Creating your own blog account is quite 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 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 or Blogger. 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 sub domain you use to display your
blog. If you're trying to target a specific key phrase with your blog, you may
want to use that exact key phrase as the sub domain.
Once you have completed this process, you will want to
spend some time searching through Blogger's different options. For instance, to
optimize your blog fully, you will want to consider how many posts you display
on each page and whether or not you will allow comments.