What’s a blog? I get asked the question when I try to invite people to come visit my website and check out my blog… This was a question I also asked the person who introduced me to blogging more than a year ago. 

A Blog is a web log, a journal that you put on the web for you to access wherever there is internet.  There are hundreds of thousands of new blogs everyday. People blog for a variety of reasons, some do it for fun, for hobby, for promoting their business or for making money. Blog is like a digital journal, instead of one writing on a notebook or a diary, you write on a computer and publish what you wrote on the web.

  A Blog is a great way to express your thoughts, ideas and happenings. You’ll be surprised to know that things that interest you can mean something to people all across the globe. Like your travels and adventure, your food tasting in a new restaurant, your experience on a new gadget and more, the topic can really be endless. 

A Blog is also a great way to promote the products you sell or endorse, a blog allows you to share what is good about your product in a more engaging way, contrary to very formal way of doing a sales pitch. And this way you can also establish readership and initiate communication with your target market. A Blog has also become a money making habit, hobby, or whatever you would like to call it. Some bloggers who managed to share about things that interest a wide variety of readers attractted some advertisers who pay them money to blog or to put a banner ad on their ads. There are also companies who are getting advertisers to pay bloggers (people who blog) to feature their products or review their products and talk about it on their blogs or blog advertising. 

You might ask, how do I get started with a blog? You can get started by reading other peoples blogs and see how they do it, to give yourself an idea how to do it too. Then you can go to websites that offer free blogging platforms and sign up. These sites include Blogger.com, WordPress.com or Typepad. I am using WordPress. When you get the hang of it, then you can decide to get a paid blog set-up where you can have your own domain name, with your own hosting and design. 

Welcome to the world of blogging. I hope I got your question on what a blog is answered. 

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