Blogging for Beginners

Blogging for Beginners
By Shane Higginbottom

If writing is an art, then, blogging is ultimate way of using words to convey your personal expression. This is because people who are blogging are very creative individuals, carefully crafting words that would best describe their feelings, sentiments, wishes, desires, and everything in between.

Basically, blogs were first introduced in the mid-1990s. Blogging has exploded into the virtual community making the Internet a increasingly popular source of information. Today according to Technorati there are well over 50 million blogs on the internet.

If you're looking to get started blogging there are two ways you can go. You can get your own hosting with and purchase your own domain name, or you can search for a free blogging provider. In most cases, A beginning Blogger will choose a free blogging platform.

With the onset of blogging in the industry, personal journaling had been a common ground for people who wish to be known all over the world. However, not literally famous as this is not a case on being popular or well-known personality.

Generally, blogs are created for personal use. Like a daily Diary, people write about their daily adventures, thoughts, personal opinions and whatever ideas they want to express online.

As well, since the dot com boom of the mid 90's, with more and more people and companies starting online businesses, blogs have taken on a whole new dimension in providing businesses a chance to boost their online sales and provide a friendly face for their customers. Since that time business blogging has exploded and has come into it's own a viable source of online income not only for the large corporation but for the individual looking for an additional source of income or starting a home based business. This is what is known euphemistically as blogging for dollars.

Business blogging in its very basic form is advertising the services or products of a web site or online business in order to increase that business's online sales.

Not only that, but, business blogging is also a fantastic way of promoting a companies brand identity so that readers will know that a certain company exists online. With business blogs, internet entrepreneurs are also able to create an online presence in the virtual market place by producing article content that is useful to a reader.

From there, you can make money online blogging by simply syndicating your content to your business' web site. This can be done through the use of RSS technology. Many reader of online content get their daily fix of news and updates by using RSS feeds. It is now possible to promote your product or services content and advertising using RSS feeds.

So, now that you are ready to create a blog, either a business blog or a personal blog, you need some basic blogging tips that WILL help you make your blog one of the more interesting blogs online.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Shane Higginbottom specializes in teaching real people how to make money blogging. To get instant access to all of his most profitable marketing campaigns, strategies, tools, and resources that he's used to grow from zero to replacing his income in just over a year visit: http://www.making-money-blogging.com/