How To Blog - A beginners guide to Blogging Online

A blog is basically an online journal where anyone can digitally write down your thoughts, ideas, opinions and practically anything that you want people to read and possibly comment on. Blogs come in different styles, formats, and platforms, all depending on the preference of the user. Many blogging sites, offer built in features such as hyperlink, straight texts, pictures, videos, social networking tools, etc.

Some blogging sites, even allow you to put video and mp3's on your blogs.
Instead of writing texts, some bloggers choose to make their blogs more audio friendly, by using spoken word entries. This is called audio blogging.

Basically a blog contains these features:

title- which allows you to label your post

body- this is the content of your

post
trackback- other sites can be linked back to your blog

permanent link- every article that you write has a URL

comments- this allow readers to post comments on your blog.

One of the advantages of blogging, is that it is made of only a few website templates. Unlike, other websites that are made up of numerous individual pages. This makes it efficient for blog users to create new pages as it already has a fixed setting that includes:

 slots for title, body of the post, category, etc.

This is especially useful for first time users, since they can start blogging right away. They can chose
from a  number of pre made website templates that blogging websites provide.Anyone who wants to start a blog can do so by becoming a member of a blogging website of their choice.

Free blogging platforms that allow AdSense

http://www.blogger.com/

http://www.wordpress.com

http://www.livejournal.com

http://www.drupal.com

http://www.typepad.com

http://www.squidoo.com

http://www.flixya.com/nav/register

http://www.blogsome.com/

http://www.blogdrive.com/

http://www.wetpaint.com

http://www.blogates.com/

http://www.weebly.com/

http://www.ebloggy.com/

http://www.launchtags.com

http://bloghi.com/

http://www.blogr.com/

http://www.tblog.com/

http://www.hubpages.com

http://www.blogtext.org/

http://freeflux.net/

http://inube.com/

http://blogreaction.com/

http://www.i-sites.org

http://www.blogged.com

 Once you sign up and become members, you automatically become a part of that particular blogging community.
You can now browse through other bloggers pages, comment on blogs of interest (don't spam) and you can also link them back to your own blogs.
Blogging is not just limited to personal usage. There are a myraid of blogs that are developed for:
commercial blogging and branding, sports, world news, finance, stocks, politics, philosophy, home and
garden, technology, social commentary, - the sky is the limit. These blogs are created based on their
specific themes or there niche. Blogging now becomes a medium in which people can share their knowledge,
views, and opinions on a number of niches, themes, and topics.

Some bloggers even use their blogs as a means to advertise for other companies' products or services directly or as an affiliate via affiliate programs.

Nowadays in education, blogs also play a vital role in communication with students,teachers,mentors,
faculty and more. Professors of schools, private schools, colleges and private colleges use blogging to document the lessons that they have researched, discussed
and/or taught. This allows students whom have missed previous classes to easily catch up with their
assignments and also allows for an open channel for discussion and further enlightenment on any given topic
that has been posted. This concept is very powerful as it creates an open channel for a viral discussion,
further engaging students, professors, and researches alike to broaden there horizons on any given topic or
discussion

Millions of entrepreneurs, online and offline, benefit tremendously by blogging and promoting their
businesses on their blogs. By doing so, they have the possibilty of eventually seeing millions and millions
of people logging onto their website or blog everyday. Blogging  and social networking combined have fast
become a very powerful means of virally spreading the word online.

Many bloggers run online businesses  by way of promoting their products and services online. While other
many other bloggers strictly profit through advertisements and affiliate programs. Still, the most popular
blog type is the one that takes the form of a personal journal. This type of blog is usually used by first
time bloggers or newbies. Real people who want to document their daily lives, opinions on any given topic,
poems,  and anything they deem interesting, find that blogging offers them a medium in which to express
themselves worldwide.
Blogging creates a community of people sharing their ideas, thoughts, views and
comments with each other and the world.

Blogs varying on different topics, themes, and niche markets, can be found  at blog directories. First time
bloggers who want to get an idea of what the blogging world is all about can browse through a myriad of
different blogs using these directories. New bloggers should be able to get an idea of what blogging are all
about. New bloggers should also keep in mind that after they staret there blog , they to can use these blog directories to list there blogs and RSS feeds  for more exposure and web traffic.

 There are no rules when it comes to blogging and bloggers have the freedom to express themselves how ever
way they like, which in millions of established bloggers eyes is the best thing about blogging.  Blogging is
really for anyone and everyone- It is fun, simple, and can turn into profitable as well if you play your
cards right.

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