Places where you can start your own professional blog
September 9, 2007 – 2:57 amIn my previous post here i described what a blog is and explained any blog terminologies like feeds, subscriptions etc. So now here i’ll be explaining how can you have your own blog including the free way and paid ones.
Start Blogging Free Without Spending Any Thing
Free Blogging Sites Yes in these third party websites, you can create your own blog for free and the blog would belong to you but would appear as a part of that website which provides the blogging service. Mainly your blog appears as a sub domain of the website where you create it. Consider Blogger which is one of the most used free blogging site/service, it allows you to create blogs which would be named like yourblog.blogspot.com but at any time you can purchase your own domain like yourname.com and associate it with your free blog at Blogger.Com. Blogger also allows you to customize the style,design ,layout of your new blog and you can insert advertisements and earn a lot too. So you get $$ without investing a penny. That’s not false, as there are live examples of Free Blogs at these free blogging sites which gets millions of page views daily. One great example is Digital Inspiration (a tech blog) which is still a free blog at Blogger.Com and has alexa traffic rank of 8000, google page rank 6 and gets about 2 million unique visitors per month altough we can not elude the fact that he is one of those very few professional blogs of India. Infact many times it has been awarded/voted as the top or most liked blog of india.
So just sign up for a free account at Blogger and start blogging. in our next post we’ll post details on how to start a to be most popular blog on Blogger. Wordpress.Com is another most used blogging website but it does not give full control over the design, looks, layouts of the blogs and we can not earn from the blog. But wordpress.com due to power of wordpress provides high quality blogging service where many choose to blog because of simplicity, goood looking layouts and many many features. Many people start blogging from wordpress.com and after they become famous, they migrate to their own webhosting. Also wordpress.com blogs are more search engine friendsly and chances of your blog ranking higher on google search is maximum as SEO is auto-done by them and you can have your own domain too.
List Of Recommended Free Blogging Sites Other Than Wordpress.Com Blogger.Com
Blogsome.Com Here wordpress is installed for you and you get yourname.blogsome.com type of url. this is nearly same as wordpress.com but allows you to edit the design,template & put advertisements.
Weblogs.us, Edublogs.Org, Uniblogs.Org are quite popular too.
Free Web Hosting There are a lot of free webhosting either ad supported or some completely free with support for wordpress. Wordpress is a free & open source blogging software/blogging platform which can be installed in webservers or webhosts to setup a blog there. Any free webhosting service with support for php and mysql can be used to have such a blog by installing wordpress there. No fear if you are new to wordpress, as every web host have 1 click wordpress installer (like Fantascio Installer) in their hosting panel which would install wordpress at 1 click of yours. Here even tough you use free web hosting, you have complete command over your blog and you can make it look,behave like anything by doing modifications. You would be given a sub domain initially but at anytime you can purchase your own domain.
Paid Web Hosting And Wordpress Blog There
According to principle of capitalism you need to spend some and then earn from it making profits. Free web hosting services mentioned above really sucks either by limiting your control over your own blog or in any other way. Most free web hosts allow you to install wordpress 2 or 3 times and if you have done any mistake repeatedly for 3 times, then you can’t install wordpress. Also they provide hosting of least quality and your websites go of line for long time as they provided very limited bandwidth. Just imagine how would these web hosting companies survive if they pay their server bills but get no profit. So to get loads of bandwidth, space and high quality hosting for your blogs choose any of the budget php & mysql supported web hosting that costs $6-7 per month.(wordpress recommends these webhosting services to run wordpress blog). Once you take hosting in these sites you would get many bonus stuffs like free domain name and also you get very very high disk space & bandwidth. You can host all your blogs/websites under the single host if it permits that.
We are hosted on 1 and 1 Web Hosting Beginer Plan where we got a free domain name, 10 GB space, 300GB monthly bandwidth and many other features at a low price for $3.99. Here i can have unlimited websites for this small price with 10 databases. Only thing is that 1 click installer for wordpress is not present and you need to setup wordpress blog using FTP (a tutorial is here). I’m quite satisfied with their service except the fact that i did not get the free adwords credits they mentioned when i signed up. Support is good and quick Once one of my database servers went offline for 3-4 minutes but this is not the case with other database servers i use and it is not happening now onwards. Loading speed of pages hosted here is very nice. Also we get a 1 and 1 Blog (a modified version of wordpress) which can be setup by one click (very easy) in this beginer plan. Just signup with 1 and 1 Hosting if you want all these features with quality in $3.99 (beginner plan). They are most preferred hosts because of least price and finest service.
So by now you are enlightened on where to start your new blog we’ll go deeper of installing wordpress or use Blogger.Com in subsequent posts so better subscribe to our feeds to get newer posts in email.
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