What Is A Blog and How To Start A Blog?

Still there are many people (specially in Asian countries) who don’t know what is a blog. This is a post which will help people those who don't know about blog but want to know about blog and want to start a blog.

Blogging is very popular now a days, daily thousands of new blogs are starting. Some are starting blogs to promote their business, some for passion and some are blogging to make money.

What is a blog?

A blog (also called weblog) is basically a website which consist many articles (also called blog post) in a order that the most recent article appear first when someone lands on your blog's homepage. Blogs are generally treated as a social networking platfrom because blogs have features like commments and links which helps users to interact with blog author and other readers too.
A blog is similar to a personal dairy on which you can write your thoughts,experiences or anything you want to write. A blog can be a personal blog or a professional blog. You can choose any topic(niche) of your interst for your blog. A blog can be make public, private or even you can choose limited people to see your blog.

How to Start a Blog?

There are many platform available to start a blog. Some of them are free whereas some are paid services. The most common blogging platforms are word press(which is an open source platform) and blogger(owned by Google). Both of them have their own pros and cons. Some bloggers prefer blogger platform and some prefer word press. I have my blogs on both platforms. Here I am not going to tell you the differences between these two, I am here to tell you how to start a blog.

Starting a blog doesn't require any rocket science, you can start your owmn blog just in 5 minute whether you want it on blogger or on word press. For starting a blog on blogger you just need a gmail account after that you can sign up for a new account on blogger.com. Here you can choose a domain name for your blog which will be read as yourblogname.blogspot.com. You can easily convert that URL to yourblogname.com by purchasing a custom domain which only cost 10$.

On word press also you can start your own blog just by signing up on wordpress.com, here your domain name will be read as yourblogname.wordpress.com which you can upgrade by purchasing the pro pack from wordpress.com. You can also set up your self hosted blog by buying domain name and webhosting.

So, what you are waiting for. Start your own blog and enjoy your online presence. Best of luck for your blogging career.
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About Author:

Tarun Jaitely is a blogger who loves blogging, He writes about Blogging tips, SEO, Blogger tricks and internet marketing. He created this blog to share what he has learnt about blogging and make money online. Hoping it will be useful for you.
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