Learn more about blog and blogging
Learn more about blog and blogging in this article. You will find answers on questions like "what is blogging?", "what is blogger?", "how to start a blog?" and "how to blog?", "how to make money blogging?" and recent years most important question "what is blogspot?".What is blogging?
First of what is blog itself. In short note - blog (a portmanteau of the term web + log) is a web site on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, music, video, pictures and sometimes even share links on a regular basis. Blogging is an action to add new material to or regularly update a blog.What is blogger?
Blogger is a person who keeps and updates a blog. Whatever the kind of usage blog has it has to be updated regularly so it does not die out and actually it has readers and followers.Blog usage by type
Blog usage differs by the type why it is being written. The major type of blog is:- Personal blogs - an ongoing diary or commentary by an individual, is the traditional, most common blog. Examples of personal blogs: Business Tactics Review or SEO WEB & Business are great examples.
- Corporate and organizational blogs - blogs used internally to enhance the communication in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding, SEO enhancment or public relations purposes are called corporate blogs. Examples of corporate blogs: Baltic Legal Blog or Company Formation in Latvia blog (blog related to corporate blog category).
- Blogs by genre - it can be any of following category blog being aimed to. Political blog, health blog, travel blog (or sometimes called travelogs - remember web + log?), gardening blogs, house and household blogs, fashion and make-up blogs, project and project development blogs, education blogs (music, arts, culture blogs included) or specific niche blog. (Soon coming article on blog genres.)
- Blogs by content (or media) type - a blog devoted to video is vlog (video + blog), one containing links is called linklog, if the site contain portfolio information and/or sketches of artwork then it is sketchblog, or if the content is only with pictures the name is photoblog etc.
- Reverse blog - a blog which is composed by its users rather than a single blogger.
How to start a blog
To start a blog is not that hard as in these days there are plenty of platforms being used for internet users to register and make their own blogs. Most popular blog web pages probably are Blogger (Blogspot) or Tumblr, or Squidoo. There you can register, make an account and start blogging - write entries about whatever is your aim.Why to blog? Top 10 reasons to start a blog
Here are top 10 reasons why to blog by Susan Gunelius in About.com article "Start a blog".- To Express Your Thoughts and Opinions
- To Market or Promote Something
- To Help People
- To Establish Yourself as an Expert
- To Connect with People Like You
- To Make a Difference
- To Stay Active or Knowledgeable in a Field or Topic
- To Stay Connected with Friends and Family
- To Make Money
- To Have Fun and Be Creative
How to blog
How to blog properly so you actually gain followers, subscribers and maybe some income.First of the blog topic or topics need to be categorized or with some kind of a point. Not just well, "I will write a blog" style. You need some thinking in it. Why do you want to blog? What is your aim? ANd similar questions on blogging like these.
Secondly take in mind a good text formation, because whatever the text is good or bad, the one formatted well will attract more eyes then messy. So remember formation is important - header for the title of article, bold for important words, italic for term or definition, quote for copied material from other pages and link as reference and quality content all are important factors for your blog to succed.
Hey I'm trying to get more traffic to my blog by getting it up there on search rankings and I've gotten further but how do I get to the top? I have backlinks but where are the best backlinks and how can I get them? My blog is http://conquer-boredom.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteHello, and thanks for your comment.
DeleteBlogging is interesting thing how to spread the word, but nonetheless the content have to be attractive, to attract search engines and enough good to keep your readers satisfied.
So the important part is in content including structure of text, text quality and usability, source and useful link postage and correct formatting.
Basic principles are:
Set the page theme and whenever you make new post use any of your blog name's word.
For example:
[main title of entry]Conquer the boredom with doing exercise
[intro text] Exercises are good, because..
[subheading]How the exercise can help?
[text] Description on how exactly exercise will help you..
[subheading;another]To do list when exercising
[text] First of all..
For any quote post source link (if it's not yours), you can also use minor heading, plus quotation formation. Feel free to use lists, they are good, actually sometimes needed.
Another tip for the name of entry:
Why did I chose "Conquer the boredom with doing exercise", not "Exercising", not "boredom killer with sports" etc.?
Because with title "Conquer the boredom with doing exercise" you may end up receiving visitors on such terms (keywords) as "stop boredom with doing exercise", "doing exercise", "Conquer the boredom", "Kill boredom with exercises", "No boredom with exercise", so it is a structure of text, and correct titling.
Back-links will follow as your content gets better.
P.S. I like your idea of blog.
For example, you have attracted one back-link from me you can check here: http://thinking-of-word.blogspot.com/2012/09/thinking-of-attracting-visitors-with.html
It is a good example of titling, but everything rest is just my thoughts I wrote here.