Commentary & Opinion

With the introduction of the blog, creation of a residential district driven, local, online, news website is manufactured so easier than it was using a conventional website.

Blog Platform

Install WordPress in your new Commentary & Opinion domain or even a subdomain of your existing domain. A brand new domain for the community driven, local, online, news website is preferable for indexing, ranking and easy search purposes.

Choose and install a WordPress theme, suited to your community driven, local, online, news website, from the thousands freely available on the internet.

Design your header and customize the look of your community driven, local, online, news website.

At probably the most basic level, your new community driven, local, online, news website has become prepared to roll.

Getting Indexed

Of course, there's much search engine optimization (SEO) work that can be achieved to boost your indexing and ranking. At minimum, you'll want to get a link from a page somewhere online that gets regularly spidered, so your search engines will get your new community driven, local, online, news website.

A link from your own personal webpage is going to do the trick.

Alternatively you are able to join one or many of the blogging, social support systems and submit your online, news website. Submitting your community driven, local, online, news website URL to many directories would also be helpful. These submissions of your community driven, news website will not only get you indexed however the backlinks will increase your SEO score and thus help with your ranking in the search engine results pages (SERPs).

So, with anywhere near this much development work done, your neighborhood, online, news website is able to be spidered, indexed and ranked in the the SEs once you you begin publishing community driven, news items from your neighborhood area.

Getting Started

WordPress comes with one post titled Hello World and one comment on this post. Delete both of these and start afresh.

News Sources

Aside from writing your own personal news stories, you can find two main sources of community news:

* Press releases. 
* Community group submissions.

Press Releases

In Australia you can find three degrees of government: local, state and federal. Each will issue frequent press releases. State and federal government press releases should come, not merely from the respective government websites, but additionally from the various party's websites and this politician's websites.

Look closely at the press releases of your neighborhood member, both state and federal, whether in the federal government, opposition, a small 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 is going to be various business and industrial concerns in your neighborhood area along with special interest groups such as environmental lobby groups, that issue press releases.

Community Group Submissions

Obtaining community group submissions for your neighborhood, online, news website is a lot more work. But these can have probably the most interest for the readers and the contact established with local people will build your readership. And, obviously, community group news submissions are in the centre of your stated objective of providing a residential district driven, online news service.