How to create a blog is probably one of the most asked questions on the Internet these days. To start a blog really is very easy, despite the belief that most bloggers struggle with their blog setup. The quickest and best way to make a blog is to create a free blog with one of the many platforms readily available. The following are the most widely used blog platforms:

* WordPress
* Blogger
* Live Journal
* Weblog
* Xanga
* Blog
* Vox
* Others(some new ones)

Whichever blog platform you end up choosing when starting a blog, you will be guided along step by step as long as you read the onscreen information. To create a weblog (blog) will take you no longer than 10 minutes in most cases to set up. The blog setup is normally straight forward and doesn't require any coding knowledge. This is only necessary once you want to start to personalize your blog. I see many question people ask on discussion boards that, "how do I start a blog", "how do I create my own blog", "how do I start a weblog", "how do I start my own blog" or "how do you set up a blog" and my answer is always the same.

It depends on which blogging platform you are thinking of using. I could give you tutorials for each and every one of them, but this would really make this blog post endless and boring. Plus, many bloggers have already written articles on starting a blog. The best way however is to create a blog for free.

Whether you decide to create a business blog or create a blog with WordPress, you need to understand that as long as you use free blogging platforms you will be severely limited in blog design, setup, using additional tools and creating a truly personalized weblog.

If you read the instructions on the respective blog platform you will find all relevant information. WordPress is by far the most powerful blog software to startup with. You can create a blog for free in minutes. Then you just write a post and build on this. Just be aware that there are free WordPress blogs and self hosted which are totally different. If you intention is to make money online by starting a blog, then you should seriously consider getting a webhost and setting up WordPress. To create a blog on a self hosted domain, you will need to get the WordPress software from WordPress.org instead of WordPress.com (which is only for free blogs).

Should you still wonder how to create a blog right now, I suggest you visit one of the mentioned blogging platforms and choose an appropriate one to create a free blog. It is best to get comfortable with a free blogging software first and learn the ropes before paying for hosting and not knowing what to do.

I think this list might be of a good help for those who use MaxBlogPress Ping Optimize .

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://2rss.com/index.php
http://a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/my/cgi_rss_submission
http://api.mw.net.tw/RPC2/
http://api.my.yahoo.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbib.com/submit.php
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://blogflux.com/add.php
http://blogion.com/?p=submit
http://bloglines.com/register
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogmighty.com/link_submit.php
http://blogmopolis.com/submit.php
http://blogoole.com/ping/
http://blogoon.net/ping/
http://blogoriffic.com/add_blog.php
http://blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://blogpulse.com/submit.html
http://blogrankings.com/addblog.php
http://blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://blogscholar.com/index.php?option=com_registration&task=register
http://blogsdominicanos.com/ping/
http://blog-search.com/blog-submission.html
http://blogsearch.google.co.uk/ping/RPC2
http://blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://blogsnow.com/ping
http://blogsoldiers.com/links/links.php
http://blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://blogsweet.com/suggest_link.php
http://blogtopsites.com/register.php
http://blogtree.com/
http://bloguniverse.com/
http://bloguniverse.com/radlinks/
http://blog-watch.com/add-url.php
http://blogwise.com/submit
http://bloogz.com/man_en/add_your_url.php
http://blurtit.com/
http://boingboing.net/suggest.html
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://bulletize.com/add.php?sid=0
http://canadiantechmob.com/form.php
http://catapings.com/ping.php
http://chordata.geckotribe.com/suggest.php
http://contentsmatter.com/add.php
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://crayon.net/using/suggest.html
http://csthota.com/blogmap/submit.aspx
http://diarist.net/
http://dir.nooked.com/submit.dir?action=Start
http://dmoz.org/
http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
http://esperanto.se/kiosk/engindex.html
http://everyfeed.com/addsite.php
http://feed24.com/?c=add
http://feedage.com/submit.php
http://feedbomb.com/
http://feedboy.com/
http://feedcat.net/addfeed1.php?lng=en
http://feed-directory.com/addfeed
http://feedmap.net/BlogMap/submit.aspx
http://feedminer.com/addfeed.aspx
http://feeds2read.net/Suggest-A-Feed
http://feeds4all.com/AddRSS.aspx
http://feeds4all.nl/AddRSS.aspx
http://feedsfarm.com/a.html
http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://fgiasson.com/pings/ping.php
http://findingblog.com/add_blog.php?cat=
http://findory.com/submit-blog/
http://findrss.net/A55711/rsscatalog.nsf/submit?openForm
http://flookie.net/
http://focuslook.com/ping.php
http://fybersearch.com/add-url.php
http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/gpBlogLinkAdd.php
http://getblogs.com/
http://globeofblogs.com/register.php
http://gnoos.com.au/submitFeed.jsp
http://gob.phaeba.net/register.php
http://godesigngroup.com/blog/feed
http://headlinespot.com/site/suggest.htm
http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://icerocket.com/c?p=addblog
http://imblogs.net/ping/
http://industry-blogs.com/submit.php
http://lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://lsblogs.com/howtosubmit.php
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://myst-technology.com/mysmartchannels/sign-up
http://news-feeds.org/addfeed.php
http://newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/Folksonomy.aspx
http://newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://newzalert.com/AuthorCenter/
http://ngoid.sourceforge.net/sub_rss.php
http://octora.com/add_rss.php
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.blogg.de
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://ping.wordblog.de
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://pinger.onejavastreet.com
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://pingqueue.com/rpc
http://plazoo.com/addrss.asp
http://plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
http://popdex.com/addsite.php
http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
http://postami.com/rss.finder/submit_feed.php
http://pressradar.com/suggest
http://pubsub.com/add_feed.php
http://queerfilter.com/ping
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://readablog.com/AddFeed.aspx
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://rpc.newsgator.com
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://rss-clipping.com/
http://rssfeeds.com/suggest_wizzard.php
http://rssfwd.com/xmlrpc/api
http://rssmad.com/
http://rss-network.com/submitrss.php
http://search4rss.com
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://shas3.com/submit/
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://smallbusiness.com/wiki/Weblog_directory_company_blogs
http://snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://sphere.com/feedback
http://strategicboard.com/?s=h:addblog
http://syndic8.com/suggest_start.php
http://tailrank.com/import
http://thevital.net/
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topix.net/member/register
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php
http://w.moreover.com/cgi-local/site/sourcesubmission.pl
http://wasalive.com/ping/
http://weblogalot.com/Ping/
http://weblogues.com/RPC
http://xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast

