If you are new to blogging, this might be a question in your mind.
Well, you can start blogging with no investment! Yes, absolutely no investments, but still can earn some money out of your blog. Interesting?
There are free blog service providers, you can get a blog published. Following are some of the good free blog hosting providers.
- Blogger (free) – The number one choice if you are a blogger who want to also earn money by placing ads on your blog. Blogger is currently part of Google so you can sign up with a Google account or create a new account. Your blog will be hosted in a subdomain of blogspot – yourblog.blogspot.com.
- WordPress.com (free) – WordPress is a well known blogging software, and wordpress.com provides free blog hosting using the wordpress mu software. What you get is a blog hosted in a subdomain like yourblog.wordpress.com . The advantage for wordpress.com hosted blogs over blogger hosted blogs are that you can make use of the extra functionalities of the wordpress blogging software. The main disadvantage for a blogger on a wordpress.com hosted blogs are that, it does not give much monetization capabilities like blogger hosted blogs
Above are the ones suited in case you are planning to kick start your blog with ‘zero‘ investment.
In case you are interested in running a blog like WebReviewer.info, still it doesn’t cost too much I would say..
What you need is a domain name like – webreviewer.info and a hosting account to host your web pages / blogging software.
For these self hosted blogs, I suggest WordPress. I mentioned about the wordpress.com free blog hosting, but the software I am referring here is the freely download able version of wordpress which you can use to set up a blog on your web hosting account. WordPress needs PHP and MySQL , hence you need to choose a web host and an account which has PHP and MySQL support. I suggest a Linux webhost for these self hosted wordpress blogs.
The cost – A .info domain you can get for as low as 0.99$ at Godaddy.com and .com domain starts at around 8$. If you would like to read what are these .info and .com, read my earlier post – whats in a domain name extension.
I have been blogging (though not so regular) for last 3+ years. If you have any queries, post it here, I can do my best to help you with your domain name registration, web hosting, blog setup etc.
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