Bash Bosh Blog

Blogging is a very popular on the internet. It’s the easiest way to create your own website completely for free. Luckily, there are many free blogging systems available on the internet which you can use right now. In this article, I will try to show you how to create an effective blog in just half an hour!

Thanks to the advanced blogging systems, you would be able to create an advanced and effective blog for free, starting right now if you want. I will describe how to get a Wordpress powered blog (free-hosted) completely for free. I decide to use this blogging system because it may be very useful if you want to go further someday.

You should know why you should use a Wordpress as a main blogging system. And here are some additional reasons why to use this blogging system among any other on the internet:

• Wordrpess is a free blogging system. You can install it on your own server or use it on free-host.
• You can easily transfer your free-hosted blog on other place (domain) if you decide to go further into blogging.
• There are a thousands of free high-quality plug-ins and themes supported only for Wordpress.
• It is a very easy-to-use blogging system and yet it is a very advanced.

Create a Blog (approx. 5 min.)

Below, I will show you how to create a Wordpress powered blog in just 5 minutes or less.

First thing you should do is to register your own blog on Wordpress.com completely for free. I have to note you that Wordpress is available in over 100 languages! You can register your blog with any supported language if you want.

A signup process is very simple and it can be done within seconds. You should specially take care about your blog name, subdomain and your blog language. If you already have a name on your mind, you can check if it is available. Note that your blog will be accessed through this sub-domain name, for example:

NAME.wordpress.com

Now, you basically have a blog, which can be easily accessed through the above address. But it looks un-professional and a very basic blog right now. We are ready to go to the next step.

Customize Blog Options (approx. 10 min.)

Now, we are ready to customize our basic blog options. Including a blog theme, links, titles, categories…

Go to Settings > General in your blog dashboard. Here you can edit most basic info of your blog, including a blog title, email address, time zone, language and even update your blog icon (favicon).

Under Settings > Writing menu you can choose which category you are going to use as an default.

In Settings > Reading you can update some valuable features of your blog. Including how much you are going to show posts on your main page or RSS Feed, encoding type and even to setup the front page behavior.

Settings > Discussion Settings is one of the main options which you are going to update on your blog. Allowing you to update your comment system, enable or disable gravatar support and much much more.

In Settings > Media Settings you can change some basic information about your media file sizes. I would recommend you not to change anything in your Privacy Settings (if it is already changed to first option), because this feature determine your blog behavior with the search engines and other sources on the internet.

Now you should change your own blog theme, if you do not like the default one. That can be changed in the Appearance > Themes. I should say that you are able to use some very quality themes for free. This is the easy process and it can be done within seconds for sure.

Add Some Widgets (approx. 5 min.)

You can add some widgets to your blog, which can help you to improve your blog functionality.

Go to Appearance > Widgets and you will see all available widgets you can use on your own blog. Interface is divided into widgets and sidebar places. This is one of the easiest steps.

Everything you done here is processed and done without need to refresh this page, using drag-n-drop feature. You can find some interesting widgets here like Flickr, Meebo, Twitter, Box.net sharing and much more.

A very useful widget would be that Text widget where you can add some HTML elements into your blog sidebar.

Include your Blog on Search Engines (approx. 10 min.)

Now, when we have create a blog, it is a time to submit it on search engines to get some traffic.

The best way to add your blog to search engines is to add it manually on the most popular search engines on the internet like Google, Yahoo! or Bing (formerly Live search or MSN).

You can do that from the below sites:

• Add your site to Google
• Add your site to Yahoo!
• Add your site to Bing

There is no need to submit a thousands of time your blog. Search engines today would react fast and include your site within couple of days. Also, you should not add your site to other search engines on the internet, because these three above are the most important and can be a very effective for your blog.

You’re Done! Now Update it

It is a very important thing in blogging. If you update a blog every day, you might get more and more loyal readers and visitors from the search engines and other sites on the internet.

It is not matter if your blog is hosted on free-hosting service like wordpress.com, the most important thing are articles (posts) on your blog! If you tend to create a quality articles and manage to publish them regularly on your blog, your blog success is almost guaranteed.

By quality-articles I mean that articles are unique and helpful, I have created a few posts about how to create a quality and effective blog posts:

• 10 Steps to Develop a Quality Blog Article
• How to create a powerful article?
• Create a powerful content for your blog

Creating a blog is a simple process. This all can be used to be a base for your blog productivity in the future. Developing a functional and effective blog take some time and use it a lot.