Maintaining a blog is great way to market your online business and a a fantastic search engine optimisation strategy – the search engines love blogs because they are a source of fresh, up-to-date content. If you write great content and contribute to your blog regularly, then your traffic will grow.
If you have your own web hosting, then you should run a standalone Wordpress installation for your blog – this is fast becoming the standard blogging platform. If you are just starting out, then use the free hosted platform, Wordpress.com. This will enable you to easily port over to a domain-based Wordpress installation at a later time.
Here’s an article that will help you start your first blog:
