How to monetize a blog?

Every day, thousands of people look for online money making methods. Most new comers to the Internet get caught to scam sites and get lost their hard earn money. In my experience, I don’t trust quick money making schemes. I know that most people agree with me. Precisely Blogging can be a very lucrative way to earn money online. Most successful bloggers use blogging as their fulltime money making method. Creating a blog in a high traffic niche monetize it with ads, is the best way to make some excessive money.

Once your blog up and running with a quality posts, it's time to monetize your blog. A blog can be considered as an ultimate money making machine, it earns even when you are sleeping. There are plenty of ways to monetize your Blogger blog. All the following methods can use together to monetize your blog. Use multiple streams of income generating methods, don’t be limited to one method.

· Google AdSense program.
· WidgetBucks is also is a free ad service like Google AdSense.
· Text link ads
· Chitika
· Donations
· Affiliate programs

You also can monetize your blog by directly approaching to advertisers.

1. Google AdSense: The most popular search engine - Google has introduced a contextual advertising service called AdSense. (About AdSense ) Which allows virtually any website or blog owner to make money. AdSense is a program in which you get paid for targeting your readers to another websites product or service. Someone clicks on one of these ads they go to the advertiser's site. The advertiser is then charged for the click by Google and Google shares the money with you. Many People are making thousands a month with this. Learn How to make money with AdSense?

2. WidgetBucks: WidgetBucks launched in October 2007, is a vertical shopping ad network that helps publishers and bloggers optimize their earnings easily. WidgetBucks is one of the Internet's fastest growing ad networks. It is also free service like Google AdSense and compatible with all other ad systems. See how you can maximize your income with WidgetBucks?

3. Text link ads: Text Link Ads is the premier targeted traffic and link popularity ad firm. Generate targeted traffic to your website -Improve your natural search engine rankings Only advertisements from Text Link Ads can do both. Many Text Link Ads publishers earn thousands of dollars per month. Once your blog is approved, your blog will be added to their marketplace within 48 hours, at which time it will be ready for purchase. By simply installing the Text Link Ads script on your site one time, you are set up to earn a consistent revenue stream and truly monetize your blog. Text Link Ads are priced on a flat rate for a 30 day period, so your earnings will not be dependent on clicks or impressions like most of the other advertizing programs. Payments are sent out immediately on the first day of each month with no fees. You can use Text Link Ads to monetize your blog with other advertizing programs.

4. Chitika: Chitika is a full-service on-line advertising network serving over 2 billion monthly impressions across more than 30,000 websites. Chitika is 100% Compatible with Google AdSense. Chitika is an easy-to-use platform for earning daily ad revenue. Make sure your SEO'd site is cashing in on that search engine traffic with Chitika Premium, the world's premiere search targeted advertising solution. Use Chitika to increase your revenue with other advertizing programs. Chitika recently released an eBook to help bloggers. The eBook is “Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging learn from 30 experts”. You can get this for free clicking the following link.

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5. Donations: another effective way to monetize your blog is paypal donation. When we are talking about monetizing a blog, methods like Google AdSense and WidgetBucks comes to mind. However, these free ad services are not the only ways to generate revenue. So even if your content is free like mine, give your visitors a means to voluntarily contribute if they wish.

PayPal is the leader in sending money and buying products online. This free service utilizes by people around the globe to purchase items from places like eBay and Amazon. But one of the great features that PayPal provides bloggers is the ability to create a donation button. This process is easier than ever.

6. Affiliate programs; another profitable way to earn money is to sell affiliate products. You simply direct traffic to their Web site and earn commissions when people buy products. They'll give you a link to track your sales. Amazon.com is great place to get HTML codes for various products to promote and earn good commission. Thousands of people are making a full time income just by only driving traffic from their site to merchant sites, never touching or shipping a product.

There are many more ways to monetize your blog, but above enlisted methods can generate substantial amount of money for beginners and let us leave rest for expert guys. But remember you can't do it overnight, patience and dedication you can make, good content pay back for itself and then some.

What is Following a blog?

