Blogs? What Is Blogging?

Today, wherever we live on the planet, the Internet plays a major role in our lives. It is the fastest way to communicate with friends on the other side of the world and it’s the world’s biggest library… the richest source of information when you have to research for something.

The most successful way of expressing yourself time and time again to a growing Internet audience is almost certainly the blog.

What does blogging really mean? What’s blogging about?

It is the personal need to express your feelings or thoughts, to share opinions, and to spread news or simply have fun that drives the passion for blogging. A blog is just a small individual web page. Like an online diary, you can write regular updates or add links to share your favorite sites. You can stick your photos up there or videos and even quite big documents that you want to share.

People are attracted by the “blogging” phenomenon because it presents a superb opportunity to make themselves heard by a specific targeted audience.

Blogs dont have to be complex web pages. They can be quite simple. It all depends on what the creator wants. A few jottings for family and friends - or a massive enterprise that seeks to influence public opinion. It’s your choice.

Very often (and this is especially true of the leading blogs written by competent even professional bloggers), blogs attract more attention than traditional websites. Why? How do they do it?

First of all, blogs are current — they provide fresh and rich informational content, and links to other sites or blogs on the topic. Equally important is focus — blogs zero in on a single issue that is of interest to their regular blog readers.

Blogs often receive more traffic than other web pages. Why? The answer lies in how the search engines work. What a search engine likes most is fresh and high quality content. Blogs tend to provide this and that explains the high profile that blogs and the blogging phenomenon have managed to achieve ahead of normal web pages. That’s why blog traffic numbers can be high.

If blogging started as the perfect diary online, it has gained some additional dimensions. Notably, a commercial orientation. Yes, Virginia, you can make money blogging. In fact, I know of one British fellow who has bought himself a large house with the money he has made from blogging. More on that later…

Let’s say you like gardening, and you’ve also started your own home based business of growing plants. A blog on flowers and plants where you share your ideas and experience (and yes, throw in some photos for sure) would illustrate the commercial possibilities of a blog. How? Because you could also write about gardening books or e-books along with telling people where they can buy their gardening supplies. In other words, you not only talk about the joys and challenges of gardening… you also use your blog as a great promotional tool to sell gardening stuff.

Because blogging gives us an easy way to share our ideas, it is also an ideal vehicle for online marketing. Blogs are easy to run, too. So internet profits are now open to home business people with very low barriers to entry. Yes, if you know how to use a computer, you could do it.

The Pro Blogger

The Professional Blogger better known as the Pro Blogger, uses blogging to create and generate multiple streams of income through:

• advertising programs
• sponsorships
• affiliate programs
• digital download sales
• paid to blog programs
• donations
• merchandising
• consulting
• speaking engagements
• freelance writing
• flipping blogs

Blogging is a primary source of income for the Pro Blogger.

Types of Blogs: