What is blog

Actually the term blog comes from weblog. And the term weblog comes from web log. A web log is a placed for you to log your journey or experience or anything. Kinda like online diary.

Is blog important?

• Decades ago, people blog for fun. However, the number of blog increase after Google publish advertisement service that is Google Adsense. Internet user see this oppurtunity as a way for them to generate extra income. Not just extra income, you can also make a living from blogging. Yes, this is true since there are full time bloggers that generate more than thousand dollars per month from blogging.
• However, there are still  a lot of people that use blog as an online diary. They talk about their development and many things regarding their live.
• For some bloggers, they use blog as a platform to do business. They make a store section a their blog and do online transaction.
• Nowaday, we know that we can’t trust media that much. In order to get truth, sometimes we need to read a lot of blogs and decide it by ourselves. Blog already become an important weapon for people to express their opinions.

These are a few most popular blog hosts for you to start blogging. All of them is free and just need to register with them. Easy.

Blogspot

• Blogspot is really the best free blog host for me. Blogspot is very suitable for someone who wish to make money online. Using this popular blog host, you can moneytize your blog easily.
• Furthermore, this blog host is created by Google; the leader of online advertisement company. So it is accurate to say that they created blogspot so that a lot more people will become publisher for their advertiser.
• The best of all about blogspot is their free domain mapping feature. You can map your own .com domain or free domain .co.cc at blogspot. This will certainly make your blog easier to be memorized and more professional.

WordPress

• WordPress is another great free blog host. Most of wordpress user praise how easier it is to post article in wordpress and its great commenting system.
• However, domain mapping is not free in wordpress.
• WordPress also forbid us from doing something for commercial if  we want to use their blog host. That means, we can’t use Google Adsense, paid review or sell banners.
• Only use this blog host if you blog for fun.

Other than those 2 blog hosts, there are another blog host that are quite famous:

• Livejournal
• Typepad
• Xanga
• Facebook / Friendster / My Space (social networking)
• My Opera (join Opera community and get a blog)