| Most bloggers use amateur blogs as opposed to | | | | you must have control over a MySQL database, that |
| professionals, though I am not sure what a | | | | most good web hosts provide, and know how to use |
| 'professional' blog is. If you are blogging for profit, | | | | an ftp program. Otherwise it is plain sailing to upload |
| whether as an amateur or professional, then you are | | | | the software. What you get is the ability to edit the |
| best advised to run your blog from your own website. | | | | CSS and HTML that determine the content and |
| This involves downloading the blogging software to | | | | appearance of your blog posts, your sidebars, headers |
| your web space. | | | | and footers. An immediate obvious benefit of this is |
| This however is a personal opinion, and many people | | | | the ability to add Adsense blocks that bring income to |
| prefer the simplicity of operating their blog from a blog | | | | your blog. |
| host such as Blogger, run from Blogspot, or | | | | Another is the possibility of adding links to any affiliate |
| Wordpress from There is little to do other than to | | | | products you are promoting, and in fact links to |
| register and make your posts. The only negative is a | | | | anything you want your visitors to link to. These could |
| lack of individuality and formatting of the look of the | | | | include your websites or other blogs, in addition to |
| blog and the tools that you can use on it. | | | | adverts of various kinds. You can offer these in |
| The majority of people who use the internet for fun, | | | | permanent pages, at the start or end of each individual |
| as opposed to business, believe that they have few | | | | post, or even within posts, though the most effective |
| opportunities to make money from their blog. Their blog | | | | adverts and Adsense blocks are those included in the |
| is to communicate with others, and to express their | | | | sidebars and footers of each post. |
| views online in a way that was not possible prior to | | | | Another significant benefit that many bloggers find |
| around the turn of the millennium. Sure, blogs were in | | | | they get by downloading the software is that they can |
| existence before then, but mainly in specialized | | | | upload any of thousands of page templates for their |
| applications, and it was sometime between 1998 and | | | | blog that are totally editable. You can use Photoshop |
| 2001 that blogging changed from personal diaries of | | | | or a clone to edit the graphics, mainly the header, to |
| internet 'experts' to what we now regard blogging as | | | | customize it exactly for you, and can also edit the |
| being. | | | | entire html to render the template unique to you. That |
| However, anyone who has a blog (reminds me of a | | | | is not possible with a blog hosted by the blog provider. |
| Cilla Black song) can use it to make money, or if that is | | | | You can add any of thousands of widgets to your |
| against your ethos of using the internet for fun, then to | | | | blog, another facility not open to you if you run a |
| 'cover your expenses' as our councillors, governors | | | | provider hosted blog. These widgets range from |
| and other governmental individuals like to express it! As | | | | automatic SEO, thru auto XML site-map generation to |
| they do, you can cover your expenses very, very well | | | | blog pinging and literally any feature you could wish for. |
| if you utilize the monetization possibilities of blogs as | | | | It is the ideal medium to advertise your product or |
| they can be used. | | | | service, and make money while you sleep or when |
| To repeat, in order to do so to the maximum of your | | | | you are on vacation. Imagine waking up in the morning, |
| ability, you must run your blog from your own web | | | | checking your bank balance, and finding a lot more |
| host. Most amateur blogs are created using Blogger | | | | there than when you went to bed! |
| from the Blogspot site or Wordpress from | | | | That is blogging for profit, and it is not difficult. Amateur |
| Wordpress.com, but if you can run your blog from | | | | blogs can be used for profit as well as the |
| your own website, then you have a lot more flexibility | | | | professional blogs. There is no distinction if you are |
| in the content of your blog than otherwise. | | | | hosting your own blog. You can make money 24/7 |
| In fact you get many more benefits other than the | | | | while you sleep, and your widgets can also include an |
| possibility of profit by uploading blogging software to | | | | opt-in form that builds up your email list from those that |
| your web space (I am now going to use the term | | | | are interested in your product or niche, but not quite |
| 'website' for web space since that is more familiar to | | | | ready to purchase. Keep in touch with them while you |
| most people, though the terms mean different things). If | | | | sell to others. |
| your blogging software is to your own website rather | | | | That is one great benefit of blogging. |
| than that that of a blog provider such as Blogger or | | | | One of Pete's great interests is the use of blogs to |
| Wordpress, you have a lot more flexibility in how you | | | | entertain, educate and to make money, and his |
| want to format your blog, and in the features | | | | webpage Create A Blog provides more benefits of |
| contained within it. | | | | hosting your own blog in addition to showing you |
| Let's look at what you get if you upload Wordpress, | | | | exactly how to set up your own blog and to make |
| for example, to your own website. In order to do so | | | | money from it. |