Blogging
is a lucrative source of profit and blogs are easy to set up and maintain. 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.
In this article, we are going to look into the
profitability of a blog and set up a blog of our own at no cost! Interested?
Read on!
First, we need to obtain a blog. There are several
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 www.blogger.com or the newer (and better!) www.wordpress.com. If you are a techie,
you must have heard of Wordpress, a free blog engine that 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 (http://www.blogger.com/signup.g) or
Wordpress (http://wordpress.com/signup/).
Then, familiarize yourself by posting your first post on your blog and
tinkering around with the options and templates.
Here are a few common “blog-related” words to help you
out:
1) Permalink
– Permalink stands for permanent link, which is a URL (uniform resource
locator) 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 gaining
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 the many 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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