What is Blogging ?

[elite123]

What is Blogging ?

 

[WomenXtra]

basically, they are daily or weekly content you keep adding to your blog or CMS (content management system). they are displayed by categories and date. it can be about anything.. a topic you really love and good in talking about.

 

[redtiger]

A Blog is effectively an 'online diary'. Blogging is the act of writing this diary, easy!

 

[Mac Yeti]

Personally I'm blogged out, and I say this knowing we've got two on our site. Not everyone's got something interesting to say and 90% of blogs are guff or recycled guff.

(not ours of course )

Roll on web 3.0

 

[redtiger]

lol will agree Jilly, blogs are like people standing in a shopping centre in Croydon talking about everything in their life. If only I had the opportunity to click the close button when I'm standing around waiting for someone to turn up

 

[bonzodog29]

The irony of course being that in times past your diary was a secret thing where you put all your innermost secrets etc and a blog is a public access thing wheer you put all your innermost secrets....

 

[TechFox]

The best thing about blogs is that they are free!

Check out http://techfoxltd.blogspot.com/

 

[Scott-Copywriter]

Online log = Blog

They are handy to have but the Internet is saturated with them now. Sure there's a few good ones about specialist lives but most are just the same old and never get any visitors.

So if you want a successful blog in my opinion you need to be a good writer, have a unique topic and a generally interesting life.

 

[redtiger]

*agrees with Scott*

 

[nsdesign]

The best thing about blogs is that they are free!

Check out http://techfoxltd.blogspot.com/

Or... Have a look at www.nsblog.co.uk - free blogs for anyone, and a good way to test the waters and see if blogging is for you!

(apologies for the shameless self promotion in providing the above link )

Gary

 

[redtiger]

Or try www.redtigerblogging.com - IM JOKING!!

 

[billhilton]

A lot of blogs are indeed rubbish, and there are also a huge number of spam blogs. I blog for my businesses, but I also blog for fun: I've got a personal blog - www.lostearthman.com - which doesn't carry any advertising and I just write for fun, though I haven't updated for two months. I'm also starting a not-for-profit-right-now-but-maybe-later blog soon that I want to develop and maybe turn into a book one day - blogging is good for big writing projects like that because you can get comments and feedback as you go along, and you learn to adapt to what the audience wants.

You can also make pretty reasonable money off blogs if you know what you're doing and you really make an effort to join the community, do your Technorati tags and all the rest. Some top blogs:

The Dawg Blog
Random Acts of Reality
Boing Boing

And if you're thinking about making dosh out of your blog, Problogger is really useful.

 

[clairemackaness]

My blog is one of my most visited pages!! I find it a great way of informally telling my regulars about updates and new products in the interim period between my monthly newsletters:

http://www.clairemackaness.co.uk/blog.htm

 

[fastfences]

So if you want a successful blog in my opinion you need to be a good writer, have a unique topic and a generally interesting life.

Oh, really?

I'd best start one then!!

Cheers, Nigel

 

[bmedia]

If your going to blog make sure you link to your internal web pages on your site so the search engines find your deep pages faster. If your using a blog system like blogger.com you can use the upload feature and host it on your own site like (www.domain.com/blog)

Some people have bad opinions of blogs and say its all spam etc but to be honest most serious cloakers etc now use different tools as google and co are getting very good at spotting spamblogs

 

[UK2004]

How do you upload the blogger blog toy our own site?

 

[bmedia]

Hi,
Create a folder called domain.com/blog or what ever you like then use blogger.com publishing tools to set up ftp. If your new to this i suggest you ask your host to give you the correct paths then your off and running.

You can use a blogger.com tool for word which will let you blog the document your typing which is ideal for newbies