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 |  Subject: Setting Up Your Blog  Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:49 pm | |
| Blogging is a lucrative source of profit and blogs are easy to set up and maintain.
Imagine
a life where you are paid to write on stuff that interests you, whenever you want,
wherever you are. The mere flexibility of blogging makes it easy for you to just kick
back, relax and go on a vacation whenever you feel like it.
In this step, we are going to look into the profitability of a blog and set up a blog of our
own at no cost! Interested? Read on!
First, we need to obtain a blog. There are several options – host a blog on your own
domain or get a free blog. For starters, let’s talk about the free blogs. You can obtain a
free blog at www.blogger.com or the newer (and better!) www.wordpress.com. If you are
a techie, you must have heard of Wordpress, a free blog engine that is robust and
infinitely expandable.
Blogger.com is actually owned by Google, so it will be detected on Google’s radar faster
and you will be indexed faster. Wordpress.com, however, is a relatively new option so I
have no comparison on the speed of getting indexed by search engines. However,
Wordpress is better in the sense that it has more advanced features such as Trackbacks
and Categories. You can also manage your sidebar links more efficiently (more about this
later).
Get a free blog at either Blogger.com (http://www.blogger.com/signup.g) or Wordpress
(http://wordpress.com/signup/). Then, familiarize yourself by posting your first post on
your blog and tinkering around with the options and templates.
Here are a few common “blog-related” words to help you out:
1) Permalink – Permalink stands for permanent link, which is a URL (uniform resource
locator) that leads to an individual post that you make in your blog.
2) Trackback – When you post about someone else’s blog post elsewhere, your post will
show up in their “trackback” section. This feature, however, is not available with a
Blogger.com account.
3) Pinging – Blogging seems to be paired with pinging almost every time either one is
mentioned nowadays. Pinging is actually the action where a certain aggregator is
notified whenever your blog is updated, so that the aggregator may show the newest |
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