Blogging

Blog is informational site on WWW. There were over 156 million public blogs on 16/2/2011. On 20/2/2014,there were 172 million blogs in tumbler and 75.6 million in wordpress.
The term "weblog" was firstly defined by Jombarger. Blogging gain popularity after 1999.
There are various types of blogs:-
1. Personal Blogs-written by an individual like personal diary
2. Microblogging-Post small pieces of digital content like text, picture, video, audio, links on internet etc.
3. Organisational blog-Blog can be used for business purpose to enhance communication and marketing.
Other types of blog include political blogs, health blogs, fashion blogs, travel blogs, educational blogs, music blogs, arts blog etc.
Ads on blogs become new trend to earn money online. Blog shows list of entries in reverse chronological order. Content is must for website. It depends upon website what type of content it need.Personal blog requires observations and reviews in its content. Business related blogs require marketing communication with consumers.
Comments are used to make website interactive. Some websites allow you to leave comment. Comments include tips and show how interesting your website is.
Blogging is good way to keep articles. In blogs , feeds are used as actually that is a function of special software that allows "Feed reads" to access a site automatically looking for new content and post update about that new content to another site. Blogroll provide list of links to webpages to author that are of similar interests. Feed is XML content that is updated regularly. It discover new item automatically and download them to read.
It is important to manage comments. It is quite interesting and link important comments to your blog. It is important to verify that person who is commenting on your website. Permalinks are permanent links to your blog post that is used by another blogger to link to your website.

Blogging Tips

It is difficult to start a new blog. Some bloggers discouraged because of the lack of comments or visits and may get off. There is competition among millions of bloggers, you want to be one of the few hundred thousand blogs that are actually visited. Following are some tips that let you to be a good blogger.

1. Post regularly. A Post  can be of 300-400 words with videos or photos otherwise write post of 600 or more words. The information in post must be worthy.
2. Don't put 'subscribe' and 'vote me' links all over the front page until you have people that like your blog.
3. If possible, use a clean and simple theme.
4. Have fun blogging, comment on other peoples' blogs. 
5. Use catchy titles that is humorous or like asking a question. Your aim should be that reader click on title. 
6. Use Twitter, Google+, Facebook to share your post and make it viral. Use other platforms that are being used by your competitors. 
7. Your audience give their precious time to read your post so build relationships with them. Reply comments on your post and who share your post thanks them. 
8.  Update your blog regularly at least once a week.