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- Always create a login page for you back end. There are lots of new clients on existing sites whose entire back end does not even have a login page. It is simply just asking for trouble and it shows the lack of knowledge the previous developer had.

- Try to avoid using Internet Explorer to access your login page if you have any. Internet Explorer is vulnerable to some hacking tools like spy ware, and other security issues, which make it a constant security threat. Install “Firefox” or any other alternative web browser when using the web application or when training your clients on your new web application

- Do not forget to update your open source applications. If you do maintain any web sites than you need to check it regularly for updating the web applications and install them on their web site

- Always encrypt your web application with SSL to avoid any one sniffing the data you are transmitting back and forth. Sniffing is another way by which hackers can gain usernames and passwords easily and get full access to your application.

- Change your password after 1 or 2 weeks. This method is typically used to get resistance from hackers who manage to steal passwords.

- Always use strong passwords. Avoid using your last name, first name as password or simple word for logging into your system. A good password is the one, which does not make any sense and is hard to remember. Use combination of upper and lower case letters, digits, and punctuation to help prevent against dictionary attacks.

- If you have installed a common open source application like “MediaWiki”, “Movable Type”, “Word Press” or “phpMyadmin” etc then these applications are normally installed at default locations like “wp”, “admin”, “phpMyAdmin”, or other folders which provides hackers a good guess at where your login screen is. As these applications are open source so hackers can easily find old security laps in the code and then exploit them if you have not yet upgraded your system. If you are going to install one of these applications then install them to a unique directory, which will be different than the default location. You will be safer from most hacking attempts

- Another threat is the “SQL Injection attacks” which can grant a hacker direct access to your whole web application. To avoid SQL injection attacks; make sure you are escaping variable data before running SQL scripts to return login information for your system in nutshell.

- Always link to open source software. Use a search engine to find web sites that link to WordPress.org and you will find thousands of blogs, which link back to Word Press because they use the popular blogging software. Now in this case hacker has a list of potential word press blogs to exploit. Do not to link back to the software you are using. It will prevent your site as a potential hacking victim

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rssHugger is a new social site for bloggers. As been said, by rssHunger, that it's to bring bloggers and readers closer together.

With a professional look of the homepage, clean, and nicely colored. It is brand new, so jump in while you can. One of my philosophies is to jump into a site as soon as you can, and gain all the authority you can while the site is in it's first stages of growth. Then, when the site becomes popular and much more powerful, you have a lot of weight to throw around. It's run by human administrators, and your blog will only be accepted if it's good quality.

They've got a very interesting strategy going here to get publicity. They require a post about their site on your blog in order to put submit a blog to their directory. You can also pay a 20$ dollar one time fee, but no one's going to do that.

It makes a great one-way link, and when rssHugger gets bigger, it will be a great way to get direct traffic through the link as well. It's exactly what they say on the homepage, "quality, spam free, and viral rss directory strictly for bloggers".

Join now for free while you can.

Facebook has grown large and with millions of daily users, you can use it to increase your readers and RSS subscribers.

If you're currently not a Facebook user then you've done well avoiding it. you want to know why? Anyway, it's the latest craze in online social interaction (despite being little more than Myspace) with more than 60,000,000 users. However the key difference is that you can install applications onto your page - and that's the key to leveraging Facebook to your own advantage.

Get more readers and more RSS subscribers
Facebook offers a great opportunity to expose your content to new readers through it's native "notes" area (or through installable applications that add your syndicated content to the page directly).

There are a few ways of getting your content republished on Facebook. As normal Wordpress users get the easiest option with the Facebook plugin which allows you to show the latest posts (and comments) on your Facebook profile.

However there are many of us who don't use Wordpress so what can we do? Fortunately the "notes" application on Facebook allows you to import posts from other journals/blogs via RSS. Therefore if you click on "notes", you can then view "my notes" and "import notes from an external blog". You provide Facebook with your RSS feed and theoretically each time your feed updates it is added to your notes.

Importing it through RSS APPs
There are losts of APPs on Facebook now that can help in you displaying your blog contents via RSS on Facebook easily. All you have to do is click on the 'Application' link on the left panel

Then click the 'Browse More Applications' link to your right

On the 'Application Directory' Page, use the search box to search for the word RSS.

On your search result page, you will see a list of RSS Applications you can add to your profile. Select the ones you prefer and add. I basically made my option from the daily active users counting or the most activity grouping.

Other ways to get your content on Facebook
It's not a big step to write your own Facebook application to add your RSS feed information into your profile. Hell, you could do almost anything with your own Facebook app, far beyond the limited constraints of things like "notes" or the Wordpress plugin.

I found that Facebook is an exciting place to broadcast your content to; increa