A blog is a powerful Internet tool for self-expression, communicating with like-minded people or colleagues, telling about events or thoughts that are interesting not only for their author. In addition, a blog is not only a way to have a good time, but also an opportunity to generate income, possibly considerable.
1. Before creating your blog, think about what exactly you are ready to tell the Internet audience. Remember that the internet is a space of freedom. How quickly the blog author can become popular with millions of readers, just as quickly the audience can turn away and leave the resource that has become uninteresting.
2. If the topic is chosen, and there is confidence in their own competence and its meaningfulness for potential readers, then all that remains is to create your own blog.
If you are still new to this space, you can start with one of the popular blog hosting sites such as livejournal.com or blogger.com. Although the disadvantage of such a solution can be called the standard appearance of the blog and the standard functionality, the undoubted advantages will be the ease of registration and a large audience of potential readers. In addition, there are many long-standing blogs that are not only interesting to read, but can also be used as a model, adopting the experience of successful colleagues. Finally, it's free.
If you consider yourself already an experienced blogger, then it makes sense to start a blog on some hosting. As a rule, to create a blog in this case, the popular Wordpress engine is used, which will need to be installed (however, sometimes hosting is provided by an already installed Wordpress). The advantages of this approach are: your own domain name, which allows visitors to easily remember the address of the blog, and the author - to promote and advertise his creation, as well as great flexibility and variety of functions provided by Wordpress to the author. Disadvantages - the need to deal with much more complex management and pay for hosting.
Note that the main indicator of a blog's success is not the beauty of the design or the variety of engine functions used by the author, but the number of readers. There are very successful blogs on free platforms, there are visited blogs on paid hosting. The success of a blog does not depend on the platform, but on the author's ability to gather and retain an audience. And this is achieved primarily by texts, and not by anything else.
