How to Make a Blog

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This post will cover some of the best ways to make a blog, money making blog. By using both free and self hosted blog creation mechanisms.

How to make a Blog?
The process of blog creation is quite simple when you have a right attitude about it and exact information about what steps have to be taken in order to build a powerful blog. Before we get to the essence of blogging, you must have a clear understanding of your goals, now ask yourself: why do you want to create a blog? What kind of blog would it be? Do you plan to make money with your blog? These questions define what kind of blog platforms you’ll need to use and how to efficiently complete your goal.

Now when you are already 1 step ahead every other potential bloggers you must decide whether you want to make a free blog or a highly efficient self hosted (money making blog), which means that your blog can even become the main source of your income. Again it’s very easy if you follow this article. OK grab a coffee or tea and learn everything you wish to know.

Time to Choose – Free or Self hosted Blog?

Bloggers have spoken various times about the importance of a self hosted blog. But usually when it comes to price, some bloggers decide to go for a free one. Now lets analyze the cons and pros of a free blog and a self hosted blog.

1) Free Blog has first and most important disadvantage, this is that the domain name which is also offered for free will contain and ending of this or that blogging platform, for example lukazet.blogspot.com (I’m using this blog for some of my architectural projects). In this case the domain name is owned by Blogger.Com (Google) and the worst thing is that google has the right to remove your blog without any reasons. The only advantage is that the domain you’ll have is a free one.

2) When you want to make a self hosted blog you get: First you have your own domain name which is totally owned by you and second the hosting space which is also under your control. This is the main option to be secure from every kind of unwanted occasions.  I do highly recommend creating a self hosted blog to avoid all kinds of misunderstandings with the blogging companies.

Another advantage of a self hosted blog is that your domain name looks professional and works better in monetization of your site. what is monetization? That’s an easy question : to make money or to put some ads on your blog.

Make your own Blog Site – Step by step guide

A guide to set up your self hosted blog

Make sure to follow the links step by step. All the links will open in a new window so that you can stay on this page while reading the important notes.

1) Choosing the blogging platform: There are several huge blogging platforms on the net and here are the leading ones.

Blogger.Com is a blogging platform that offers an easy interface of tools for your blog’s layout management.

Wordpress is a leading blogging platform for those who really want to succeed in blogging and the most important thing that wordpress has, all the plugins which can help you to achieve top placement in google, yahoo, and msn and other major search engines. Also plugins can help in managing other important features like: comments, Rss, Social bookmarking systems, Free Themes etc…

Tumblr – This is something very fresh, but its rising popularity seems to be addictive to most of bloggers on Tumbr…

note: You don’t have to do anything yet

2) Getting a Domain name - Description: a domain name is an address of your blog which can end in .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and other existing endings (www.progrecious.com). When choosing a domain name it is very important to think before getting a domain name read  Continue reading here make sure to leave this window open to come back or simply bookmark this page.

3) Choosing the hosting: Now when you are decided with the domain name it’s time to Get hosting for your blog site. Description what is hosting? A server where the entire website or a blog data is saved. I highly recommend using a host which provides you with a program called Fantastico or Simple Scripts which is a very helpful tool for automated installation of the popular scripts and blogs.

Go to ZipHosters.com or Sign up for Bluehost both have the ability to install Wordpress code. You’ll get a domain name for free with bluehost.

This are one of the best hosting providers with Simple Scripts enabled. You can also check out the page Blog Hosting for a bigger choice.

Installing your Blog – Now when you have all the necessary attributes it’s time to install Wordpress with Simple scripts, can’t even imagine how easy it is to install a blog.

1. Simply log into your hosting account

2. click Simple Scripts icon,

3. Choose your blogging platform (wordpress) and click install

Congratulations you are now ready to become a part of a big blogging family, do consider to learn more on how to make money blogging? For questions – leave a comment after the post.
How to make a free blog
Now if you have decided to go for a free blog there are several options to start from.

Blogger.Com is a very useful platform for a free blog because they provide a free domain name (a domain name with an ending blogspot or blogger. example lukazet.blogspot.com) and you have the right to monetize your blog with. They have a build up feature of Adsense (Ad network owned by Google ).

Wordpress.Com where you get a free blog with an ending “wordpress” ( www.example.wordpress.com )

Note: there is a big difference between wordpress.com (free blog) and wordpress.org (self hosted platform).

Advantages: It is a free blog

Disadvantages: They don’t provide any permission to make money with such blog.

Got any Questions? Simply leave a comment after the end of this article and I’ll answer them shortly.