You have heard the word blogging mentioned read information on the Internet about it. If you use the Internet, you may have come across blogging not even realized what you were looking at. So what is this blogging that you have heard about?
In order to understand what blogging is, you first need to know what a blog is. The word blog is short for the term weblog, which is what blogs were called during the early days of the Internet. A blog is a website which contains information in chronological order. Most blogs contain information, content, thoughts, feelings, articles so on. When visiting a blog, the latest piece of information usually shows up first. The rest of the blog is normally categorized by date by category. Blogs can contain any information that the person writing the blog wants to display. It can be their own written words, include articles information from other websites, pictures video.
The term blogging refers to the act of making posts on the blog. The person who writes the post is considered a blogger. The blog posts made are usually about the same general subject. For example, you can have a blog about technology, your personal life, your business, your pet the list goes on. You can blog about anything you want to there is no limit on how many words your blog post can contain.
Blogs also usually have an area where those reading the blog can comment on the blog post. The blog owner can have the settings of the blog so that comments automatically display they can stipulate that they have to approve comments before they are publically posted.
Since you do not want to read a website which scrolls forever, blogs are set up to archive older posts depending on how old they are. Many blogs archive older posts into past months so that a user can click on a link to see posts for the previous month even posts from years ago. It is also standard with blogs for there to be an area where links are posted to other websites blogs that the blogger thinks are valuable.
Blogs can have one blogger it can have a group of bloggers who make posts. Personal blogs are usually made maintained by one two people while business blogs blogs that provide large amounts of content are sometimes maintained by more than one blogger.
Blogs are a valuable asset for those who wish to post the information that they want with very few restrictions. Blogs are also a cost effective way to have a website as there are websites which will host your blog for free such as blogger.com. Blogs can also be used to provide written content be linked to websites which would not normally display a lot of descriptions such as a website that sells products.
