The title could mean two things, either blogging to earn a million dollars or having a million readers. Both would be nice, but I am realistic. Since I am still waiting for the mail to show up with my catalog I figure I would share a few blogging tips I have learned.
If you plan on making any money off of your blog stay away from most "free" blog hosting forums. Wordpress.com doesn't allow advertising or links in your articles that maybe even considered advertising. They don't allow you to write your post even if it is to promote your OWN business! Even this blog at blogger.com might be removed for "inappropriate" content. Why? because people are allowed to "flag" blogs they don't like!! Say I write my opinion on an issue coming up in the coming election. Someone that doesn't agree with it could flag it. Since I have had no experience with blogger.com on this I can't say what if anything would happen. Wordpress.com on the other hand could remove it without batting an eye! What people do to have blogs removed is that they dig around and look for anything that might violate the "terms of agreement" or TOS. Then they report that to the blog host. They know that with millions of blogs out there the hosting company does not have the manpower to check up on every flag so they just suspend or delete the account. What I would like to see is if the "flagging" was done out of spite or nothing was found wrong with the blog then the one who did the flagging would be suspended. Your best bet if you plan on making money off of your blog is to host it yourself on your own domain. I highly recommend Bravenet as your host. Why? You can have up to 10 domains and websites hosted for a total of $99.00 a year! That is for all 10! Each one of those domains can have up to 20 sub-domains! Each domain name can have 500 email accounts! I know of no other domain hosting company that offers all that - for that price. Did I tell you that they also have site-builder for those who are not tech savvy. You also have the option of using Front Page and up-loading your website that way. How do I know all that? My sister uses it and I was flabber-gasted at how much she got for her money there.
After you get your website host and start your blog you are going to need people to come and visit. Here is where the real work begins. You will need to get your blog listed with any and all the blog directories you can find on the net. Don't fall for those ones that want you to pay to get listed there are plenty of free ones out there. I have just started to list this blog with a few of them. Some require a back link to them. The ones I have this blog listed with are listed at the top of my home page in the right hand column.
Then blog away! You will need some really interesting posts for people to want to come back often.
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