You can get a free blog on many different sites on the Internet.

You can access a list of around 60 free blog sites by clicking here.

With a free blog all you need to do initially is to choose a name for the blog address, give the host of your blog an email address, and choose a username and password to login to it. Google, Yahoo, MSN and Wordpress will all give you a free blog with just this information. There are also many social sites that will include a blog along with a home page for free as well.

For a personal or home blog, a blog that is only going to be read by family and friends, this is the ideal blog. For someone who wants to make money with a blog, a free blog is also a good thing. Both Wordpress and Blogger are now so easy to use that adding some basic monetization to them is a breeze.

If you are going to make a living blogging, you need to understand that with a free blog you are at the mercy of the host. If a free blog host decides to terminate your blog, all the history in it is deleted and all the time you spent on it is wasted. They make the decisions and although it is unlikely you will arbitrarily lose your site, it has been known to happen.

Whether you have a free blog or your own domain blog, try to keep copies of your posts or backup your blog to keep your content safe and available for restoration. If you lose a platform or a theme or plugin, it will not matter, these can easily be reinstalled. A years worth of articles cannot, so backup or keep copies.

The next step for both reliability and versatility is your own blog, your own domain name and a host. Mostly, the blog platform is still free, but you will have to install it. This method is usually called a hosted blog signifying you are hosting your own blog on your own domain.

On the world wide web side of things, if you are setting up your own domain blog, you will need a web host and a domain name. The web host could be described as the suburb or neighbourhood where your domain lies or as a virtual filing cabinet where your blog is stored. Your web host is just a computer with special software that uses a protocol or language to display content that your browser can connect to. Your computer communicates with your host (like an encrypted phone call or even a fax) when you upload, paste or edit a post.

The domain name is your web address. You will need to pay a fee each year for the domain name and for the web host to store and serve your blog to the World Wide Web.

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