How to create a blog? Choosing a blog service
In the article "How to create a blog?" The country councils already acquainted readers with the general principles of independent create a blog. Today we suggest you to consider more in detail the various services for hosting blogs: which of them is more profitable and effective?
Undoubtedly, one of the most famous sites for the creation and placement of blogs - LiveJournal (LiveJournal, LJ, LJ). Learn to use millions of bloggers, including the authors of the most popular blogs runet (according to Yandex.Logistics): drugoi, tema, uborshizzza, teh_nomad, etc.
In order to create your blog in LiveJournalyou must register (registration procedure is standard) and immediately start filling out your personal journal. For the publication of records is available as a visual editor, and the editor html, for those who are familiar with this language. For each record, certain tinctures are available: privacy, labels, commenting, etc. The log address looks like user_name.livejournal.com.
To the advantages of LiveJournal as a platform forcreation and placement of blogs can be attributed, firstly, a multi-million audience of potential readers, and secondly, a good indexing of the service by search engines.
Blog-service LiveJournal is the first in the rating of blog-services from Yandex (more than 90 thousand records for the past day). The remaining nine services from the TOP-10 service rating from Yandex are shown in the table:
| a place | blog service | number of entries per day |
| 1 | 94 370 | |
| 2 | 21 382 | |
| 3 | 18 272 | |
| 4 | 13 985 | |
| 5 | 9 935 | |
| 6 | 9 480 | |
| 7 | 3 981 | |
| 8 | 3 010 | |
| 9 | 2 310 | |
| 10 | 2 015 |
Liveinternet.ru - the site that occupies the second place in the rating. Over the past twenty-four hours, about 20,000 records have been published in this service. This area is inhabited mainly by young people. The service is easy to navigate.
One of the most famous features of Liveinternet -this is the counters of site traffic. Thanks to such counters, you can analyze the audience of the site in great detail, count the transitions from advertising messages, etc.
Ya.ru - Blog-service from Yandex. This service for the creation and placement of blogs takes the third line of the rating with the number of entries more than 18 thousand per day. The main advantages of this service include the ability to import friends (a tape of friends) from other blog-services, the ability to add RSS-feed. Service is integrated with other services from Yandex.
Blogger - another popular place for those who wishcreate your own blog. This service is a subsidiary of Google and for those who already have a Google-account, you do not need to register again in the service - just enter the service under your Google-login and password.
The system will offer to name the blog and come up withdomain name, which will be displayed as name.blogpost.com. Next, at the user's choice, the service offers several templates for the design of the blog. In the future, the design of the template can be changed with the help of a visual designer.
As part of Google, Blogger has access toall other Google services and interacts perfectly with them. Especially useful is the ability to post on your blog Google Adsense ads and thereby monetize your blog. Place for the ad unit user can choose at his discretion.
[email protected] - service from the search and entertainment portalmail.ru. Just like in the previous service, every registered user of this system has access to blogs from mail.ru. Entering the blog, the user has the opportunity to post a record, customize the functionality and visual design of his blog, add interesting entries of other bloggers to favorites. For registration are available more than 50 different color schemes.
Service Blogs @ mail.ru is popular with many celebrities. In particular, on this service you can find the blog of V.V. Zhirinovsky, leader of the LDPR party. His blog is the third in the rating of blogs from Yandex by the number of readers.
BabyBlog.ru - Specialized service for parents: present and future. This blog-service is on the eighth place of the rating from Yandex. Users of the blog write about everything related to the birth and upbringing of children, the management of family affairs.
The main audience of this service's blogs is of coursesame, women. The functionality of the blog is "sharpened" for the fastest and most comfortable search for information about pregnancy, childbirth, child development. In particular, the service offers its readers a pregnancy calendar, a catalog of maternity houses, a "flea market".
Blog-services «Blogs on MyLove.ru» and «24open.ru» are offshoots of the respective portalsDating. They occupy the 9th and 10th positions of the rating respectively. These blog-services are designed for those who want to get acquainted: with their help everyone can express themselves, attract attention, find like-minded people.
