Although the most popular blogging platform for building self hosted blogs is WordPress, if you are looking for a good blogging platform to host a free blog and express yourself, nothing works better than Blogspot. Blogspot is the most popular blogging platform online. Owned by Google, this blogging platform offers you everything you need whether it's for your personal or business use.

Whether you simply want to express your thoughts and share them with the world, or you want to build a business blog platform, Blogspot offers the tools to get started. Getting started is easy as all you have to do is sign up for a Google account. Once you have completed this process, then you only have to sign into the Blogger platform and then get started.

Installation is simple, and it only takes a few minutes to get started. You start by setting up your blog. You will choose a name, as well as a URL for your blog. If you are using this for business, then you will want to choose something that includes the keywords for your topic. Choose a nice, easy to read theme. You can always go back later and change your theme or even design your own as this site uses one page templates for themes. Buy a domain and point it at your new site to make it more professional.

After you have completed your set up, you may want to consider signing up for Google AdSense. This is one way you may monetize your blog. There are plenty of others, like affiliate programs, as well as your own products and services. Monetization is only part of the equation though. You will also want to add a few tweaks too.

There are many services available on the internet to help you with this, and it only requires that you copy and paste a bit of code to your site. Make sure you add social buttons. You want to allow others to bookmark your content, as well as connect with you on the most popular social sites. This will help with your traffic, and you will connect with those who are interested in what you sell.

Don't forget to include a subscription box. Some will want to read your content by email instead of RSS. If you want to accommodate your visitors, then give them a way to come back.

The next step is to plan your content. You may write a wide variety of content for your blog, including product reviews, articles, tutorials, and video content. You can post your videos to YouTube and then copy and paste the code into the form. Mix it up. Show others you are an expert on your topic.

Once you have a little content added, then start promoting. Submit your RSS feeds to directories. Share your posts on the social sites. Comment on other blogs. When you comment on other blogs, site owners will be curious and will visit your site.

One final thing: back up your blog. On rare occasions Google will delete blogs if they think they are spam, and even if your blog isn't, Google does have the final say.

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