What Is A Blog
52If you’re reading this chances are you have read a blog before. However, it is possible that you didn’t know what you were reading when you were reading it. Even if you did, starting from grass roots on a topic really is best.
With that said, let’s establish several definitions that will be necessary to understand to get the most out of this book.
BLOG
A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.
www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml
A blog is a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. ...
www.sussexlearningnetwork.org.uk/glossary/B
BLOGGER
blogger - a person who keeps and updates a blog
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
BLOGGING
blogging - The design and editing of a blog; weblogging
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blogging
I support most of the concepts brought out in the definitions about. As it relates to professional blogs I believe that more of a focus on the concept of niching would be in-order.
When you niche a blog you still journal about various things that you want to discuss, but you also keep those journal entries focused to a particular topic.
· If your subject is flowers keep your journal entries to gardening.
· If your subject is cars keep your journal entries to automotive.
· If like me, your subject is healthy chocolate keep your journal entries to health
If you choose to niche things even further you can, but my point here is to relate your journal entries to your niche or focused topic.
Reason?
Google and other search engines rank your blog in their directories. The more niched they find your content the higher your resulting placements on the Web will be.
This article is from the book Why People Blog.
