Part 1: Setting Up Your Blog
Blogs are not difficult to set up and maintain and it is also a advantageous source of profit . Imagine a life where you are paid to write on stuff that interests you, whenever you want, wherever you are. The mere flexibility of blogging makes it easy for you to just kick back, relax and go on a vacation whenever you feel like it.
We will talk about the profitability of a blog in this article and set up a blog of our own at no cost! Interested? Read on!
At first , we need to obtain a blog. There are two options – host a blog on your own domain or get a free blog . For starters, let’s talk about the free blogs. You can obtain a free blog at blogger or the newer (and better!) wordpress. You may heard of WordPress blog which is robust and infinitely expandable
Blogger.com is actually owned by Google, so it will be detected on Google’s radar faster and you will be indexed faster . WordPress.com, however, is a relatively new option so I have no comparison on the speed of getting indexed by search engines. However, WordPress is better in the sense that it has more advanced features such as Trackbacks and Categories. You can also manage your sidebar links more efficiently (more about this later).
Get a free blog at either Blogger.com or WordPress . Then, familiarize yourself by posting your first post on your blog and tinkering around with the options and templates.
There are some words related to blog which can help you out
1) Permalink – Permalink is permanent link, which is a URL that leads to an individual post that you make in your blog.
2) Trackback – When you post about someone else’s blog post elsewhere, your post will show up in their “trackback” section. This feature, however, is not available with a Blogger.com account.
3) Pinging – Blogging seems to be paired with pinging almost every time either one is mentioned nowadays. Pinging is actually the action where a certain aggregator is notified whenever your blog is updated, so that the aggregator may show the newest post of your blog on their website. This is a useful way to generating traffic, which we shall discuss later.
For now, I shall leave you testing out your new blog and the features that come included with it. In the next articles, we shall discuss some ways we can gain profit from a blog, as well as tips on how to write posts that keep visitors glued and keep coming back for more!
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