subject: How To Create A Blog [print this page] Blogs are in essence, personal journals that you need to update online and depending on the purpose of the blog, business related blogs often point readers to other links in order to provide support for the authors commentary to make it appear legitimate. Interested readers often post comments making blogs highly interactive and they can also subscribe to the authors blogs through RSS or Really Simple Syndication. If you are interested in creating your own blog, you need to first brainstorm your ideas on paper and find interesting topics that can generate a lot of readers online. A good example is to find an interesting niche like product reviews. It would be a good idea to choose a particular topic that you really know about. You can also search online so you can find the right keywords you can use that will allow you to get the volume of traffic you need. It is best to use keywords that get a lot of traffic from popular search engines like Google or Yahoo especially those with little or no competition at all. Once you have the set of keywords for your topic, start writing your content while integrating the keywords strategically in your article.
There are two major types of software you can use for creating your blogs and these are Wordpress and Blogger. If it is your first time to create a blog, it would be best to use Blogger instead because it is relatively easy to use and the interface is very simple. But if you want to use more features, you can opt for Wordpress. If you are not sure on how to proceed, you can hire someone to set it up for you and the initial layout for your blog since it can be really complicated, particularly if you have no technical knowledge regarding this. It is also recommended to register your domain group and signup to a web hosting site that will handle the publishing of your blog. This is a wise move especially if you have long term plans for your blogging activities because if at the start you opted to host your blogs on WordPress or Blogger, when the time comes for you to use your own domain, chances are that you will lose your search engine rankings in the process.
Once you are already established with your blogs, you can also opt to make money out of it by using Google Adsense. You can use different layouts to see which can generate more profits for you and you can also sign up for affiliate links that are highly related to the contents of your articles. This way, you will be able to earn some money while enjoying your work as an online blogger. You can also market your blogs by submitting it to blog carnivals where you can receive quality back links that can further enhance your link popularity. There are various online services that you can use so you can submit your blog post to different popular social bookmarking websites, which in turn will allow you to generate more traffic to your own blog site. Mastering all these basic steps will allow you to build a very successful blog. If you have enough time to create multiple blogs at once, you can make this your full time income source in the future.
