“Your easy guide to starting a new blog.
A blog is an easy way to get started writing on the web. Your voice is important: it deserves its own site. The more people add their unique perspectives to the web, the more valuable it becomes.”
–https://getblogging.org/
I’ve been blogging since January 2017. In those five years, I’ve found it to be a useful exercise of thinking out loud, taking technical notes, saving websites/stories, etc. I, personally, find it useful in my own life, and I’d recommend it as a practice for others. This can provide some help getting started to non-technical users. The easiest thing you can do is pay for a site on WordPress.com. I believe they still have free versions, and the personal version is something like $4 a month. Well worth it, in my opinion.
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I’ve been on WordPress for 16 years now. Never paid or earned a dime. Also promised I’d never monetize my site. Dunno why I’d pay even the modest amount per month, expecting that it would not stay modest.
The main reason I pay is to have my own URL and to remove ads. I find ads obnoxious. If I am going to have a site, I’m willing to pay to remove them. I could also run my own site, but it’s worth the cost in time to let WordPress manage it.