What is Blogging

What is a Blog?

A Blog is a type of information sharing platform, where the person can share his thoughts, experience about something and Knowledge to the audience over Internet. The person can publish the content about any subject or topic over the website.

The person can start Blogging about something which he has knowledge , some bloggers do the content writing although some focus on art blogs,  photo blogs, video blogs or vlogs.

It creates a social networking service; the people can build social relations with the readers and other bloggers.

Start a Blog in 6 Simple Steps

Step 1: Blog name: Choose a unique name and topic according to the content you are going to share.

Step 2: Get Blog online:  Register your blog on any Blogging site which you want to use and publish your Blog.

Step 3: Customize your blog: Choose a good theme and designs to make your Blog attractive.

Step 4: Write and publish: The main part of Blogging, after making and customizing blog site start writing your blog and publish it.

Step 5: Promote: Promote your Blog also to make people reach to your site.

Step 6: Make Money:  As the number of readers increases on your site, the more money you can earn.

Top 10 Free Blogging Platforms

a) Wix.

b) Joomla.

c) Yola.

d) Hubpages.

e) Contentful.

f) Jekyll.

g) WordPress.

h) Tumblr.

i) Blogger

j) Medium

10 Biggest Benefits of Blogging

1)  Get More Clients to Your Existing Business.

Blogging helps in gaining more new clients or customers. Time to time updated blog can help in making a constant flow over internet, this makes the website increase the customer reach.

By providing the brief knowledge and description about something in your Blog, helps the customer build trust and make them believe that you are expert in your field. Always give proper and relevant information about the topic you are posting.

2) Become a Better Writer.

By writing on a regular basis can help improve your writing skills. The more you Blog, the more you become expert in writing. This also improves the knowledge of the individual and helps in making the Blog different from others. Making yourself active on website lets the audience reach to you and increase the chances of gaining new audience.

3) Become a Published Author.

The Blogging makes the people educate, inspire and connect them with your views and thoughts. The more you Blog, the more you become expert in Blogging. This helps you in making more audience and it is the fast way to become a published writer.

You can also get the contract to publish the content if you have a good and responding audience over the internet.

4) Help Others.

The main task of a Blogger is to help the readers; the Bloggers have to post the thing according to their knowledge about some specific thing. For e.g. some people blogs about Health Tips, Cooking Tips, Fashion, Life experiences, Sports etc.

To make the awareness among the people and to give them the knowledge that you have is the work of a good Blogger, this not only help the readers but also help your Business or Blog to grow and bring new readers to your website.

5) Get Feedback.

Blogging also helps you in getting the feedback of the readers instantly on the post. The Authors who publish their book in the market has to wait for months to get the review of the readers about their Book.

This helps in making your Blog better for the next time and also helps in developing your skills. It saves the time and gives instant perspective of the readers.

6) Learn about the People.

By Blogging you spent your most of the time sharing the ideas with the readers, their views and thoughts about your work helps in understanding the readers also. The reader’s helps you in growing, by listening to them can help you a lot.

As a blogger it helps in understanding about what type of post to write, what the readers like the most and what is the preference of the readers.

7) Be Expert in your field.

As a Blogger you have to improve your knowledge also. By making yourself updated all the time can help you grow and write more about your experience.

By Blogging about the field you are expert in can make the readers visit your site and thus will create a perspective in the readers mind that you have a good knowledge about your field.

Being an expert is a good thing, you may get rewards and opportunities also.

8) Learn More Skills.

Blogging is very simple task to do; you don’t have to learn anything extra to start Blogging, anyone can start Blogging easily.

By Blogging most of the people learn new skills like HTML just to improve their writing skill and content quality, which helps them in making web designs to give good looks to their website.

Many Blogging skills like graphic design, content marketing helps in improving the website and attract the readers.

9) Collect Emails.

Always check your email regularly, this helps in receiving important updates and in communicating online. Emails also make the information safe and can be checked anytime.

It helps in doing direct communication with the person and gives the benefit of sharing something important which will benefit your Business or Blog. This helps in gaining the attention of the people by informing them about something new.

10) Express Yourself.

Blogging is a good platform where you can express your thoughts, experiences and knowledge with the people, the more you express yourself the more the readers will engage in your site.

Some people share their Life experiences, photos, videos and day to day activities through Blogging. This will help in making good contact with the readers also.

By- Divyanshu Tomar, DMS