A blog (or just blogs) is a web-based site that publishes or showcases writings (which are referred to as ‘blog posts or posts’ or entries) written by one or more people which makes use of any that includes:
* Straight text
* Images or photographs (photoblog)
* Video (videoblog)
* Audio files (audioblog)
* Hyperlinks
Most often, they are organized and presented in reverse chronological sequence, blogs are utilized for the following reasons:
* Journal online or online diary
* Content management system
Online publishing platform
A typical blog will have the following elements:
* Post date – the time and date of the blog post
* Category – the category this blog belongs to
* Title is the title of the blog
The main body is the primary material of the blog
* RSS and trackbacks link the blog back from other websites
* Comments – the commentaries that are written by readers
* Permalinks: the URL of the complete article
* Other items that are optional such as archives, calendars blogrolls, add-ons or plug-ins
A blog may also have the footer, typically in the bottom of the blog which displays the date of the post and the author, as well as the blog’s category, and “stats” (the nubmer of trackbacks or comments).
There are a variety of blogs. A few of them include the ones listed below:
1. Political blog focuses on politics, news, activism, and many other issues-based blogs (such as those on campaigning).
2. Personal blog – also referred to as an online diary, which could contain an individual’s day-today experiences poems, complaints and thoughts that are not always sane, as well as conversations between friends.
3. Topical blogs – that focus or a specific niche (function or location) which is typically technological in nature or local-specific information.
4. Health blog that focuses focused on particular health concerns. Medical blogs are a significant section of health blogs which includes medical information from health professionals as well as actual patient stories.
5. Literary blog is also referred to as a litblog.
6. Travel blog that focuses on the traveler’s experiences on the particular trip.
7. Research blog that focuses on academic topics like research notes.
8. Legal blog – about the law (technical domains) and legal issues and legal matters. Also called “blawgs”.
9. Media blog focusing on inconsistencies or falsehoods within mass media. Usually exclusively for a newspaper or a TV network.
10. Religious blog – covering subjects related to religion
11. Educational blog – about educational software, often written by teachers and students.
12. Collective blog or collaborative blog is an individual topic that is composed by an ensemble of individuals.
13. Directory blog is the collection of many websites.
14. Business blogs – utilized by corporate employees and entrepreneurs to promote their companies or to discuss their work.
15. Personification blog – focusing on non-human objects (such like dogs).
16. Spam blogs are blogs that are that are used to promote affiliate websites. They are also referred to as’splogs’.
The majority of blogs are written regularly (almost every day) schedule. The phrase “blogging” is the act of writing and maintaining articles to the blog that is already in existence, and the word “blogger” is a reference to a person or group that maintains blogs.
Today there are more than 3 million blogs are available on the Internet. This number is constantly growing because the availability of numerous tools, blogs, software and other tools make it easy for anyone to maintain or update the blog (even people with any technical knowledge). Due to this, bloggers are now classified into four main categories:
* Personal bloggers are those who write a diary or on any subject that the person is strongly influenced by.
* Business bloggers are people who are focused on promoting the products or services they promote.
* Organizational bloggers – those who are focused on external or internal communication within an organization or community.
Professional Bloggers – those who are paid or hired to blog.
Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging to earn the purpose of earning money. Professional bloggers (professional bloggers) are those who earn money blogs (as an individual blogger or as a hired blogger).
Here are just a few of the numerous money-making opportunities for probloggers:
* Advertising programs
* RSS advertising
* Sponsorship
* Affiliate Programs
* Digital assets
* Blog network writing gigs
* Business blog writing gigs
* Non blogging writing gigs
* Donations
* Flipping blogs
* Merchandising
* Speaking and consulting
Below are a few of the factors you must think about if you are looking to succeed in writing:
1. Be patient. Problogging takes an enormous amount of effort and time in addition to having a long-term perspective.
2. Know your audience. The ability to target a particular segment or audience is crucial factor in building the readership.
3. You should be an “expert”. Choose a area of expertise and aim to become one of the “go-to” blogger on the subject.
4. Diversify. Explore the various add-on as well as affiliate programmes that let you to earn cash on the internet (aside of blogging).
5. Be sure not to overly bore your readers. Concentrate your attention on layout. Line spacing, white space and larger fonts create a blog that is pleasant to read.
Yes, it is possible to earn money through blogs. You just need to take risks, be passionate and the proper attitude to become an effective problogger.
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