Blogging

Bloggers are united around the world by a common attribute. And that is to create content for the web via their respective blogs. As you know we all have different agendas with a blog. Some of us are stay at home mums who blog just for the fun of it and yet others run a small but powerful home business.

Then there are corporations who have finally seen how beneficial a blog can be for them and Realtors who reach out to the world with their listings.

Either way, blogs are as varied and fabulous as they come.

But recently we have heard some whispers about micro blogs. If you ever wanted to find out what a micro blog actually is, now is your chance.

Forum posts are a fantastic way for new and established bloggers to build traffic to their site. Depending on the forum you use, this can actually be a nice and steady stream of traffic too. Not only will this get you free visitors, but if you position yourself as an authority in the forum, then the traffic can become regular too.

Naturally if you are new, then this won’t apply unless of course you already have specified knowledge you can relate to others. You might be anew blogger, but you are very good at building websites and manipulating code. This type of knowledge will always fare well in any metablog related forum since most bloggers get frustrated when they can’t find a solution to their coding problem.

Now we’re on to our second website type in the Different Types of Website Series. The first type was a mini site. Today, we’re moving on to blogs.

What are blogs?

In the past few years, blogs have evolved so much that I’m actually finding it hard to define what it really is. Also known as weblogs, blogs may be hard to describe but easy to recognize. A blog can be recognized by the way its content is organized. You will notice that new content are displayed at the top. So, as new content is added the old ones will move down. Very much like what you see on the WebBriefcase’s blog homepage.

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll

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