Do you have a favorite blog and want to let the author and readers know that you are a fan? Well now you can do that and more with the Blogger Following feature! You can even keep track of the blogs you follow via your Reading List on the Blogger dashboard. There are several ways to become a follower of your favorite blog. One of the easiest ways is to visit a blog that has added the 'Following' widget, ad then follow these steps:

Visit a blog that has added the Following widget and click on the "Follow" button under the "Followers" widget:
You'll then see a popup window with the options to either follow publicly or privately:

Select how you'd like to follow the blog, and then click the "Follow this blog" button. It is that simple, you are now a follower of the blog! If you elected to follow the blog publicly, your profile picture will be displayed on the blog with a link to your Blogger profile (Note: The widget may not show all followers of the blog. If this is the case all followers will be linked from the widget).

When you become a follower of a blog, the blog will also be added to your Reading List on your Blogger dashboard and this site will also show on your Friend Connect profile for all the sites you've joined using Friend Connect. Additionally, you can become a follower of any blog or URL (even if the blog doesn't have the Followers widget) by adding the blog to your Reading List on the dashboard.

How to remove yourself from following a blog

The easiest way to remove yourself from following a blog is to visit the blog, and click "Settings" under the Following widget on the blog.

You will then see a pop-up window with your profile settings. Click the "Stop following this site" link and you will be removed from following that blog. If the blog doesn't have a Followers widget, you can still stop following the blog. To do so, go to the "Blogs I'm Following" tab under your Reading List on your dashboard
Then click the blue "Manage" button. You will then see a list of all the blogs that you are following. To stop following a blog, click the "stop following" link next to the blog you want to stop following.
Lastly, following a blog will create a subscription to the blog in your Google Reader account.

How to customize my blog layout?

Changing blog template is a fun way to customize your blog layout. When creating a new blog, you're first asked to choose a default template; this is the basic design of your blog. You can choose from customize your blog's layout using our intuitive drag-and-drop interface. You can also add powerful gadgets such as slideshows, user polls, or even AdSense ads. Changing the fonts and colors on your blog is easy too. If you want more precise control over your blog's layout, you can also use the Edit HTML feature. To edit your blog's layout, follow these steps:

1. Click the Layout link from your dashboard below the blog you would like to customize.
2. From the Page Elements sub-tab, click Edit to edit existing gadgets, or Add a Gadget to add new ones.

3. After you've clicked Add a Gadget, simply click the plus sign next to your desired gadget. You can choose from gadgets by category, or search for a specific gadget in the top right of the pop-up window.
4. You have the freedom to drag the page elements and drop them to arrange in a proper way. The mouse pointer changes when you point on the page elements then click on them and arrange as you like.
5. Once you've added the necessary information to your selected gadget, click SAVE button. Your layout changes will appear instantly.
6. When you are on your page elements tab, you can configure any of the page elements by clicking the “Edit” link on each elements. You can add and remove gadgets from your blogger layout when ever you want. Also Blogger gives you the freedom to format, configure and move around you page elements when ever you want.
Compared to a web site and other blogging platforms, Blogger has a lot of resources to add as gadgets to your blog. After adding a gadget you can customize them or if you want to remove them form you blog later you can do that. To remove a gadget simply click the Edit button of the relevant gadget, then click the Remove button from the pop up window. So, how easy to customize your blog layout?

How do I add new posts to my blog?

To add a new post to your blog, sign-in to your Blogger account at Blogger homepage, where you can enter your username (e-mail address) and password.
Once you've click on blue color SIGN IN button, you taken to your blogger dashboard. The dashboard will show you all your blogger blogs you currently have. From your dashboard you can enter to all the works you want to do, to any of your blogs you manage at blogger, post a new blog post, edit posts, change settings, adjust your layout and monetize. When you are going to add a new post to your blog, simply click on the blue color NEW POST button.
Next, you'll be displayed the post editor window (Writing and publishing a new post I). Start writing your post by giving the post a title (optional), and then enter the post itself:

What are backlinks?

