Setting up a blog.
Sunday, March 9th, 2008When you want to start blogging you have to make some choices. There are many different options available to start a blog. You can take the free blog route by setting up a blog at Blogger or Wordpress. This way you don’t need to register a domain as they will give you a subdomain or pay for hosting. Of course you can register a domain and forward it to your subdomain saving the cost of hosting. These free options have their limits, you can not just install what you want on it. A lot of Wordpress plugins for example don’t work on blogs hosted on Wordpress.org. Wordpress also doesn’t provide you with a decent statistics system, making it difficult to track your visitors. I have a blog on blogger.com and although it’s very easy to setup and write new posts it lacks a number of options to fully customize your blog. Blogger has one benefit, since it’s owned by Google a blogger account will be indexed quite fast. Blogger also provides the option to sign up with Adsense, giving you the possibility to make money with your blog. It’s also a fast way to get your Adsense account approved. When you have a blog on Blogger or Wordpress you don’t really own the blog, so you can’t sell it. I still prefer Wordpress on my own hosting, this way I can do what I want with it and add other things to it.