How to create your own blog. Where is the best place to create a blog? My experience

Hello readers of my blog.
Just recently, out of nothing to do, I decided to analyze 10 blogs. The blogs were mostly brand new, and in EVERY one, mind you, friends, I noticed a number of errors in each of them, which, in my opinion, are gross. Based on this, I had the idea to write a blog article about this; as they say, you learn from mistakes.

Perhaps at some points someone will disagree with me and want to correct me, no problem, do so in the comments. So, today's article is about how to blog Right!

Mistake number one: I blog about creating websites, growing cucumbers and cross stitching.

Before creating a blog, it is important to decide on its topic. Writing about everything in the world doesn’t suit me! For example, I was once looking for information about websites, and found such a wonderful blog where they offered me and a website to create and taught me how to close cucumbers and talked about life. Do you think I need it? So this is where I'm going with this? It is important to determine a specific topic for your blog so that a target audience can be formed around it in the future. Of course, you can combine some topics, but this must be done wisely. For example, the topic of website creation can be successfully combined with the topic “SEO and promotion”.

In addition, the specific topic of your blog will increase your chances of getting into the Yandex catalog, on a free or paid basis, which will affect the authority of the site and increase the TIC. After all, even on a paid basis, you may not get into the Yandex catalog if you have a blog about everything.

Mistake number two: Who are you? Let's goodbye!

When I go to someone's blog, I sometimes don't see the About page. I would be very interested to read about the creator of the blog, who he is and what he is like. I get a certain impression about a person when I read the “About the Author” page and thus I remember this person’s blog and visit it more often. Some people solve the problem differently; they create an “About” page. For what? If you can see in the header or the articles what this blog is about. What is the logic behind creating such pages? So if I go to someone’s blog and don’t see the “About the author” page, the phrase immediately appears in my subconscious: Who are you? Let's goodbye!

Mistake number three: Lord of counters...

So, I created a blog, and I simply have to stuff it with all sorts of counters, I have to put 5 counters in the footer, plus stick three counters in the sidebar and add a counter like “Weather in Krasnodar” to the header. Of course, I'm joking, but for some reason it seems that many novice bloggers think this way. A lot of different buttons and counters significantly slow down the work of the blog, and as for me, you can limit yourself to Liveinternet statistics only - this will be quite enough. So please note that the abundance of all sorts of buttons and statistics on the site is not very good.

I created a blog, and now I will swim in money and go to live in the Maldives! Here she is!!! Here it is, dear friends, a global mistake of almost all Runet bloggers! I just created a blog, and already making money, no friends, this won’t work.

It happens that you go to some website, and then it’s right there in your eyes: earn money here, earn extra money here. There is advertising, there is advertising, and it hurts my eyes, personally, when I see such a site, I immediately close it.

In addition to the fact that the abundance of advertising scares away the visitor, it is also possible to obtain a sanction from the PS. So, keep in mind, comrades: if you want to kill your blog in the bud, feel free to put ads on it, and if you want to create a project for people, then you will have to wait a little while earning money.

Many newcomers make a place on the main page of the site where they place links to friends of the site - this is not correct. The fact is that each link transfers a piece of weight to another resource, and if, for example, your site was given a PR, then at the next APE it may simply be reset to zero because of these same links. I would not recommend putting unnecessary links at all, but if you really want to, then place links on the internal pages of the site.

Mistake number six: Subscribers, why did they give in to me?

Once you have created your blog, you need to make sure that people subscribe to it. I will soon write a whole article about how to do this, so you don’t miss it - subscribe to blog updates.

Mistake number seven: Robots file and sitemap.

Many beginners don’t think about the fact that immediately after creating a blog, they need to create a sitemap and configure the robots.txt file. The sitemap will notify the search engine that a new article has appeared on your blog, and it will also be easier for the search robot to navigate your site. In the robots.txt file you can block unnecessary pages and folders from indexing; we will talk about this a little later; a whole article will be written on this topic.

Mistake number eight: Semantic core? No, I don't know!

Many beginners, having created a blog, immediately begin filling it with content, without even knowing what a catastrophic mistake they are making. Before you start promoting your blog, you need to competently create a semantic core for your site. Semantic core is a list of queries by which users will find your site on the Internet, and by which you will promote. In order to create a semantic core, you need to install the All un One SEO Pack plugin on your blog, go to its parameters and enter keywords in the Home Keywords column.

To learn more about compiling a semantic core, look for information on the Internet, now there’s just a ton of it, so I won’t write an article on this topic on the blog yet, except perhaps later.

That's all for me, in this article I have collected seemingly all the main mistakes that young bloggers make. I hope you found this article useful and now you have an idea of ​​what how to blog Right. If you liked the article, please share it on social networks, and also subscribe to blog updates.

Today blogs are gaining popularity. Many celebrities create them. And there is nothing surprising here, because the Internet is a great opportunity to communicate with a large number of people at the same time, and create a blog, means to realize this opportunity.

Officials, popular artists, and athletes have blogs. In general, almost everyone does. Do you have it?

