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How to Start Your Own Blog For Free?

By Sai Rohith Karanam

I have started this blog on April 23, 2020. Recently, This blog crossed an overall of 10k+ views. So I believe, I am in the right position to guide you regarding how to start your own blog for free.

Many of my friends have asked me questions like:
How to start a blog?
Is it free of cost?
How and where should I publish my blog? 
and the list goes on...

By the end of this post, I assure you that you will get better clarity on how to start your own blog.
Let's start.

Basically, there are two ways that you can start your blog.
  1. Paid Blogs
  2. Free Blogs
Paid Blogs:
  1. You need to purchase your own domain name (For example, www.sairohith.com, Here 'sairohith' is the domain name) and also buy a web hosting service for your blog from reputed websites like GoDaddy, Wix etc. 
  2. This literally means that the blog is completely under your control. Once you purchase your own domain name along with good web hosting, you can start writing by choosing a template of your choice.
I'm not going to discuss the details of paid blogs further because I'm quite inexperienced with it. 

As our main focus is on how to start a blog for free, let's dive into our topic.

Free Blogs:
  1. You can choose your own domain name, but there will be an extension of the service owner.
    For example, www.sairohithkaranam.blogspot.com. Here, I have chosen my domain name to be 'sairohithkaranam', but I cannot remove 'blogspot.com' from my website address as it is the extension of the service owner.
    There are famous websites like Blogger, WordPress which offers services to start your own blog free of cost.  
  2. You don't need to buy any web hosting service for maintaining these type of blogs. Everything is managed by the service owner.
    Just choose your domain name, choose a template, write and publish.
  3. If your blog gets more and more popularity with time, you can just buy a domain name of your own for the same website from the service owner without any disruption, which means, you will no longer have a 'blogspot.com' extension in your blog's URL.
  4. Last but not least, you can also apply for Google Ads for advertising in your blog once your blog gets enough popularity via views and followers. In this way, you can also make money from your blog.
Why do I recommend beginners to start free blogs?
  1. If you are just new to blogging, then you are just trying to explore writing blogs. So, to gain experience without affording any money is kind of a great start for your blogging career.
  2. If at all you want to start a paid blog anyway, why not gain adequate experience by writing free blogs and then invest money in a paid blog from your experience? 
Now that I've given you a brief overview of free blogs, let's actually see it in a more precise way.

Step 1:
Be more specific about what type of content you want to write in your blog.

Is it related to studies? If studies, which subject?
Is it related to beauty? 
Is it related to motivation?
Or is it a mix of different categories?

Step 2: 
Create an account on Blogger or WordPress 

If you want a minimalistic view of your blog, if you are someone who wants your blog to be simple yet elegant, create an account on Blogger.
If you want a more attractive look and creative designs for your blog, create an account on WordPress because WordPress has more attractive themes than blogger.

Step 3:
Name your blog.

Make sure your blog's name matches the content published on the blog.

Step 4:
Choose your domain name.

Choose your domain name very carefully, because you cannot modify your domain name once created. A domain name is literally the identity of your blog.

Step 5:
Choose a template/theme of your choice.

Choose a theme that looks well on both laptop and mobile.

Step 6:
Start writing your first post on your own blog and hit the publish button.

That's it.

Wow, that's amazing. You just learnt how to start your own blog for free!!













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