There isn't one single definition of blogging, as people are debating about what makes a blog a blog. But, for many years, the word blog has been associated with journals. A journal, with entries, dates, names, and would be something that one could look back at and read many posts at a time.
Different types of blogs have emerged as well. Photo blogs, where people post family photos, art photography, and portfolios are popular and videoblogs are up and coming. A video blog is a series of videos that are linked. The makers of such series are called vloggers. Another type of blog is the corporate blog. These are run by companies, and consist of product updates, company news, and other such company-related information. As you can see, it would be hard to give a blog an actually definition because of how unspecific the word is.
Free Blogging Tools
There are so many free blogging tools out there now that the urge to pack your blog chock full of them is near irresistible. With snazzy backgrounds, visitor counters, animations, and sound, free blogging tools are so abundant that they actually become annoying. The key to optimizing the benefits of free blogging tools is not to just pick everyone you can find, but to be selective and only pick ones that will work well and benefit your blog; any others shouldn't be used.
Before choosing a tool, be sure you know enough about it to make a good decision about whether it will work with your blog. Teach yourself about visitor counters, the kinds of backgrounds that actually do appeal to viewers, layouts that are proven to work, not ones that look flashy. If you do your homework, you'll know what you're doing, and you won't end up with a useless blog that looks like a badly made banner ad.
If you're realistic when designing your blog, then your blog itself will be. Just imagine, do successful magazines have looping animations, explosions of color behind their text, and automated sound or video players? No. So why should your blog?
Noah Young is the author of many blogs, including http://secretsofrss.blogspot.com/ as well as http://easycashwebsites.blogspot.com/ |
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