How to Set Up a Blog

Before setting up a blog, you must do some research on the niche market that you want to target. For example, I wanted to set up a personal blog on how to be a mom of a special needs child, have a balanced life and help my husband bring extra money into our home. I desired to share with other moms on how vitally important it is to be spiritually, emotionally, physically, financially and personally balanced in the mist of all that goes on in our lives.

After deciding on my niche, the next step would be to come to a conclusion on how I was going to host my blog. If I should use a free blog and the company will host it for me or If I should pay and have total control of my blog. At first, I tried the free approach, but was always afraid of getting a Google slap. Recently, I switched over to a paid blog because I did not like the idea of someone not liking what I said or did and then shutting me down.

There are several free places that you can use for your blog: blogger.com, blogspot.com, wordpress.com,
livejournal.com just to name a few. If you would rather use a paid service than I would recommend wordpress.org

After deciding where you want to set up your blog, go to the website and follow the directions on how to set up a blog. The free blog sites ones do not require you to download anything onto your computer. You will pick a theme and then fill in the blanks. If you are going to use wordpress.org, you will need to decide on what company will you have host your blog, presently I use GVO. After deciding on the hosting co. you will need to download the wordpress software onto your computer. Also you will need a FTP in order to upload the downloaded software to your hosting company.

To Your Success,