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If you’ve been swept up into the blogging fever that is sweeping the world, hop in, you might just be the next big thing the blogging industry has ever known. Start blogging today.

Blogging can be defined as an art of posting an authored piece of work in the form or an online log or journal. A blog is a combined word for “web log”. It can be about anything you can think of. A blog is like a published journal that anyone can read. Anyone can read or make comments about it. A blog can be formal or informal, funny or serious. The topics you can blog about are endless.

For those just starting out and are having a hard time creating a blog, either in a form of a simple text blog, vlog (video blog), artlog (art log), and the like, this might be helpful to get you started.

Step 1. Find a Host. You can, of course, host your own Wordpress blog, but you may want to start out with one of the popular online blogging platforms until you get the hang of it. The more popular blog hosts are Blogger, Wordpress and Typepad.

Step 2. Sign up. After which, different themes and samples will appear, giving you an idea what your finished blog will look like. Personalize it. Choose a theme that seems to go with your Blog topic. Choose creatively. Choose as if you’re painting your own picture. Don’t forget to include your personal information in the bio or About me page.

Step 3. Decide. A blog can either be private or public. Private blogs are for your eyes only and those who have permission and access to view it, while public blogs are created for everyone to view and to read. Therefore it depends on your preference if your blog’s a free-access type or a password generated one. Also consider the different schemes and layout.

Step 4. Adjust. Don’t settle for the ordinary. Be interesting. Change the styles if they’re not working for you. Blogging is easy and fun once you get the hang of it. Your first few tries might seem frustrating because you’re trying to figure out how everything works. But when you’ve familiarize yourself with how everything works, you’ll find the whole process rewarding.

Step 5. Post. Write your posts in a conversational tone and be sure to include any keywords that you want to rank in the search engines for. Update daily to establish interest and frequency of visits from readers.

Step 6. Tag it. Your “tags” are the keywords in your post. What is it about?

Step 7. Publish. Once you hit the Publish button, your post is live! Go check it out and see how it looks. If necessary, you can go back and edit it whenever you need to.

If you want to take your blog to the next level and actually start making some real money by blogging, check out Alvin Phang’s Atomic Blogging.

Atomic Blogging is a complete, step-by-step tutorial guide on creating profitable blogs, even if you’re a complete newbie and doing it part-time!

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The blogging phenomenon has been steadily growing for the past few years. In fact, the number of new blogs started every day is estimated at a staggering 40,000! That’s each day! Hard to believe, isn’t it? The appeal of blogging is understandable, though. Any would-be journalist can enjoy publishing their articles on a daily basis without having to worry about publishers or editors. Anyone with anything to say can instantly publish their thoughts, ideas, opinions or stories and reach potentially millions of readers with ease.

 

Blogs should be updated on a regular basis to encourage active readership. Luckily, this is extremely easy to do with any of the blogging platforms out there. For example, if I wanted to put up a new static web page on my website, it would take me a minimum of 20-30 minutes just to get the html, graphics, and site layout all ready. Then another 20 minutes to write my content. With a blog, 20 minutes to write the content, and another 30 seconds to write my tags and hit the “publish” button. That’s it. I’m done.

 

Blogs are normally arranged in chronological order, such as you can see this one is. So, your latest posts are seen at the top of the page. Another bonus of blogging, is the search engines tend to crawl blogs more frequently than static sites because it is expected that a blog will have more frequent updates than a static site.

 

Content

Typically, a blog’s content will greatly depend on the topic it’s dealing with. If you’re advertising something - perfume, apparel, or a vintage automobile, you could feature catalogs of these products on your blog. Personal blogs usually consist of daily happenings, observations, thoughts and comments about the author’s views or interests, or perhaps commentaries on other people’s blog entries.

 

Feedback

Comments are very much welcome on most blogs. Come one, come all! Reader interaction is great. The more you get your readers involved, the more useful and interesting your blog becomes. Bottom line: whatever you’ve written had an effect on that mind and aroused some opinions to merit it. Always welcome comments.

 

Tools and Concepts

As I mentioned before, blogging in itself is very simple to do. There are, however, a few terms and processes to learn to really use blogging to it’s fullest extent.For instance, what in the world does RRS, URL, blogroll, and all that stuff mean? What is it for? Don’t worry – it’s not complicated at all. To help you along, here are some terms and definitions of some of the common terms associated with blogging.

 

I’ve composed the Blogging ABC’s cheat sheet to help you out.

 

Archives – older entries in the blog, often categorized monthly.

 

Blogrolls – categorized list of other blogs and websites that you want to share with the reader.

Comment Spam – irrelevant comments posted on a blog, often by spam bots. These should be deleted as soon as they appear.

Download – to save a file from a remote location to your local computer.

Excerpt – a short soummary of a post usually made up of a part of the entire article

Feeds – syndicated content of your blog that are sent through RSS technology to your readers via RSS readers or email.

Guests – are the readers, viewers, spammers, etc., who visits your site

Hosts – web sites that house your blog and other files online.

 

Introduction – preliminary part of the blog page showing the personal profile of the author or a brief description of the subject

 

Links – hypertext links for navigation within the site or to another site; also known as a “permalink” or “hyperlink”

 

Plugins – scripts that add additional functions to the blog

 

And that’s it. All primary words elaborated above embody the blogging community. Easy access to the blog doesn’t mean easy manipulation. You do need certain concepts and tools to make blogging successful. The posts are one thing, how to capture the attention is the objective.

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