· Backlinks display other webpages that link to your posts.
· To enable backlinks on your blog go to your SettingsComments tab and select Show

Backlinks enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts. What it all works out to is a way of expanding the comment feature such that related discussions on other sites can be included along with the regular comments on a post. The backlinks setting can be found under the Settings Comments tab, and consists of a single, simple option to turn it on or off:

Once everything is set up, you'll see a new link marked "Links to this post" next to the comment link for each post:
If you click that link you'll be taken to the post page, where the backlinks are all listed beneath the comments. Clicking the triangles next to each link will display a snippet of text from the page linking to you, as well as some author and date information.
If you want to turn off backlinks for individual posts, you can do so. The process is the same as that for turning off comments. Just edit the post in question and change the options that appear below the posting form:
Login to blogger to at Blogger home page to do all the work you want to your blog. Add new posts to your blog regularly. Blogger likes if you post frequently.

How to add images from photobucket?

When you wanted to host your images and videos, the ideal place for that task is photobucket. Sometimes your uploaded images to your blog posts won’t display with its original size. In this case we can assist a third party service to fix this problem. Photobucket is ideal for this; it is a free image and video hosting service. Photobucket is the premier site on the Internet for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos and graphics. Your free Photobucket account can store thousands of photos and hours of video.

Create a free account with photobucket
Go to the photobucket.com and click on the green color Join Now button.

In the next step, give a user name and a password and then click Next step button.
After creating your photobucket account you’ll be able to upload your images and videos you want to. Login to your photobucket account and click on the Choose files button. Select the files you want to upload to your photobuket account then click open.
How to add images to your blog?

Point the mouse to the image you want to add. Form the pop-up box click on the HTML Code box. Copy the link and past it in the exact place in your blog post editor window. Before you past the link make sure to select the Edit HTML tab on Blogger post editor window.

Add images and videos to your site form photobucket for free. Make your site more informative adding images and videos. Photobucket gives you more flexible features.

How do I add images and videos to my blog posts?

Adding images and videos to your blog posts is one of the simplest and most effective things you can do to grab and hold the attention of your readers, otherwise when you are writing your blog posts especially in tutorial mode, you want to add images and videos to give detailed explanations to the readers.

Adding an image to your blog post
Many bloggers do not use images; sometimes they don’t know the importance of using images with their blog post. Images enhance your blog posts in several ways:
· Images make your blog post look better.
· Images make your blog post look more professional improving the look of it.
· Images make your blog differentiate your blog from the rest.
· Images make your blog articles memorable to your visitors.

You can add images to your blog posts from your computer or from the Web. Click the image icon in the post editor toolbar.

Browse for an image file on your computer, or enter the URL of an image on the Web.
Once you've selected your image, you can then choose a layout to determine how your image will appear in your post:

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  The 'Left', 'Center', and 'Right' options allow you to customize the way your blog text will flow around your image.
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  The 'Image size' options will determine how large the image will appear within your post.
  

Click UPLOAD IMAGES button to add your image, and then click DONE when the notification window appears telling you that 'Your image has been added.' Blogger will then return you to the post editor, where you'll see your image ready to be published to your blog.

You can also publish images to your blog using your mobile device, Google's free photo software Picasa, or a third-party service like flickr. Learn more

Sometimes your uploaded images to your blog posts won’t display with its original size. In this case we can assist a third party service to fix this problem. Photobucket.com is ideal for this; it is a free image hosting service. How to add images from photobucket?

Adding a video to your blog post
To add a video to your blog post, click the film strip icon in the post editor toolbar.

Click Browse to select the video file from your computer that you'd like to upload. Note that Blogger accepts AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real and Windows Media files and that your video must be less than 100MB in size.

Before uploading your video, add a title in the 'Video Title' box and agree to the Terms and Conditions (you'll only have to do this the first time that you upload a video with Blogger). Then click UPLOAD VIDEO.

While your video uploads, you'll see a placeholder in the post editor showing where your video will appear. You'll also see a status message below the post editor letting you know that your upload is in progress. Depending on the size of your video, this usually takes about five minutes. When it is complete, your video will appear in the post editor. How do I add a video to my blog?

Writing and publishing a new blog post II

When publishing your new blog post, sometimes an error message will be displayed telling that you have a HTML error.

If you haven’t modified “Edit Html” section manually or you can’t think any possible reason for this error message, simply click on the check box “Stop showing HTML errors for the body of this post”. Then you can save and publish the post.

