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What is a blog?

A blog is a website. Many of the websites you visit now may actually be blogs. A blog looks, acts and provides information to people in the same way a website does. Blogs are user friendly and are easy to manage.

Who can learn how to blog?

Anyone, if you can learn to write a word document, then you can easily learn how to blog. It really is very simple; with the right platform and software even a child can do it.

Why learn how to blog?

There are three great reasons to learn how to blog.

• Blogging is easy.
• Blogging is inexpensive.
• The major search engines love blogs.

Blogging is easy.

Once you know the formula for search engine optimization and learn some basic writing skills, blogging is easy.

Blogging is Inexpensive.

There are a couple of ways to start a blog. There are many really good free blogging platforms available, however you might be limited to the amount of product promotion or affiliate marketing you can do on free sites. This might limit your potential to make money. To allow optimal opportunity to make money blogging you can invest in your own self hosted blog with allows you full control. Free blogging platform sites also have the right to delete blogs and this does happen from time to time. To ensure your full control of your own blog, self hosting is the way to go.

If you decide to invest in registering a domain name and website hosting and start your own self hosted blog it is still a very inexpensive start to building your own online business. Domain registration can be under fifteen dollars per year and there are hosting companies who give your blog a place on the internet, like a home address, only charge around five dollars a month. The cost for starting your own online business could be as little as seventy five dollars a year. You have got to admit that is a very inexpensive way to have your very own business.

Search Engines love blogs.

Search Engines like Google and Yahoo love blogs because they are regularly updated keeping fresh and new information for their search customers. If you have your own blog that means that you will be adding new content to your blog regularly. Most people who own successful, money making blogs add some new content every week. However, writing some new content in the form of articles or posts, is easy once you know how. Writing new content for your blog can take as little as half an hour each week.

Where do you learn how to blog?

There are literally thousands of educational programs available on the internet to teach you how to blog. There are some great ones and some really bad ones. I know, I have tried many different programs and I wasted plenty of money, that is, until I found one that ticked all the boxes.

The biggest challenge was finding a great program to give me all of the education I needed and then follow that up with support. I had questions, technical problems and just needed someone to count on when I needed answers.

What do most blogging educational programs offer?

Many programs I enrolled in gave you a basic website, which looked like everybody else’s, some very basic education, and offered a support ticket system for when I had questions. The problem was that the support system was frustrating. I would send an email, and wait, then wait some more, then wait a bit more. Sometimes, they would get back to me in a couple of days, sometimes longer. I couldn’t move forward until I got the answers I needed.

Everything came to a grinding halt until they would answer me and even when they did reply they usually would ask me to clarify my question and the process started over again. All of the programs I enrolled in were expensive, some costing over $1,000.00 and none of them delivered on their promises.