Right after installing a wordpress blog, there are 3 things you should do to get the most from your blog:
1. Change the default administrator username and password
By default, wordpress assigns "admin" as username and some random unreadable messy words as password right after installation. Besides the username is really easy to predict, the password isn't something memorable either so we need to change it to something memorable and strong combination.
2. Edit Permalinks
The default permalink from wordpress CMS is something like
wordpress.org/?p=321 and this kind of permalinks is not good for SEO. The best SEO Friendly permalink that i know is something like www.yourblog.com/category/post-title or only www.yourblog.com/post-title
1. Go to Settings > Permalinks
2. Choose Custom Structure
3. Enter %category%/%postname%/ or %postname%/
and thats all.
3. Install Neccessary Plugins
The plugin i'm tallking about are something like analythical plugins, security plugins, contac form, SEO Optimizer plugins, etc.