When you create a new post, Blogger will start automatically saving it for you once a minute without interrupting your typing. When it does , you'll see a little note next to the "Save" button, like this:

If you want to make sure the saved copy is completely up to date, you can click the "Save" button yourself. You'll remain on the post editor and can continue typing, since the saving happens in the background. If you're done working on the post for now, you can either click orange color "Publish Post" button to convert the draft into a post, or click "Return to list of posts" if you want to leave it as a draft and go back to the Edit Posts page.

Autosave does not occur when you are editing posts that have previously been published to your blog. This keeps your readers from seeing your edits until you're done with them. When editing a published post, you can click "Publish Post" to republish the changes to your blog, or click "Save as Draft" to unpublish the post and turn it into a draft.

Labels are handy if you blog about a lot of different subjects, since readers can then choose to view all of your posts on, say, dancing at once. Or politics, or knitting, or whatever you happen to be writing about. If you have a team blog, you could also give each member their own label, so you could easily read all the posts by any one of them. Feel free to come up with other creative new uses as well!

When you're writing a post, you'll have a space at the bottom of the post editor marked "Labels for this post." Enter whatever labels you like, separating them with commas. You can also click the "show all" link to display a list of labels you've used previously. Then just click on the labels to add them.

When you publish your post, the labels will be listed with it. Clicking any of the labels will take you to a page containing only posts with that label.
You can easily change the formatting used here by editing your blog's layout. You can also add a list of all your labels in the sidebar of your blog, sorted alphabetically or by frequency of use.
This is convenient way to readers; they can easily select the category which they find about by clicking the desired label. When you write and publish several blog posts, you’ll familiar with these options.

Writing and publishing a new blog post I

Now you’ve made your blogger blog. After you’ve been created your blog, you’ll be taken to a page where you can start writing and publishing your new blog post. There you’ll also be able to change all the settings and format of your blog, control the comments and change your current template if you want.

After setting up your blog, you are taken to the Create New Post page. Start by giving your post a title (optional), and then enter the post itself:

Here when you are writing the post in the writing space make sure the compose tab is active.
Blogger's post editor has three modes:

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  Compose: a wysiwyg mode where you manipulate text with formatting buttons
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  Edit HTML: a raw mode where you edit the html manually
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  Preview: renders a full-body preview of the post, including its Title, links and images

To switch among these modes, simply click on the appropriate link:

If you'd rather not use the wysiwyg editor, you can disable it in the Settings Basic tab in Blogger. The formatting buttons are only available in certain browsers. Keyboard shortcuts are also available; they can greatly speed up the posting process and we encourage you to use them.

Features, from left-to-right:

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Blogger developing an advanced, standards-compliant web-based rich text editor give you a convenient way to writing, publishing and edit your blog post.

When you're done, click the Preview link to make sure it's ready to go:

Once you're satisfied with your post, click the orange color PUBLISH POST button. This will publish your new post.

You’ll be displayed the message Your blog post published successfully!, now click “view blog” link to see your blog.
In our next post “writing and publishing a new blog post II” you’ll find further more explanation to write you a blog post.

How to make a blogger blog?

How to make a blogger blog tutorial, explains very simply, how to create, set up and start your blogger blog today. Also explains in details how to start writing blog-posts, how to adjust all the essential settings at blogger, how to promote your blog, how to monetize and how to get traffic for free. Step by step guide on how to register with major social book marking sites, blog directories and other free traffic generating sites.

To start to create your blog with Blogger, simply sign in with your Google Account. (If you use Gmail, Google Groups, or orkut, you already have an account.) You do not require you to have a Gmail address to log in to Blogger or to create a Google Account. If you don't have or want a Gmail account, you can still create a Google Account. A Google Account is made up of any email address and password of your choosing. If you don't have a Google Account yet, you can create one now.

A Gmail account comes with a built-in Google Account. If you already have a Gmail account, you can use your Gmail address and password to sign in to any other Google services you use. You can also merge your Blogger account with this existing Google Account, rather than creating a new one, and then use the same login information at Blogger.com.

Google Account functions as a single Google login, made up of an email address and password of your choosing. It gives you access to various Google services, including AdWords, Google Groups, Google Alerts, Froogle Shopping List, Personalized Search, your Personalized Homepage, and Google Answers. If you've used any of these services before, you already have a Google Account. Google Accounts are better protected against fraud, impersonation, and abuse.1. To get started with Blogger, visit the Blogger homepage, the following page will be displayed.

