How to start: choosing a platform for your blog

If you have decided on the theme of your blog, you must select the platform on which you will host your blog. Accommodation options at the moment very much, I will discuss the three most popular one among my friends bloggers.

The first platform Live journal, is still a relevant platform for blogging, designed for Russian-speaking audience. What's the advantage of this platform? There can be a lot faster to "grow into" readers, after all, LJ was a huge number of active users who just stumble on your blog. In addition, if with your entry you managed to get to the TOP, for example, the Top 25 entries, it will attract new readers. Learn there are different communities, participating in which you can draw attention to your blog.

If in the future you want to monetize your blog, learn this plan is not the best platform. There is no possibility to make a quality customized design is beautiful to place banner ads, etc. in addition, in Belarus, to officially receive money from your blog, it needs to have hosting on the territory of Belarus.

The same issue with hosting another of the popular platform blogspot.com. But if you don't think about how to money with a blog, and want to do it for fun, then blogspot is also a great choice. Here you can choose the design and layout of the blog, and you can buy a domain name and bind it, making a nice link instead вашеимя.blogspot.com".





This platform is very popular among fashion and lifestyle bloggers. Here you will find like-minded people, and can draw attention to your posts and blog, leaving comments of those who read. BUT!!! Not spamming, don't ask to come to your blog to sign up in response, etc. That nobody likes. Leave sincere and interesting comments on the case, then the author of the post and other bloggers will go to your profile, and will not put you in the ban.

 

Another option for hosting your blog is the so — called stand alone or a stand-alone blog (website). On this version, and we stopped when he made thefork.by.

You can create your own unique design, do seo (optimization and website promotion), develop a blog technically, to add the online store or a showcase, gallery, fully control the content of the site. For example, on blogspot was the case when, due to inappropriate content blocked several blogs and was blocked servers of blogspot, and those blogs that related to those servers were also blocked, although they did not have this very inappropriate content.

If you don't know how to make a website, there are many services that sell ready-made template websites. You will only pay for the services, contact a technical support service that is available will explain how to complete your template in the future to work with the site. An example of such a service is gophotoweb. One of the creators of the service Julia Kildisheva just recently on my instagram announced the advent of "blogs" in their sites.

If you have the time and inclination, you can create a website using wordpress templates. Some of them are free to download on the official website, and on youtube there are many lessons on customizing these templates, download the necessary plugins and optimization of the whole site.

Andthe last option of creating your standalone blog is to find a team or a single specialist, at the signing of the contract with which you write clear technical stask, i.e., describe how you see your blog on where and how to include buttons and icons, etc. a Specialist creates a website with unique design according to your desires. It should be noted that this is the most expensive option of creating a blog.

 

To summarize: if you're not very confident in their abilities, you can start a blog on livejournal or blogspot. This is a great option for beginners, and later, becoming an experienced blogger, you can create a standalone blog. If you maintained a blog, and now you want to make a serious project, then I will advise you immediately choose the option of stand alone.

In the next post I will talk about the content of a text component and will focus illustrating blog. Talk about how much you need images, where to take them and work with them. If you have any questions on the topic of this post or in the following topic, ask them in the comments and I'll try to answer them.

 

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