Got Blog?
So you want to have a blog. Start with choosing a topic and a blogging platform. If you intend to post on a personal blog, then it’s not of great importance of the topic and the publishing platform because personal blogs usually do not create massive amounts of traffic. But anyway, for such a personal nonprofit blog I suggest you WordPress.com which is a free blog hosting platform by the people of WordPress and Automattic and its free. Moreover, it has great features and it’s real fun. However, if you aim to start a blog in a certain topic, or a blog for earning money with adsense then there are points that you should take into consideration.
If I were you, I would prefer blogspot. Blogspot allows you to tweak the theme you use and you can also add scripts which enables certain features as some free statistics, adsense code, etc. Blogspot has a nice, good tutorial on its features.
If you have enough budget to host your own installation of a blogging or cms software, then I suggest you to consider using WordPress, seriously. WordPress is most probably the best publishing platform, especially for personal publishing on the net. By an enough budget, I mean something around $20 would do it.
If you intend to engage in problogging, you should choose a main topic and try to be consistent and coherent on that topic. If you want to earn money through your blog then that means you have to serve something to the public and in return you will either earn from advertising on your blog or commissioning from affiliate programs. So, in order to maintain a reasonable amount of traffic, you should pay attention to what you give your visitors as your content. This isn’t hard to achieve (not the traffic I mean, the content). Put your visitors’ shoes on and try to look for something on your blog. If you are at least moderately pleased with the results then you are on the right way.
There are plenty of success stories and how-to like articles on the net so make sure you check a couple of them.
By the way, what not to do is also crucially important. Don’t trust automated problogging software. This is a digital world and you will get caught as fast as the speed of the internet and you’ll surely lose credibility.
What I tell you here is just a mini start. Dive into your favorite search engine and you will find plenty of meaningful reading about blogging.
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