Blog serve a very useful purpose, if you are a gifted writer attempting to express yourself. As a freelancer, you may like to take a look at EZDIA, another networking tool that allows you to trade your expertise.
Xanga has fairly basic privacy controls. There's an option where you can limit viewers of certain journal entries to users in a predefined list, but Xanga Classic (the free one) only allows up to ten users on that list. LiveJournal, on the other hand, allows you to restrict entry views to your friends only, and there's no limit to how many friends you can have. I'm pretty satisfied with LJ's interface and ease of use.
Sophia's a pretty name! I go to a college named after you (well, no, but still). As for nicknames… "sophia… _mo"? I don't really do the nicknames thing well. My nickname comes from my agnostic beliefs in religion in general, which is usually personified by guardian angels (who protect and guide) as opposed to the scary, expecting-to-be-feared God. Sophia… "girl_of_wisdom"?
As a blogger (blogspot.com to be specific), i use blogspot as my host (it's free anyway). To determine either a host is good or bad, you need to consider content of your blog which also determine loading time for your blog.
Let's us examine the condition of your blog to determine loading time:
1) default/Blogger template + one shoutbox + 7 POSTS at landing page + 100 kbp/s internet speed = 23 seconds to load.
2) custom template (depending on how many pictures you put in) + one shoutbox + various pictures & on sidebar + 7 POSTS at landing page + 100 kbp/s internet speed = 60~70 seconds.
this is the real example of my blogging experience. At 100 kbp/s, you should really not waiting for long for your blog to load. Unless when i put too many big pictures (around 8-10 pics), usually it takes 2 minutes to fully loading the whole post.
As for blogger, they sometimes have downtime syndrome whereby you couldn't post your entry due to server maintenance. They'll mentioned it if the maintenace is ongoing.
About traffic, blogger could handle high traffic and i think it's much realiable than your own website hosting cause as far as i remember, my blog never down when i need it.
If you're interested with Blogger, please get your hand wet with XML cause new Blogger use Web 2.0 with XML as base. It's nice to have XML but my proficiency on XML not so well thus i stay with old template which use HTML (i'm an old blogger). Anyway, just a little reminder when using Blogger is:
Please back up your writing which you intend to post cause sometimes the server might lose it. After the writing had been posted, you could delete your backup. Just in case of jeopardy of Blogger servers.
You have information that is so interesting that people are willing to pay for it. You have to give each person a password so they can enter your blog. The most-likely ones to earn money are: real estate, interest rates, stock picking, and child-raising.
There are 133 million blogs on the internet. Most of them have an audience of one person.
Well, your service is a product. Blogs can help a business in many ways. Its a great way to tell people about your service. By posting blog entries the search engines index the content and its a good way to be "found" by new customers. You could add advertisements to your blog and when people click on them you can earn additional income. Here is a guide on how it works: http://www.richkahmer.com/make-money-online.html
There really isn't any 'special' blogging site that is just going to provide readers or subscribers. I've had wonderful luck with both blogger and wordpress. But I have also taken the time to promote every single blog I have created.
Blog serve a very useful purpose, if you are a gifted writer attempting to express yourself. As a freelancer, you may like to take a look at ezdia, another networking tool that allows you to trade your expertise.
Well you have to post relevant content to your blog that will help the market you have chosen. It is also good to have a lot of free stuff. Blogs are very search engine friendly. Now you still have to promote the blog. These are the steps i suggest you follow…
Traffic-Getting Jumpstart Master Plan
1. Pick a market
2. Register the domain
3. Install the Free SEO Blog Software
4. Change the blog’s theme
5. Install the banner ads, affiliate program ads, etc
6. Set up the email capture and first few follow up emails
7. Add content to blog
a. Run a social bookmarking campaign on blog with one group of bookmarking accounts logins and at different times and days.
b. Create supporting micro-sites mini-network (social profile pages at squidoo, hubpages, bumpzee, and small static hand built sites).
c. Run a social bookmarking campaign on your micro-sites mini-network with a different set of bookmarking logins and at different times and days.
8. Submit site to SEO friendly directories sites using directory submission services.
9. Create video
a. Distribute video with video sharing software
b. Run a social bookmarking campaign on the videos sharing pages.
Steps 1 – 9 are enough to jumpstart the traffic to your new blog, static website, ecommerce website… and it only takes an hour or two.
If this is a site or market that you know is worth spending additional time on then you can follow these additional steps.
The following steps don’t take that much additional time but should, and can easily be, outsourced.
10. Every month (or sooner) go back and run the social bookmarking campaign again using new social bookmarking logins at different times and days.
11. Every month (or sooner) go back and create a new micro-site or social profile page to support your micro-sites mini-network.
12. Add posts to the blog that link/pingback to other authority blogs in the market.
13. Pick specific posts on your blog that you’d like to rank higher.
a. Social bookmark those posts with random bookmarking login accounts
b. Create a videos specific to those posts and load to youtube
c. Blast that video out to video sharing sites
d. Social bookmark the videos on the video sharing sites with random bookmarking logins and at different times and days.
e. Find other authority blogs in the market and post content-rich comments on their blog with links heading back to the post you are trying to rank higher.
You can do the following steps yourself but I would strongly recommend you simply outsource them.
14. Outsource someone to spin articles for you and submit them to directories
15. Outsource someone to create new social bookmarking login accounts
16. Outsource someone to subscribe to your RSS feed and have them social bookmark your new posts (the RSS feed notifies them when there is a new post so they simply head over.
17. Outsource someone to post high-quality, relevant comments on other people’s blogs and forums (DO NOT COMMENT SPAM). Concentrate on ones that do not use the “no follow” attribute.
18. Rinse and Repeat steps 7 – 18+ for sites that are worth the effort.
The biggest secret to being a "profitable" blogger is blogging about your passion. Blogs that are built with a reason of making money usually don't make it far and do not make money.
You need to update your blog often. Once a day is the BEST but if you cannot do so, try to update it at least 2-3 times a week – this way your readers will see that you update often, they will come back and read your blog again, maybe click on some ads, buy something from your blog…
Blogger.com is great but I prefer Wordpress.com
To give you an idea, check out my blog: http://blog.extra-paycheck.com – I built it with Wordpress and I do not have any DESIGN or technical skills!
Try using 'pay per post' programs. Two suggestions are
ReviewMe (you need a somewhat popular blog to be approved)
About Review Me http://www.articleswap.biz/articleswap/viewarticle.php?uID=100
Blogsvertise: (don't think they are as stict for approvals but
you don't get paid as much as Review Me.
About: Blogvertise http://www.articleswap.biz/articleswap/viewarticle.php?uID=308
mysecretjoy. blogspot. com (: the blog of a 15 year old girl. Read, comment, and make your own and I’ll return the favor. Following is bonus points!! lol
Online blogging is a way of communicating with others on a regular basis about any topic you wish to discuss. You would normally have a website of your own in place, and then sign up for a Blogger account at Blogger.com, so that you would have both a website and a blog. But you don't necessarily have to have a website.
You can write anything you wish in your blog, make a post through Blogger.com, or Wordpress.com, and every day or every week you would write up a post that your readers would find interesting.
If you're interested in telling people how to make money online for example, you can write blog posts about how to make money online. If you're interested in hiking in the mountains, you can write posts on your hikes. Or if you're interested in music, you can write posts on your favourite artists, etc.
At the end of the blog, there is a comments section where you can invite others to comment on your post, and then get a discussion rolling.
In order to make money on a blog, you can copy and paste banners on your site that lead to another website offering something for sale. For example, you may be selling books online, so you can copy/paste a banner from Amazon.com leading to the books you sell via Amazon. If someone clicks on your Amazon banner, goes to your book list, and buys one of your books, you make money.
You can also use links in your blog posts to make money within the text. For example, if I am writing about how to make money online, I may want to use a HTML hyperlink for the phrase "make money online" that when people click it, it will lead to something I'm selling.
Also, at the end of your blog posts, you would normally make a little blurb about 2-3 sentences, an author bio box, containing links to your website/s that sell something, or to a product you are selling. When people click the links and buy your stuff, that is how you make money.
You can also put Google Adsense on your blog and make money the same way.
The trick is getting enough traffic to your blog. You want visitors to be drawn to your site, so you have to market your blog and make it findable on the net. A good way to do that is by joining blog carnivals, blog traffic exchanges, posting your links in posts such as the one I'm making right now. Once you get a lot of traffic to your blog, you can start making money.
It's not the easiest way to make money online, but it is very effective if you know how to do it right. There are many ebooks you can read on the topic to get you started. I have an online business and a blog that all started with the help of the Plug-in Profit Site. This is how I learned to make money online. Check out my blog at http://www.HonestMoneyMaking.com/blog/ and good luck with your blog!
In the simplest terms blog is your free website. There are several of them. The choice is yours.
http://360.yahoo.com
http://beta.blogger.com
http://www.myspace.com
http://www.bebo.com
January 27th, 2010 - 06:31
Blog serve a very useful purpose, if you are a gifted writer attempting to express yourself. As a freelancer, you may like to take a look at EZDIA, another networking tool that allows you to trade your expertise.
January 27th, 2010 - 07:35
wassup everyone? check out my first ever Vlog. Hopefully some of you find it mildly interesting at least..
Click the name and let me know what you think! its called “The Internet Vlog”
Thanks in advance!
January 27th, 2010 - 10:48
I am seeking to bloggings someday.
January 27th, 2010 - 11:39
when ever i watch ur vids, i feel like eating a cookie!
January 27th, 2010 - 07:24
Xanga has fairly basic privacy controls. There's an option where you can limit viewers of certain journal entries to users in a predefined list, but Xanga Classic (the free one) only allows up to ten users on that list. LiveJournal, on the other hand, allows you to restrict entry views to your friends only, and there's no limit to how many friends you can have. I'm pretty satisfied with LJ's interface and ease of use.
Sophia's a pretty name! I go to a college named after you (well, no, but still). As for nicknames… "sophia… _mo"? I don't really do the nicknames thing well. My nickname comes from my agnostic beliefs in religion in general, which is usually personified by guardian angels (who protect and guide) as opposed to the scary, expecting-to-be-feared God. Sophia… "girl_of_wisdom"?
January 27th, 2010 - 08:02
Welcome to blogger world!
As a blogger (blogspot.com to be specific), i use blogspot as my host (it's free anyway). To determine either a host is good or bad, you need to consider content of your blog which also determine loading time for your blog.
Let's us examine the condition of your blog to determine loading time:
1) default/Blogger template + one shoutbox + 7 POSTS at landing page + 100 kbp/s internet speed = 23 seconds to load.
2) custom template (depending on how many pictures you put in) + one shoutbox + various pictures & on sidebar + 7 POSTS at landing page + 100 kbp/s internet speed = 60~70 seconds.
this is the real example of my blogging experience. At 100 kbp/s, you should really not waiting for long for your blog to load. Unless when i put too many big pictures (around 8-10 pics), usually it takes 2 minutes to fully loading the whole post.
As for blogger, they sometimes have downtime syndrome whereby you couldn't post your entry due to server maintenance. They'll mentioned it if the maintenace is ongoing.
About traffic, blogger could handle high traffic and i think it's much realiable than your own website hosting cause as far as i remember, my blog never down when i need it.
If you're interested with Blogger, please get your hand wet with XML cause new Blogger use Web 2.0 with XML as base. It's nice to have XML but my proficiency on XML not so well thus i stay with old template which use HTML (i'm an old blogger). Anyway, just a little reminder when using Blogger is:
Please back up your writing which you intend to post cause sometimes the server might lose it. After the writing had been posted, you could delete your backup. Just in case of jeopardy of Blogger servers.
Anyway, happy blogging. I enjoy blogging so much.
January 27th, 2010 - 13:17
watch?v=_B6_JGbt6Lg
January 27th, 2010 - 18:33
You have information that is so interesting that people are willing to pay for it. You have to give each person a password so they can enter your blog. The most-likely ones to earn money are: real estate, interest rates, stock picking, and child-raising.
There are 133 million blogs on the internet. Most of them have an audience of one person.
January 27th, 2010 - 23:09
Well, your service is a product. Blogs can help a business in many ways. Its a great way to tell people about your service. By posting blog entries the search engines index the content and its a good way to be "found" by new customers. You could add advertisements to your blog and when people click on them you can earn additional income. Here is a guide on how it works: http://www.richkahmer.com/make-money-online.html
January 28th, 2010 - 04:59
learn how to turn your blogs in to CASH MACHINES!!!!>>>>>>>>>>>
ill tell you how!! feel free to add some comments
@ mybibis.wordpress . com
January 28th, 2010 - 03:15
There really isn't any 'special' blogging site that is just going to provide readers or subscribers. I've had wonderful luck with both blogger and wordpress. But I have also taken the time to promote every single blog I have created.
http://stripesofsugar.blogspot.com
January 28th, 2010 - 05:22
The two best sites where you can set up a free blog are:
blogger.com (owned by Google)
wordpress.com
Both allow you to create one or more free blogs. There are lots of free "themes" that you can use to control the look/feel of your blog.
