How To Blog Using Wordpress - A Free But Powerful Blogging Software Or Platform

In this article I'm going to share with you the better way on how to blog. If you still not sure what a blog is let me tell you that a blog is an online journal where a webmaster or the website owner updates it frequently. Don't let the word journal scares you because it is easy to use blog as your website compared to traditional website.

If you use traditional website or also known as static website as your website, it is time consuming to update new content. But with blog you just put your content and with just one click your article will be instantly published on your website.

You can blog about anything that you love or like.

A blog also search engine friendly that means the search engines will frequently send their agent or 'spider' to crawl your site once you've updated your blog.The crawling is a process to index the website so a search engine know that your site exists. After that it can be able put your blog into the database.

This makes your site easier to be found by the people online.

If you don't know what content to put on your blog, don't worry because there are a lot of places you can get high quality articles for free. Just use google.com and search "article directories" and you'll get a lot of free articles so you can put on your blog. One of these popular sites to get free and high quality articles is articlecity.com.

When it comes to blogging software I highly recommend you to use wordpress where you can get it 100% free of charge from www.wordpress.org/download. Why do you need to use this software? Well, all I can say is quality. Have you ever heard about MovableType? It is a proprietary blogging software that of course you need to pay for it. But those MovableType people who migrated to Wordpress ( that's free) never look back.

They found that Wordpress offers outstanding features not to mention a lot of plugins that make Wordpress more than valuable. Wordpress also has a feature called pinging where you can configure to notify other blog directories or blog search engines. This pinging system makes more people aware about your blog existence.

Without wasting your time, let me put in a nutshell what you need (other than your computer and internet connection) in your journey on how to blog:

1. Your own domain name --> Less than 10 bucks a year at namecheap.com

2. Web hosting account --> you can get affordable one at ecommercemastery.com

3. Free Wordpress script/software --> get it from wordpress.org/download

Once you got all 3 things above. Transfer the Wordpress files to your web hosting account (the server) After all the Wordpress files have been copied to the server, install your Wordpress blog by typing site URL (where you put all your Wordpress files) on your browser (i.e : Firefox, Internet Explorer).

After that, you'll get through a few easy steps to complete the installation process. Shortly after that, you can publish your first post on your blog.

Although it seems to be difficult, trust me on this, Wordpress is the easiest blogging software you can install and use.

If you still wonder or vague on how to blog don't worry because you can learn it more for free from my blog http://www.sapawi.com/blog At this site you'll get step-by-step and clearer explanation on how to blog using Wordpress.

If you find this how to blog article is helpful and useful feel free to publish it on your website or blog as long as this article remains intact and the live link points to my blog.

Sapawi Saidin is a blogger. You can learn the easy way to blog using Wordpress for free from his blog http://www.sapawi.com/blog

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