A Guide How To Create A Blog Of Your Own

Do you own a blog?  If not and you love to write than having your own blog might be a very good thing for you

There are millions of blogs on internet at this moment and new new ones are started every day. Having your own blog has many advantages, it is fun and can be profitable if your blog has large number of visitors.  Blogs are one of the available options for making money online for freelance writers. Writing for your own blog is both fun and profitable. You can posts and publish at your convenience and engage your readers by answering to their comments.

Many people including many freelance writers don’t go into blogging because of two wrong ideas thay have about blogs. They believe blogs are very hard to start and run and require lots of computer and programing knowledge, and the other thing is they believe starting a blog is too expensive. This is completely wrong, to start an run a blog requires only basic skills and little knowledge on html certainly helps, but starting a blog today is very simplified and you have to do is  clicking a button. Creating your own blog is also not expensive, it will cost you $10 dollars to buy a domain name and a few dollars a month for web hosting, and you can even start your own blog for free.

Step by step guide create a  blog of your own.

1. Decide about the niche of your blog. Blogs are generally about certain topic. If you wish to write don’t write about everything but pick a niche you know about and you are passionate about. Don’t pick a niche you don’t know much about because you will be out of ideas what to write about after a while.
2. Decide if you will be using free blogging platform of your own self hosted blog. If you decide about free blog you don’t have to pay anything but free blogs have limitations. If you decide for your own self hosted blog you will be able to fully customize your blog but you will have to pay for a domain name and web hosting but you will be owner of your blog and you can even sell it in the future.
3. Buy domain name for your blog. You must decide on the domain name for your blog and check if it is available, that if it is take by somebody else. If you use free platform it will look like yoursite.blogspot.com or  yoursite.wordpress.com. If you buy a domain name if will look something like www.yoursite.com. When you buy your domain name you will also have to choose the extension .com, .net or another.
4. Choose a theme for your blog. There are many themes online for every blog platform that you can use for free. There are many premium themes that require some payment. You can find many themes for Blogger, Wordpress or any other platform if you search online.
5. Publish your firs post. Once you publish your first post your blog will be officialy created. After that you should post regularly to keep your blog alive and readers to come back.
6. Start making money with your blog. You can start making money with a blog by displaying ads or affiliate links on your blog. Do do this you will first have to join advertising networks and affiliate networks.