Setting Up Your Blog
These days everyone is jumping on the blogging bandwagon, hot on the trail to profits and untold wealth. This isn’t surprising – blogs are reasonably easy to set up maintain. It’s really appealing to people who like to write, the hue and cry is that you can sit in your pajamas and write about what interests you and if you set it up right, and create a great blog, visitors will come and buy what you offer on your blog pages.
The truth is that most people are not going to make a fortune with blogging, but hey, if the blog just pays a few expenses for not much time or cash investment, then why not?
So check it out – you might find that blogging is just what the Doctor ordered.
Step one is to get a blogger. You can host a blog on your own website or you can sign up on one of the free blogging sites.
A good free blog is blogger.com, which is owned by Google.com. This one has the advantage of being a part of Google.com, so the Google search engine will find and index it fairly rapidly.
Another option is to use WordPress, which is what Smart Web Center is using. Word Press is more sophisticated than most of the other bloggers out there. It also has features such as Trackbacks and Categories, which most other bloggers lack. It also has greater menu flexibility.
You can get your feet wet with a free blog - here are two good free blogs:
Blogger.com (http://www.blogger.com/signup.g)
Wordpress (http://wordpress.com/signup/).
You can sign up with both if you’d like to.
The idea is to get in there and see how they work and get a hands on experience so you will have some idea of what all the buzz is about.
Here are some quick definitions of some blogging terms that might make your first introductions to blogging a little easier:
1) Permalink – Permalink stands for permanent link, which is a URL (uniform resource locator – page address) that leads to particular post that you make in your blog.
2) Trackback – When you write about and refer to someone else’s, what you’ve written will show up in their “trackback” section. This feature, however, is not available with a Blogger.com account.
3) Pinging – Blogging and pinging go hand in hand. Whenever you add new content to your blog, sites that keep track of content are notified so they can present the newest post of your blog on their website. This is a truly helpful feature to gain visitors to your blog.
Well, sayonara for now and wish you luck on heading off on blog adventures. Come back again, as I update the blog on Smart Web Center, I’ll be sharing more info.
Sharlee
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