If not, and you don’t know where to start, then below I will provide you with step-by-step instructions for creating your own diary. After reading it to the end, you will imagine how you can create a blog for yourself in a short time.

Step 1 – Domain and Hosting

Domain and hosting are integral attributes of any blog. Without them, in principle, its functioning is impossible. First, we need to choose hosting. Hosting is a service for hosting a resource on a web server, or providing the service of hosting someone else’s web server on one’s own “site.” Website hosting is in greatest demand, since hosting someone else's web server is necessary only for large websites. There are two types of hosting – free and paid.

If you don’t know where it’s best to create a blog, then first I advise you to create it on free hosting. You will not pay money for it, but you will simply experience certain restrictions. This could be an advertisement that will subsequently be displayed in your online diary. In addition, you are completely dependent on the administration of the free blog service (hosting), because they can ban your diary at any time and all your work will go to waste.

This was once the case with my first diary, which I created on LiveJournal (livejournal.com). But still, for beginners who don’t know where it’s best to create a blog, I would recommend free hosting (blog service) to start with. You just practice, learn about some promotion features (seo, smo, etc.), see if you can write posts and whether you like this process.

I will describe some free blog services.

Livejournal.com is a great platform. LiveJournal has a large audience, so creating a personal blog in this blog service, in my opinion, is promising. There is a lot of functionality here: the ability to add friends, the ability to earn money by placing Google AdSense contextual advertising and many other opportunities. But, as you can see, active promotion of a blog on LiveJournal is punishable by a ban, so you should act very carefully. You can read in detail about LiveJournal blogs in my post

Blog.ru– in fact, I myself once started with it. As far as I know, blog.ru has now blocked all outgoing links from blogs posted on their blog service from being indexed by search engines. This suggests that there are no prospects for making money from various types of selling links, so the service can be chosen solely for training

Ucoz.ru– also suitable for a novice website builder. There is no need to install any modules or engine here. The interface is intuitive. No support for PHP and MySQL databases

Narod.ru– free hosting from Yandex. Probably the most popular. Anyone wishing to create a blog is provided with unlimited space for a personal diary. The hosting does not support scripts and PHP. In general, there are an incredibly large number of free blog hosting services. You can always find them by entering the request “Free hosting” in the Yandex or Google search bar. It will give you a lot of results.

By the way, the popularity of such services according to Yandex can be viewed at blogs.yandex.ru. If you already have some knowledge and are confident that you will not abandon your blog, then it is better to create it immediately on paid hosting. The advantage is that there will be no annoying advertising, but there will be a large number of different functions.

Below is a list of some paid hosting services:

majordomo.ru– good hosting. But it's paid. There are quite a lot of positive reviews about this hosting on the search engine (forum.searchengines.ru). The service is gradually gaining momentum and I think it has excellent prospects. Support works quickly, many functions are implemented. By the way, this service is one of the five largest hosting providers in Russia. They currently have four tariffs in total. The price per month today ranges from 99 to 450 rubles per month. My blog once also huddled on this hosting. By the way, for everyone who registers using my referral, a bonus will be awarded when registering on hosting

Best-Hoster.ru– another good paid hosting. They have a total of 4 tariffs to choose from. The only difference is the amount of disk space provided. True, there have been cases of hosting failure.

When creating a blog, you need to consider some more nuances:

Paid hosting provides the ability to receive an unlimited amount of traffic (this is in general)

• All paid hosting supports PHP and MySQL databases
• Using paid hosting, you get the opportunity to create a subdomain for your blog

Many paid hosting providers provide their clients with ready-made technical solutions. These can be various scripts, etc., that improve the work of the created blog and its functionality

You can find paid hosting services in the same way as searching for free ones. Just enter the query “paid hosting” in the Yandex or Google search bar. Let's say you like some hosting. Don't rush to order a service from them. Be sure to check if there are reviews about this service. Go to at least the same service and in the forum search bar type the name of the hoster you are interested in. You will definitely be given some topic where the work of this hoster will be discussed.

The only exceptions can be hosting providers operating not in Russia, but somewhere in America or Canada. Such hostings can also be used, just know that they will work somewhat slower than ours, since we need to make allowances for distance.

Now that you have finally decided where it is best to create a blog, let’s register for hosting. After this, you will be provided with passwords and data from the panel to your FTP account. Be sure to save this data. Preferably on removable media. In general, this is where the choice of hosting ends.

Domain for a personal diary

Now that we already have hosting, all that remains is to choose a domain. If you are going to work for a Russian audience, then it is better to purchase a domain name in zone.ru. You can also consider the option of .com and .net zones. I don’t recommend the rest for the Russian-language segment of the Internet. Most hosting providers provide the opportunity to register a domain through them.

Or you can register it with a third-party registrar, which specializes only in providing domain registration services. Choosing a website domain name is a simple procedure. The main thing is to come up with a name for it in advance.

Today, to register a domain in zone.ru, you will need to provide the registrar with your passport information and also indicate your place of residence. In addition, the newly created domain will need to be assigned the DNS server of your hosting. You will find this data in your hosting control panel.

