Open your blog

Choose a platform

To open your blog, the first step to carry forward is that you chose a technical platform. However the presentation of platform depends and varies among providers which make the choice quite difficult to opt for. Also one thing to consider is that it is quite difficult to shift a blog from one platform to another.

Chosing the host of your blog may vary from the presentation of proposed pages taking considering whether its free or not. It is quite realistic that payable platform might surely proposed extra features like sponsored link, trackbacks etc. Moreover one thing that you should account for the most is the celebrity and reputation of the platform you opt for.

Choose the platform prior to its graphical possibilities so that it is relevant to the graphic chart of your blog adequate for your business. Wikipedia and Yahoo provide a wide range of hosts blogs. There are even websites who offer their own platform blogs. There are lot of tools available on the web mainly blog farms (platforms hosting blogs) proposed by blogspirit or TypePad and also freeware like Dotclear WordPress.


The address of your blog http://blogname.platformname.com/ can be associated with your domain name, which will be very easy to retain.

About the author

In the first section, «About the author », fill in with your name and photo (optional).However the authenticity with which you present yourself is important for how your blog will be perceived. As for the age, profession, interests, this is also optional.

For the email addresse, it is recommended that you create an email associated to your blog. You may be privileged by some host for creating an email addresse as from their server name.

You can also choose to write your email as “myname@domain so that the robots retrieving e-mail on the web do not retrieve yours.

Reviews

This is one of the topic that generate a blog and identify itself. Apart from the content, you even receive feedback from blog readers. Prior to you, you can choose to switch on the feedback features. However when opening your blog to reader, it proves your honesty and may in fact be fruitful in return. The best technique is in fact you can choose to moderate comments before displaying same on your blog.

It is however recommended to moderate in order to avoid trolls and undesired conversation. This will impact on the instant publishing of articles but will however avoid many further tribulations. Thanks to note that a blogger is in fact responsible of all published comments on his blog even if same is published by himself.