A blog is a shortcut for web log, everyone
from a businessman to a student has his own opinions, ideas, information, news
and experiences. They can share all of those things through posting articles on
blogs like a daily diary recording. This will make a huge community of bloggers.
1 - Choose a major topic for your blog:
What should I write my blog about? A question that a lot
of bloggers asks. I will give you a good advice you should blog
on a specific niche, it can be anything from experiences, financial updates,
fashion and news stories. It is not possible to run a blog about many topics.
2 - Choose your blogging platform:
Your requirements are the main thing to choose a
blogging platform. You may find a lot of free or paid, hosted and non-hosted
blogging platforms to choose from. The most popular ones are:
Blogging platforms
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Advantages
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Disadvantages
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Blogger
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Blogger
offers the user group of attractive templates.
· gives
a drag and drop tool to move elements around the sidebar.
·
Widgets
to add followers.
· helpful
and useful for the beginners who do not want to edit the code.
·
Settings
are obvious and easy to find.
· posting
area is large and free of distractions.
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A special domain name may be added at no charges.
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·
The
main disadvantage to Blogger is the lack of direct connection to social
media, like tweeter and Facebook, you will have to update your posts yourself.
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WordPress
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·
A
managed platform like Blogger better for those who are new to blogging.
·
A
self-hosted option using a provider of the user's choice.
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It is
a good beginning point for webmasters.
·
Fast, easy, free sign-up process. Like Blogger.
· a lot of
beautiful templates to choose from.
·
The
platform offers fantastic SEO.
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·
WordPress
restricts the editing of theme templates.
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Tumblr
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·
One of
the best blogging sites for art and digital media.
·
Easy
sign-up process that only requires an email address.
·
Have
many beautiful free templates.
·
Offer
ease of posting links, photos, videos, chats and quotes.
·
Is
natively integrated with Twitter and Facebook, and it will automatically send
updates to every new post
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Users
can have many blogs
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·
It has
suffered overload, which can make it off the list of the best blogging
websites for some people.
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Other blogging platforms :
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Posterous
·
LiveJournal
These blogging sites above are a good starting
point to build your first blog. One thing to remember, these sites are all
free, based on the above information you can decide which blogging platform to
start with, sign up for an account at each and give each one a test run and
make your choice.
3 - register and choose your template style:
It is very easy to Register an account with any of the previous blogging platforms
and follow the instructions. Choose a template that will fit your website. You
can choose based on the color, scheme and layout for the blog. If you have basic
technical knowledge, you can even customize these templates with coding.
4 - Think of your blog's name:
This will be the first impressions about your blog
by your visitors. That is why you should come up with something interesting and
original, something people will like, when looking at it.
You can restrain whosoever can see your content, the public, your
family and your friends. You can make your blogprotected by a password.
6 - Start Posting:
The content of your blog will be many things like articles, pictures and videos. And it should be your handmade
content, if you are not the creator of any of your content, you must write
your source.
7- Don’t Forget to Market:
If you have set up your blog to advertise your
products or other products. Then you should begin with publishing your blog for
the search engines (SEO) by making comments on other famus blogs and publishing
your blog URL in a lot of websites.
Follow these basics to start your blog and by the time you will learn the how to be a successful
blogger.
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