How Do I Create a Free Political Website?
If you've got a political ax to grind and want to get it out of your system, there are a couple of ways to do it. You can create an inexpensive social networking site for folks of your political persuasion, or, if you prefer, you can become a political pundit on your own hook by setting up a weblog.
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Instructions
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Weblog
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Select a free weblog hosting service to get started. If your political blog becomes popular, you may have to buy a premium level package to support it, but if you have that many readers, you'll be able to make enough to support it through advertising.
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Register on the site you've chosen and follow the site's prompts to set up your own basic weblog. Start simple. Later, you can add features and templates to change the look and feel of the website. For now, however, you need to begin building content.
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Create an easy to remember domain name and register it with a domain registration service. For a small annual fee, the domain name host will redirect users from your easy to remember name to the actual weblog server address.
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Write a weblog entry. Choose a title that catches the attention of your readers. Make at least your early blogs 400 to 500 words in length. Include pictures or illustrations if you can.
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Market your weblog by direct advertising. Paid advertising with advertising bundlers like Google AdSense has two benefits. First it drives new readers to your weblog, and second, advertising your site boosts your rankings on web searches.
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Write comments and responses to 10 to 20 news stories, forums, social networks and other political weblogs that are similar to the weblog entries you write. Include a link back to your own site as a reference. Links back to your site raises your ranking on search engines.
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Learn search engine optimization techniques and use them in writing your weblog if you can do so without damaging the quality of the writing. Read everything you can on the subject if you are serious about making your weblog successful.
Social Network
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Register with a social networking service provider. These providers allow you to create your own network of site members, your own forums, chat rooms and communications tools.
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Set up the social networking using the tools provided by the site provider. Start small, making forums and communications tools central to the site and easy to find.
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Recruit members with like-minded beliefs or political opinions on other websites, chat rooms, forums or social networks. Encourage the new members to participate by registering as members and leaving comments and questions on the website.
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Advertise the network site using web advertising bundling services.
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Create backlinks to your social network by commenting in forums, news story comments and other political networks.
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Tips & Warnings
Include pictures or illustrations on your weblog if you can find something appropriate. If you can make your own illustrations, you won't have to worry about copyright. Also check the Creative Commons, royalty-free public domain picture gallery for usable photos and illustrations.
Salt your writing with keywords that search engine bots will find. Bots are web-crawler programs,which automatically search websites for keywords and repeated words that are reported to search engines and help them rank websites by relevance to a searched word or phrase.
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