Blogging: Starting Your Business

If you are wanting to tap into the blogging world that has become very popular, the first thing you need to do is - well - start a blog! If you don’t know how to go about this, there are some different blogging companies where you can set up a free blog or you can use services that charge a per month fee to use their blogging platform. Here are a few of the most popular.

Blogspot - Blogspot is free and popular but I don’t particularly like it. There are not a lot of extras that you can do with Blogger and they are limited on themes and such. One benefit is you can add Google AdSense to your sidebar.

Wordpress - Wordpress is another free blogging service and it is probably the best one out there. There are lots of themes available you can choose from and they are continually updating to give bloggers more options. The one thing about Wordpress that I don’t like is that you cannot put Google AdSense on it unless you have your own domain but are using a Wordperss theme. That is the exception.

Typepad - For the first 1 1/2 years I blogged, I used Typepad. For me Typepad was very easy, they have lots of themes and you can easily add affilliate links, Google AdSense. The themes are very professional and clean looking. I believe Typepad is more of a business-type blogging service. Their monthly fee starts at $4.95 and goes up from there. With their highest package on Typepad, you can have an unlimited number of blogs.

Your own domain - The best option of all is to purchase your own domain and then use the Wordpress themes. This way you don’t have the hassle of trying to design your own site and you can do whatever you want with it then.