama
    Feed: Yes (PassionForCinema)
    Worth following: Perhaps
    Onir's blogs posts are usually related to his films and therefore are more frequent only when something is happening on that scene.
    
    
40. Payal Rohatagi
    Who: Actress, model [More]
    Where: Her blog on Blogger
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Yes
    Payal keeps her blog updated and has plastered the blog with images. Her brother Gaurav is the co-author.
    
    
41. Pooja Bedi 
    Who: Actress, TV host [More]
    Where: I Am Who I Am blog on Blogger
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Perhaps
    Pooja Bedi takes to blogging made quite a bit of news. But then it seems to have fizzled away. She has managed only two posts since August 2008.
    
    
42. Prakash Jha
    Who: Director, producer, writer [More]
    Where: Blog at RediffBlogs
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    This blog was primarily for the promotion of the film Apaharan.
    
    
43. Rahul Bose 
    Who: Actor, director [More]
    Where: Blog at IntentBlog
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: No
    Most of Rahul's blogging activity is from 2005-06, with only a solitary post in 2008.
    
    
44. Rahul Khanna
    Who: Actor, TV host [More]
    Where: Blog at IntentBlog
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: No
    He is a likeable actor and his writing is the same too. Pity he doesn't keep his blog updated.
    
    
45. Ram Gopal Varma
    Who: Director, producer, writer [More]
    Where: Blog on Windows Live Spaces
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Yes
    Ramu might have lost his touch in movies but he is still an interesting read.
    
    
46. Ravi Shastri
    Who: Former cricketer, cricket commentator [More]
    Where: Blog at IbiboBlogs
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: No
    This blog was only for the Commonwealth Bank Triseries in 2008. Nothing more happening there since.
    
    
47. Remo Fernandes
    Who: Musician [More]
    Where: On his own website
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    Only a solitary post there, that too a copy of a letter he had sent to the editors of some dailies.
    
    
48. Revathy
    Who: Actress, director [More]
    Where: Sindanaigal (Thoughts) blog on PassionForCinema
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: No
    There are only two posts there.
    
    
49. Rohit Roy 
    Who: Actor [More]
    Where: Blog on his own website
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: No
    Just three random posts in there.
    
    
50. Saira Mohan
    Who: Model, actress [More]
    Where: Blog at IntentBlog
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Yes
    Though there are no recent posts, the archives show that the girl is able to post a lot when she wants to, even if they are only links.
    
    
51. Salman Khan 
    Who: Actor [More]
    Where: 10 Ka Dum blog on Blogger
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: No
    The blog died along with the TV show it was meant to promote.
    
    
52. Samar Khan
    Who: Director, writer [More]
    Where: Blog at BollywoodHungama
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    Just one Shaurya specific post.
    
    
53. Samit Basu
    Who: Author [More]
    Where: On his own website
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Yes
    Though he hasn't been posting of late, Samit used to be an active blogger and I expect him to continue being so.
    
    
54. Sanjay Suri 
    Who: Actor, model, porducer [More]
    Where: On his own website
    Feed: -
    Worth following: -
    You need to be registered as a member of the Sanjay Suri Fan Club (online registration) to be able to access the blog. I didn't, so have no idea of the contents.
    
    
55. Santosh Sivan
    Who: Director, cinematographer [More]
    Where: Lil Bit of Sin, Lil Bit of Zen blog on PassionForCinema and also on his own website
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: No
    In the PassionForCinema blog there has been no updates in the last one year and his website doesn't exactly have a blog but does provide some of his views on different things (and they have a datestamp).
    
    
56. Shahrukh Khan 
    Who: Actor, producer [More]
    Where: Blog at IntentBlog and at
    Milan of the Villains website
    Feed: Yes (IntentBlog)
    Worth following: Perhaps
    There might be some activity on SRK's blog during the next IPL season. The IntentBlog blog has only a single old post on Paheli.
    
