“The RoseBouquet”

My friend Samson wrote from Africa this week and asked, “How do I get a blog?”

Here’s my reply, in cases it answers your question too;

A blog. Ho-boy. There are so many ways to go. I need to ask first what you want the blog to accomplish for you?

There are many free sites which will gladly give you free blog space, but of course, the owners of that site are making money off the ads they place on your blog.

If you want to be perceived as more professional, and if you hope to set up a professional image with your blog, then I would suggest you get a domain name registered (GoDaddy.com has the lowest prices), and I can offer you hosting for your domain on my hosting service at $12/year. For $20 extra I can install a blog software on your domain site, and then you can just log in and start making blog entries.

If you read up on the WordPress documents you can learn all about setting up categories and do many interesting things with your blog.

If you sign up for Google AdSense and get the right plugin installed, you can have an income coming in to you from Google for the AdSense ads that show up beside your blogs.

There are other ways to go about getting a blog, but with my experience, that’s the path I would recommend as the best choice.