What Are Blogs?
By admin on Sep 23, 2008 in Blogging | 0 Comments
If you don’t know what a blog is, how can you create one and make money from it?
In this post I’m going to give you a general idea of what blogs are.
The definition of a blog on Wikipedia is:
A blog (a contraction of the term “Web log”) is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Let me put it in a simple way. A blog is a type of website composed in the form of a journal where ‘posts’ (or entries) are displayed in a reverse chronological order. The latest posts go on top of the page while the older ones go towards the bottom.
Blogs tend to have few things in common:
- A main content area with your latest posts.
- An archive with older posts.
- At least one sidebar.
- A way for people to leave comments.
Anyway, some blogs tend to deviate from these common features by adding new ones or removing some of those.
The front page of an average blog has up to 10 posts (Its up to you on how many posts to show on your front page). When a post gets older and disappears from the front page, it goes into the ‘Archives’. Every post written in a blog can be found in the archives.
Most blogs have at least one sidebar where you can put links to your recent posts, favorite posts, links to other blogs or ads. The sidebar remains the same on each page while the posts on the main content area move towards the bottom when new posts are added.
One of the most important feature that a blog has, is that users can leave comments at the end of each of your posts. Blogging is not a monologue but a conversation. By reading and responding at the comments that your readers leave to you, you can receive feedback on each one of your posts and use those comments to improve your writing.
Some more information regarding blogs and their history can be found here:
On the next post I will talk about how to create a blog and what blogging platform you should use. You will see that the range of choices available to you is very wide.

By far, the best way to make money online is by having an website or a blog.
