It’s a known fact that search engines have a soft spot for blogs. The question we should ask ourselves is why do they have such a hankering for blogs? It’s pretty simple, search engines love to search and find new quality content. It’s their aim to index high quality information as quickly as possible.
If you’ve not been blogging then you’re missing out on an astounding opportunity to bring instant traffic to your website. A number one task for blogging is to update on a regular basis. Just creating a blog and not having updates or relevant content is useless. You need to update your blog several times per week to truly reap the real benefits.
Setting Up Your First Blog Made Easy
You can find many free sites on the internet where you can create your own blog and get free hosting for it. Some bloggers prefer to host their own blog, while others choose free hosting. I’m going to discuss both options you have at your fingertips for blogging. Let’s first start by providing the options for Free Blog Hosting.
Free Blog Hosting Sites
Blogger.com is one of the most, if not the most popular free blog hosting site you will find on the internet. You can instantly create a blog and start writing about a multitude of topics that interest you. One advantage of using Blogger.com is the search engines seem to spider it more often. As a result, your blog link will be in the path of the spider, enabling your new blog to be spidered more frequently. Once your blog is spidered, the search engines returns and visits your blog for updates.
Wordpress.com is another highly popular site that will host your blog for free. I’ve used this site a few times and it’s very simple and fast to create a blog here. This site has some advantages expressed by current users that I discuss later. Also some people tend to confuse this site with Wordpress.org where you provide your own web host.
You can register with any of the above sites to start your own blog. Personally, I use Blogger.com, but as I mentioned earlier others prefer to choose hosting for their blog. I won’t get into the pros and cons of either methods here. There has been much debate and preferences cited on this subject. My intent is to let you know some of the choices available to you.
Many bloggers find it useful to have two blogs. They create what I like to call a sub-blog, where the blogger.com blog would be the blog they update from time to time that discusses topics dealing with their main blog.
When using the two blog method like this, you should have links pointing from your blogger.com blog to your main blog site. Reason being, blogger.com is spidered often, as mentioned before, and by default your blog with blogger.com, which is your sub-blog will also be spidered. Since your sub-blog will have links to your main blog it can also aid in having your main blog site spidered more quickly. (This most likely applies to Wordpress blogs as well).
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