Getting Started with Blogging

What is a Blog ?

A blog short for Weblog. Generally its a website used to express expert comments or to opinion about any topics,happening arount the world.These days blogging has became a common between companies,professionals,celebraties.Its like a online journal or diary where you pen down your thoughts either daily or whenever possible.Over the period lots of blogging softwares and blogging platforms became available which made this process simple.

Is it Easy to Start Blog ?
Yes.Definately. There are online platforms like blogger,wordpress etc which made blogging easy to set up.You can setup your blog in 5 minutes and join the millions of blogging community available online.
The best part is Its Free.

But if you are serious about becoming a professional blogger and start making money with blogging then you will have to take some professional help.


Steps involved in setting up a Blog are

• Pick up a domain name.

          You can search for required domain names with few domain registars available like  godaddy.com,networksolutions.com etc. purchase your domain which can be XYZ.com or xyz.net etc

• Find a Hosting .

The domain name which you are going to use for configuring blog will need a webhost.This is very critical as domain availability and file transfer speeds are factors to look upon.Most of the hosting solutions available in market provide 24 X 7 support and 99% availibility with redundancy.Depending on your blogging platform you can choose between linux or windows hosting. Few hostings are godaddy.com,dreamhost.com ,hostgator.com etc.

• Proffesional Theme.

Find a custamizable professional themes which you can configure according to your requirements.Your blog titles,blog graphics,seo ready etc.

In the next post I will write more  about these steps in detail.


Till then keep reading about blogging and googling.

Getting Started with Blogging.