2. When you click orange color CREATE A BLOG button at Blogger, the following page will appear, this page is to create your Google account by choosing a username, a password and a display name – the name that will appear on your blog. Most people don’t put their own name on the blog but if you like you can.

3. If you already have any Google account, enter your username and password, and click Sign in. In the “Display name” box, you have to give name; you don’t have to confuse trying to come up with some nice title. “Peter’s Blog” or “Ann’s Blog is enough. In the next step you’ll be asked to create your “Blog title” and a URL. This will be http://yourchoice.blogspot.com/. You might have to enter few possibilities before you come up with an URL that hasn’t been taken. That’s because you are not the first person to start blogging. Also you can create use your custom domain name, we’ll be explaining about creating a custom domain later in more detail.

4. Final stage is to select a template. Blogger offers twelve templates to start with. They are all good professional design though you don’t like them, and you change it later. There’s a good selection at http://www.geckoandfly.com/blogspot-templates/

5. Your blog has been created.

In less than five minutes you’ve got your own blog. In this post How to make a blogger blog tutorial explained how to setup a blogger account. Next we are going to discuss “writing and publishing a new post”

What is the best blogging platform?

Why Blogger? Well for a few reasons:

1.) It's Free!

2.) Its quick and easy to setup

3.) Is owned by Google, the world’s most popular company on the Internet.

If you are a total new beginner, Blogger is suitable and the best blogging platform for you. However, no matter how popular your blog is, it is still owned by Google. Your blog can be removed if Google does not agree with the content you are putting up.

· Your blog. Share your thoughts, photos, and more with your friends and the world.

· Easy to use. It’s easy to post text, photos, and videos from the web or your mobile phone.

· Flexible. Unlimited flexibility to personalize your blog with themes, gadgets, and more.

Blogger's user-friendly editing tools help you easily design a great-looking page.

Templates — Blogger gives you collection of templates, will get you started with an attractive site right away without you having to learn any HTML, though Blogger also allows you to edit your blog's HTML code whenever you want.

Custom colors and fonts — when you're ready to take the next step, you can further customize your templates to create a design that perfectly reflects you and your blog.

Drag-and-drop page elements — Blogger's simple drag-and-drop system lets you easily decide exactly where your posts, profiles, archives and other parts of your blog should live on the page.

The fastest way to understand blogging is to try it out. They've worked really hard to make it really easy for you. And you can be part of the phenomenon that's transforming web and media to a participatory activity in less than five minutes, seriously.

What will happen then? Who knows? It might be fun, though.

And remember: Blogger is totally free, and if you have trouble, just click the Help button from any screen, and you can find the answer you're looking for—or even ask from the dedicated support staff. So what else, now you can decide why blogger is the best blogging platform for you, especially as you are total beginners to the world of blogging.

Common Blogging platforms

When you decide to make your own blog, there are many choices to be made. The very first choice is which blogging platform to use. Blogging platform means, which blog service (which blog service provider) you are going to be used? The most popular blogging platforms are Blogger, WordPress (WordPress.com/WordPress.org), Typepad, and Movable Type. There are some other blogging platforms are as follows.

· Lycos Tripod

· Squarespace

· Blogsmith

· Gawker Media platform

· Drupal

· Bricolage

· Expression Engine

· Scoop

· Gawker

· Serendipity

· LifeType

· Flatpress

· Wheatblog

· Eggblog

· Loudblog

When choosing your blogging platform, you’ll need to determine whether you would prefer a hosted or non-hosted blog platform. A hosted platform is one that is hosted on the platform’s server. In other words, if you have a Blogger blog, your blog is hosted on the Blogger server for free. A non-hosted site is a blog that is hosted usually a third-party you have to pay for the hosting. For example, if you use WordPress.org as your blogging platform, they do not host your blog for you. You will have another company host it.This article will explain the basic differences of these most common blogging platforms.


