BLOGGING

Luckily, starting a blog is really easy. All you need is a website (or a hosting service, such as WordPress, blogger.com or Tumblr) and ideas to write about. The main component is a home page, which will either host individual entries (like a diary) on its own, or be able to list titles that link to other pages with entries. You can then fill it with whatever information or musings you’d like!

Keep in mind, the majority of blogs have some kind of consistent theme, topic or design, like covering great food recipes or discussing recent football games. Sticking to one topic area, or at least some overarching theme that ties posts together, is always a good idea when it comes to blogging. One dynamite post might bring readers to your website for the first time, but consistent formatting and content will keep them there for the long haul.

Blogging is a very useful tool for businesses or freelancers because, assuming the blog in question is updated regularly and features informational content that accurately and succinctly answers the questions of potential online readers, it’ll increase the host website’s SEO, or search engine optimization. That means the website will show up closer to the first page of results when users search for that type of content using Google, Bing or another search engine. In short, blogging certainly isn’t easy — but it could well be worth the effort.

A good blog can bring your business revenue or increase your web presence, while also giving you a platform to write and express thoughts and ideas. It’s not just a good business move; blogging can be personally fulfilling as well. And with the internet full of blogs of every topic and size, finding a community shouldn’t be too difficult either. Happy blogging!

Blogging can be defined as an informal, internet-based writing format with a very wide area of influence. It’s based on the term ”web log,” which is exactly how blogs began: as a kind of online journal you could use to cover whatever you were interested in. There are blogs that cover the news and blogs that cover lifestyle trends. There are blogs for every sport imaginable and for movies, paintings, different kinds of arts and even fields of academia. Essentially, blogging is as wide as the interests of real people are. If there’s a topic, product, field of study, piece of art, food dish, or anything else that people are interested in, then you can bet that there’s a blog about that thing somewhere on the internet.

That said, while blogging is pretty freeform, there are a couple of defining features that characterize most, if not all, blogs. First, blogs are usually chronological in order, just like a diary. They’re also online; if it’s a page in a diary or a newspaper, it’s not a blog. Blogs are definitely a product of the internet age. They are usually organized around a home page, where entries are listed individually by page or section.

Finally, blogs are informal but target a public audience; they aren’t as buttoned-up as a news article, but they are a little more organized than, say, a text you would send to your friend. In addition, there’s one last thing to add to the definition of a blog: they tend to talk to each other. The blogosphere is real. Blogging puts you in conversation with others who are writing about the same topics.