What Is Blogging?
We live in the 21st century information age and the internet is an important part of the lives of people around the world. It is the richest source of information and the fastest means to communicate with other people who have internet connection on the other side of the world. The latest trend of expressing oneself in the internet is called the blog. What does blogging really mean? The whole concept revolves around the personal need to express feelings or thoughts, share opinions, spread news or simply have fun. A blog is a small individual web page more like a diary that you keep online. It receives regular updates and allows the use of links, photos, videos and extended documents.
Many people are attracted to the idea of blogging because of the opportunity of making themselves be heard by a specific targeted audience. Blogs are simple web pages and it depends on what the creator wants to share with the world. When you have great pieces of news, funny links or a hobby to talk about, a blog may be just the right way to open up to an international “community.” Most often blogs attract more attention than large and well designed web pages. How is it possible for blogging to have reached such a status?
Well, generally blogs tackle one issue of interest for the user. There are fresh and rich informational content and extended friendly links to other sites or blogs. It has become common knowledge by now that blogs often receive more traffic than other web pages. Why? The answer lies within the very essence of a search engine structure; what a search engine like most is fresh and high quality blog. This is the main point blogs and blogging phenomenon has managed to achieve ahead of normal web pages.
If blogging has started as the diary online, it has now come to acquire different dimensions, of which the commercial one is the most well developed. To give you an illustrative example, let’s say you like gardening and you’ve also started your own home business of growing plants. A blog on flowers, plans and their peculiarities would meet the requirements of other people who share your hobby, and it would also function as a great promotion tool for the development of your business. Therefore, web marketing and the need to communicate meet within the concept of blogging.
Richard said:
Aug 01, 09 at 6:43 pmHi
If you lesson to Perry Belcher the Blog is now the home of any internet business.It is where you invite your friends around (potential customers) to see your story.
Blogs are infectious to the google spiders as they love unique content.
All the best on Alexs course
rich
Nona said:
Aug 02, 09 at 7:03 amGood to see you commenting on my site Rich! Thanks for your tip but at this stage I’m happy to stay in my little corner of the web. See you at the course, cheers!
Nona
Derek Overington said:
Aug 04, 09 at 3:04 pmHi Nona,
I must admit in the beginning the thought of even writing a post
had me worried,but as Alex said write ideas down on a bit of paper as you think of them,and when you actually come to write the post it seems a lot easier.Any way really enjoyed reading
this well written post,thankyou
Cheers Derek
Nona said:
Aug 05, 09 at 1:54 amHi Derek
Thanks for visiting my site – yes, just start writing by putting your ideas on paper and from there you can build up a nice post – no need to become a pro to start blogging, cheers!
Nona
Rob Canyon said:
Aug 06, 09 at 6:25 pmNona,
Great post and great way to explain the virtues of blogging.
Keep up the great work.
Don’t forget to set up your gravatar… This will put your picture in your comments here and on other people’s blogs.
Its free, its easy and its automatic.
Rob,
P.S. I can’t remember if I showed you this blog post to show exactly what everyone is doing to get there pictures on everyone’s blogs but here it is…
http://escapetoprosperity.com/adding-your-picture-to-other-peoples-wordpress-blogs
hope that helps.
Nona said:
Aug 07, 09 at 12:30 pmHi Rob
Thanks for dropping by, and am glad you always bring me into the loop of things…congrats on being the most traffic laden site!
Cheers!
Nona
Steve bailey said:
Aug 10, 09 at 11:22 amHi Nona,
Just read with interest your post about blogs, funny if any one had told me I would set up a blog and publish to the internet 6 months ago – I would have said they were mad! How ever here we are on Alex’s course and writing away quite happily. (Still not sure what to blog about though)Funny old world eh? Nice to talk to you.
best of luck.
Regards Steve.
Nona said:
Aug 10, 09 at 11:54 amHi Steve
Thanks for coming to my site! Aren’t we lucky to be living in this time of the information age and blogging away? Sure we are! You can write anything related to health, wealth, lifestyle, and of course the internet. Your blog doesn’t have to be perfect, the important thing is, it gives value to the readers, cheers!
Nona