Why Host My Blog Over a Having a Free Blog?

By Julia Mitchell

Have you ever been in the position where due to "Information Overload" you have put off making a decision as a result of spending days, weeks, even months, contemplating a decision?

I have done this several times and my aim is to save you the pain by revealing the facts and the benefits of hosting your own blog.

SOME FACTS:

For a small fee often under $10, you can choose your own domain name that suits you and your niche.

I recommend Name Cheap

Hosting your own blog gives you security for a small fee.

I recommend Hostgator

SOME BENEFITS:

1. Hosting your own blog looks more professional.

2. It offers security; you won't lose information or get locked out of your

own account.

3. You don't have to be super techie to host your own blog. If I can do it so can you.

4. You can customise your blog to suit your own needs and wants. By adding your personality to your blog, it will give you an edge over your competitors.

I recommend purchasing a great theme that has made my life a lot easier.

5. Hosting your own blog gives you the freedom to download plug-ins from wherever you want and install them to your blog.

6. A plug-in is some coding that when you plug it in performs a certain function. Just think of plugging in your hairdryer, this allows you to dry your hair.

7. There is some amazing plug-ins out there that can really help you in your business. My favourite would have to be plug-in central.

8. Your own blog allows you to brand yourself which is important in having continuity. By adding your logo to your blog follows through with your website, business cards etc. You can make your blog as unique as you like which is a bonus if you are in a saturated niche.

9. Hosting your own blog makes it a lot easier for your customers and potential customers to remember you.

10. SEO - Search Engine Optimized. Google, Yahoo, MSN love sites that have great content. By hosting your own site you can add a plug in such as All-in-One SEO to each post. By practicing SEO your site will place high when people search for your topic or site.

11. Hosting your own blog increases visibility in the search engines which in turn brings more traffic to your site.

12. Have the opportunity of earning money from your blog through affiliate programs. You need to have a website to be accepted for these so that is a major benefit for hosting your own site.

13. A major benefit to hosting your blog is the ability to back it up. What a thought that after time and effort you were to lose everything!!

14. By hosting your own site, you own it, which can be a good thing if you should decide at some point in time to sell your blog. That's right creating a blog with fantastic content, readers etc, could result in a blog worth selling.

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Here is a Guide to Blog Hosting

By Daren Albom

Blogs has been the most common medium in conveying your thoughts and views on certain issue, be it a hobby thought or a product review. Almost every internet user owns a blog where they share about their life and products. With this trend goes more popular, blogging companies are now playing an important role in providing good blogging software. Blogging companies now give the freedom to users either to host with them or self hosted. You will get free hosting if you choose to host with the company but unfortunately you get lesser freedom in your hosting and blog control. If you choose to self hosted your blog, you of cause need to pay for your hosting but you get tons of flexibility. You will have a better control on everything on your blog.

Free Hosting VS Paid Hosting


No matter you are using Wordpress or other blogging software, you will need to decide whether you are going to host with them or host with yourself. Of cause in the mean time of deciding you have few things that you need to consider about. If you are taking blogging seriously, I will suggest you to get yourself a web hosting in order to build a better blog with greater flexibility. A self hosted blog not only gives flexibility but also gives better impressions to users with own domain. You will have email of your own domain too and this will definitely look more professional.

Blogging Software


Even after you have decided to go with self hosted blog, you will need to consider about what blogging software you are using. This will directly affect which web hosting company you should go with. Out of so many blog companies, the only one that stands up from the crowd is Wordpress. Wordpress is well structured and supported by a large community on its plug-ins and functions and they have been doing a good job in upgrading the software from time to time. Thus it is reliable to use Wordpress. Other choices you might have is B2evolution, another blogging software that is excellent too.

Choosing Blog Hosting


After deciding the blogging software you go with, it is time to choose the ideal web hosting for your blog. Choosing a quality web hosting will be another discussion so to cut it short below are a few criterion you should look at in getting the blog hosting:-

Software Compatibility


Remember to check whether the web hosting has your desired blogging software prepared. This is because with the software ready you can easily install it for example Wordpress in one or 2 clicks. After that you can start posting already. Usually web hosting with Fantastico enabled has the installation for Wordpress and B2evolutions. Check the full hosting features and it will not be difficult to justify this.

Hosting Performance


Of cause you should get a web hosting with good performance. A good performance web hosting should have a stable and up to 99.9% uptime. They also should have a good customer support to back you up in any issue be it a technical or non technical.

