How to Register a Website and Use Free Web Hosting Sites to Create Your Own Blog

Free web hosting sites are websites that provide service to host your website files and it is free of charge. In case of blog hosting sites, these websites provide you set of tools to create and manage your own blogs. Blog hosting sites let you lets your choose blog template, add new posts to your blog, edit your existing posts as well as edit HTML to add meta tags for search engine optimization of your blog posts. I am going to talk about two most popular and the best blog hosting sites on the Internet.

Without any doubt one of the best is blogging platform by Google called Blogger, if you want to start blogging, I will highly recommend to use Blogger as it is extremely powerful blogging platform. One downside of Blogger is that adding meta tags for search engines optimization needs to be done manually.

Second is one of the most powerful Internet tool that users are getting addicted to its extreme power is WordPress. WordPress is a great blogging platform with tons of free themes or templates and plugins to give power to your blogs. There are several plugins that can create meta tags for your blog posts automatically, which gives WordPress an edge over Blogger platform.

Setting up a blog on these free blog sites is really easy, you just need to register for free account and you are good to get started with your blog. If you already have a Gmail account, you can directly use Blogger without need to signing up for an account. Once registered, simply login and then select a template/ theme for your blog and then start writing your first blog post.

These free blog hosting sites provide you free service to create and set up your blog as a subdomain. Subdomain is a domain which is part of the larger domain. For example, subdomain.blogspot.com and myname.blogspot.com are subdomains of the blogspot.com domain. However these free hosting sites provides the option to link your own domain name with your subdomain at their website. This allows you to use your own registered domain name for your blog with these free blog hosting websites.

However in order to have full control on your blog in terms of functionality and layout, you will need to buy a web hosting account with WordPress pre-installed for you. I highly recommend to use HostGator WordPress Hosting starting from $3.96/month.



Happy Blogging!