Blogger

Blogger provide free blog hosting on its own servers. Blogger will let you host a blog on its domain (yourblog.blogspot.com). With Blogger’s quick initial setup and point-and-click template switching, Blogger most resembles WordPress. Blogger has the ability to modify templates, allowing you to drag and drop 12 different page modules onto them. You can also drop in external RSS feeds such as Yahoo news feeds, AdSense ads, blogrolls, and third-party HTML and JavaScript applications. You can even customize your CSS by hand. Comments, and feeds, and presents them in a simple interface that clearly explains what each does.

Sometimes you just want to share a photo. There's a button for uploading photos in the Blogger interface. Just click the photo button to upload a photo from your computer. If the photo you'd like to put on your blog is already on the web that's fine too. Just tell us where it is.
You can also send camera phone photos straight to your blog while you're on-the-go with Blogger Mobile.

Blogger Mobile lets you send photos and text straight to your blog while you're on-the-go. All you need to do is send a message to go@blogger.com from your phone. You don't even need a Blogger account. The message itself is enough to create a brand new blog and post whatever photo and text you've sent.

Later, if your want to claim your mobile blog or switch your posts to another blog, just sign in to go.blogger.com and use the claim code Blogger sent to your phone
We support most popular mobile carriers in the US and worldwide. If Blogger Mobile is unavailable from your provider, you can still send posts to your blog using Mail-to-Blogger.

Blogger is a great option for anyone who wants to trick out a blog with third-party ads and applications, or who wants to blog for dollars through Google's AdSense program and other money making programs. If it ever lets you use its design customization on third-party servers, it will be a fantastic way to run a blog on your own site without having to maintain and update blog software. And remember Blogger is totally free

WordPress

WordPress.com offers versatile and free blog hosting on its own servers, or you can install its open-source code software (WordPress.org) on your own server. WordPress will let you host a blog on its domain (yourblog.WordPress.com) or use a domain or subdomain (blog.mycompany.com).

The widgets are limited, however, to items approved by WordPress.com, meaning you can't embed third-party JavaScript-based widgets or news feeds. Custom modification of CSS templates is possible, but that feature costs $15 per year.

You get no way to preview an entry before publishing as blogger gives you, which can be frustrating when you want to decide whether a page is ready for posting or needs more editing. WordPress offers 50MB of image storage, substantially less than Blogger allows.

WordPress is a great option for people looking to host a blog on their own domain for free. It also has a very dedicated set of users who contribute code to the product and answer questions in its forums. If you want to make money from blogging, however, you should look elsewhere for a hosted offering that allows ads, or find one of the many hosting providers that will install the full WordPress software on their servers.

TypePad

TypePad is the hosted version of blog software pioneer Six Apart's powerful Movable Type blog platform. TypePad services start at $5 per month a steal considering its professional interface and excellent design options.

Starting a new blog is simple. You can choose from 50 different themes and nine column layouts. You can also map a sub domain or a full domain to your hosted blog if you upgrade to the $9-per-month plan. You cannot, however, install third-party JavaScript, as Blogger allows you to do. Also, TypePad cannot create static pages. Text ads are allowed on TypePad blogs, but they must be from Kanoodle, a Six Apart partner. TypePad features a clean, professional design that is distinctly different from Blogger and WordPress's more playful interfaces.

TypePad, with its clean interface and multimedia features, is a great choice for a small-business or professional blog. However, its low bandwidth limits (2GB at $6 per month and 5GB at $9 per month) and its inability to create static pages limits its usefulness as a full content management system.

Movable Type

Movable Type makes it simple to start a blog, manage entire websites and build an engaged community of readers and customers.

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· As your site grows and becomes more successful, the platform scales to accommodate your fluctuating traffic needs.
· Movable Type is supported. We offer optional support for bloggers, online support for businesses, and premium support for enterprise and high-traffic bloggers.

You could get detailed information about common blogging platforms from this article. Next we will discus what is the best blogging platform for you.

What are the benefits of blogging?

Being a blogger you tell the world about anything you want to talk about. The main benefits of blogging are that it is very simple for a beginner and you can create your blog in five minutes or less. Unlike creating a website, creating a blog site is an easy process which does not require any technical, designer or any other HTML knowledge. Unlike other blogging platforms, creating a blog with Blogger, is very easy for beginners.

