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Posting a blog is very simple; in some cases you can also even post
via e-mail.
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When your blog is part of a hosted blog site, your site will oten be
automatically indexed by the hosting site's search engine.
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You don't have to worry about keeping the blogging sotware updated
and maintained.
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You don't have to worry about your sotware's installation getting
messed up by accident.
cons
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Sometimes visitors will take you a little less seriously if you don't have
your own site, so if you do use hosted blogging, consider having the
blog published on your own site.
If something happens to the host site, it might happen to your blog, too.
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Customization of your blog will probably be more limited than it
would be if you had your own site.
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If your site gets overwhelmingly popular and it's located on the blog
host's site, the blog host might want to impose visitation restric-
tions on it.
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essentials
here are many places where you can post a free blog. Really large sites that
are not more journal oriented include BlogSpot and TypePad. BlogSpot is
a service of Blogger, while TypePad is a service of Movable Type. We cover
those here.
BlogSpot
BlogSpot (blogger.com) is a service of Blogger, which is brought to you by the
folks at Google. Blogger actually allows you to create blogs for your own site
or to host them on Blogger's servers. We'll look at hosting items on Blogger's
servers here, and at hosting them on your own server in the next section.
he irst thing you'll need to do is sign up for a Blogger account, which
is free. Once the account is set up, you can start making blogs. Yes, mul-
tiple blogs—you can set up more than one. I don't recommend doing this,
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