Blogging 101

What is a blog? PDF Print E-mail

A blog is a web + log, or a journal, diary or commentary type posting. Blogs are huge! Seems that everyone and their brother (sister, cousin and dog!) has a blog these days. There are blogs on anything you can think of, personal blogs that are more like diaries or journals - reflecting on life and daily happenings. There are blogs on specific topics - any topic you can think of. I know of one blog that is written from a dog’s perspective!Blogs can be used to establish yourself as an authority on any given subject by posting articles. You can use it to post the latest news on your given topic. And with the comments feature that most blog software has, you can get feedback and interaction from your blog visitors.

One of the biggest benefits of blogging, is that search engines love it. If you post to your blog regularly (and I would recommend at least a once weekly posting, but daily is even better) with good informative content, then the search engines will find your site, people will then find your blog in the search engines and will subscribe to your site’s RSS and get notice when you update the content. It’s those RSS feeds that trigger the traffic. There are now blog specific search engines!

So in a nut shell a blog is postings, articles, entries you make, via blog software, that your site visitors can subscribe to and that you should update on a regular basis. It provides fresh content for your site. Tis good spider food. :-)

July 30, 2006 | Filed Under Blogging 101 

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