Blogs are an integral part of society to promote their products and improve company reach to the digital world. Today we will discuss all the aspects of the blog and how it differs from other websites.
In this blogging industry, we can see the success rate is very large if we have a passion for writing and have the capability to engage your audience, then you can make money out of it. This page will guide you to get complete information regarding the blog network.
History of Blogs
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In the late 90s developed online writing platforms with people interactions. Within they integrated communication threads and were developed a period of years.
During the period of 1994-1999, Mr.Justin Hall, a student of Swarthmore University was published Online journals. That time it was not referred to as Blog and used the term weblog, it so-called due to online diaries or journals written on web pages eventually become “blog”.
There were several tools developed to match the requirement for creating online blogs and journals. These tools helped to popularize blogging and made the technology accessible to non-technical users.
In 1999, the popular blogging website Blogger.com was launched, which was later acquired by Google in February 2003.
In 2003, an idea emerged as content management platforms, which supports more intuitive features to make it more appealing and useful to the user. WordPress is launched this year with its first version.
Today WordPress is the most popular CMS platform with over 35% in market share.
What is Blog?
The “weblog” is the first word, and after it, it has abbreviated as “Blog” which is a term used to expound the web pages with updated pieces of information. Blogs are maintained for updating particular niches and always given the latest information to the users.
Many blogs focus on a particular topic, such as web design, home staging, sports, or technology. Some are more diverse, presenting links to all types of other sites. Eventually personal blogs also come in picture, which was covered author’s thoughts.
Generally speaking (although there are exceptions), blogs tend to have a few things in common:
- The main content area with articles listed chronologically, newest on top. Often, the articles are organized into categories. An archive of older articles.
- A way for people to leave comments about the articles.
- A list of links to other related sites, sometimes
What is the difference between Blog and Website?
Just say, it isn’t much different either. Blogs are another kind of website. The major difference can be found on the content, the blogs are updated with the latest contents called posts, while websites are in static page in nature which is published in pages. Blogs have both pages and posts. The website can have a blog as a page.
The companies are making blog separate page, along with their commercial website. Thus they can improve traffic towards their products much easier.
Who is a “blogger”?
A blogger is someone, who owns or manages a blog. The blogger publishes the contents frequently in his blog. Also making his blog, a communication platform, who visits the page can comment or share his thoughts.
The author publishes his thoughts, useful pieces of information, latest news, how to dos in his blog. Such entries are known as blog posts.
Can u make money from blogging?
The answer is Big YES! In the evolving digital world it is very easy to make money from it. Some of the methods here I am listing for you.
- Google Ad-sense
- Affiliate Marketing
- Direct Ad display
- Email marketing
- Digital Downloads
- Consulting Services
- Influencer Marketing & Paid Reviews
- Podcasts & Vlogs
Top blogs in the world and their achievements in users
- Huffington Post: 110 million monthly visitors
- TMZ: 30 million monthly visitors
- Business Insider: 25 million monthly visitors
- Mashable: 24 million monthly visitors
- The Daily Beast: 15.5 million monthly visitors
These knowledge is not required for starting a blog
- Knowledge of HTML and CSS: NOT required
- Knowledge of coding: NOT required
- Knowledge of graphics design: NOT required
- Big budget: NOT required
Benefits of starting a blog
- Establish Yourself as an Industry Expert
- Develop a Community
- Blogging is stress releasing
- Blogging Helps Other People
- Blog Can Help To Grow Your Business
- Become a source of influence
- Blogging Helps to Improve Writing
- Build web skills
- Make some extra cash
- Become an Internet Celebrity
- Start living the life you really want
- Create a job
Should you consider starting a blog?
Knowledge sharing is the key point for the development of the internet. Today it is so easy to reach out to communities all over the world. You should satisfy yourself before starting your blog. Because the topic itself plays a very crucial role in this market. First research your interest deeply and make a note of them.
Then you have to understand why you are starting this blog. That’s the main ingredient for the blog. If you are just showing your hobby, other than monetize then no worry to hold. But if you need this on a financial basis, then the market research should be carried out, what are the best blogs on your topic, and what they are doing to monetize it.
First, you have to understand what is blog and How to start a blog? I have hosted a demo site in WordPress within a couple of minutes.
You have a unique niche blog, and the audience was ignoring you, then the problem is not your blog, it is a lack of marketing strategy. For this competitive world, a beginner should wait for the organic results.
Start today itself.
One of the best blogger in the world Derek Halpern “ Start before you ready”. The same thought is driving me also.