Starting your Own Blog

I have been blogging for more than five years already. It all started as my online journal of our wedding preparations and then I started creating other blogs for my many interests like shopping, travel, parenthood, and food. My friends saw how interesting blogging can be and have asked me many times on how they can start on blogging too.

So what is a blog? A blog is an online journal which deals about different topics. It can be:

• An Informative Blog which can be about history, current events, procedures, and techniques.
• A Shopping Blog which can feature great shopping finds, coupon discounts, promos, and sale available online and in stores.
• A Travel Blog which can be about different travel destinations or a personal travel diary.
• A Fashion Blog about recent fashion trends.
• A Personal Blog which details personal stories and happenings about the blog owner.
• A Food Blog where you can find restaurant reviews, restaurant finds and the like.
  

In reality, there are really a vast number of topics that you can choose for the topic of your blog. But it is important that your blog has a particular theme as this is what drives traffic to your blog because you have a particular audience to target.



How do you start a blog?

You first have to decide on the theme of your blog. You can start with your own interest and hobbies so you won’t have a hard time creating new posts for your blog.

I have a friend who started on a diet to help her lose weight and she started a diet blog for that. Aside from her personal chronicles of her journey to weight loss, she also features in her blogs different diet programs like Medifast and Nutrisystem, tips on successful weight loss, and celebrity diet success stories. She also shares in her blog good internet finds like those coupon codes and savings promo code for different diet products and program that she finds online.

The topics that you will feature in your blog should be interesting so your readers will keep coming back every week. To find interesting topics within your blog niche, you can:

1. Do some reading. There are a lot of resources that you can check to find interesting topics and stimulate your ideas for inspiration for your blog post. You can check the newspapers, magazines and the Internet too has a lot of information that you can use.
   
   
2. Watch TV and listen to radio. Different news and radio programs are the best source of current happenings and latest buzz and this is just the best topic that can spark the curiosity of your readers that makes them come back regularly to your blog.
   

And once you have lined up the theme and the topics for your blog, setting it up is just easy as all you have to do next is sign up with any of the free blog hosting service like Blogger and Word Press and you are all set.


AbieL owns a lot of different blogs and one of those is a diet blog about weight loss programs and meal replacement plans. One of the current projects for her blog is featuring Medifast diet coupons and Nutrisystem discounts. So if you are looking for Nutrisystem discounts and a savings code and Medifast promo code for April, check out WeightLossTriumph.