What is Blog? What is blogging ?

            Anyone new to blogging world would ask this question.So, if you are  new to blogging and want to know explore this new world then here is some basic information worth reading.
      
           A blog is different from traditional websites.Blogging is getting popular day by day.There are millions of people blogging everyday, many do it as a passion or share information, some do it to share their personal stories other do it to make money.Following is some info to answer your questions;

 What is a Blog ?

• A blog is a personal webpage or website on which people can share information related to a specific topic or a number of categories.
• Blog topic depends on you, whatever you are expert or interested in, for example; you have knowledge about "Birds" then start a blog about birds, as the topic "birds" is a vast topic, the topic can be specific for example a blog about "eagle types".
• A blog is regularly updated and new stuff is added daily, weekly or monthly.
• The word "Blog" is derived from "weblog".
• Blog often reflects the personality of the auther.

What is Blogging ?

• Anything you do in your blog is called blogging, for example; writing posts/content, uploading images, videos, optimizing your posts for search engine etc.
• A blogger is a person who blogs (do blogging).You need to learn or should have all the necessary skills to be a blogger for example; writing skills, how to optimize your articles and images in blog, how to communicate with your audience etc.
• Each new item submitted to blog is called post.
• Articles or posts appears in reverse chronological order in blog.

Difference between Blog and Website:

• A blog is updated regularly, even some bloggers update their blogs several times a day, it depends on the blogger while websites are not updated regularly.
• Information on a website is about something which dose not change, so it rarely needs any updates. But Blogs are updated daily, weekly or monthly.
• Another difference is that a website is a little harder to maintain than a Blog which is very easy to use and can be easily updated.
• Blogs provide a commenting system and encourage conversation on each post.

Is Blogging Free?

• There are many Blogging platforms some provide free service and paid both while other provide paid service.
• There are advantages and disadvantages of both paid and free.
•  If you want your own domain name e.g "Abc.com" without "blogspot.com" or "wordpress.com" then you will have to pay for that.

Blogging Tips:

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1. Blogging platforms
2. How to make money blogging
3. How to make your blog look professional

[This post is a part of "A complete guide on How to start your own Blog"]

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Blogging Platforms

  Top 10 Blogging sites      

       Blogging is getting popular day by day.There are a lot of Blog Hosting Sites over the internet. Some of these sites are free to use while others aren't. For a beginner, it is very hard to decide which service to use. Here i have gathered Top10  blogging sites, along with their some info... SO LETS START...

1.Word Press.org            

WordPress Users produce about 42.6 million new posts each month. Over 409 million people view more than 14.4 billion pages each month.

• Founded in May 2013
• Total users are 60 million
• You need to get a domain name and web hosting first.

2.WordPress.com

Free blog hosting site.You can get a domain name like "truefoxarticles.wordpress.com" or you can buy your own domain name.

• Founded in November, 2005
• Total blogs 56 million
• Easy to use but less customization 

3.Blogger

Pros: Its completely FREE, and easy to use.
Cons: Variety of Templates are not available.Mostly simple are available.

• Founded in 1999
• Bought by Google in 2003
• You can buy your own domain name too $10 per year e.g www.abc.com 

4.Tumblr: 

Tumblr is a micro blogging platform. 

• Tumblr hosts over 192.9 million blogs.
• Founded in 2007
• Bought by Yahoo
• Easy to use but less professional.

5.Weebly

• Founded in 2006
• Hosts 15 million websites
• Very easy to use
• Less user control 

6.Square space

Good for business owners who want to get on web.Recommended for individual, business owners and websites.

• Founded in 2004
•  founder:Anthony Casalena
• Elegant design.
• You have to pay for a few features.

7.Hubpages

It started as an article network.Good for social networking.

• Founded in 2006
• 74,000 total users
• Free to use and nice place to start writing.
• Less ownership of your work

8.Medium

• Founded in 2012
• Founder Evan Williams and Biz stone.
• Total users?

9.Livejournal

Good for writing a diary, blogging and journaling. 

• Fonded in 1999
• Total users: 39 million accounts
• Founder: Brad Fitzpatrick

10.Svbtle

• Founded in 2013
• Founder Dustin Curtis
• Its new and different
• But no commenting feature in it yet

       Hope you like the list.I haven't given much information about some blogging platforms because i don't much about those and I use and recommend Blogger for newbies.Its easy to use, although its templates are a bit childish but there are many free templates out there online which you can download and use it in blogger.

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