Setting up your own blog or personal website is very easy specially if you will opt to use free blog platform services as all you need to do is register with them and voila, you can choose your own domain name and have your instant blog in minutes! The hitch is since it’s hosted free, you will have to bear having the platform host together with your domain name. Here is an example: yourblog.freeplatform.com. Another hassle is that you will be promoting the ads and other services of the free platform service, there are even platform service which do not allow the blogger to advertise while other free hosting company advertise through the blogger’s site but do not offer profit-sharing to the blogger.

If you have just setup your own blog or blog site, whether its free-hosted or self-hosted, the next step is to write good contents to make it readable and interesting. Blogs simply do not establish followers, blog writers make a lot of efforts to establish his/her blog by writing well-researched and well-written articles or blog posts.

Once you are confident you have enough blog articles to be followed by readers, you are now ready to populate your blog site to the rest of the online community. To be followed by your family, friends, and relatives are good starting point but if you want your site to be credible and popular, you have to make your site known to strangers, online or internet users who doesn’t know you but would stumble upon your site and become a reader or a consistent site visitor. To do this, the strategy is to join social networking sites and to submit your blog to free directory submission sites.

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