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<blockquote data-quote="IainMuirs" data-source="post: 192220" data-attributes="member: 3665">Multiple people are telling you not to shell out on a domain and hosting to begin with, don't listen to them. Hosting from Hostgator starts at $3.96 a month and a domain is $10 for a year from Name Cheap. If you get bored with the blog or want to change the domain name later then so be it, you've lost less than $15. It'll be a hassle to transfer it later if you need to so just start off with paid hosting and a proper domain. Install Wordpress on your hosting and you're done. Someone mentioned Weebly. Weebly is dreadful. Wordpress is the easiest to use and the most powerful. I would either approach it as a hobby that you're doing because you enjoy it or approach it as a business. If you're going the business route then you need a solid plan before hand and to work out how you will monetize it. Either way you'll want to do some keyword research, understand how to do some basic on page SEO and get a backlink strategy in place. Go over to TrafficPlanet.com and you'll get answers to any questions regarding SEO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IainMuirs, post: 192220, member: 3665"] Multiple people are telling you not to shell out on a domain and hosting to begin with, don't listen to them. Hosting from Hostgator starts at $3.96 a month and a domain is $10 for a year from Name Cheap. If you get bored with the blog or want to change the domain name later then so be it, you've lost less than $15. It'll be a hassle to transfer it later if you need to so just start off with paid hosting and a proper domain. Install Wordpress on your hosting and you're done. Someone mentioned Weebly. Weebly is dreadful. Wordpress is the easiest to use and the most powerful. I would either approach it as a hobby that you're doing because you enjoy it or approach it as a business. If you're going the business route then you need a solid plan before hand and to work out how you will monetize it. Either way you'll want to do some keyword research, understand how to do some basic on page SEO and get a backlink strategy in place. Go over to TrafficPlanet.com and you'll get answers to any questions regarding SEO. [/QUOTE]

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