By Arthur Orchid

Even if you still ignore what a blog is you're already reading one. To summarize at their very begginnings blogs were a kind of journal were people share ideas, feelings and day life. Now it became a strong communication tool every company should include into its arsenal.

Why Do You Need To Create A Free Blog Today?

Chances are, if you never heard the term "blog" at this point, you've likely been living under a rock. The funny part is that if you punch this new-age term into a Microsoft Word document, it might just offer you some alternative spellings, because it doesn't recognize it. So, what is a blog exactly? Well, a blog is actually whatever you want it to be. Anyone can create a blog for free and discuss what ever topic they please. Publish your blog online and draw attention to what you've to say. This way others can visit your blog and respond to it. Maybe they'll have wonderful information to add and maybe they'll be a tad more critical of what you said. With blogs the possibilities are virtually endless. The next qustion to answer is " What do you have to blog about? "

Creating A Blog Offers A Potential To Earn Money

The excellent thing about blogs and the process of creating a blog is that it can be accomplished free of charge. This is the single most important factor to many bloggers. This is why countless individuals like myself were drawn to the idea in the first place. Okay, now you may be wondering what's so great about making a blog. Well, there're numerous benefits. First of all, when you choose to create a blog of your own, you offer the world your input. If educational in some way, it can seriously help those who're in need of it. But this isn't the primary reason that many web surfers create a blog or numerous blogs for that matter. Creating a blog offers a potential to earn money. Yep, you heard me right! By making a free blog of your own, you have the option to earn revenue from your blog. This can be accomplished with programs such as Google Adsense or PayPerPost. The choice of your monetization partners are yours! Once your blog is published, you can start a free Adsense account and place relevant ads on your blog. It's literally as easy as pie. Anyone with a computer and Internet access can join in on the fun. Create a blog pertaining to something you're passionate about and earn money.
Where To Get Started To Create A Free Blog Today

One of the best places to get started with your blogging is Blogger.com. This website makes the process quite simple and virtually all questions are answered on the site. In a few easy steps you'll have your blog up and running. A second place to give a shot is Wordpress.com. Here you can also create a blog for free, and do so with a few more options. Many bloggers are choosing this service/software over the others nowadays due to a few search advantages. Go ahead and create your very first blog today!

To start today a free blog start visiting Blogger and WordPress! Once again the choice is all yours! Before starting any monetization process I recommend you to start writing some original content (about 20 articles is a good figure to start with). You should also select the most relevant and most paying keywords to your topic. If you don't know how to write hundreds of articles, you could also every month buy PLR articles.

By Arthur Orchid

So far you already have a few articles online.
Congrats, this is a good start.

The only problem at the moment is that most of your readers still ignore even your blog's name.

Chosing a meaningful blog's name is also very important.

Let's assume you did it smart & easy to remember.

As an example: 99words.wordpress.com

The problem is still there: except your butcher's wife, your puppy and your very curious colleague nobody heard about smartandeasy.wordpress.com...

From now, on a regular basis, attracting readers without converting this into an obsession should be something to work on.

Indeed, in this post we're talking about one way to build traffic.
Fortunately, this is not the only way.
Unfortunately, you will have to spend time & efforts to complete this task.

Visible results will only appear after a few weeks of work.
That's the price to pay!

In future posts, I will be very happy to share with you more ways to drive traffic to your site. This will come later.

Before revealing 2 tools I really like, we have some things to prepare.

Do you know what a rss link is?

See it as a strong link between your site, your readers and you.
From the technical side, this a link used to tell "I've just updated my blog" using mainly xml.

If you post trough blogger/blogpost or WordPress you already have this link.
I advice you to make it better than it is now.

How could you improve this?

• Subscribing to service like FeedBurner.
• Adding an icon easily visible on your blog.
  

Of course, you could use the Blogger or WordPress default link.

But you will get some benefits using such free services such as:

• Statistics (I'm sure you'd like to know some time to time the number of subscribers you have for your blog).
• Advices & tips (in my opinion any idea is welcome).
• Easier communication with websites or applications requiring your feed.

In the next post, I will show you step by step how to subscribe to FeedBurner and add the very well known orange icon (the same but resized I used at the top of this post).

Good bye Folks, that's all for today!

Until next time: keep working on your content!

AO.