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Blogs are online journals where you take your digital pen and put it all on the internet sharing anything from thoughts, ideas, and opinions to even photos. Its all about what you want people to read when they visit your personal blog. Everyone blog is different from the type of style, to the setting have for it. Many blogging sites, offer built in features for you change the font, size, and color of your text. Some even give you options to add videos or polls.

Some bloggers choose not to write and take the use of technology by making audio or even video blogs. This is called audio/video blogging.

A Blog contains many features for the user:

Title- label your topic for this entry

Body- content of the topic

Track back- other sites that can link back to your blog

Permanent link- each article that you write has its own url

Comments- readers can post their thoughts on your topic

One of the greatest features of blogging, is that it you can create your template with ease without know Html or any of the other tech savvy languages. This makes you able to create stunning websites without hiring a professional.

This is great for first time users of the web as they can start blogging right away. Most sites provide them with templates they can choose from to give their blog the look that fits them.

Anyone can start a blog can do so by signing up as a member to a blogging website that they are most comfortable with. Once you’re a member you become a part of that community of blogs. You can browse through other’s blogs and share your links and story’s as well as opinions as you share comments.

Some people even use their blogs as a great tool to advertise their business. Even authors advertise their recent books that might be a local store. For the most part people use their blogs to give insight on current issues in their lives or global news.

Today blogs play an important part in the education system. Teachers are able to post lesson plans without wasting paper. Students who miss a class can go and see these plans and be able to see what the homework was without having to find someone from class who isn’t busy.

Entrepreneurs gain massive profits from promoting their businesses on blogs, as they get million of hits from bloggers they reach higher audience. At the same time profiting through their advertisement.

But by far personal blogs are on the top of the charts as it’s a form of many people personal journal. Most journal’s are used by first time bloggers. Individuals who document their lives, daily experiences, and thoughts express themselves through their blog.

Bloggers communicate with them selves in their topics. Also communicating with there community sharing comments with each other.

Blogs have various topics, themes, and functions and can be found on any search engine. Looking through others blogs can help you get an idea about how each blog can be different and still connected to the next.

Blogging has become popular all over the world. Before it became popular it was called a weblog as people would just log in their ideas. Bloggers have the ultimate freedom to speak their mind and let anyone read what their thinking giving them the ability to express their true feelings anyway they like.

Blogging is fun, simple and a creative way to express the writer in your self. When searching for a blog go through directories and narrow your search to type of blog your looking for.

If you are new to trying to make money on the internet, probably the best place to start is with blogger blogs.

Why? Because it’s completely free to use and even a beginner can do it.

You can add adsense to your blog to try to make money or you can try to sell your own stuff or add affiliate products.

Or you can just share your opinions, thoughts, and ideas with the rest of the world.

All you have to do is sign up for a free account. Go to http://www.blogger.com to get started.

Blogger is owned by Google. As long as you follow their rules, you’ll be fine. It’s a great way to start and it can be fun.

Check out some of these blogger blogs:

http://the-nadya-suleman-family.blogspot.com

http://totalcuteness.blogspot.com

It’s really easy. You just have to have point and clicking abilities with the mouse basically.

I have just joined a membership site where a stay at home Mom of 4 teaches you how you can earn $5,000 (or even more) a month by niche blogging.

She reveals all her methods, secrets, tips, as well as gives step by step instructions on how to create your own niche blogging empire on The Niche Blogger. How does she know how to do all this? Because she herself makes 5K a month from home by niche blogging. And it’s not like she is at the computer all day, she is busy raising 4 kids, and you know how time consuming they are.

I obviously know how to blog myself, but I am not even close to making nearly as much as she is from my blogs. She knows a lot about how to actually monetize your blog and how to get lots of traffic.

I asked if this was just for the newbies or if it’s also for people who already know how to set up blogs. She said it’s for both. There are instructions for newbies who know nothing and there are advanced techniques for people who already know how to blog.

I am paying $8.95 a month to learn everything she knows and she says if we follow her instructions we can even make more than she does (if we put more time in it).

Who is this NOT for:

Anyone who is lazy and doesn’t want to do anything.

Anyone who expects to get rich over night.

If you are serious about blogging, if you want to learn how to make a full time income from blogging, or if you just want to set up a few blogs in your spare time and monetize them, I recommend you join me in this membership site.

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What’s the big deal about blogging? Not too long ago “blog” wasn’t even a word. Then it seemed over night blogging became an obsession. Lots of people jumped on the blog band wagon. Some people thought this was just a fad which would disappear, but it didn’t. Some people resisted blogging and couldn’t figure out what the big deal was…then they eventually understood and started blogging themself.

The reason why blogs are great is because the content is fresh and often updated, it’s easy so anyone can do it, and search engines love blogs. It’s easier to get search engine traffic from blogs than it is websites. This is because of the constant content updates.

A blog can be for personal or business reasons. Some blogs are monetized, while others just want to blog and don’t care about bothering with trying to make money from it. Some people blog simply because they want to. They want to share their opinions or write about what’s going on in their life, kind of like an online journal. A Mom may start a blog just to write about the trials and rewards, the good and the bad of motherhood. She may give advice on parenting and just write about what’s going on with her kids.

A politically active person may blog on politics, trying to persuade people to vote a certain way. A blogger from a certain city may blog about events happening in their area and an investment blog will inform people on investment opportunities and give investment advice.  Some blogs are set up to review certain types of products trying to persuade the reader to buy certain products and of course will contain affiliate links so the reader may purchase them.

Basically a blog can be just about anything and anyone can start one for any reason.

There are a few different ways to monetize a blog. 1-Pay Per Click ads such as google adsense or Yahoo. 2- Text Link ads. 3- Selling links for other blogs and websites. 4- Affiliate ads. 5- Paid blog posts.

If your blog gets a certain amount of traffic, there are companies that pay bloggers to write a post. So if you have a blog in a certain niche, a website in that niche will pay you to blog about their website/product/service. Some bloggers are getting paid hundreds a month just writing blog entries.

There are many free blog sites out there you can sign up for. Blogger.com, owned by Google and is one of the most popular. There is also blogspot.com. You can also do a search for blogs and see all the listings that appear. If your blog is going to be professional however, it’s recommended you get your own domain and hosting and install wordpress blogging software.

To improve traffic to your blog, try to exchange links with other blogs. Also to get readers to keep returning to your blog, plus for better search engine rankings, you need to update your blog regularly. Don’t add a new post every month or every 2 weeks. For best results try to add a post every day if you can.

The Don’ts of blogging are:
1) Don’t update sparingly
2) Don’t have more ads than content
3) Don’t use automated blogs
4) Don’t just copy and paste from other sites