Enjoy
January 28th, 2010 - 10:47
Great info for newbies.
January 28th, 2010 - 11:42
Very interesting. Thanks
January 28th, 2010 - 14:04
This is wicked. I am glad to now know the history of blogs. This was very informative and lovely. Props to the maker.
January 28th, 2010 - 15:46
Blog serve a very useful purpose, if you are a gifted writer attempting to express yourself. As a freelancer, you may like to take a look at ezdia, another networking tool that allows you to trade your expertise.
January 28th, 2010 - 22:31
http://www.tumblr.com/
tumblrmap.net/
http://www.bloglines.com/
http://www.blogflux.com/
http://www.lijit.com/
http://www.coveritlive.com/
http://www.zemanta.com/
triggit.com/
budget.rustybrick.com/
http://www.meemi.com/
http://blogs.mu/
http://www.blerp.com/
templatr.cc/
http://www.blogonize.com/
streem.us/
co.mments.com/
http://write4.net
http://panels.net/
http://www.i-want-blog.com/
weebly.com/
http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/
http://xanga.com/
blogarama.com/
createblog.com/
adwords.blogspot.com/
http://www.threehosts.com/blog
thoughts.com/
http://www.blogged.com/directory/
http://www.livejournal.com/
http://www.typepad.com/
http://www.vox.com/
http://wordpress.com/
http://www.plurk.com/
http://www.bloglines.com/
http://feedjit.com/
http://www.lijit.com/
http://www.kontain.com
http://www.blogperfume.com/
http://www.sociableblog.com/
http://www.wibiya.com/
http://blogs.mu/
http://www.scribblelive.com/
http://www.blogonize.com/
http://www.pimpthisblog.com/
http://sezwho.com/
http://panels.net/
http://www.brandmyblog.com/
http://www.spipra.com/
January 29th, 2010 - 07:07
Hi #UN#, big fan of your vids here
January 29th, 2010 - 10:51
who gives a damn what other people think
January 29th, 2010 - 05:54
Well you have to post relevant content to your blog that will help the market you have chosen. It is also good to have a lot of free stuff. Blogs are very search engine friendly. Now you still have to promote the blog. These are the steps i suggest you follow…
Traffic-Getting Jumpstart Master Plan
1. Pick a market
2. Register the domain
3. Install the Free SEO Blog Software
4. Change the blog’s theme
5. Install the banner ads, affiliate program ads, etc
6. Set up the email capture and first few follow up emails
7. Add content to blog
a. Run a social bookmarking campaign on blog with one group of bookmarking accounts logins and at different times and days.
b. Create supporting micro-sites mini-network (social profile pages at squidoo, hubpages, bumpzee, and small static hand built sites).
c. Run a social bookmarking campaign on your micro-sites mini-network with a different set of bookmarking logins and at different times and days.
8. Submit site to SEO friendly directories sites using directory submission services.
9. Create video
a. Distribute video with video sharing software
b. Run a social bookmarking campaign on the videos sharing pages.
Steps 1 – 9 are enough to jumpstart the traffic to your new blog, static website, ecommerce website… and it only takes an hour or two.
If this is a site or market that you know is worth spending additional time on then you can follow these additional steps.
The following steps don’t take that much additional time but should, and can easily be, outsourced.
10. Every month (or sooner) go back and run the social bookmarking campaign again using new social bookmarking logins at different times and days.
11. Every month (or sooner) go back and create a new micro-site or social profile page to support your micro-sites mini-network.
12. Add posts to the blog that link/pingback to other authority blogs in the market.
13. Pick specific posts on your blog that you’d like to rank higher.
a. Social bookmark those posts with random bookmarking login accounts
b. Create a videos specific to those posts and load to youtube
c. Blast that video out to video sharing sites
d. Social bookmark the videos on the video sharing sites with random bookmarking logins and at different times and days.
e. Find other authority blogs in the market and post content-rich comments on their blog with links heading back to the post you are trying to rank higher.
You can do the following steps yourself but I would strongly recommend you simply outsource them.
