I told a friend of mine few months ago, how he too can set up a blog on his own. As a newbie on blogging platform, starting a blog can be very easy, if you can follow some steps and important tips I will be discussing now

Here is my advice to fresher, newbie should opt for the use of free webhosting packages at the initial stage of their blogging career, there are two popular ones on net i.e blogger and wordpress, you should pick the one that suite you and start building your blog on it. Sign up for free with your email account. The good part of it is using any of these two free web hosting to create your blog means your blog would be hosted for free and if at the end of the day you were not able to achieve what you might have achieved from blogging then you can quit blogging since you have got nothing to loose. This is how your blog domain address look www.yoursite..com or www.yoursite. Good for you to practice few weeks even month sometimes a year or more. When your training is over and your blogging professionalism is clear then you can invest a little using a custom domain and a paid web host. But before that here is another free host to use www.web.com TIPS TO START YOUR BLOG ON A PAID HOST

1. BUY DOMAIN
2. BUY A WEBHOST
3. INSTALL YOUR BLOG SOFTWARE
4. CUSTOMIZE YOUR BLOG
5. MAKE YOUR BLOG FIRST POST
6. BUILD TRAFFIC

Now lets take it one after the other.

DOMAIN

A domain is the combination of alphabets and numbers that you type into web browser to open the page of a particular website or blog. We have different types of domain but I will discuss that in my future post. For example www.yourwebsitename.com (yourwebsitename is the domain) HOW TO REGISTER A DOMAIN? Web host companies allows you to host website and receive a domain for free, though we have some that rather prefer you to pay for your domain and hosting separately. If you choose to register for free plus hosting package then pay for host, you will have you domain registered for free. But I personally used domain registrar during my blog or website registration, why? Because there is more assurance that your domain would be registered plus a chance to control your domain as the real owner. BELOW ARE GOOD DOMAIN REGISTRARS

1. namecheap
2. godaddy
3. register

You can search the rest on google for those registrars in your area or country for easy purchase.

2.BUY ALREADY MADE DOMAIN. if you feel like buying already made domain then just head straight to any domain auction websites to order for registered domain that fit your website or blog title we have good ones like 1. sedo.com 2. digital point 3. site point 4.name chaep 5. godaddy

3. BUY EXPIRED DOMAIN OR DEAD DOMAIN the third option to get your domain registered is by buying expired or dead domain i.e buy domain that is no longer responding to server due to expired fees. if you know how to choose this type of domain rightly, you can pump massive traffic to your blog within short period of set up, why? most of these domain are on net for a long period of time which means search engines must have heard about the domain before. you can check the popularity of the domain before you purchase. www.stuckdomain.com

HOST YOUR BLOG

what is a web host? web host is where your blog or website lives, when you forward your domain and install your blog software plus contents your blog host will house it for you, not only that your blog shall be visible on internet for people to locate easily anywhere they are, we have lot of web hosting company everywhere but i use fatcow for my real sites and blog, you can also use hostgator or search the rest on net. INSTALL YOUR BLOG SOFTWARE use wordpress thats the best software for serious blogger. Because it is very easy to install, customise and build of contents. you can find various theme for your blog on net , just install the one that fit your blog, more so your web host company should provide a link to install wordpress software .

CUSTOMIZE YOUR BLOG

Sign in to your wordpress control panel customise the look *ADD NEW PAGE *ADD NEW POST *ADD THEME OR INSTALL THEME *ADD PLUG INS * DESIGN LOGO . HEADERS, FOOTER and many more Thats a little tip about setting up a blog . this tutorial is not over, you must learn how to write your blog first post, how to drive traffic and so on click here http://www.mind2billion..com/2012/04/how-to-write-blog-first-post.html to continue reading