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Blogging Frequently Asked QuestionsIs it hard to start a blog? Do you have to be a bit of a Geek to maintain a Blog?Not at all it's all very simple. The software can be pre-installed by Weycrest and the popular blogging tools are very user friendly. Every day, there are lots of new bloggers. Indeed once your favourite blog is installed, the main task is to create content for your blog. Standard hosting usually requires some HTML skills in putting togethor a website. With blogging you are freed from that. How much does it cost money to start a blog?It depends. There are several established sites that can set you up a free blog. These are blogeasy.com, weblogs.us, blogsource.com, blogstream.com, bloxter.net, blogsky.com, blogger.com, amongst others. The problem with free blog host space is that they have no contractual obligation to you and they can remove your blog at any time.
Can I install blog software in existing hosting space?Of course if you already have hosting and a domain name, this might be the cheapest and most reliable way of starting a blog. Most blog scripts require PHP and often a MySQL database.
Can I make money out of my blog?Yes. Though this isn't the main motivation of many personal bloggers it is possible to monetize your blog. This can be achieved by incorporating a google adsense campaign into your blog (easily done - just cut and paste the javascript code provided by Google into your site) or by writing about a service or product and including affilate text links in your writing. Embedded text links can produce the most response. With these methods its relatively easy to recoup your hosting costs.How do I promote my blog? Whats all this "pinging" business?There are a number of services you can ping when you update your blog though trackback posting is more productive. More frequent posting will increase traffic as the search engine spiders will crawl and index your blog more often. Additional promotion and syndication methods include RSS feeds and submitting to Blog Directories and by exchanging links with other bloggers. Google's Blogger only produces and atom feed, but this can be processed at feedburner.com (which is a free service) to produce a valid RSS 2.0 feed. This is also the RSS standard for podcasting. Your RSS feed can then be validated at feedvalidator.org. What are Splogs?These are Spam Blogs. This is another problem for the free blog sites especially if they have an automated setup. Spammers create literally thousands of "spam blogs" on free networks containing hundreds of links to fool search engines and to artificially create advertising and affiliate revenue. This can put the free blog networks and servers (as well as their support staff) under some stress. Worse than that, if someone accidentally or maliciously flags your legitimate blog as a "splog" if might suddenly be deleted. It's also possible that search engines might rank your blog lower for being in a "bad neighbourhood." This can happen to networks offering mass free hosting too. . If you have any questions you can email our sales team at admin (at) 1stchoicewebhost.co.uk Return Back to Blog Hosting |
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