14. Outsource someone to spin articles for you and submit them to directories
15. Outsource someone to create new social bookmarking login accounts
16. Outsource someone to subscribe to your RSS feed and have them social bookmark your new posts (the RSS feed notifies them when there is a new post so they simply head over.
17. Outsource someone to post high-quality, relevant comments on other people’s blogs and forums (DO NOT COMMENT SPAM). Concentrate on ones that do not use the “no follow” attribute.
18. Rinse and Repeat steps 7 – 18+ for sites that are worth the effort.
January 29th, 2010 - 09:59
I make around 20$ a week
http://guruofmoneymaking.blogspot.com/
January 29th, 2010 - 19:30
kewlioz
~Mandi&&Madi
January 29th, 2010 - 20:54
Hello!
The biggest secret to being a "profitable" blogger is blogging about your passion. Blogs that are built with a reason of making money usually don't make it far and do not make money.
You need to update your blog often. Once a day is the BEST but if you cannot do so, try to update it at least 2-3 times a week – this way your readers will see that you update often, they will come back and read your blog again, maybe click on some ads, buy something from your blog…
Blogger.com is great but I prefer Wordpress.com
To give you an idea, check out my blog: http://blog.extra-paycheck.com – I built it with Wordpress and I do not have any DESIGN or technical skills!
Best of Luck,
Alex
January 29th, 2010 - 21:03
anything 3.2 megapixels or higher will suffice. optical zoom is better than digital zoom.
January 30th, 2010 - 03:40
thank you very good video
January 30th, 2010 - 00:10
Try using 'pay per post' programs. Two suggestions are
ReviewMe (you need a somewhat popular blog to be approved)
About Review Me http://www.articleswap.biz/articleswap/viewarticle.php?uID=100
Blogsvertise: (don't think they are as stict for approvals but
you don't get paid as much as Review Me.
About: Blogvertise http://www.articleswap.biz/articleswap/viewarticle.php?uID=308
January 30th, 2010 - 05:30
mysecretjoy. blogspot. com (: the blog of a 15 year old girl. Read, comment, and make your own and I’ll return the favor. Following is bonus points!! lol
January 30th, 2010 - 04:13
http://www.blogger.com
January 30th, 2010 - 08:11
Online blogging is a way of communicating with others on a regular basis about any topic you wish to discuss. You would normally have a website of your own in place, and then sign up for a Blogger account at Blogger.com, so that you would have both a website and a blog. But you don't necessarily have to have a website.
You can write anything you wish in your blog, make a post through Blogger.com, or Wordpress.com, and every day or every week you would write up a post that your readers would find interesting.
If you're interested in telling people how to make money online for example, you can write blog posts about how to make money online. If you're interested in hiking in the mountains, you can write posts on your hikes. Or if you're interested in music, you can write posts on your favourite artists, etc.
At the end of the blog, there is a comments section where you can invite others to comment on your post, and then get a discussion rolling.
In order to make money on a blog, you can copy and paste banners on your site that lead to another website offering something for sale. For example, you may be selling books online, so you can copy/paste a banner from Amazon.com leading to the books you sell via Amazon. If someone clicks on your Amazon banner, goes to your book list, and buys one of your books, you make money.
You can also use links in your blog posts to make money within the text. For example, if I am writing about how to make money online, I may want to use a HTML hyperlink for the phrase "make money online" that when people click it, it will lead to something I'm selling.
Also, at the end of your blog posts, you would normally make a little blurb about 2-3 sentences, an author bio box, containing links to your website/s that sell something, or to a product you are selling. When people click the links and buy your stuff, that is how you make money.
You can also put Google Adsense on your blog and make money the same way.
The trick is getting enough traffic to your blog. You want visitors to be drawn to your site, so you have to market your blog and make it findable on the net. A good way to do that is by joining blog carnivals, blog traffic exchanges, posting your links in posts such as the one I'm making right now. Once you get a lot of traffic to your blog, you can start making money.
It's not the easiest way to make money online, but it is very effective if you know how to do it right. There are many ebooks you can read on the topic to get you started. I have an online business and a blog that all started with the help of the Plug-in Profit Site. This is how I learned to make money online. Check out my blog at http://www.HonestMoneyMaking.com/blog/ and good luck with your blog!
January 30th, 2010 - 11:30
In the simplest terms blog is your free website. There are several of them. The choice is yours.
http://360.yahoo.com
http://beta.blogger.com
http://www.myspace.com
http://www.bebo.com