Blogging is all about making content on a regular basis and publishing it on your website. Your blog can be on any topic of your interest such as mountains, stories for kids, technology, science, history, etc.
In this article, we will discuss all blogging, some free blogging platforms, and how to make an account on it. Use of blogging and its benefits in detail.
What is Blogging?
Blogging came from the word blog. To understand blogging we have to know about blogs.
A Blog is a kind of a personal online diary in which any person (sometimes a few persons) use to write anything of their interest and knowledge on a website in a reverse chronological order (i.e. the newest page appears on top).Blogging: The whole process of making a blog, writing in a blog, and maintaining the blog is called blogging. To do blogging you should have expertise on a particular topic and can start blogging by writing about these topics on a website on a regular basis.
How does a blog work?
How blog works simply means blogging strategies, Following are two main ways how a blog works:
A.) To increase more traffic on your blog: This is the type of strategy which targets to get more traffic to your blog especially by unpaid means.
To attract traffic some strategies are the use of a keyword, making backlinks, On-page SEO, Off-page SEO.
B.) To convert your traffic to subscriber/customer: If you want that, traffic on your website should come again and again so you have to make sure that traffic on your website should be converted into your subscriber/customers.
Most popular free blog platforms
To make a blog, you have to make a website and maintain that website, which is a costly process but there are some platforms that provide the facility to make your blog for free.
The following are some examples of a few free platforms which provide a facility in which we make a blog for free.
1. Blogger: It was launched by Pyra Labs in 1999. If you use this you have to write your blog under the subdomain of blogspot.com. www.blogger.com is the domain name of this website.
How to make a blog on blogger (step by step process):
a) You should have a Google account, if not, then first make a Google account.
b) After making a Google account you should go to blogger.com
c) In blogger.com sign in by your Google account d) After that choose a blogger profile.
e) Now you can create your blog on blogger.com
f) In this step choose your title
g) Now choose a theme and address of your blog
f) Now you can launch your blog.
2. WordPress: This is also a free platform released in the year 2003 by Matt Mullenweg. One thing you have to do on this platform is that you have to make a website for your blog on your own.
The making of a website in WordPress is also quite easy. You can opt for a paying host otherwise a free host by WordPress is also available. www.WordPress.com is the domain name of this website.
How to make a blog on step by WordPress ( step by step process):
1.In In the first step sign up for web hosting.
2.In the second step, you have to choose your web hosting plan.
3.Choose a domain name for your blog.
4.Now do the registration of your hosting.
5.Now you have to install WordPress
7.Now you can log in and can post your first blog.
3. Wix: This is a free and unique platform which has its own AI (artificial intelligence), you can either use its AI to create your website or you can create your website by your own.
This website also provides a free host. The unique feature of this website is that all work can be done from the front end (drag and drop facility), the use of a database is not needed in it. www.wix.com is the domain name of this website.
How to make a blog on step by Wix (step by step process)
1. first step is to sign up
2. second step is to choose a template
3. In the third step you should update your image and text.
4. Now you can personalize the background.
5. Now you can add pages, apps, etc. if you want.
6.. In this step, you can set up your blog.
7. Now do optimization for search engines.
8. Now adjust your blog for mobile mode.
9. In this step you have to choose a domain name.
10. finally, you can publish your blog.
4. Weebly: This is also a good blogging platform and also a free platform, it is similar to WordPress.
This website provides many facilities, such as selling products, etc. and providing a free blog platform is one of them. It was founded in the year 2006. www.weebly.com is its domain name.
How to make a blog on step by Weebly (step by step process)
1. first make a Weebly account
2. login to your Weebly account
3. click on the Add Page with a button under pages
4. there you will get many options for adding a web page.
5. now select the blog page.
6 choose the page you want and your blog is now added to your website.
Login your account on Weebly and now you can edit the site which wants to add to your blog.
What are the benefits of blogging?
There are many benefits of blogging, following are some major benefits of blogging
A. Blogging improves your personality: By blogging you use to write many things and you have to do proper research about that topic which you are going to write on your blog page.
In the process of research, you come to know about many more things about a particular topic, and your knowledge increases.
By regularly writing on your blog, your writing skills improve, your vocabulary and grammar of the language which you are using to write your blog improves.
So we can say that your personality development takes place by writing a blog.
2. Blogging helps in improving SEO: If you are a good blogger and use to write quality content then Google will notice it and improve your ranking which will help to generate traffic on your website.
3. Blogging helps you to get your identity: If you are writing a good blog regularly then people will notice it and slowly and gradually you gain your unique identity among many people.4. Earn money by blogging: You can also earn money by doing blogging and the following are many ways to earn.
How you earn money from blogs?
Following are the ways to earn money by blog
A. By Monetization: You can monetize your blog and can earn by two main methods:
a) By cost per click ads (CPM ads): It is also called pay per click (PPC), by this way you earn some fixed amount of money in every single click on the ads which you have provided on your web.
b) By cost per 1000 impressions: In this type, a particular amount of money is fixed which is based on the number of people visited on ads.
B. By Google AdSense: In this type, Google will put Ads on your website and you get paid accordingly.
C. By providing affiliate link: You can provide an affiliate link of any product in your blog and if a person clicks on it and buy the particular thing then you get the amount which is fixed.
D. By selling digital products: You can sell digital products such as eBooks, images, videos, online courses, etc. via your blog and can earn a profit.E. Earn money by selling membership: This is a unique method in which you can sell some corners of your website to another person and you charge some money to the person for using that corner.
Conclusion: In this article, we have discussed all blogging, the benefits of blogging, popular free blogging platform, how to make a free blog by them, and how to make money by your blog. I hope you have understood all the things which I have explained.
