Ways to advertise your Blog

I came across this article at ezine as I was researching ways on how to advertise this blog. The title of the article is How to Advertise Your Blog by Fauzi Mohd Darus. The information is laid out neatly and is being presented in a very simple manner. I learned the following suggestions from this article:

Join bloggers forum
Visit Other Blogs
Submit to Blog Directory
Signature in Email
Join Exchange Link Program
Public Bookmarking
Submit to Search Engine
Ping your Site

I am familiar with some of the tips given like joing bloggers forum, visiting other blogs and leave comments and I believe this is what they call blog commenting, submitting to blog directory, putting your blog url in your email signature and public bookmarking.

I still ought to learn about Link Exchange, submitting to search engine and pinging your site. I am familiar with Link Exchange and submitting to search engines but i am not really knowledgeable enough how to start doing so. Pinging your site it is definitely new to me.

I guess i need more researching.

Difference of a Blog and a Website

As i was in the process of researching about blogs, I realized which should be better to put up. Would it be a blog site or the more conventional website?

I've collected few data that compares blogs to websites. I'm sure this is not complete and there are more to be added in this list.

1. Blogs are easily created and published. You can easily create a blog for free simply by signing up to blogger or wordpress. You can change the appearance of your blog pages in no time with just a click of a few buttons. You just write and publish.

2. Blogs can easily be updated compared to websites. Thus, blogs provide newer information than websites.

3. Blogs also get online presence through visitors from other blogs when they give their comments or reviews about a certain post or topic. So, collaboration among bloggers and readers is evident in blog sites. Thus, topics posted in blogs can provoke varying personal comments, opinions that leads to an interactive discussion.

So, in my case, i would rather put up a blog of my own rather than a website for now. It's more cost-friendly and easier for me to set up because i'm not very knowledable about website creations and how i can get it work.

Learning to Blog and Make Money out of It

I am currently on the process on learning how to blog successfully and earn a little something from that effort. Well, it sure isn't easy, especially, for me, who isn't really good at writing. But, i really want to learn how to do this.

Hmm..Wish me luck..