Thousands of people around the world earn online income daily by writing/posting on web blogs.

INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS A BLOGGING?

A Blog is an online resource/tool/platform where you can post your own thoughts, articles, videos and ideas. You may also post other people’s articles and videos, where permitted by copyright permission.

2 Types of web blogs:

2.1Some free online blogging services

• Blogger, a blogging service hosted by Google
• WordPress, another free hosted blogging service
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• and much more…

2.2 Free WordPress blogging software

WordPress is not the only free blogging software, but it is the most versatile and popular self-hosted blogging platform. Self-hosted means that you have to pay for your domain name and hosting and upload the software to your website in order to blog this way.

THE TOP 3 OPPORTUNITIES OF SELF-HOSTED BLOGS:

1. The Inherent Website Investment Protection Plan

Thousands of users use Blogger and other free blogging platforms and most are like fish in water. Nothing to pay to have your say and quick and easy to set up from the start. You can literally start blogging in a few minutes. So why would millions rather choose the self-hosted option and pay around $50 per year to maintain their own domain name and self-hosted WordPress installation? A self-hosted domain name is generally not used with free blogging services, but is required to blog using a self-hosted blog. Your own domain name can help you rank in search engines if it contains the keyword or keywords you want to rank for. If any content on your free Blogger blog is frowned upon, Blogger may remove it. That’s the same with any other free blogging service.

It’s understandable that any domain owner (such as Blogger) should protect your interests online, just as you should if you own a domain name and hosting. Nothing can be published without taking responsibility for what is put there. The difference with a self-hosted blog gives you the opportunity to edit your blog (delete a post someone complained about) without losing everything overnight. This is a big problem if you have developed your blog over time and your investment is at a stage where you make some money from your blog content that pulls traffic from search engines. Losing your blog overnight will result in cutting off that online income stream overnight as well.

$50 seems like a small price to pay for a self-hosted blog if it means helping you protect your investment, especially if you make $1,000 a month from your blog. In addition to this inherent protection plan, you also get two more important opportunities if you have a self-hosted blog.

2. Free Website Content

You can get free website content for your blog by posting articles written by other people if you have their permission. This is a huge benefit to any blog, and since you have to do the work yourself, it’s possible to achieve on any type of blogging platform. You can save a lot of work by getting people to upload their own work to your blog. This is called guest blogging.

Getting people to guest blog if you are using a free blogging service is unthinkable. Although this may be possible, you have all the tools included in a self-hosted blog to take advantage of this opportunity.

3. Free Website Traffic

You get free website traffic when people find your blog posts on search engines when they have searched for something your blog can provide the answer for. If someone is looking for something specific and you published an article on your blog that deals with that topic of interest, you can say that a person who finds your article in search engine results and lands on your website is absolutely targeted (interested) and you can easily buy from you if you have a related product or service advertised on your blog.

3.1 Free Guest Blogging Website Traffic on Your Blog

The more people you get to contribute to your website, the more traffic you will get from search engines. Since monetizing your website is much easier with a self-hosted blog, you can earn much more from increased search engine traffic.

3.2 Free website traffic from guest blogs on other blogs

If you write for other self-hosted blogs, you are a guest blogger yourself. But in return, a guest blogger gets something in exchange for adding content to someone else’s blog. They have a chance to get a visitor reading your article/post who can click on your website link at the bottom and the link itself tells the search engine that your website has related content. The more backlinks, the greater the chance that search engines will rank you higher for that keyword or phrase. Contributing to other self-hosted blogs in this way creates an increase in free website traffic from search engines.

AUTOMATED BLOG TOOLS:

There are tools you can use with a self-hosted WordPress blog that make it easy for guest bloggers to add their posts/articles to your blog. These automated blog creation tools also allow you as a guest blogger to automate your blog creation on other blogs. Guest blogging this way is much more sufficient and saves time.