Blogging and How A Blog Will Help Your Internet Business. Many people wonder what exactly is a blog, and how can it help their Internet  business. Before you can make money with blogs you must first know what blogs are.

The blog has been around for years, but they just came into major popularity in the last three years. The weblog, or blog is simply a application that allows users to post written text that gets immediately posted to the web, like an online journal of sorts.

The blog is something that is meant to be as simple to use as the word processor application on your computer. While most websites take hours to update, a blog can be updated in real time, as quick as one would save a file to a computer. This is partly what makes blogs magical. But………..that is the small answer.

Blogging is a fantastic way to get information on the internet inexpensively with friendly results, such as high search engine ranking, and free advertising. The blog, with it’s variety of keyword heavy posts allows people to make money off of the high return result on a search engine like Google.

What this means is that if you are selling home security systems, and you make a blog about excellent deals on such systems, chances are people looking for a security system will come across your blog in the search engine. This added exposure will surly help more people notice your business, and make buys, thus making greater business for you.

Blogs are most commonly found on the Net, and can be published for free by some of the largest names on the internet. The fact that the blog is free is the main reason why people can so easily profit from using them, because there is no real upfront investment with blogs, and thus there is only one way to go from zero dollars invested, and that’s to profit.

Of all the blog platforms out there WordPress is the platform most bloggers use. So that is the one I will focus on. It is also the platform that has the most add ons, plug-ins, and work arounds. If you are already using wordpress, then you probably know why I am recommending it, but if you don’t, I have one word for you: quality. So, take what’s best at the moment and place it to work for you.

WordPress is as excellent as it gets, so stop looking. To get started you must first get a domain name. Yes you could host a blog on one of the free blog host but the free blog host can also shut you down in a heart beat. At a later date I will go into how to use free blogs to make money and drive traffic to your main money site. Before hosting your own Wordpress blog, you’ll need A Domain Name & a Hosting Account Get Your Domain Name Before hosting your own Wordpress blog, you’ll need a domain name.

I use namecheap.com as my domain register because of its clean interface and a minimum of up-selling. With other sites, it’s confusing because they try hard to sell you all kinds of services and more domains than you need.

To me, GoDaddy  is the worse one. Go ahead GoDaddy sue me. It’s right.

Make a new folder inside of your “My Documents” folder and call it the name of your new domain. This will be the folder that holds everything and anything related to your new domain/blog.

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When you get your hosting account you will also get to choose a username and password. Save it to your folder that you will make on your computer. Pointing Your Domain Before anyone can see what you’ve built on your hosting account, you will need to point your domain to your hosting account. With your hosting account you will have a NameServer. There will be a place to enter your nameserver where you registered your domain. Log into your account, look for a nameserver management link. Type NameServer1 (1) and NameServer2 (2) then click “Update” (3). Make sure these two addresses are right. You can just cut and paste to make sure.

You can always contact me to help walk you through the process. Now go to your Cpanel. Just type in www.yourdomainname.com/cpanel That will take you to where you enter your username and password and access your cpanel. Once inside your cpanel scroll to the bottom and Click on the icon called “Fantastico” (1). Click on “Wordpress” (1). Click on “New Installation” (1). From here you will enter some user information. Make a new notepad document to store your blog’s user name and password information, place it in your folder.

Make sure you save the document in your website folder we made earlier on your computer. Pick out a unique administrator username and a  unique password Give yourself a nick name this will be seen by people reading your blog. Add an email address. I suggest a Gmail address because it’s excellent for cleaning spam.

Some say give your blog a name, but I don’t use a name for my blog. Wordpress makes the name show up on the header. Later I will show you how to add a title to your home page the will be excellent for the search engine. I do not fill in the description space either. I do that later with the use of a plug in.

Go ahead now and click “Install Wordpress”. Congratulations! You’ve just installed your first Wordpress blog.The Popularity of Blogs Today Researchers working on the American Life Project found that the popularity of blogs today in terms of readerships in the United States was absolutely exploding;

Given that blogs are the best intermediary between websites and forums, it is hard to imagine that they will decrease in the popularity of blogs. Why Blogging is So Well loved with the internet marketing crowd…………Simple to use.

Simple to build (anyone can blog). Simple to maintain, fantastic for SEO, and a whole lot more. I just can not sing the phraise of WP enough. Google likes WordPress and with WordPress there is nearly a million way to grab the attention of Google.