Creating Your Own Blog Account
Creating
your own blog account is relatively easy, especially when compared to
building a website. Even if you're using a
what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editor to build a simple
website, you will still have to design every page, purchase a domain
and hosting, and figure out how to upload your work to your site.
This is not so with a blog. If you create your own blog account with
with a large blog network, you will actually be able to do it for
free and without worry that you wont be able to figure out how to
upload new pages.
So
how do you go about creating your own blog account? You should start
by selecting the type of blog you wish to create. For instance, are
you using blogs to promote your business or for to chronicle your
daily life? This will affect how you go about creating your own blog
account.
If
you're using a blog to chronicle your daily life, you may want to
create an account with a network such as Myspace. Myspace will give
you a simple means to design your blog, to update it, and to
communicate with other network users. Creating your own blog account
with Myspace is actually completely free; and you wont actually have
to host the blog yourself. Instead, Myspace will host it on their own
network and will also provide you with all the tools you need to
update it.
If
you're creating your own blog account simply to promote your
business, you may want to open an account with Google
Blogger—especially if you do not own a website. Upon creating your
own blog account, Blogger will allow you to customize the template
and the subdomain you use to display your blog. If you're trying to
target a specific keyphrase with your blog, you may want to use that
exact keyphrase as the subdomain.
Once
you have completed this process, you will want to spend some time
searching through Blogger's various options. For instance, to
optimize your blog completely, you will want to consider how many
posts you display on each page and whether or not you will allow
comments.
