Blogging has taken the Internet by storm - it seems that everyone is doing it, from your neighbor down the street to famous celebrities and musicians. Blogging is a term that comes from “web logging” and was shortened to blogging; and thusly a weblog quickly became shortened to blog.

Perhaps you want to break into the world of blogging on your own but are feeling a little overwhelmed by the whole concept of starting your own blog. You can start your own blog in a matter of 10 minutes by following these simple steps. However, we are assuming that you have a basic idea of what you want to blog about. If not, that should probably be your first step.

A Place To Call Home

Start by finding a spot to blog. You can use a free blogging place, such as blogger.com, xanga.com or others. You can find the one that you like the best by doing a quick internet search for “free blogs”. There are many out there that use a variety of interfaces.

When you find the one that you choose to use, in this instance, we’re going to use blogger.com, all you have to do is click on the “sign up” button. Once you’ve signed up with your witty name (which is what your blog will be called) you’re almost ready to rock and roll and begin blogging.

Adding Your Own Touches

You can customize the way your blog will look by going to the options portion of your account. It’s not recommended to mess with any of the HTML tags unless you know how to. However, blogger.com allows you to customize your blog with just a few clicks of your mouse. You can choose from themes, color choices and much more.

Begin Blogging

Once you’ve done any of the tweaking to your account for the way it looks when it is published, you are ready to blog. All you have to do is click on “write page” or “write post” and start writing. When you hit submit and publish, the blog you wrote is live. It’s really that simple and takes no more than 10 minutes.

Now that you have an established blog, you can write about whatever you want. Perhaps your blog is just for personal friends and family to read about you and your life. So, your “my blog” is about you and your life. Perhaps you want to update everyone on a new job or promotion, or show off pictures of your kids doing something cute. All of these are easy to do - just point and click to add pictures, video, highlight text, bold, italics, change the font and color - all with just a click of your mouse.

If you are looking to blog about something in particular, for example gardening, ensure you’ve chosen a relevant blog name. George’s Green Thumb Gardening is a good example of a blog name for gardening, but not for writing. Having a relevant blog name will help bring other people to your blog to read. The most important thing to try and do in any niche like gardening is to establish yourself as an expert in the field, so be sure that you’re writing about something you know and that the information you’re putting on your blog is true. Establishing yourself as an expert will bring more people to your blog to read it regularly and soon enough, you’ll have a “fan base” of people waiting to read whatever else you have to say.

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