    
57. Shekhar Kapur
    Who: Director, producer [More]
    Where: On his own website and
    a blog at IntentBlog
    Feed: Yes - ShekharKapur.com | Intentblog
    Worth following: Yes
    Shekhar Kapoor is one celebrity who has really take on to blogging. Even the now inactive blog on IntentBlog has 110 posts and he keeps the blog on his official website very updated. His blog is a recommended read and has insightful posts on a variety of topics. Shekhar is definitely the best amongst the Indian celebrity bloggers.
    
    
58. Sherlyn Chopra 
    Who: Actress, model, singer [More]
    Where: Blog at BollywoodHungama
    Worth following: No
    Feed: No
    Sherlyn Chopra, earlier known as Mona Chopra, always wants to make news and is a tabloid journalist's delight. She promised a blog on her official website - SherlynChopra.com - but that didn't happen yet.
    
    
59. Shilpa Shetty
    Who: Actress, model [More]
    Where: On her own website
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Yes
    Shilpa's career has risen from the ashes post Big Brother and she wants to make the best of this opportunity. Her recently started blog has some long posts.
    
    
60. Shobaa De 
    Who: Novelist, columnist [More]
    Where: Blog on Blogger
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Yes
    After so many years writing should come naturally to Mrs De and she also lets it flow in her blog.
    
    
61. Suchitra Krishnamoorthi
    Who: Actress, singer, painter [More]
    Where: On her own website
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Yes
    Suchitra is quite active on her blog nowadays, maybe some Shekhar Kapur effect.
    
    
62. Sudhir Mishra 
    Who: Director, writer [More]
    Where: Trying My Best Not To Bullshit blog on PassioForCinema
    Feed: Yes
    Worth following: Perhaps
    Sudhir posts are usually related to the release of his films. So wait until the next one comes along.
    
    
63. Vikram Bhatt
    Who: Director, writer [More]
    Where: Blog at MyPopcorn
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    Only three dated posts there. Same fate as Lalu's blog.
    
    
64. Vishal Dadlani 
    Who: Music director [More]
    Where: Blog at BollywoodHungama
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    Not much in his blog, only a couple of old posts.
    
    
65. Vivek Agnihotri
    Who: Director, writer [More]
    Where: Blog at BollywoodHungama
    Feed: No
    Worth following: No
    Nothing much in there.

Do help expand this list. Leave your suggestions in the comments.

The Dying Art of Live Blogging

No one is questioning the speed of technology today– what may be innovative today may be junk tomorrow (or worse,  junk by lunch time. ) Blogging is no exception.

One of the impending casualties of the blogging space obsolescence is live blogging. Yeah, there was a time when people blogged real-time in their respective blogs and kept updating one single post in rapid succession to cover an event. A couple of years ago, as blogs were slowly gaining prominence, live blogging was the apex of covering an event live via blogging.

But due to the emergence of microblogging and platforms such as Twitter and Plurk, live blogging is on its way to extinction. Microblogging is fast and automatic, making the process of constantly updating a blog post cumbersome and clunky. Add to that the proliferation of third-party sites and apps that support micro-blogging, live blogging can be officially be considered a dying art.

But before we say “good riddance” to live blogging,  I believe it can still have a place in the blogging ecosystem. Remember that one key limitation of microblogging is the number of characters (e.g. Twitter’s 140 character limit). Live blogging is essentially free from this constraint. Another is the multimedia aspect of live blogging, such as the ability to post audio and video streams into a blog post.

Live blogging may not be hottest thing right now, but I believe it still has a use in specific situations to keep it from becoming completely obsolete.

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UPDATE: Nah, I change my mind. Live blogging is dead

Business School for Bloggers: How to Make Money With Your Blog

I am frequently asked about how to make money on the web, especially how to make money with your blog. I find a wide variety of answers around the web, some of them get rich quick schemes, PageRank games, and SEO illusions, but there is only one answer that I want to shout to the roofs, but few people listen.

Blogging as a business is business. It takes business training and skills to make money with your blog.

