i originally posted this at khmerblogger.net, the reason i combine everything here because i don’t have much time to maintain the 3 blogs. if you visited khmerblogger.net and read already this post, you can skip it. i will continue writing about create a blog in the next few day.

for those that not yet read, i think this is something you should know about before you create a blog.

What is a Blog?

as i mentioned in my previous interview with Tharum for Global Voices Online,

a blog, when comparing to the old day, is a diary. So when something comes to your mind, you blog about it. What I like most about blog is that we share information: news, events, party or anything else with our friends as well as other bloggers.

if you don’t really know what a blog is, there’s a lot of free way to create a blog and it’s free, you don’t have to pay anything, just spend 5 minutes to register an account and you can have you own blog right away.

for the beginner, a lot of people go to Wordpress.com or Blogger.com

there’s nothing to worry about, follow the instructions, you will see how easy it is to get a blog.

Want to become a professional blogger?

after playing a while and if one day you want to do serious thing with your blog, there’s a good way to do it and later you will can start to earn some money from your blog.

1. pick up your own domain and hosting server,

it’s good to have an account on wordpress.com, but you will not be able to change any code or insert any ads on your blog, unless you have to pay some money to upgrade from the basic account but i don’t think ads can be accepted yet… you might just be able to change some css i believe.

you can put google adsense or other ads on your blogger account, but for two reasons that i would recommend you to get your own domain and self hosting server.

first, your account on blogger is not completely belong to you, it’s belong to google and there’s some terms and conditions of using that you have to respect and not to make any violations. get your own domain and self hosting, the blog is totally belong to you.

secondly, search engine prefer wordpress platform because it’s very optimized for the search engine. i have a lot of example on my blog http://khmerbird.com that with the same keyword, my blog has a very good position in the search result than other website that not using wordpress platform, a lot of webmaster today migrate their website to the wordpress platform.

2. choose your blog platform

as i mentioned above wordpress is the best blog platform on the planet, if you want to know more details, you can go to becomeablogger.com

get your own domain, buy a hosting server and install the wordpress platform, in a couple of minutes you will have your own website.

i will look around and find out more about how to register a domain and i would recommend you some local Cambodia company that provide that service in my next post.

i would recommend for the beginner to visit the website becomeablogger.com, that you can find everything you need to start a new blog.

i will write in my next post about which topic you should write about, and what kind of keyword you need for your blog etc…

let’s get your own blog now !

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