Setting Up Your Blog - Blogging is a lucrative source of profit and blogs are straightforward to line up and maintain. Imagine a life where you are paid to write on stuff that interests you, when you want, wherever you are. The mere flexibility of blogging makes it simple for you to just kick back, relax and go on a vacation if you feel like it.

In this piece, we are going to have a 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 get a blog. There are many options - host a blog on your own domain or get a free blog. To start, let's chat about the free blogs. You can obtain a free blog at www.blogger.com or the more recent (and better) www.wordpress.com. If you are a techie, you must have heard of Wordpress, a free blog engine that is strong and infinitely expandable.Blogger.com is basically owned by Google, so it will be uncovered on Google's radar faster and you'll be indexed faster. Wordpress.com, however , is a relatively new option so I haven't any comparison on the rate of getting indexed by search engines. However , Wordpress is better in the way that it has more advanced features like Trackbacks and classes. You may manage your sidebar links more effectively (more about this later).

Get a free blog at either Blogger.com (http://www.blogger.com/signup) or Wordpress (http://wordpress.com/signup/). Then, become familiar 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:

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.

Trackback - When you post about someone else's blog post somewhere else, your post will show up in their'trackback' section. This feature is not available with a Blogger.com account.

Pinging - Blogging seems to be paired with pinging almost every time either one is discussed nowadays. Pinging is actually the action where a certain aggregator is told whenever your blog is updated, so the aggregator may show the most recent post of your blog on their internet site. This is a useful way to gaining traffic, which we shall discuss later.

For now, I shall leave you testing out your new blog and the features that come included with it. In the subsequent articles, we shall debate the various ways we can gain profit from a blog, as well as pointers on how to write posts that keep visitors glued and keep coming back for more! Following On To: Part two: - Blog Content - Money 24 seven Every Online Business
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