01.08.08
Basic Guide to Blogging Part 1
Table of contents for Blogging Basics
- Basic Blogging Series
- Blog: What is the 2008 definition?
- Basic Guide to Blogging Part 1
- Basic Guide to Blogging Part 2
- A Great Idea for a Blog is Not Enough
- Learn How to Make Money Blogging
- 5 Reasons Why Blogging is the New Internet Marketing Tool
- Five Ways to Build Your Market Through Blogging
- Blogging For Business Owners
- Succeed at Blogging as an Internet marketing tool
- Writing Your Blog: Six Tips on Writing for your blog
- Five Ways to Keep Your Visitors Reading More and Longer
- Blogging Basics Series Wrap Up
What is a blog?
A blog is basically an online journal in which you can digitally pen your thoughts, ideas, opinions and practically anything you want people to read. Blogs come in different styles, formats, and settings, depending on the preference of the user. Many blogging sites, offer built in features such as hyperlink, straight texts, pictures 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 audio blogging.
A blog normally will contain 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 templates; whereas standard websites are made up of numerous individual pages. This make it easier for blog users to create new pages, because it already has a fix setting that include: 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 growing number of 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. Once they’ve become members, they automatically become a part of that particular blogging community. They can browse through other bloggers pages, and link them back to their own blogs. They can also make comments on other members’ blogs.
Many Web hosts provide programs and templates for their clients. This makes it easy to install a blog directly on your website rather than hosting it through a blogging community.
Check back tomorrow for part 2 of Basic Guide to Blogging.
Good luck and good writing,
Anita Bruton
Professional Freelance Writer
