I'm new here... just to start, I create blog at blogspot. I want to put up my own site, can anyone tell me the steps to put up my own site... thanks and regards.
1) You need a web hosting. You can either choose shared hosting if you have smaller site. For larger websites with bigger traffic I recommend getting a VPS (virtual private server). You also need your own domain where your website will be located. 2) You must upload a website to web hosting account. In your case a blog (I recommend wordpress - easy to install and very powerful and easy to customize). 3) Once you got your blog online, you can start bulding a content. Writing regular quality articles. It is good to choose one or two areas what you'll b wrtiting about. The less the better. 4) You'll probably use some free wordpress theme from the beginning but once your blog grows, you might consider getting a custom theme designed. That will make your blog stand out from the thousands of other blogs using same themes. 5) You should think about SEO (search engine optimization) right from the beginning but if you had forgotten, nothing happens. You've alreagy got much of good content now and it's time to bring some greater targeted traffic. You should work on getting quality relevant backlinks, submit your blog to search engines, blog catalog, rss feed aggregators and maybe some older established directories. SEO is the most important thing now. 6) Once your blog is known and you have plenty o regular visitors/readers, you might try monetizing your blog with Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network or others (Chitika, Text Links etc...). At this point, you might actually start earning money online. Once your blog gets really popular and rank extremely well in search engines, you can start offerig reviews or articles or a fee. Your earnings should go only up. 7) Now just do what you want. Continue with your well established and developed blog. You can start some new project, something different. Etc. Endless possibilities.