subject: 3 Easy Steps To Set Up A Money Making Blog [print this page] Online blogging has been generating cash for thousands of people. Creating your own blog is a really easy route compared to getting your own website. Having a blog has many benefits over having a website they are as follows: No paying for hosting - When you do get comfortable and start making money with your blog you'll want to expand and you'll need to get hosting but when your starting out it's an unnecessary expense. When you have your own site you have to get it and it costs on average $200+ a year for competent hosting. No learning how to build a site - When you have a site you have to worry about getting your template looking the way you want it, this takes advanced knowledge in CSS and HTML. When your doing a blog all you do is dig through the thousands of different layouts and just download and install the template. There are only 3 steps which are very easy to follow to starting your own blog. They are as follows: Pick out a blogging service - Your options are either Blogger or WordPress. There are other choices but these are the easiest to use and find templates for. Both of the options are free services and give you a free URL. Pick out a URL - Picking out the perfect URL for your blog that is both keyword friendly and relevant to your site is important to SEO. To get the perfect keyword rich URL for your site I recommend using the GoogleKeywordTool, it's free. It's best to register your own domain(URL) this is easily achieved through GoDaddy.com or NameCheap.com. Pick out your template - This is a very easy thing to do if your looking for WordPress themes just type in on Google "Free WordPress Themes" and you'll get thousands of results. If you want some Blogger templates you'll just need to do the same thing.
