Blogs are probably the easiest way to have a website. With blog

software, it literally takes minutes to have a professional looking

site up and running. These are the five things I like the most about

blogs:

1) Blogs are easy to create:

You don't need expensive or complicated web editors or web design

software to create a blog. Blog vendors offer you a variety of

templates you can choose from. Most likely you will find among them

one that offers the look and feel you're looking for. Your only web

design expense may very well be to pay a graphics artist to design an

attractive logo that makes your site unique.

2) Blogs are easy to maintain:

Blog software allows you to post online, which means that you won"t

need to bother with FTP software. This also means that you can post

anywhere, not just from your own computer. You may be in a hotel room

in China, and if it has an internet connection you can log in and

update your website from your web-based control panel. Your blog"s

software will automatically move your most recent post to the top,

while archiving older posts by date or by topic, so you don't ever

have to bother to move web pages around.

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3) Blogs are search-engine-friendly:

Since blogs assign each post an individual URL address, each of them

will have it's own, separate web page. If you take care of making

each post very focused on a specific topic and carefully choose the

keywords that best describe your post (using them in the post title

and post body), they will stand a very good chance of ranking well

with the search engines. Also, since blogs tend to be updated

regularly, search engines will crawl them often (search engines love

fresh content), adding your new posts to their index.

4) Blogs allow you to interact with your customer base:

The best websites allow your customers to interact with you and give

feedback. Since blogs offer you the option of enabling a "comments"

field after your posts where readers can give you feedback, your

visitors will not only be more inclined to come back, but you will

have at your disposal an effective and inexpensive way to get to know

your customers better.

5) Many great blog hosts are free:

There are several excellent services that offer blog hosting for

free. The most well known of them is Blogger, a free blog service

owned by Google. Signing up takes minutes, it offers many different

templates and customization options, and also gives you the option of

tying your blog with your Google Adsense account. That way, not only

is the service free, but you can also make money. The downside to all

these great advantages is that they have encouraged the creation of a

huge number of me-too and low quality blogs that don't add value and

hardly get any traffic. Don't fall into that trap. Before jumping to

create a blog, remember that to be successful you must write about a

focused and original topic, or offer a unique perspective on a common

theme. In the end, as the clich? says, it all boils down to quality

content.