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The great idea is the most important thing for making your blog. The way to discover the good strategy is looking at the websites or blogs that have successfully. Blog or Weblog is easy to build and organize. Almost blogs on the internet are text. But some blogs are photo, video and multimedia blogs. It is not necessary to have the knowledge about the programming for your blog. Of course, you need to add the quality contents and unique subjects to your blog. The great contents will keep the visitors comeback and the personal blog like the online community is a good idea, too. To get traffic to your blog, you need to draft a smart marketing plan. It will make your blog to stand apart from the competitions.

There are a lot of blogging tools and blogging services on the internet. The learning of the free blogging tools is the good idea for you. They will change your blog to the new looking and more interesting. If you decide to use these tools, you should be plan about the benefits of them. You can use a lot of the free blogging tools in your blog but it does not mean that you want them.

The common tool is the visitor counter. It will track the number of the visitors, the keywords on your blog and more statistics about the visitors. You will using the search engine to find the free visitor counters on the internet.

The other tools such as media player, special effect and flash should be used if you have assessing what tools will help you realize the looking and increasing the traffic. But you should known that the free tools may not be used in the long run.

The basic factors for build the blog are the platform, the web hosting and the domain name. These factors are discussed here.

1. The platform

The software program which is the main program for control and organize your blog such as blogger and wordpress. There are many functions that you should to realize such as write the posts, update blog, blog theme, font style (CSS style) and more.

2. The web hosting

This is the data storage for your blog. You will communicating with the web hosting when you upload the pictures, edit the post and more. There is the free web hosting for your blog with the free blogging service. But they will limit some features of the service such as the bandwidth, data storage space, database function and some scripts (PHP, Email, Cron job, etc'). If your blog have a lot of traffics, you should pay for the web hosting service to get the more benefits. The cost is varying from 1.00 to 100.00+ per month.

3. The domain name

This is the online address of your blog. You can get the own domain name by registering with the domain registrar. Or you can get the free domain name with some blogging service website as blogger and wordpress. But you will get the subdomain with this service.

For blogger: you will get 'yourdomain.blogspot.com'
For wordpress: you will get 'yourdomain.wordpress.com'