It’s very easy to create a blog. But why do you want to create a blog?

Well, to start off, blog is like a journal. Instead of writing your journal in a book, you write it on a blog and publish it online for people to read. But why do you want to publish your blog? Well, the answer is to get exposure, share information and develop relationships with other people.

Todays there are many people use blogs to develop relationships and promote their businesses. Blog is now becoming a business tool.

The two most popular blogs are: the blogger.com and wordpress.

Blogger.com is 100% free and if you want to start experiencing blogging, it’s the best choice because of its ease of use. Creating blog with blogger.com is like creating a Yahoo or Gmail account. If you know how to create an email account, you know how to create a blog.

Wordpress gives you two options: free or hosted one. The hosted wordpress blog means you need to register your own domain and get a hosting service. Domain registration only cost about $10 per year. While hosting service is about $10 per month. The blog you are reading now is an example of a hosted wordpress blog.

It takes a bit of works to set up a hosted wordpress blog but it’s not difficult at all. If you really want to learn how to set up a hosted wordpress blog, I highly recommend Gobala’s Wordpress Book. This is the most complete wordpress book showing you step by step how to set up and optimize your wordpress blog. You can also buy other book from your local book store but I don’t recommend it because most of the wordpress books in the book store are too theoretical. I like Gobala’s Wordpress Book because it’s very practical, it’s based on real experiences. It has a lot of tips on how to optimize your wordpress blog to get high ranking in the search engines.

If you are building your blog for the long term, I strongly suggest you to go for the hosted wordpress. The reason is simple, with a hosted blog, you own and control it totally. If you have a free blog, you don’t own it. For example, blogger.com is owned by Google, if the big G decides to shut your account one day, you lose your entire blog.

In summary, if you just want to have some experience in blogging, go for the free blogger.com. But if you have a business or passion, you want to share and promote it online and you are in for the long term, then I strongly suggest you go for the hosted wordpress blog.

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