There are many more criterions to choose a good web hosting but to get yourself a blog, these 2 criterions are enough to determine a suitable web hosting. You would wonder how to check the uptime and quality of customer support of a web hosting. No worry as there are many web hosting review website that are available around the internet. They have been doing the review job for time and what you need to do is to check out their hosting review.

Daren is a writer and webmaster. His Hostgator web hosting review website provides a better insight on the web hosting leader. For a good quality of web hosting, Daren recommends Hostgator web hosting. Have a look at Daren's Hostgator review here.

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Convert Irrelevant Paid Blogging Opportunities

By Venkat Nithin Chinni

Right now blogging is becoming a passion for every one and almost all people are making money from their blog. Well people make money from blogging using different methods like CPA,CPC,affiliates links, leads, sales and lot more. But among them the most used method by many bloggers is pay per post. I mean taking money for writing reviews about website. Well right now there are many websites which make advertisers and bloggers meet for this purpose. One of the most famous companies which became famous in this kind of market are ReviewMe and Payperpost. Well for high PR and traffic blogs, paid reviews are not much bothered as they mostly depend on affiliate sales or leads and all. But for small traffic blogs paid reviews provide a good source of income for them. Well they generally get opportunities around $5 to $15 and hence they need to take more irrelevant opportunities.

How to write those kind of opportunities. Consider a blog with less traffic and is building up for high end traffic. As the traffic is building slowly if the visitors find these kind of content more then they are less likely to come back to read more information. Hence blog owners have to write those posts which have to make readers feel that they are not completely irrelevant. So the idea of writing should be like this. Consider an opportunity about sun glasses. Well if your niche is related to making money online then its absolutely irrelevant post if you write about sun glasses. Well in this case you have to write about a blog post which should be related to you in sun glasses. So though the post is not related but as you are writing about your personals, visitors don't consider too bad. But you should not use this trick all times because visitors will find your secret. Hence just try this often and not all time.

Well if you want to get an example just go through this post. http://www.bucksfrominternet.com/2007/11/my-short-romantic-story.html I am a full time blogger who like to explore about new sites and new ways of earning money online. So, my blog, bucksfrominternet.com generally consits of complete resources on how to earn money online. Also my blog provide site developement tips as we know that , the better your site with good traffic the more you can earn.

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Self Hosting Your Own Blog

By Shauti Bellinger

Self hosting your own blog is one of the best ways for you to make an actually profit. If you are looking for control to be completely in your hands, self hosting is an excellent way to get that control. When it comes to self hosting you can basically run wild, figuratively speaking, and be completely creative in any way you like. You are able to control how much income you actually want or need to pull in sounds pretty excellent does it not? If you are not familiar with self hosting it can get quite complicated and increasingly frustrating, especially if you do not know what you are doing.

So to save yourself a headache, I would suggest getting out there, getting online and doing your homework. The more you learn, and know about self hosting, the better off you will be in the long run. Now, if you are just looking to make a quick buck off your blog, self hosting or using any blog service is not the way to go. Do not except to start raking in the dough immediately after you have set up your blog. There are no immediate profits when it comes to any sort of blogging self hosting or not, you do actually have to do some work, and some actual writing, while trying to build a following and finding the right ads to draw in more visitors. Time is the key word in this entire process. And while self hosting may be a great, inexpensive way to start up, a basic and free hosting site may not be the best way to go if you are looking for almost complete freedom.

You can pay $7-8 a month for a different service with more features, and less hassle, but how willing are you to pay for something that isn't a sure bet, are you a bit of a risk taker? Get a feel for what self hosting is all about by using a free service, track your visitors with Google analytics, and take full advantage of Google AdSense. Google AdSense is an awesome way to earn a better for your profit for your blog, and you are able to take full advantage of this when it comes to self hosting.

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Blogging For Profit Begins Overcoming These Two Obstacles

By Mike Row

What is your blogging for profit plan? Many marketers have big dreams about building up big time profits with a blog. That is a great goal and very attainable but what is your plan for achieving that goal?

Most likely you already have what it takes to build a profitable blogging empire. If you have even below average intelligence and the will to work that you can do it.

But why is it that very few, less than 5% actually, ever attain the goal that they made of making a full time income from blogging?

There are big reasons that keep most bloggers from hitting it big. Do you want to know what they are? Keep reading because they are about to be laid out for you so you can keep from making these same mistakes.

Reason number one as to why most people do not succeed with their blog is that their expectations for how fast the money will come in is very unrealistic and in turn they end up giving up before they ever gave their blog a chance so succeed.

