What is Blog? What is Blogging?

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Index What is Blog?

What is Blogging?

On what Topics Blogs Are Made?

Is Investment Needed To Make A Blog?

Things Needed For A Blog.

What Is CMS?

What is WordPress.com?

What Are WordPress.com and Blogger.com?

Making Money With A Bog.

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What is Blog?A Blog is an abbreviated word used forterm “Weblog“, This is a word used todescribe different type of Websites andPortals which share information onspecific topics or wider categories. Itusually includes Features like Blog Posts,Videos, Comments, Links to otherwebsites, Widgets, etc.


What is Blogging?Each and every skill you need to run andmanage a Blog is called blogging.Blogging includes Skills Like SearchEngine Optimization, Social MediaMarketing, Writing, Editing andPublishing Posts, Designing andMaintaining the Design of your Website,etc.

You need to learn every skill to be a Blogger like You should be a good writer to write lot of Unique and Quality content for your website. You should be a good Search Engine Optimizer to Optimize your blog according to rules and regulations set by Search engines.


On what Topic Blogs are Made?

Blogs can be created on any topic in which you are expert. Let’s suppose you are expert in coffee-making you should start a Coffee blog. Or if you are expert in Search Engine Optimization you should start an SEO blog where you will share tips for better Search Engine Optimization to help people to do Better SEO of their websites or Blogs.

Blogs are often made on topics like Political News and Political Topics, Sports, Web design, Blogging Tips, Technology Gadgets, etc. I’ll recommend you to make a Blog on topic you are expert in.


Is Investment needed to Make a Blog?

Whenever you start a new Business you need to invest some money, Same case here that you need to invest money if you want to start a Blog for making money from it, But if you want to start a blog just for fun and enjoyment you can do it free by using WordPress.com or Blogger.com


Things Needed for a Blog:

Domain Name

Web Hosting


Domain Name

Domain name is a name people use to reach your website or Blog just like www.customizeblogging.com is a Domain name and you reach Blogging game by entering that URL in your browser’s Web Address Bar.You can register a Domain name by going to any Domain name registrar’s website and choosing a domain name and yes you if that name is already registered you have to choose another one.

After registering a Domain name you have to change its DNS settings according to your Web Host Server’s DNS setting, after DNS setting will take effect you will be able to work on your website.


Web Hosting

What is HostingYou need a Computer or you can say that server to store all of your website’s data so that people could see it. You will store your all data in some Web hosting company’s server.

There are many Popular and reliable Web Hosting companies But we recommend Godaddy for your website because We found it most reliable company for website hosting services.


What is CMS?

CMS Stands for Content Management System. Websites are made up of HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript and many other Web Programming languages.Typicallyworking you have to code each and every web page which takes too long. CMS Helps you to create, Edit, Publish, and manage your all website’s web pages in very organized, Clean and easy way.


Content Management systems are themselves made up of different Programming languages like PHP, CSS, HTML, XML, Javascript, etc. There are many Content Management systems out there but We recommend WordPress (I am going to explain this later) Which is mostly used CMS in the world.


What is WordPress?

As I explained above CMS are themselves coded and developed using different programming languages. WordPress is a Content Management System which is based on PHP and MySQL. Moreover it is World’s most popular CMS for Blogging Platforms and Business Websites.


What are WordPress.com and Blogger.com?


WordPress.com

WordPress.com is a free of cost Blogging service for people who want to Blog without spending single penny, it uses WordPress CMS for management. If you want to Start a Free blog you should Choose WordPress.com for that, Let me explain you further.WordPress.com provides free subdomain to its users, Subdomain is something like this “www.Subdomain.wordpress.com”, In the place of subdomain you can choose any name you want if it is not already taken, For Example: if I want a free blog I will choose something like “www.DesiredName.Wordpress.com”.


Blogger.com

Just like WordPress.com, Blogger.com is a Free of cost Blogging platform for people to who want to start a free blog. The main difference between Blogger.com and WordPress.com is that Blogger.com is Owned by Google itself and it is based on HTML, CSS, javascript and XML unlike WordPress.com which is Based on PHP and MySQLYou have to sign in to your Blogger.com account using Gmail or Google account and you can use it just like WordPress.com service. You can create up to 100 free blogs per account and yes you can also use custom domain name with blogger.com and the hosting and protection provided by Blogger.com will be free of cost..


Making Money with a Blog

There are Thousands of ways to make money with a Blog, I am going to Present some of them here.

• Contextual Advertising:• Direct Advertising:

• Text Links Advertising:


Contextual Advertising:

Contextual advertising is a way of advertising which is used to target ads to specific keywords. Going deeper, Actually these ads are picked up by an automated system after identifying the keywords on web page. Google Adsense and many others use this method of Advertising.


Direct Advertising

You can also Sell your Blog’s space toAdvertisers Directly, for doing this you shoulddisplay a banner having “Advertise Here” textin it so that Advertiser should contact you andpay you to display his ad on your blog.The Price of Advertising depends upon theAdvertisement size, traffic and niche of yourblog or website. Some people really earn toomuch using direct advertising likeProblogger.


Text Links Advertising

There are many other networks who allow to show their advertisements in Text Links, You just have to signup to those networks and Paste the snippet code to your blog’s HTML area.These Link Ads work in the way that they are controlled by a system which recognizes the keywords in the text and places a link in that keyword, Whenever user hovers his cursor on that keyword that advertisement pops out and when ever user clicks it Publisher or Blogger gets Money.


Text Links AdvertisingThere are many Text Link Advertising Companies, I have tested Text Link Ads and Infolinks But this way of advertising is not so much good.


Hope you got Answers of Each Question in your mind about What is Blogging, In case we have not Answered and Question about which you are curious, Feel free to ask @ www.customizeblogging.com in the contact section.As I am working to Make my Blog a Better place for my readers, Keep visiting my blogs I will post each and every topic Which comes Within Blogging.

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