Set Up A Blog

How to Register a Website and Use Free Web Hosting Sites to Set Up Your Blog   by Flo Horn

Registering a website means you purchase a domain name from a domain registrar. A domain registrar is a company that sells and manage Internet domain names. Most popular domain name registrars include Godaddy, eNom, Tucows etc. An average price to register a domain name costs between $10-$20 per year, however you can get discount if you register your domain name for multiple years such as 2-years, 5-years or even 10-years. Well you will still need to pay again when your registration period expire. Let’s say you register a domain for 1-year on 1st January 2011, so it will expire on 31st December 2011. In this case you will need to pay your next year domain registration fee before this expiration date (31st December 2011), otherwise you will lose your domain name.

Free web hosting sites are websites that provide service to host your website files and it is free of charge. In case of blog hosting sites, these websites provide you set of tools to create and manage your own Blogs. Blog hosting sites let you lets your choose blog template, add new posts to your blog, edit your existing posts as well as edit HTML to add meta tags for search engine optimization of your blog posts. I am going to talk about two most popular and the Best Blog Hosting sites on the Internet.

1- Blogger.com – Without any doubt the best one is the blogging platform by Google called Blogger, if you want to start blogging, I will highly recommend to use Blogger as it is extremely powerful blogging platform. One downside of Blogger is that adding meta tags for search engines optimization needs to be done manually.

2- WordPress.com – Second is one of the most powerful Internet tool that users are getting addicted to its extreme power is WordPress. WordPress is a great blogging platform with tons of free themes or templates and plugins to give power to your blogs. There are several plugins that can create meta tags for your blog posts automatically, which gives WordPress an edge over Blogger platform.

Setting up A Blog on these Free Blog Sites is really easy, you just need to register for free account and you are good to get started with your blog. If you already have a Gmail account, you can directly use Blogger without need to signing up for an account. Once registered, simply login and then select a template/ theme for your blog and then start writing your first blog post.

These Free Blog Hosting sites provide you free service to create and set up your blog as a subdomain. Subdomain is a domain which is part of the larger domain. For example, subdomain.blogspot.com and myname.blogspot.com are subdomains of the blogspot.com domain. However these free hosting sites provides the option to link your own domain name with your subdomain at their website. This allows you to use your own registered domain name for your blog with these free blog hosting websites.

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