Best Blogging Practices

How to Blog

What is blogging?

A Blog is a website that features post with the most recent post being on top of older entries. As apose to general websites that are more static, blogs tend to get updated more frequently. Generally a blog can be about any topics of niche. Some people create blogs to keep in touch with family and friends while others are using blogs as a platform to create more sales in business to earn more money.

Starting A Blog

Anyone can create a blog. There are many free blogging platform such as WordPress and Blogger that allow you to have a few blogs. So, first of all, you need to decide which platform you want to use as your blogging platform.

If you are new to blogging and would like to test a few blogs, you can use the free service called Blogger. Once you have mastered the basics of blogging, you are ready to move on to a more advanced platform such as WordPress.

Popular free blogging platforms include:

1. Blogger – free account setup, the privilege to use adsense to generate passive income, easy to setup and manage, best option for new bloggers

2. WordPress – free account setup, no adsense or any advertising on free blogs powered by WordPress, get your own hosting with WordPress as blogging platform to enable advertisingon blogs, easy to setup and manage

Others:

1. Typepad

2. Xanga

3. Vox

How To Blog

To start a blog, these are the guidelines you need to follow:

1. Define your blog niche. a blog niche is the topic that you want to talk about. For example, you are interested in books and perhaps you can blog about books you read, the latest books available on Amazon and Ebay.

2. Name your blog. Give a short, straight to the point and easy to remember name.

3. Choose a blog host (free or paid hosting).

4. Create your blog.

5. Blog content creation. Remember that content is King.

6. Build traffic by targetting your audience.

7. Monitor your blog traffic.

8. Monetize your blog.