That’s it. That’s the secret. John Chow, Guy Kawawasaki, Darren Rowse, Seth Godin, these princes of blogging didn’t get rich with their blogs by just having blogs. They used their business sense and know how to make their blogs work for them. They understood that a blog is just another tool in the business arsenal, a business card and resume all wrapped up in one, offering a business a powerful communications tool. In order to make your blog work for you, you have to understand how business works.

To have a “successful” blog and to make your blog work for you, you have to have skills and training in advertising, marketing, economics, finance, writing ability and language skills, public relations, networking, everything any business needs. These are the skills you bring it to your blog to make it a success, earning the money you deserve.

If you don’t have the business skills, where do you get the training you need to flip your blog over into a business and money magnet?

You can hang out on the successful problogger’s blogs, digging into their past content and sitting at their knees to learn every day they share another tidbit.

You can take business classes at your local college, university, or community program, taking months or years of training on the basics of business and business communication.

You can read a book or three on how others made money, but will it really apply to your specific needs? Maybe. It worked for someone.

Or you can get the training you need from fellow bloggers who have “been there done that” with their blog and business expertise and learn from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.

Business of Blogging Events

There are two big blog events annually which focus specifically on the business side of blogging within the United States. Blog Business Summit, which held their program in Seattle in January (the next one hasn’t been scheduled), and the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCON2008) in Chicago, May 2-4, 2008.

When I look at the list of speakers, I’m overwhelmed – and excited. Imagine being in the room and able to interrogateBrian Clark of Copyblogger, Terry Starbucker, Anita Bruzzese,Chris Garrett, Chris Brogan, Dave Bullock, Liz Strauss, emoms’ Wendy Piersall, and me, Lorelle VanFossen, on all things business and blogging. You have the whole weekend to ask them all about how they blog, why they blog, and how they make money with their blogs – the business of blogging up close and personal.

You can still register for SOBCon 2008 but space is limited. It is designed to be an intimate workshop, giving you the hands-on skills and personal attention you deserve to help build your blog business. The speakers will be using a unique Presentation/Workshop model, turning theory into practice so you leave the weekend workshops with a solid action plan in place, tailored specifically to your individual needs. It’s one-on-one business training for bloggers.

Topics include establishing and maintaining your online reputation and public relations; business definition, purpose, plan, and demographics definition; increasing the return on your investment and saving time with an editorial calendar and plan; sales techniques and strategies for your blog; investing in social captial and networking; emphasizing the return customer, encouraging them to come back for more; and switching from independent blogger to business owner, learning and coping with new business challenges and skills.

The speakers represent those who have succeeded, as well as those who have tried and failed and then rose up out of the ashes to keep trying again. They know how business works, especially online business and social networking. They are the leaders that bring you the best advice and techniques for successful blogging.

I’ve written a lot about the benefits and rewards of attending SOBCon. It is a life changing experience. But let’s get down to the nitty gritty. If you want your blog to be successful online, you cannot afford to miss this event.

WP Robot Plugin Gets Updated to 2.0 with More Auto Features

Frankly, I don’t really like autoblogging. Putting time stamp to future post is alright especially if you are on a tight schedule and auto-posting is the only way you can fulfill your posting schedule.

But auto-posting using an autoblogging plugin such as WP Robot, which just released its version 2.0, is not really my cup of tea. In case you’re not aware, autoblogging is used by blogs that were created for affiliate marketing purposes or revenue-generating schemes through the use of aggregated content culled automatically from affiliate networking sites.  Examples sites of this are Amazon, Clickbank and eBay.

So, where does WP Robot fits into the scheme of things? This plugin can actually help these type of bloggers save time while earning more advertising revenue from their blogs.  You can set specific intervals when WP Robots will do its job – hence better scheduling of your blog posts.

WP Robot 2.0 now lets you post Yahoo News content to your blog. Or even any RSS feeds that you want to feed into your blogs automatically.

Other new features of WP Robot plugin include – the ability to cloak your outgoing affiliate links, backdating your posts to the pasts and scheduling your posts at a future date. The Plugins admin panel was also redesigned.

