The Simple Guide To Setting Up A Blog
Author: Richard Adams
Blogging is a great way to make friends and share your life with them. And it doesn’t just mean friends you already know; you can have online friends, too. In fact, a recent study done by researchers from the University of California reveals that the youth is developing important interpersonal tech skills by their involvement in the dynamic world of online communities. And this is true. And hey, a blog can be in any or all kinds of media. You can have a typed out blog for excellent writers and voracious readers, a video blog (vlog) for film and filming enthusiasts and for those who are more responsive to video clips, audio blogs for great vocal talents and, or a photo blog works for graphic artists and digital photographers and hobbyists. As a simple guide to setting up a blog and connecting with people worldwide via the internet, here are a few tips:
1. Select your host. There are plenty of dotcoms offering free space for bloggers. Practically all online communities and dating sites include a blogging service. MySpace, Facebook, Tagged, Friendster – they all allow you to blog. Other hosts are blog-specific services and are pretty flexible with respect to the media you choose for you blog. Blogger, Vox, WordPress, TypePad, and Live Journal all allow different types of content from pure text, graphics, audio, video, and photo blogs. YouTube is specifically for video sharing. Flickr, Photobucket are great for photo sharing. Browse through and select your blog host.
2. Draw up a list of your blogging ideas. A lot of people never go beyond one blog entry. That is such a waste. Blogging is meant for sharing and connecting with people. That means, you need to stay on it and post regularly and respond to comments. It would be a shame to have made the effort to set up a blog and abandon the project after a post. So, before you go ahead and open a blog account, be sure you’ve got more than one blogging idea.
3. Include online bookmarking tools in your blog. Digg, Stumble Upon, and Reddit are just some of the article or blog indexing service you can submit your blog entries to. These facilities help drive traffic to your blog and give you more exposure. Of course, if you only want to make your blog available to a closed group, then you can just email your URL to your friends.
4. Choose a simple, visitor-friendly design or template. Many bloggers choose flashy backgrounds or font and color combinations that are difficult to read. Remember there are visually-impaired people on the Internet. You don’t want to dissuade them from reading you, so it’s important to consider accessibility when you pick your design template.
5. Participate in forums and discussions. To gain readership or viewership, it’s important for your followers to be able to connect with you. Read other blogs and share your thoughts. Aside from your posts, it’s important for you to respond to comments and to comment on other bloggers’ websites as well. Being responsive is actually half the fun.
It’s quite an unconventional guide. But the simple guide to setting up a blog is to think about what you can share. After all, blogging is merely a vehicle for sharing and building friendships.
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November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-1
Hello! I would recommend going with the best blogging platforms, thus you will get cached faster by google, because they use ping services.
I tried other places like http://www.marsblogger.com or http://www.wordpress.com. Both are great places to build blogs and give you great templates too. All of them are free, you don’t need to waste any money.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-2
blog by defintion is a “web log”=blog for short. you can use it for many things like a journal type thing for people to read, to keep track of other stuff or to find common interests with people. just be aware that unless if you choose it as an option in some blogs it’s all on the web for everyone to see. common blog sites are:
http://www.xanga.com
http://www.blogger.com
http://www.myspace.com — semi-blog but more of a profile
http://www.freewebs.com — you can make a free website but also had a blog to it/ or just use it as a blog
many also have age limits and while you could just lie it’s usually good to keep to them.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-3
It does not help at all. Blogging is just a fun thing to do..
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-4
Go to blogspot.com. You can set up a free blog there, and you can also set it for something called Adsense. That means they put ads on your page, and everytime someone clicks on the ad, you make money. The more people who click the more money you get.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-5
Looks like two questions: how to set up a blog and how to make it popular.
For the first, I would suggest getting your own domain with a virtual host and using the blog software that the host provides.
For the second, be interesting, be patient. There are millions of blogs out there. Eventually the search engines will pick you up and do regular scans of your blog, eventually you will pick up a following.
July 1, 2006
6:30 am #comment-6
how does a person go about setting up blog site?
That’s where people can tell there stories or talk to people right?? If not then what is a blog?
September 18, 2006
8:31 pm #comment-7
Is it possible to make money by setting up a blog? How do you do that? What do you make money from on a blog?
Does anyone know the mechanics of how one might make money by setting up his or her own blog? Do you attract advertisers? How do you set up a fee, if that is what you do? Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
November 10, 2008
8:52 pm #comment-8
How does blogging/setting up a blog help a small to meduim size business grow?
Can a blog really be that helpful? What type of content should a business blog have? If there are any blog experts out there please help me out. What are some good companies to set up a blog with? And any other general/specific information on setting up a blog for a business…
June 16, 2009
7:35 am #comment-9
Setting up a blog online shouldn’t be complicated but how is it done?
I mean setting up a blog on your hobbies, your interest and telling others how to should not be hard but how do you get it out into the world for others to go see what you have? I know google blogs but how do you get others to be interesting and find it? There are lots of places to look up but how?
February 17, 2010
7:57 am #comment-10
How would should I go about setting up an ebook business on a blog?
I want to create my own ebook business running from a blog rather than a website. I don’t yet have the designing expertise to make my own website, nor the money to run it, which is why a blog may be a better solution for me. How would I go about setting the blog up so that I can be paid directly (using paypal) and how would I go about promoting my blog? Thanks
Selling ebooks that is