How to setup a free blog in Nigeria

In Nigeria, more and more people are getting into the business of blogging but not everyone knows what it takes to setup a blog in the first place. Some might have heard that blogging requires money to setup but it's not a fact in all cases. Some blogs can be setup for free and still be able to get so popular that people would start talking about it.

In the past, there used to be a lot of web hosting sites that allows people to start blogging for free. Nowadays however, only very few websites allow people to run their own blogs. It can be a bit expensive to start blogging on a paid blog for the start since you'd need to pay for things like web hosting and employing full time bloggers. What some people do is set up free blogs for about 5 years and later on migrate to their own hosted blogs by the time the blog would have started making money on it's own to pay for hosting and other expenses.

You can start blogging for free and perhaps, the only costs you could be making would be your internet service. There are successful bloggers in Nigeria who still blog on free blogs and still make a full time income from blogging alone.

Starting a blog on a free blogging platform can help reduce your costs for the short time and hence make your blog more likely to survive for the long term.

Don't just start up a blog by investing a lot of money in advance only for that blog to cost more money than it earns. It's safer to just setup a free blog and then see how profitable it can become.

Things needed to set up a free blog in Nigeria
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To setup a blog in Nigeria, the basic things you'l need are:

- Internet connection
- An email address
- A Google account

How to do it
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- Decide on the kind of blog you want to focus on e.g. News, entertainment, technology, Food recipes or general
- Go to Google's free blogging platform at www.blogger.com
- Sign in with your Google account
- Click on the link that says "Create a blog"
- Read the terms of service and accept it
- Enter a title for your blog e.g. "Nkechi's Kitchen"
- Enter the blog address e.g. nkech.blogspot.com
- Choose your blogging template

You can then start blogging by writing and publishing your first post. It is that easy.

With your newly created free blog on blogger, you can now start blogging and letting the world know your thoughts.

Your blog posts can be saved for another day or so before making it publicly available by publishing it.