What is a blog site? I am certain that issue still gets asked a variety of times and not that long in the past I too was questioning what a blog was. This posting will briefly outline, for the newbie, what a blog site is. It’s penned in layman’s words making sure that it’ll be understood by people who desire to explore this fundamental concept of blogging.
The definition from Wikipedia will be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog.
In a nutshell a blog is a internet site or a dialogue forum where information are posted, written by one or more authors normally on a distinct theme. Which means you may be in the shoe business and you may write content on shoes and publish them to your blog. These articles or blog posts can provide snap shots, textual content, movies, all of which are generally known as articles. A blog will ordinarily allow you to categorise each write-up for future straightforward reference, much like the contents section of a book. The weblog may also enable you to assign tags to each post and this acts in a equivalent way to the index of a book. So for an article on footwear one may possibly tag it with tags such as; shoes, soles, leather or maybe other tags including the area in which that you’re offering them, New York, London, Johannesburg etc.
You will find several well-known blogging platforms including WordPress and Blogger to name a few and most of them work in a very equivalent way. They may be commonly free to utilize plus they host your blog site on their servers, assigning a certain amount of storage space for you. Advanced attributes including your individual domain name could possibly come at a fee.
Most blogging platforms offer you themes, normally designed by third parties that can change the appearance and layout of your blog. These are sometimes free and sometimes you need to pay for them.
There are also then a host of other features that blogs include such as allowing you to insert Facebook Like buttons and other social media buttons so as to allow the readers of your blog to share your articles or content with their networks if they find it interesting and worth sharing. Readers can follow your blog so that each time you post an article they get notified via e-mail.
Normally a blog will allow readers to make comments of their own on your articles so as to start a discussion on the topic and others can read these comments and make their own comment. You can set your blog up so that you as the blog owner, or someone else you appoint can moderate comments so as to avoid spam comments and unwanted comments.
One can invite users to the blog either as followers, contributors or administrators, assigning different levels of access and control to each category of user. This will of course allow many authors to contribute to the same blog and will increase the number of articles posted or published which will in turn probably increase the number of followers or readers and result in more discussion on the topic.
Links can be placed on a blog article to re-direct the reader to a web site or another blog and blogs are often used as platforms by companies writing articles on their niche industry in an attempt to educate their customers and hopefully drive traffic to the main web site for the purpose of converting that traffic to customers.
Search engines love blogs because they normally contain lots of juicy content which is what search engines need to satisfy their users. They are also normally structured in such a way that search engines can crawl them easily and therefore index them quickly and easily so that they appear in search engine results pages.
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