The second problem that many bloggers end up having is that their blog traffic does not come in as fast and as huge as they expected. There is a lot of bad information floating around on the internet about how to generate free traffic to a blog, what's worse is that most of it will cost you money to learn.

You can overcome these two obstacles very easily so that you will not give up. If you stay with it then you will reap the rewards.

Overcoming the first problem is simple, don't expect to quit your day job next month and don't put in so much time that you get burned out. Most people spend every waking moment building their blog thinking that they will make so much money that they can go full time in a matter of weeks. That's not going to happen. 6 months is a realistic goal though.

Spend an hour or two per day building your blogging empire so you don't burn out.

The second obstacle is also easy to overcome. Find a marketer who has a proven traffic generating system who has given other people a successful system to follow.

Any marketer who knows what he is talking about is going to shoot you straight though and there will be work to do, if he tells you otherwise then run.

Many would be successful people give up and quit because they don't have a handle on these two dynamics. Do let yourself be one of those people. If you want to build a blogging empire then make a choice that you will not quit and find a traffic generation system that works.

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Blog Your Way to a Successful Subscriber Marketing List With 5 Easy Tips

By Jan Verhoeff

Listen up, I'm about to reveal the easiest 5 tips you will ever hear to increase your marketing subscriber list. In fact, if you put these tips into action on your blog, you'll have a consistently growing subscriber list that responds well to your marketing strategies.

1. Put a visible subscriber box at the top of your blog.



Make your subscriber box as attractive as possible and highly visible near the top of your blog. Give it contrasting colors, a snazzy border, or spectacular lettering to set it apart from the rest of your website.



2. Frequently remind visitors to your blog to join your ezine subscription list.



When ever you post on your blog, remind your subscribers to sign up for your FREE Ezine and point them to the box. Add an incentive to people for joining. Remind them of the FREE gift they receive for signing up.



3. Add a banner ad to your blog to promote your subscriber page.



Test to see which banner gets more signups for your subscriber list. You'll want to know what promotions work best.



4. Give away a VIRAL ebook on your blog.



Give away a viral laced ebook that nobody can resist. Make it one of your best with plenty of links back to your website and your subscriber pages to get the most from your gift.



5. Invite readers to give away your viral ebook.



Give away the rights to your viral ebook so long as no changes are made in the ebook. Remind readers that they can give it away on their websites. The more you give it away, the more subscribers you'll get for your site.



Increase your marketing efforts by maximizing your list building strategies on your blog.

You can make your first million online with tips and strategies from http://makeyourfirstmilliononline.com that you get FREE with a subscription to Cool Millions. © 2008 - Jan Verhoeff

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Blog Traffic Storm - Get Traffic Fast

By Angela Booth

Got a blog? You want traffic, that's a given. In this article we'll discuss five traffic-generating methods which will bring you a storm of traffic fast.

Before we discuss traffic however, let's look at your blog. Is it focused on one topic only? If it isn't it will be almost impossible to get a constant stream of traffic. Web surfers are looking for specific information. So make sure that you choose ONE topic, and only one for your blog.

1. Twitter - Tweet Your Way to Traffic

Social media networks have become the darling of Web marketers for a good reason. They help you to get noticed, and to build a following. Twitter is one of the largest social networks. If you haven't yet joined, join today.

When you post to your blog, chat about your post on Twitter. As you get followers, you'll get traffic.

2. Squidoo -- Create a Couple of Lenses

Squidoo is hugely popular. Create a couple of lenses (Web pages) on Squidoo devoted to the topic of your blog. Use Squidoo's own tools to get your lenses noticed. As your lenses get traffic, that traffic will flow to your blog.

3. Article Marketing -- Links for Permanent Traffic

Nothing beats article marketing for a constant stream of permanent traffic to your blog. So start article marketing. The more articles you have sending traffic to your blog, the more your traffic will increase.

4. Great, Original Content Keeps Your Visitors Coming Back

In our previous three methods, we've discussed getting traffic to your blog.

While these traffic-generating methods are important, here's what's even more important: the content on your blog. Great, original content helps your readers to remember you, and encourages them to subscribe to your RSS feed so that they keep coming back.

So ensure that even as you promote your blog, you keep adding great content to your blog.

5. Have a Plan for Your Content

Because content generation is so important, you need a plan for your content. Having a plan ensures that your blog grows and develops, and builds a strong readership.

Create a plan for your content today, if you haven't already done so, and work your plan -- content, plus traffic, equals an ever-increasing income for you via your blog.

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