Setting up a free account for blog web hosting is usually a simple process. However, there are issues that need to be taken care for in the process of setting up an account. Most of the free blog web-hosting service providers provide the potential blogger with an interface that will let the bloggers set up their accounts with ease. This setting up of these accounts is usually referred to as signing up by various free blog web hosting service providers. It should be noted that in order to set your account properly and without any regrets later, you should be in a position to read clearly the terms and conditions of these services before signing up. Some of the service providers will have some strings attached for their free accounts. For example, there are those service providers who will require you to make invitations to other friends of yours before you use your account. This may not be your wish and therefore knowing in advance will spare you the pain of setting up another account.
Some of the most essential requirements of all the sites on the internet are the email address. You will always require an email address both as a proof that you are actually the one signing up for the account and another way of clogging your inbox with advertisements from both the service provider and their partners or affiliates. The hosting service provider will require you to fill in a form that will list your names, addresses, date of birth and a password for your account. Some of the sites will also require you to design or provide a penname that will be used to identify you to your audience rather than your real name. as the internet becomes more and more connected, the site will also want to know whether you have an account somewhere else with their competitors. However, some of these requirements are not mandatory and therefore you can leave them blank. This includes your phone number.
It should be noted that there are sites that let only a particular segment of people to host their blogs. These are the sites that control the quality of their blogs and therefore provide more requirements that are mandatory to meet. For those who do not need all this, it is important to avoid them rather than risking your account being blacklisted or deleted from the system.