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Creating
A Blog On Your Site
By - Trevor Johnson
Creating a blog on your site isn't as
daunting as it may initially sound. There are several different ways that you
can go about the process. All of them assume that you have some kind of web
space hosting of your own - this is readily available nowadays for very little
money, so don't panic.
The very cheapest web hosting is free
but this often comes with adverts that pay the service hosting your site enough
money for them to offer you the space for free. If you expect your site to
generate a reasonable amount of traffic then it's better to spend a few dollars
a month on reliable web hosting.
Next up is to decide on your blog
platform.
1.
Use Blogger on your own site
Google's Blogger service gives you the
option of using Blogger and its accompanying site or simply using Blogger to
write your posts, which then get published on your own site.
It's easy to do this. Just go into your
Blogger control panel, click the Settings tab and then select the Publishing
tab. You'll see a link that says "Switch to custom domain". You'll
then be given the option of buying a brand new domain for your blog or pointing
it to a domain you already use. It's a simple matter of following the
instructions on screen. Once you've done that, your Blogger blog will be posted
to your own website instead of on Blogger.
2. Use Wordpress on your own site
This isn't quite as easy as Blogger, but
it's pretty close. Most hosts offer a one click install of Wordpress. This
installs the basic software on your web hosting space and then allows you to do
whatever tweaks you need to make the blog your own rather than the "out of
the box" settings. At the very least, you should turn on Akismet anti spam
in your plug-ins. This involves getting an API key from Wordpress but that's a
simple matter of clicking a few links and following the instructions that
appear.
Once you've got Wordpress installed,
check out a few tutorial sites to make sure that you've got your brand new blog
set up as efficiently as possible so that the search engines can give it the
publicity it deserves.
3. Choose a different blogging platform
Blogger and Wordpress are just two of
the blog platforms available. There are lots more including systems such as
Moveable Type amongst others.
That said, most people find that either
the simplicity of Blogger or the customizable nature of Wordpress are more than
adequate for their needs. Both platforms are very well supported and you're
almost certain to be able to do exactly what you want to do with them. Whichever
you choose, you should make sure that you perform regular backups of your posts.
Apart from your writing, the template
you choose for your new blog is the biggest statement you can make to the
outside world. Both Blogger and Wordpress come with lots of templates or you can
have your own template custom designed if you want to really stand out from the
crowd.
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