While many bloggers will shun away this WP Plugin, we’ve got to admit the fact that there are a lot of bloggers who would recommend installing this plugin.

Let us know your take on this in the comment section. Is WP Robot a plugin that you will most likely install on your WP blogs?

Install WordPress on GoDaddy Shared Hosting

Just a few years back, if you wanted to host a WordPress blog on your own website, you avoided GoDaddy at all costs.  WordPress and other mainstream Web applications simply didn’t work on GoDaddy shared hosting without a lot of extra work.  As a result, GoDaddy quickly gained a reputation as a cheap Web host that’s good only for regular HTML web sites.  Over time GoDaddy support for Web applications improved, but installing WordPress still required extra work.  GoDaddy also introduced automatic installers for WordPress, but the result was usually a non-standard installation and code that was a few versions too old.

Fast forward to today.  With GoDaddy’s new Hosting Connection, you can install the latest version of WordPress and many other Web applications such as Joomla with just a few mouse clicks.  It really couldn’t be much easier.  Following are step-by-step instructions to install WordPress on GoDaddy shared hosting:

1.  Get a Linux Web Hosting Account

GoDaddy only supports WordPress installations on Linux.  Therefore, you must ensure that you have a GoDaddy Linux web hosting account.  To sign up, go to the GoDaddy home page, click the “Hosting & Servers” link, then select “Web Site Hosting” from the drop-down menu.  Follow the steps to complete the purchase.

Note that GoDaddy offer three levels of service: Economy, Deluxe and Premium.  I recommend the Deluxe plan, which will support up to 25 WordPress blogs and costs $6.99/month or less.  Be sure to select “Linux” as your operating system:

2.  Login to Your GoDaddy Account

You selected a GoDaddy user name and password when you purchased a Web hosting account.  Use these to login to your GoDaddy account at the home page:

3.  Go to Your Hosting Account

Click the “Hosting & Servers” link, then select “My Hosting Account” from the drop-down menu:

 

A list of your Web hosting accounts appears.  If you have more than one account, be sure to select the Linux account.  Click on the corresponding “Manage Account” link:

4.  Go to the GoDaddy Hosting Connection

The GoDaddy Hosting Control Center appears.  Next you need to go to the GoDaddy Hosting Connection, which offers 30+ free and premium quick-install applications including WordPress.  Click the “Your Applications” button or any “Hosting Connection” link.

5.  Select the WordPress Application

The GoDaddy Hosting Connection appears.  On the left is a list of available applications.  Click the “Blogs” header, then click the “WordPress” link:

6.  Install WordPress

Information about the WordPress application appears.  Click the “Install Now!” button:

7.  Select Domain

Select the domain where you want to host your blog.  All domains you have purchased through GoDaddy will appear in the list.  If you want to host your blog on a domain that you purchased from another registrar, click the “Can’t find the domain you’re looking for” link.

Once you have selected your domain, click the “Continue” button in the lower right.

8.  Setup Database

Next you need to setup the MySQL database that will hold your WordPress blog.  For the “Database description”, I recommend that you use your blog name followed by WordPress, for example, “MyBlog-WordPress”.  This makes it easy to distinguish databases if you host multiple blogs.  Choose a database password and be sure to save it somewhere.  Note that you will not need this password unless you want to access your database manually, which is rare.  Still, it’s important that you do not lose this password.  Click the “Next” button in the lower right to continue.

9.  Choose Installation Directory

Specify the sub-directory in your domain where WordPress will be installed.  If you want to install your blog in the root directory, clear the field.  Click the “Next” button to continue.

10.  Setup User Name and Password

For the last step, specify the WordPress user information.  This is the user name and password that you use every time you access your blog.  You cannot modify the user name (though you can add and delete users) so choose wisely.  The email address is where WordPress will send you notifications such as when someone leaves a comment on your blog.  And of course, “Blog Title” is the title of your blog.  Click the “Next” button to finish.

11.  Wait a Few Minutes

In just a few minutes, GoDaddy will send you an email indicating that your WordPress installation is complete.