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Blog is a simple, free and easy way to build an online business. Blogging is easy because there is no html knowledge or html editor needed to publish your content. You don’t even need to link your article page from the main site as few plugins does every thing.Blogger.com and wordpress.com are websites that provide blog hosting free of charge and any one can create a blog at these two services. However, wordpress.org is a free blogging software that can be installed on an independent host.

Which Blogging System Is Right For Me?

To answer this question,we have to consider the pros and cons of all these available blogging options.

Advantages Of Free Hosted Wordpress blog(Wordpress.com)

• It’s a free service and can be used to share information and to make your opinion account
• User can register their own domain if they are not happy with a free sub domain of wordpress.com

Disadvantages Of Free Hosted Wordpress Blog (Wordpress.com)

• The biggest revenue of blogging comes from content matched ads (Google adsense, YPN, Adbrite) .This service does not support java script so Google adsense can’t be used
• Plugins have a lot of SEO advantages and are also helpful in arranging your content but this service doesn’t allow open source plugins
• You cannot upload your own themes (template)
• You don’t have any control on the codes that are being used on your blog

Conclusion: This is a great free service to create a blog for fun, family and friends. But if you want to create a business blog then this may not be a right choice.

Advantages Of Using Free Hosted Blog At Blogger(Blogger.com)

• You can use Google adsense and other affiliate banner ads
• You can customize your template
• You can use your own domain name instead of blogspot sub domain
• You can transfer your blog to your own server

Disadvantages Of Using Blogger(Blogger.com)

• Although blogger provides more flexibility than wordpress.com but it doesn’t offer “categories”
• You have to ping you blog each time after publishing a post at Ping-o-Matic
• Permalink structure of blogger is a little bit confusing

Conclusion: Blogger is a company that is owned by Google and provides quality free service. Blogger is not only for fun but also for making some money. Although some people earns by blogging on blogger but it is not the best business solution.

What is the best blogging solution For Infopreneurs?

Wordpress.org is free open source powerful blogging software by wordpress that can be installed on any independent host and serve as the best business solution for infopreneurs.

Benefits Of Using Wordpress Software (wordpress.org)

• Thousands of free wordpress themes are available on the internet
• You can customize your blog with thousands of free plugins
• Affiliate ads or Google adsense, any type of advertisement can be done
• No PHP knowledge is required every thing is done by widgets and plugins
• Content is organized by categories, archives and tags. You can also display more options like “recent posts”, “recent comments” and many other things with the help of some plugins
• These blogs are search engine friendly and get indexed by Google in a very short period of time
• Pings are sent automatically
• You have full control on your codes

How To Install A Wordpress Blog?

Some hosting services offer an auto installation tool for wordpress known as “Fantastico Deluxe”. Hostgator is a very popular service for hosting blogs and forums and provide automatic wordpress installation.So just go to your hosting control panel, click on Fantastico and then click on wordpress. Follow some steps, you are done (watch video to learn more).If your hosting does not offer auto installation then see this tutorial.

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