In my previous post “5 things to consider before starting your blog”, I suggested you to start off a free blog with Blogger, learn how blogging works, then only switch to a paid-posting blog running Wordpress. Therefore, I’m assuming you to have already created a free blog with Blogger and had some experience on blogging. Right now, I’m assuming that you already feel comfortable with blogging and ready to move on to the next level ie getting a domain name for your blog hosted with a web host company. In this post, I’m going to show you how you can create a blog using Wordpress and host it on your own domain, and you will also learn how to create a self-hosted blog with Blogger and host it on your own domain for as little as $8.88 per year.

Before showing you the steps, there are two things that you will need to do prior to creating the blog:

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How to Create a Free Blog