- Blogging for Dummies
1. What’s a blog?
2. Why do I blog?
3. How to blog?
What’s a blog?
Google and wikipedia provide you more accurate answer than I do. However, I post this questions to you is not to ask you to give me the correct definition and done. You should ask yourself, what is blog TO YOU? A platform for commercial site to exhibit their latest product?
A place for your to squeeze out all your feelings plus your writing skill? Or just another ordinary online diary that you want to share with public? (Sounds contradict). Whatever it is, you should have the answer in your heart and this answer will guide you all the way in the world of blogging. I stress, This Is Important. If you don’t know what is a blog to you, your blog might be ends up pretty fast like headstands in quicksand. You will lose interest on it and all your efforts on the blog setup, a nice interface template designing and modification, and your time to adjust the best position for Adsense, ends there!
Personally, I think, a blog is a tool. That’s my answer. Since I know it’s a powerful tool, I will polish it, make it sharpen day by day and use it whenever I need. How about yours?
Why do I blog?
For money? Or just merely because of interest? Or because you like to share? But what can I tell you that is, the most beautiful answer that you can expect from bloggers are BOTH, money and interest (not money and honey huh). Well, it is not wrong doing things you like and earn money at the same time. Perhaps, that the most wonderful things in this planet. People who doing things they like and earn money from it, usually don’t harm others. Agree?
You should always gauge your blog and ask yourself this question again and again. If you blog merely for money, make sure you write it in a making-money way. If you write it just for interest, don’t bother on the income of your blog then (and don’t bother everything that compares such as ranking, pagerank and etc), you may blog when you want, when you are about to blog, blog for FUN!
How to blog?
Obviously, you will ask this question after you settled with the second one. To blog, you have many ways to accomplish it. How? Too broad to describe. Even though blog is a powerful tool, but blog is the easiest tool for you to master. If you are an engineer, you can use your plan do check action method on thinking what should you blog. If you are a reporter, you might blog based of the 4H1Y. If you are an internet savvy, you can relies on many tools and contents websites that supplying you unlimited source daily and so forth. No rules. Think process take place.
Like all the blogger gurus tell you, write something that benefits others and yourself if possible.
Yupe, why not contribute some good things to the web instead of rubbish.
In a nut shell, I hope this article will give you a claer picture of blogging, ideas of blogging before you go into. You may always visit to some well establish blogs to see how they did it successfully. For instance, shoemoney.com and johnchow.com