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Blogging For Newbies

A blog is an online journal which you can publish your thought, ideas, opinions, feeling, photos, special events, experiences, comments on current issues and anything you want people to read. You can insert link, video or audio into your blog page.

If you use video in your blog, it is called video blogging. If you use spoken voice, it is called audio blogging.

Blogging normally contains some of the important parts including

a) Title - this is where you put down your headlines of your article
b) Body - this is where you write out the actual content of the article
c) Comments - this section is for your reader to post their comments about your articles on the blog, this can create a platform for you to share with the reader to discuss and talk about the topic. It helps to build a personal relationship for a long term. For business blog, this section can allows customer to provide feedback on companies activities. It also promote loyalty and trust.
d) Backlink -you can have other website to link to your blog especially if your blog is very popular. You can have thousands of link back to your blog on the online community.
e) Categories - each of the blog are categorize into specific subject matter such as business, real estate, travel and etc. This make the searching process easier.
f) Tag - helps in classification especially using search engine Technorati. Prospects can locate blog of certain topics by just clicking the tag.
g) RSS feed - it is the feed from your blog that is sent out over the internet, and collected through the various newsreaders.

But there is actually no specific rules about blogging, you can set your own themes and rules and write in whatever format that you like. You can publish any of your thoughts, feeling, photos, experiences and just about any topics that you can think of.

Blog should not be very formal. It should be done in a very direct fashion. The tone you should use is like you are talking to a close friend in a letter. Always use " first person" tone. In short, Blogging allows you to :
Networking
Advertise products or services
Search engine optimization
Gauging public opinion on products and services
Useful tools for internal communication