Reasons to Start a Wordpress Blog

June 9, 2007

Reasons to start a blog…

You are an interesting person and have lots of interesting experience in life. You’re a specialist in some fields and would want to share your work with everyone on the Internet. You just want to keep a weblog so you can look back and smile to yourself as you look through the entries. You’re an entrepreneur and wish to get a pie of the Internet to promote yourself, as well as make some money from it.

Well, these are some of the reasons why I can think of why should you be starting a blog of your own; and we’re here to focus on monetizing, making money online as well here at Nobs.

Why Wordpress?

It’s easy to install and customize, the community support for this open source blog is great. I remember the time when MovableType dominated the scene when it was free, but all these are gone when MT starts to licence its own work, and Wordpress spring into the picture. As compared to any of the distributions of open source blogs out there, Wordpress remains my favourite.

You can customise it to the likes of any sites with Wordpress, and even make it seem that it’s operating like a Content Management System too.

Differences between using a free web based blog provider and having your own blog installed?

Yes, there are those free blog hosting providers such as Blogspot, Live Journal and more and you can save the hassle of installing one by just registering with them and start pumping contents into it. So why installing a copy of your own and wasting money on web hosting?

As you sign up with them, you notice there are so many terms and conditions, restricting you to your full potential of your design, content as well as placing any sort of advertisements, which will be what we will focus, discuss and develop tutorials in the upcoming weeks.

It’s always easier for me and I believe for anyone else to come up with a design and have everything uploaded and dumped into my web host space so my readers see whatever I designed and have for them instead of learning how to use the free tools which the free blogs provide to change the settings everywhere.

Cumbersome! save the trouble, install a copy on your own and rip the full benefits!

Also, you’d like to know that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a really important part to your journey in starting a blog if you are thinking about monetizing and making money online. Some people even buy and sell domain names for a living. Kinda like web real estate, if you want to put it that way. Having your own copy, with a unique domain name of your own makes things totally different as you rip the full benefits of SEO.

So What Has This Got to Do with Making Money Online?

You’ve heard so much stories about people making a living online by affiliate sales, selling ad spaces, and you still remember the guy who sold 1 million pixels worth of ads for a dollar each? You’ve heard about Google Adsense as well and how people are earning checks monthly from them too. Things can happen if you are unique and pretty content rich, but you’ll have to take the first step at least.

Start from somewhere, that’s what we here at Nobs are trying to get our community to do.

What’s Next?

It’s really easy to install a copy of Wordpress. I’ll put you guys through with walk through on the next few entries.

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