Antonio Seegars asked:


Before we get into how to start a blog, you first have to ask yourself if you want to blog professionally or just as a past time. If you want to blog professionally, or look professional. Your first going to have to get a domain name and hosting for your blog.

You can sign-up for a domain at godaddy.com, they also offer hosting, but you don’t have to host your domain there if you don’t want to. I personally use Yahoo and a lot of people use hostgator.com.

After you’ve signed up for a domain and hosting go to Wordpress.com or Blogger.com and download there blogging software and install it on your website.

The difference between Wordpress and Blogger is in a matter of preference. Wordpress is for power bloggers and offers a lot of extra plug-ins that you can download and install to make your blog better. Blogger is for beginners but offers a lot of features that you can use if you just want to have a basic blog. I personally believe that Wordpress is a much better blogging system and even if your just blogging casually I believe that everybody should use Wordpress.

Now back to the subject at hand…

Generally speaking, people that host blogs on there own domains are normally blogging to make money. Or feel that they really have something to give to the world and want there presence felt.

If you just want to start a blog and don’t need millions of visitors to satisfy your needs, you can sign up for a free blog at Wordpress.com or Blogger.com and let them host your blog. Coincidentally enough you can also make money with a free blog. Maybe not as much as you can with your own website hosted blog because you can’t search engine optimize it as much. But you can S.E.O. it enough to generate a healthy amount of traffic.

After you’ve decided on what you want to do. The next step in your blogging career is to pick content for your blog. Whatever subject your passionate about, or think other people are passionate about, that’s what the content of your blog should be.

After you’ve decided on what your blog is going to be about, the next step is to post good, quality content about it on your blog. If you offer valuable content on your blogs, visitors will come to it and continue to visit it in the future.

If you want to generate additional traffic to your blog. Pick good keywords for the subject of your blog and use them as your subject titles. And after you create a new blog post, submit your new post to article directories with a link back to your blog.

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Daniel Gonzalez asked:


Here is the absolute simplest way to get your own website going and start making money. Get a blog and start bringing your share of massive online marketing money to you. If you envision a life of doing your hearts desire, whenever you please, and always wanted to get paid to write, then get your blog started. Blogs are flexible online marketing tools for any niche and are a great way to relax because you are writing about something you love.

Here I am dealing only with the potential high pay off of a blog and setting up you personal blog at absolutely free! Sound good? Let’s keep rolling!

First, you need to know how to get a blog completely free. You have a couple of ways to start:

1. Use your Own domain to host a niche market blog or …

2. Choose a free hosted blog. Many newbies don’t have a domain, or website, so first consider the blogs that are hosted for free. The two best places for a free blog someone hosts for you are: at www.blogger.com or the newer (and better!) www.wordpress.com. Almost anyone who has been marketing online for even a short time has heard of Wordpress, a free blog engine incredibly expandable, and highly robust.

Google created Blogger.com, so of course this means it will be indexed faster and show up in Google more readily. Wordpress.com, is the newer option and I am no expert in testing the speed of getting indexed by search engines. I believe Wordpress is a better choice because it has many more advanced features including trackbacks and categories along with incrdible plugins avaialble free. You can also manage your sidebar links more efficiently (more about this later). With the automatic pinging and many Wordpress plug-ins, I am convinced their is no real difference you need to be concerned about. Pick the one you want. I use Wordpress.

How do you do it? Go to either Blogger.com (https://www.blogger.com/start) or Wordpress (http://wordpress.com/signup/) and sign up. What could be easier? Once you choose, spend a little time learning about the site by posting your first blog post about alomst anything you want (it really doesn’t matter what). Maybe start with something about you and why you have this blog. Posting your first blog post will help you get accustom to the site, its templates and other features. Just do it, you can’t hurt anything.

Like everything, blogging has its own unique language, so here are a few simple terms you’ll want to be familiar with:

1) Pinging – On the web there are aggregators or collectors of info about blogs being updated. Pinging is the action you or your blog takes to notify the aggregators you just completed an update. This is the single feature that makes possible the creation of targeted traffic almost immediately to your blog.

2) Trackback – This is link that is used you post in your blog something about someone else’s blog post of a related item. It will cause your blog post to appear in their “trackback” section. It is unique to Wordpress blogs.

3) Permalink – Permalink means permanent link, and is the URL (uniform resource locator) that can be used to send people directly to the post in your blog.

So, if you don’t have a blog, just go to one of the sites above and get started. Play with the features included and get the feel of blogging. In the future, I will share with you some of the many ways to generate profit simply by consistently adding to your blog. Keep your visitors glued, and the keep coming back for more.