Whether you are a beginner, novice or experienced designer, we explain all the essentials of blog creation and building a successful blog for your personal or commercial website and we guide you in the right direction. This tutorial gives you a complete and thorough understanding of the web and how it works and will walk you through all the steps to create your own blog website explaining exactly what to do from registering a domain name to marketing your website.

Contents

Domain Name Registration

• Things to consider when registering a domain
• Choosing a domain name
• What if your domain name is not available?

Blog Hosting

• Things to consider when choosing a web host
• What do I get when I host with someone
• How much does hosting cost

Building your Blog

• How do I get Started?
• Blog Software
• Freelance Web Designer

Make Money with your Blog

• E-commerce
• Affiliates Programs
• Paid Ads
• AdSense

Marketing your Blog

• What is Page Ranking
• Getting Traffic to your Website
• Search Engines
• Directories - Get Listed on DMOZ, Yahoo and More
• Link Exchanges - Add your URL to increase your links popularity

Search Engine Optimization

• External Links
• Content
• Don’t have Similar Looking Websites
• Inbound Links
• Make your links work
• Sitemap
• “Keywords”, “Description” and “Page Title”