Yesterday I bought the Wordpress Hosting package at Godaddy (the deluxe plan). Before I become a registered agent (and while I have the time available) I want to learn all I can about building my blog and website. First I would like to begin by blogging about my small town area in hopes of getting some followers to my blog. Eventually I want to build my real estate website when I have found my brokerage and begin working. If I start my blog using my domain name deniseshaw.com will I have to buy another domain name when I want to add my "official" website? I have no idea how all of this works. I eventually want an official real estate website and a link that will go to my blog. How do I go about doing this properly from the beginning?

No, just start using your local longtail keywords but avoid looking like you are trying to be a real estate agent. You can set up community paqes on your website and you can talk about the local community on your blog, just don't talk about helping people buy or sell or use "real estate" too much to make it look like an agent site. Once you get your license and are ready to go you and fill that stuff in later.

Blogging about the local community and including location-specific, long-tailed keywords in your articles is a great idea. Once you launch your real estate site you can link to it from your blog.

Blog about everything you can think of about your town that people would be interested in reading about. Events, Restaurants, Schools, News, etc.. Later on this could actually become your real estate site or if need be create another and link to it.

Pug, are you licensed now? Post a link to your blog, I'd love to take a look and see what direction you have taken.

It's a great idea to start now. Age only makes a site better in Google's eyes. As you start, though, make sure you do all the little things with those long tail keywords. Alt tag your images, make sure your internal and links are optimally coded (don't use the default permalinks!), and work on getting some backlinks from other sites.

Pugwinkle,

Your blog and your site can be one in the same. You won't have to buy another domain or setup another website. The great thing about Wordpress is the flexibility it has as not only a blogging platform but also a CMS(content management system) that will allow you to do virtually anything you want with it.

As someone without much experience in the web design realm you should just search around for a quality template you can plug your details into and go from there. There are many free template sources and also quite a few sites that sell great themes for less than $50. If you need some help getting sent in the right direction or have some questions feel free to pm me.

you don't need to buy new domain later when you make website. At that time you only need to integrate your existing blog with new website design to have benefits of both from same domain without putting extra effort

Wordpress is good for blog.You don't have to buy domain for blog, you can create sub directory or sub domain for the blog.

Your idea of blogging about your small town is excellent. Create a reason for people to come and read your website, and give them reasons to come back on a regular basis.