by Gordon Hamilton

Created on: July 24, 2009

There are plenty of viable alternatives to having a personal blog page available on the Internet of today. Although having a personal blog page is very often the best way of communicating an ongoing theme with the wider Internet community, it is not everyone who has the time to devote to enhancing and posting to a blog as is required if it is to know the maximum level of success.

The first alternative to having a personal blog page has to be having a Web 2.0 hosting page on such as Squidoo. Squidoo allows Web users to build a miniature website on virtually any subject they choose and provides them with a magnificent range of user friendly tools with which to do so. As the site is extremely popular with the search engines, a well built Squidoo lens - page - on any subject will a significant boost in this respect over its competitors.

Hub Pages is another Web 2.0 site, very similar to Squidoo in a lot of ways, which allows surrogate bloggers to have an alternative to a personal blog page. Hub Pages does not have quite the same variety of tools available as Squidoo and unlike Squidoo does not facilitate the use of HTML but the possibilities to create a very high performing page on any subject remain excellent. Both Hub Pages and Squidoo provide a variety of money making opportunities and are very easily optimised in this respect.

Social networking sites such as MySpace may provide the closest alternative to having a personal blog page. Many of these sites even have internal blogging facilities which operate in exactly the same fashion as personal blogs. The disadvantages of blogging on social networking sites, however, include the fact that if the blogs are to become popular, they have to be serviced and updated in a similar sense to any other blog.

There are also sites such as Gather, which afford the Internet user the opportunity to essentially blog in the form of quite distinct and separate posts upon the site. These posts can be on as many different subjects as the user chooses without affecting the overall performance as each one is considered in its own right and not as a part of the greater whole.

The alternatives to having a personal blog page are therefore many and varied and it is the preferences of the individual which will determine which of the options suits them best.

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