DNS (Domain Name System)– domain name system. It is designed to convert domain names to IP addresses. Or maybe vice versa - it is intended to convert IP addresses into domain names. DNS are designed for domain delegation. Once you register the domain and you have assigned the DNS servers, you will need to park the domain to your hosting.

Depending on the hoster, the name of this service may vary slightly, but usually in the control panel there is a “domains” tab, where there is an option to “park a domain”. Here you need to enter our registered domain in the appropriate field, and then wait. By the way, domains are discussed in detail in the article. That's it, this step is finished. Now the next step in creating a blog is installing the WordPress engine.

Step 2 – Select an engine

Now it's time to choose an engine for the blog we created. As with hosting, you can create a personal blog using either a free or a paid engine (CMS).

One of the popular engines is DataLife Engine. This is a paid engine. If you don’t know where is the best place to create a blog, then simply evaluate the capabilities of paid engines and draw conclusions. Many additional modules have been created for this engine, so you can build almost any website on this CMS.

Installing this engine is not difficult. For this we need the Total Commander file manager. We upload files from the archive with our engine to the server via FTP, and then run the installation file. This is usually done by typing an address like _http://your site/install.php into the address bar. Nothing further is required from you except follow the instructions provided. When installing the CMS, you will need to create a MySql database. You can do this through your hosting control panel.

In principle, every archive with the engine should always have installation instructions, so you can’t go wrong. After installing the engine, go to the settings. True, I will not describe this, since this is a separate topic for discussion. You will need to install a theme, plugins, etc.

The next popular engine is WordPress. I recommend this CMS to all beginners. This is perhaps the best blog engine. WordPress is a free blogging engine. You can download the distribution kit on the website mywordpress.ru, or the Russian-language and modified version from Lecactus (lecactus.ru). Installing the engine comes down to the fact that we need to upload files via FTP to the server, fill in the MySql database data into the “wp-config-sample” file, and then run the installation.

This can also be done by typing the address _http://your site/install.php into the address bar of your browser. In general, the archive with the engine must contain installation instructions, so you’ll figure it out. The engine is intuitive. I myself started with it once, when I knew nothing at all, but gradually I figured it out.

And the last popular engine that webmasters use is Joomla. This engine weighs slightly less than WordPress. This CMS is installed like DataLife Engine. As for functionality, Joomla does not shine at all, but despite this, many webmasters like it. This concludes the second step of creating your blog.

Step 3 – Fill the created blog with content and carry out internal optimization

The first two steps are very important. But this does not mean that they are the main points. Creating a personal blog is one thing. It’s something completely different to promote it. One of the most important components of promotion is filling it with unique content. Content refers to all the material on a website – pictures, texts, videos, etc.

It is very important to maintain the uniqueness of the content. That is, all the material you post on your blog should not have exact copies on other sites. Material can be obtained by rewriting or copyrighting. I wrote about what this is in the article.

A rewritten text is, of course, also good, because it is unique. But such content is mainly filled with those online diaries that are intended primarily for earning money. If you want to create a high-quality author’s project, then, of course, it would be better to write texts that have not been published anywhere before. It is the uniqueness of information that attracts people. It is important to understand simply the fact that if the text is unique to search engines, this does not mean that it is unique to people. If the idea is not new, then your blog is unlikely to gain much popularity.

Previously, as an experiment, I created one of my first diaries on the blog service blog.ru, and then, out of ignorance, I simply took and copied materials from other sites. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that after some time my blog was banned by Yandex and Google. Hence the conclusion: there is no need to steal content, this can lead to a ban in search engines or a lower ranking in search results.

Now about internal optimization. Creating a personal blog is not difficult, but after that you simply must delve into the basics of search engine promotion and optimization.

Below I will give some tips for on-page optimization:

• The first thing you need to do is select the keywords under which you will promote your resource.

After you decide on your queries, you need to select the most relevant pages for each query.

You should not optimize one page for many requests at once. 1-3 is enough

• Keywords must be written in the page title and in its description

The main thing is not to overdo it with the number of keywords in the text. If you make a text densely stuffed with keywords in such a way that the readability of the text is lost, then search engines will quickly determine this and the page will fall under the “You are spam” filter.

• Keywords can be highlighted with tags And
• You also need to include keywords in the alt tags of pictures.

At the end of each article, include a list of similar articles. This will increase the coherence of the text material and also increase the number of page views

• It is advisable to indicate the most popular articles in a prominent place in the sidebar

Navigating the site should be simple and convenient. All blog pages should be accessible in 2-3 clicks from the main page

It is advisable to provide each article with icons of social networks so that visitors can add those materials that they like to social bookmarks or other social services

• Be sure to make a separate page with your contact information

Step 4 – Promotion and monetization

If you think that you already know perfectly well how to create a blog, then you are mistaken. Let's assume you created it, filled it with content, and carried out internal optimization. But what next? Do you think that visitors will immediately flock to you? Not at all. Promotion is perhaps the most difficult process in this whole business.