A Blog is a personal journal of an individual which
are publicly available and are frequently updated and are intended to have a
public interest. Thus a blog is a website where the author writes about his
personal opinions and experiences with its online reflections, comments, and
also some hyperlinks which are usually provided by the writer. Blogs makes us
to understand the personality of the author. blog is one of the best ways to increase website traffic on search engines. digital marketing companies are always considering such kind of business blogs, which promote SEO services and getting good reputation through blogging services.
Blogs differ not only in their contents written, but also in the way that
content is delivered or written. There are many different types of blogs some
of them are discussed below:
Personal blogs The personal blog is an ongoing diary which is written by
an individual and is frequently updated.
Group [collaborative ] blogs
In the beginning years of blogging, a blog
was written by only a single individual but later on it was written by more
than one writer or a group of writers. It is usually done in-order to reduce the
pressure of maintaining a popular website and to attract a larger readership. lets see how to write effective blogs
Organizational and corporate blogs
Blogs can be used for both private
and public purposes. Blogs are widely used for business purposes. Internally
blogs are used in order to enhance the communication and culture in a
corporation and externally for marketing, branding and for public relations are
called corporate blogs. For example blogs for clubs are called club blogs.
Aggregated blogs
Certain feeds on
specific topics or products are taken and is aggregated by some organizations
or individuals and provide combined view for the readers. This will make the
readers to concentrate on reading rather than searching on quality on the
content of the particular topic and also to arrange for subscription. Many such
aggregations are called planets from the name planet software which performs
such aggregation.
Micro blogging
Micro blogging is the method of posting small pieces of
digital content which may be texts, images, videos, link or other media on the
internet. Micro blogging tends offer a portable communication mode which feels
organic and spontaneous to many and thus it has captured the public
imagination. Its uses mainly are, business associates use it to coordinate
meetings and to share some useful resources, friends use it to keep in touch,
celebrities and politicians micro-blog about certain concert dates, lectures and
so on. It also enables interaction with other applications like twitter,
face book etc..
Blog writing with exceptional topics
Some blogs focus on certain topics or on a particular subject,
such as political blogs, health blogs, lifestyle blogs, fashion blogs, beauty
blogs, travel blogs, journalism blogs, gardening blogs, wedding blogs,
psychology blogs, sociology blogs, education blogs, photography blogs, musical
blogs, sports blogs, military blogs, business blogs, legal blogs, etc.. These
kinds of blogs are more common and is attracted by a number of people.
How to do blogs
There are many blogs which shares some tips and reviews
about cooking, games, movies, music, health, fashion, books, and so on.
By device type
The type of the blog is also defined by the type of
device used to compose it. A blog written by a mobile device like a mobile
phone is called a moblog.
Reverse blog
This blog is composed by its users rather than a single
blogger. It has the characteristics of the blog but writings of several
authors.
Thus the area of blogging is a wide area with different verities of
blogging and the blogs in the internet are interconnected and are socially
networked, through back-links, blogrolls and comments. Then it provides a
collective community of all the blogs, called as the blogosphere.
thanks,
Sithara - Marketing consultant