How to Choose a Hosting Space & Platform for Your Blog

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Blogging is one of the most important strategies that attracts visitors to you website. After purchasing a domain name and paying for the hosting, you need to install a blogging platform to hold your web content. Free blogging scripts already exist on the internet today e.g. WordPress. Always check whether your web hosting company allows installation of such platforms. Depending on your niche and line of concentration, there are few factors that you must consider before about your blogging business. Ease of adding pages A fully qualified website requires a few pages namely; home, about us, contact us and privacy policy. Make sure that your blogging platform is not too complicated to handle the necessary work to add the pages. A home page requires a picture depicting your services as well as links to other pages. The “about us” page must include your company origin and how it started. “Privacy Policy” page is all about how you use visitors’ data.” Contact us” page allows people to communicate with you easily. Ascertain in advance whether such pages can be added on your site. Advertisement Advertisements from partners’ networks and Google Adsense increase the income of your websites. Such ads require banners and some may be extremely large. A perfect blogging platform must allow switching between different themes to cater for advertisements in order to earn revenue as an affiliate. The more flexible a platform is, the higher the chances of web visitors clicking on the ads. This increases visitors’ conversion and you end up getting a lot of income for your blogging business. Shopping carts It is always better to consider installing a shopping cart if you are selling lots of stuff on your website. This is just a simple blogging script or add-on that allows you to easily add products on your website. The script simplifies the efforts needed to manage your online store without lots of stresses. If you are planning to have an e-shop, make sure that you web hosing company caters for e-commerce scripts like Magento, Opencart and OScommerce. HTML Use of html codes is inevitable when developing or maintaining your website. HTML is useful when adding affiliate links and social media icons. Blogging platforms have a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) screen where you can paste you information from any word-processing software. Also, another side screen is available where you can paste your HTML. Some hosting companies may limit the code that can run on your site e.g. the Amazon iframes. If HTML is your preference, make sure that there are no such restrictions. Conclusion To benefit and thrive in a profitable blogging business, a good platform and web hosting space are must. Always go for a company that will allow free installation of blogging and shopping scripts. The main aim of opening a website is getting money. Make sure that the platforms you are using have opened the doors to do this. Eventually, working with partner companies and offering services will be a breeze on your website. From: