How to Make  My Own Blog?

First of all, lets define a term of a "blog".  A "blog" (also known as "web log") is a web-based on-line journal in which people can publish their own thoughts and opinions, share interesting photos or web links  with a friends or wide Internet audience.
In this short manual you can find answer for question: “How to Make My Own Blog and make its the best?”

To start my own blog I have to...

• Define the aim of your blog. Ask yourself: "What do I want from my blog?". Decide on whether or not you want your blog to be private or personal: most blog sites or blog engines offer the ability to password-protect your published posts so only those who you approve of can view what you've written. Would you to earn money using your blog? How much you can pay for an advertising and web hosting?
• Check out a few of the main free blog sites, like Livejournal.com, Blogger.com, TheDiary.org or Blogdrive.com. All offer free accounts that come with a lot of features.
• Explore other blog sites that offer more features for a small fee, such as Typepad.com.
• If you want to create a business blog or blog of your firm you should order paid hosting and unique domain name (like a “my-own-blog-example.info”)
• Decide on how you want your blog to look. You can pick a color scheme and layout. Most sites come with a set of predefined layouts and schemes that you can choose from, or you can edit your own. Certainly, the best way to make your blog pretty looking is a inviting of professional designer to create attractive unique view of your blog.
• After you've set up your blog, write a few posts to test it out, and make any adjustments to the layout or style that you see fit.
• Publish your blog by sending the URL to your friends or publish the URL on your website. Add the URL to posts you make on other blogs.
• Register your blog in a popular search engines like a Google, Yahoo or MSN

Ho to make my blog popular?

• If you update your blog frequently, more people will return on a regular basis to read it. Establishing a reader base will motivate you to write more and in turn more people will read your posts.
• Keep the posts interesting.
• Spellcheck your writing before posting. There is only one misspell can make worse attitude to your blog.
• Don't feel bogged down if no one visits your site for the first few months. As with communities this large, it will take some time for your blog to get noticed.
• If you want a broad (international) readership, do not use too many abbreviations or slang terms that might not be easily understood by people who are not from your country/area.
• Make your unique texts. The repetition of other's texts can't rise popularity of your blog.

What should I avoid in my own blog?

• Avoid posting anything on your blog that might be personal to other people if just anyone can read your blog. If something is personal, avoid using last names at the very least, or make up a name for that person.
• Avoid publishing of content protected by licence
• Avoid posting information forbidden by law of your country.
• Avoid using spam to rise the attendance of your blog
• Try to avoid focusing on things that most readers won't find worthwhile.