How to make your own blog?

Blogging scripts came along with the website owning and they started giving opportunity for every one to create their own blogs. This article is all about guiding as how to create your own blog.

You can find some sites where you can post your blog for free. If you are just starting a blog as your hobby then, free blog is a very good option or if you want to earn from your blogs then, you can post your articles in many paying sites. Some of the problems regarding posting your blogs freely are you don’t really own your blog and even you can’t resell your blog. Users can damage your online reputation since they will know that you are hosting your blogs for free and also you are constricted with what you do with your blogs.

How much money you can earn with your blogs?

Blogging is similar to running a newspaper. You have to create your own readers community and make them to trust your site. You have to attract them through the search engines over a period of time. That is done by posting attractive articles in your site. Once your site experiences a good congestion or traffic via Google searches, that congestion will pay you and it will be consistent after that moment of time.

It is better to start blogging as your hobby then spend your spare time on blogging then take it as a profession that earns you a good monthly income. One fine day, you will resign your job and make blogging as a full time job.

According to Forbes, the top bloggers among the list earns up to $250,000 dollars per month.

WordPress Install?

The 2 free blogging platforms which gives you opportunity to post your blog are WordPress and Blogger. Usually people recommend WordPress because it is much better supported and also widely used all over the world.

Most of the good web hosts has their Fantastico installed in them. With the help of which you can install WordPress and can run in few seconds.

How to install Fantastico?

1) First, login to CPanel and search for Fantastico icon and open it.

2) Now, scroll down and look for the Blog section.

3) Under Blog section, select the WordPress option.

4) Then, click on “New Installation” button.

5) In the next screen, enter the location of your blog where you need to post if it is not there in your site.

6) Now, enter the desired Username and Password in the given box.

7) Then do the Base Configuration which needs to be done whenever you want to comment or post your blog.

8 ) Then, click on “Install WordPress” button.

9) After the completion of installation, click on “Finish Installation” button and then click on “Back to WordPress Overview”.

Installing a Theme on your blog

You can even replace the default blog theme by a number of pretty good themes. Search in Google for “free WordPress themes”. Although the themes are mentioned as free they will place hyperlinks at the footer of the themes of your blogs. Once your blog becomes successful then you need to pay them a few bugs and after that you can remove the particular links.

1) First download the free themes depending upon your taste and unzip it

2) Choose a file manager in order to upload the selected theme file to the location wp-content/themes directory of your blog

3) Login to your admin page in WordPress. Then click on “Appearance” then on “Themes”

4) Click on the hyperlink below the theme which you have uploaded and click on the “Activate <Theme_Name>”

Now, enjoy the blogging with your own blogs.