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