Hybrid Fire

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Sorry for the lack of updates, school has started, its my last year of high school and everything is really hectic right now. I thought I’d give you a comic if you still read this.

Why would you want to start a blog? It could be for any number of reasons. How hard can it be to start one? Not very. You just need a few things to get started.

You can go to WordPress.com and sign up for a blog. They will set you up and in only a few minutes you can start posting.

An alternative to WordPress is Blogger. This is another site that lets you host your blog on their servers, which are, in fact, hosted by Google so you can use your Google account.

Now once you start your blog, you have to customize it. You can do this by finding a custom theme. The Hybrid Fire theme is based off the iTheme with a few modifications I did myself. You can find the themes by going to Google and searching for WordPress themes or Blogger themes to give it the personal look.

What do you need after that? CONTENT! You need to start posting immediately. Once you have valuable content, people will visit your blog. Don’t believe me? Hybrid Fire is proof of this working. I spent about $8 on the domain hybridfire.net and after that, I put up a WordPress blog. I started posting a lot of news about E3 because E3 was the current thing going on during the time. Within the first month I had 10,000 visitors and I didn’t spend a cent on advertising. After a few weeks I found many of my articles on Google. I submitted my blog to blog carnivals, which basically contain articles from the millions of blogs on the internet and link back to the source, which was my blog.

The Avatar: The Last Airbender finale was another critical boost to this blog. My cousin wrote up a long extensive article on it and posted the link to a forum, which spiked my view count. Many of the visitors were happy with the post and the page views kept going up.

As you can see, as long as you have content, you will get views. But what can go wrong? Not much can happen if your blog is hosted on Wordpress or Blogger, but if you host it yourself, issues may occur. For example, Hybrid Fire, 6 months after the blog version, had it’s entire database destroyed. Everything was gone, so the views disappeared completely.

So unless you are savvy enough to host your own blog, just stick with the more established services.

Questions or comments? Leave them below and I’ll get to them as soon as I can.