How to create a blog is what aspiring bloggers first asks. I have a lot of friends asking me on how to create a blog. Usually, their first impression of blogs is an online diary. You’ll tell your personal stories and thoughts to the world, something that they don’t like about. But little did they know there are a lot of blog topics to talk about.
How to create a blog is simply easy. The real challenge comes when thinking on what topic to write about. Creating a blog could be free or not. Creating a blog for free means that you will host your in other blogging platforms. The popular ones are Blogger and Wordpress. But, you couldn’t totally call it on your own. if you decided to blog with ‘payment’, read further in how to create your own blog from scratch. Creating your own blog gives you the advantage of control over your blog, which you couldn’t fully get if you host with some blogging platforms.
Let’s compare the two to help you choose if you want to create a blog for free or not.
Domain Name:
Free – http:// myowndomainname.blogspot.com
With Payment – http:// myowndomainname.com (average of $10 a year)
Hosting:
Free – free but limited bandwidth
With payment – depends on your preferred bandwidth, starts as low as $8 a month
Data Integrity/Security
Free – Some blogging platform might close your blog if they feel like you are violating a TOS, thus loosing all your work
With payment – You are your own boss
With payment
- Control over design
- Control over content
- Control over advertising
- Widgets
But if you are really new with blogging, sign up with free blogging services first. Chances are, you may like blogging or not. Blogger from Google is the best choice if you want to monetize your blog with Google Adsense. You just need a valid gmail account and you can start blogging immediately. There are a lot of free Blogger templates to choose from, so you do not need to worry about designing your blog. This is just an overview on how to create a blog. Stay tune for more!
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