If writing is an art form, then blogging can be seen as an art form as well. Blogging is no less an art form than regular composing articles only because it is more popularist and does not need paper. Bloggers write on all sorts of items, in fact they compose pieces on each topic under the sun. People compose pieces on their daily lives, their jobs, their hobbies and their concerns.
Blogging began life in the mid Nineties for webmasters to maintain a record of their involvement with their computers, which is where the term comes from: ‘web log’. Web log became weblogs and then it was contracted to blog. Web logs soon became a well-liked manner of recording and publishing other daily activities on line, much like a diary.
Blogs can be posted to a URL like a website is, or they can be posted to a free bloggers’ web site. There are many of these free blogs, but one of the most famous ones is Google’s ‘Blogger’.
Despite being free of charge, Blogger offers a fully flexible blog which can hold adverts like Google Ads and Amazon, so that the blogger can offer related items for sale and make a little money at the same time.
If personal blogs are used to talk on daily life, business blogs can be used as rolling adverts for a company’s products. The manager of the firm’s blog can compose pieces about innovations, new products, jobs available and special offers. The firm’s blog can be used as a private press release machine which can reach a global audience.
If you would like to create a blog for personal or company use, you will have to know something about blogging, so here are a couple of pointers.
This first thing to do is define what your blog is going to be about. If it is a company blog then that is easy, but a personal blog should have a target audience. It ought to appeal to a niche group. Strive to keep the niche group quite tight, blogs that waffle on huge sprawling subjects are not as popular.
For example, stamp collecting is too wide a subject. Collecting British stamps is better, but British commemorative stamps of the 20th Century is even better. Include some images to keep the blog looking cheerful and colourful. This is easily done since most modern printers have a facility to scan images and send them to your computer.
In the blogosphere, information is the name of the game. Most people surf to gain information. They surf to get the solutions to problems that they are experiencing; in order to help with their hobbies or only for general information. Therefore, you should make your blog a bearer of useful information.
You can make your blog interactive by allowing your readers to leave comments. Some software permits fairly lengthy comments so that visitors can leave their opinions in full. This interactivity will encourage readers to come back to follow the debate.
In fact, most blogging software will actually inform the leaver of a comment that there has been a reply and it will also harvest the commentator’s email address so that you can add them to a mailing list as long as you provide them with the facility to opt out of the list if they would like to.
If you are interested in experimenting with Blogging As An Art Form, just go to our web site on Blogging For Beginners.