Tyrone Campbell asked:


There are plenty of free blog providers around on the internet, so why should you jump on board this new revolution of people blogging about their interests, thoughts or work? Well, to start with, if you want to start a blog then getting one for free is a pretty good start.

Sub domain sites like choseit.com are excellent to use as they provide all the services that you will need in a blog without having to shell out any money to use it.

What you will get is a blog by the name of xxxx.choseit.com, for example, where the x’s are replaced by your name. This is a great chance to get your name known on the internet, and this is one of the reasons that you should use a free blog provider.

Do you have a business that you can promote or a special skill? If you make jewellery, for example, but have not yet got anybody to sell it on to, then why not start up a blog teaching people about your work? You can write all about yourself and show pictures of the jewellery that you have made. People might then want to order from you once they see how skilled you are, and so you have effectively found your target market.

In the same vein, if you have a website then you can use a free blog to get yourself more traffic. You will get back-links from blogging about yourself and also be able to tell more people about your site. If you increase the amount of people who know about your site then you will get more hits and possibly earn more money from your site or just be able to provide the service you offer to more people.

Yet another reason to make a free blog is to make money. You can obviously promote your company of website, but you can also use adverts such as blog sense in order to get money from the clicks people make. Adverts that appear will be related to whatever you blog about, so if people are interested enough to come to your blog, then the adverts will more than likely appeal to them too.

Finding a free blog provider is the ideal way to open up a whole new world of opportunities for yourself on the internet. You can start or promote your business, give out information or just talk about a topic that is close to your heart.

Sites such as choseit.com are good because of the fact that they are updated daily to make sure you get constant information and tips on how to make your blog a success. You will be able to use a variety of themes as a background and just start to make yourself well known. This is your chance to get in on the market, and believe me it can be fairly lucrative, so take it by both hands and get yourself a free blog today. You will not regret it.

Dharmender Kumar asked:


Even our dear WordPress which so many search engine optimization professionals sincerely love and prefer as a blogging platform, is misinformed or at least, subject to making sweeping generalizations. This is the “banned” category:

And here are some examples of blogs that are banned from WordPress.com (all of these fall under the general heading of “spam blogs”, or splogs, and we will be deleted as soon as we find them or they get reported):

•    Scraper blogs: Blogs that take content from other blogs and re-publish it without permission (this is sometimes called scraping). If a blog contains all or mostly stolen and unoriginal content, it’s gone!

•    SEO blogs: Blogs that are written for search engines instead of humans. These blogs are dedicated to trying to fool Google and other search engines into ranking them highly. WordPress.com is not meant for this type of activity.

•    Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (”Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). To be clear, examples like people writing original book or movie reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category.

•    Warez blogs: Blogs that promote pirated copies of ebooks, software packages, music, movies, games, etc

C’mon WordPress.com, just because some overzealous SEO noobs used (likely experimented and exploited) your free blog hosting service at wordpress.com doesn’t mean all SEO blogs are suspect and shady.

With literally hundreds and hundreds of reviews we’ve done on SEO blogs over the past year, I think I have a fairly good sense about what most SEO bloggers are writing about and the vast majority are on the up and up. I suspect I wouldn’t need to look far to find a sinister “Politics” or “Personal” blog or two or two hundred on the WordPress.com service. That said, I’m not sure whether any of the 500 or so SEO blogs on our BIGLIST are hosted at Wordpress.com. Of course not, they were probably banned – LOL.

The warning is, of course, directed towards blogs setup at WordPress.com and not blogs using the downloadable WordPress application. Regardless, WordPress is such a great piece of software, this just seems a bit over the top. So here’s my suggested alternative:

SEO blogs: Blogs that provide tips, news and insights into how web site and blog owners can make it easier for search engines and users to find and interact with their sites resulting in improved traffic levels and repeat visits. With literally hundreds and hundreds of reviews we’ve done on SEO blogs over the past year, I think I have a fairly good sense about what most SEO bloggers are writing about and the vast majority are on the up and up. I suspect I wouldn’t need to look far to find a sinister “Politics” or “Personal” blog or two or two hundred on the WordPress.com service. That said, I’m not sure whether any of the 500 or so SEO blogs on our BIGLIST are hosted at Wordpress.com. Of course not, they were probably banned – LOL.

Then they can make a statement against blogs in general that provide mis-information or violate published policies instead of making such a sweeping statement. What do you think? Am I too “glass half full” and idealistic in my characterization of SEO blogs?