What is a blog?

Now a days a very FAQ is What is blog?

A blog (also called a weblog) is a website consisting of  posts appearing in reverse chronological order with the most recent entry appearing first. Blogs typically include features such as comments and links to increase user interactivity. Blogs are created using specific publishing software.

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A blog is a frequently updated online personal journal or diary. It is a place to express yourself to the world. A place to share your thoughts and your passions.

Blogging in Today's Life

As the Internet has become more social, blogs have gained in popularity. Today, there are over 100 million blogs with more entering the blogosphere everyday. Blogs have become more than online diaries.

In fact, blogging has become an important part of the online and offline worlds with popular bloggers impacting the worlds of politics, business and society with their words.

Who Blogs and does making blogs require vast knowledge?

People who would be willing to post about their lives in as public a forum as the Internet.They are people just like you.Every day millions of people, some of whom have no technical ability whatsoever, write on their blogs.

To meet this demand some amazing tools have been created that will allow anyone, even people with very little knowledge of computers, to have their own blog. If you can find your way onto the Internet and follow some basic instructions you can have your own blog. It’s just that easy.

Why do people blog?

We believe that every human has a voice and wishes their voice to be heard. The Internet is a medium that is unparalleled in its reach. Never before have average people like you or me been able to reach a global audience with so little trouble. Bloggers have the opportunity of reaching hundreds or even thousands of people each and every day.

Some bloggers write about a hobby or interest of theirs. They may dedicate their blog to something they are passionate about.You can make your own blog on whatever topic you are interested in.

But the real power of a blog is it helps you to make free money online, we will discuss this is detail in next post.

Platforms for making a blog

Two most popular blogging platforms are blogger and wordpress.

1)Google Blogger: Blogger is one of the most renowned blogging service mostly , because it is from Google.You don't need to buy a domain name if you don't want to, you'll just have a url that looks like yourblogname.blogspot.com.
To know about blogger in detail click here:Google Blogger

2Wordpress: WordPress.com provides a free blogging service. You can create an account and start using the feature rich WordPress software without spending any money.In wordpress, you'll have a url that looks like yourblogname.wordpress.com.

NOTE:If you are a beginner you should go for blogger.com

We will discuss these two platforms in detail in next post.