How much it will cost to publish a blog ??? I was asked this question one of my friend five months earlier and today I got an email from her “Finally, I have created my blog and I am getting around 700-900 visitors per day, also I have applied for Adsense and now I am earning from other referral programs…” You know actually I just told her where she can get all the resources to create a blog. And she has done a wonderful job!
In this article I am listing all those free resources that you can also use to create a good quality blog.
Free Blogging site – Most popular blogging site is blogger.com. It provides lots of features like using your own template, using Adsense and publishing other Ads. Its easy to use interface is excellent for the beginners. Some other good blogging sites are wordpress.org, typepad.com and blog.co.in.
Free Blog template – You can easily get well designed free templates for the blog. Just visit freetemplates.blogspot.com, free-web-template.blogspot.com, ourblogtemplates.com or idwebtemplate.com. They have a huge collection of templates for various categories of blogs.
Free Blog banners – The most important section of blog is the top header. Place some attractive background picture in the header section. You can get free banners from webheader-banner.blogspot.com and themeheaders.com. Good quality pictures can also be obtained from images.google.com.
Free Blog content – If you have no mood to write articles than just copy n paste free articles. There are some websites like articlecircle.com, articlesbase.com that provide free articles for your blog and website.
Free Blog widgets - To add some extra features you can add free widgets to the blog. You can easily change the widget color and size. widgetsforfree.blogspot.com, widgetbox.com and mashable.com provides lots of free widgets.
Free Affiliate programs – Now you have created your blog, so the next step is to earn money by displaying Ads. You can join clickbank.com, friendfinder.com, hostgator.com, shaadi.com or fropper.com. These are some popular affiliate programs.
Free Blog directory – Your blog needs more traffic to earn money from Ads. Hence submit the blog to some popular directories like dmoz.org, technorati.com, blogtoplist.com or blogged.com .