As I continue to encourage anyone with a chronic illness, a disability or any type of health issue to blog in order to earn money, my next lesson is about webhosting. Although you can get a free blog on Google, if you want to be able to work with more companies that pay you to blog, it is in your best interest to own your own domain and then host your blog.

This allows you to have the name of your domain the same as your blog and gives you much more flexibility in how you design your blog. Paid blogging companies look for domain names and hosted blogs more favorably. This will open up more opportunities for you as a blogger and as an advertiser on your blog.

Having your blog hosted gives you support from the webhosting company too. If your blog goes down (God forbid!) or you are having any kind of issues, you can call the company and get the assistance you need.

Finding a host is not difficult. You can find a list of Wordpress hosts. Wordpress is a main type of blog. I use Wordpress for all four of my blogs. It is easy to use and get information about. Plugins which help you blog better are always available and there are multitudes of free themes available too.

There is in-depth information for each of the hosts, discounts and coupons offered too.