This whole process makes it fairly easy for people to create new blogger blog pages. This is especially created for first time users, as they can start blogging right away. There is a wealth of tools and information on blogging online. It is a very quick and easy process, as it doesn’t require much planning and designing. Compared to a lot of work that is needed to redesign a HTML website.

Another positive thing about creating a blog is interactivity. Blogs are made to be interactive. Your blog visitors can easily contact you and comment on your blog articles, and you can just as easily comment back. And with the size of the Internet, whatever your blog topic is, whatever you like to write your blog about, there will always be an audience wanting to visit and listen to what you have to say.

Here are some more benefits of blogging you could gain;

Make Money
Monetizing your blog is the best part of blogging. Some people start blogging targeting only making money, having a blog is a great way to make money online. One of the best money making strategy is have a Google AdSense account (which is free), a blog (which is free), and some articles (which are free if you write them yourself). Start showing ads on your blog. There's no cost, no obligation, and getting started is quick and easy.

Get your blog up and running without spending any money means that you have nothing to lose by starting a blog. The AdSense ads will be targeted to your content. Each time visitor clicks on ads, you get paid. When the money reaches $100 Google will either send you a check or transfer the money into your bank. Many bloggers don’t care about monetizing their blog but I know most bloggers earn excessive revenue from their blog. Precisely you also can earn money from your blog for free. The Google AdSense is only one option to make money with your blog, there are many ways to make money with your blogger blog. How nice is that?

More Friends
People come to my blog all the time. Some say nice things about the blog and its value to them. If I have made a mistake, they note me and also give some advises.

You can make some pen-pals, and some of them will spread your message. And you can’t forget the connections you’ll end up making through this most social of environments.

Build CommunityBlogs provide your small business with a chance to share your expertise and knowledge with a larger audience. An opportunity to connect with a wider audience and build a community is a strong benefit for consultants and knowledge workers.

More benefits of blogging
• Blogs represent a democratization of information dissemination, providing each individual with the opportunity to publicly present his or her thoughts and opinions.

• Blogs allow others to respond, providing feedback to the authors.

What are the types of blogs?

There are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type of content, but also in the way that content is delivered or written.

Personal blogsThe personal blog, an ongoing diary or commentary by an individual, is the traditional, most common blog type. Personal bloggers usually take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is never read by anyone but them. Blogs often become more than a way to just communicate; they become a way to reflect on life or works of art. A type of personal blog is referred to as "microblogging," which is extremely detailed blogging as it seeks to capture a moment in time. Sites, such as Twitter, allow bloggers to share thoughts and feelings instantaneously with friends and family and is much faster than e-mailing or writing. This form of social media lends to an online generation already too busy to keep in touch.

Corporate blogs
A blog can be private, as in most cases, or it can be for business purposes. Blogs, either used internally to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or public relations purposes are called corporate blogs.

Question blogging
Is a type of blog that answers questions? Questions can be submitted in the form of a submittal form, or through email or other means such as telephone or VOIP. Question blogs (Qlogs) can be used to display shownotes from podcasts or the means of conveying information through the internet. Many question logs use syndication such as RSS as a means of conveying answers to questions.

Group blog
A blog type with more than one regular contributing writer. Also known as a collaborative blog. Like the name says, it’s a blog that’s controlled by several people. Basically, a few people get together and share the workload. One of the main benefits is that each person will be able to bring there strengths into the mix. Everyone can share their ideas for monetizing the site and increasing the revenue. Also, everyone can share there knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and other promotion strategies.

CeleblogA blog written about celebrity or written by a celebrity. Usually focuses on news, gossip and often contains embarrassing or revealing paparazzi photos.

Movlogs
These are mobile video blogs. These are similar to a Moblog, but the feature videos.

Media BlogThey can be video blog, music (mp3) blog, or photo blog. Their blog posts are shorter as their main focus is to share multimedia contents.

SplogA spam blog.

Tech blog
A blog that focuses on new technology information.

LinguablogAbout linguistics, translation etc.

MetablogThis is a blog type about blogging.

MilblogA military blog.

Project BlogA blog dedicated to a specific project. This can range from a hobby project to a larger corporate project.

BlawgBlogged by lawyer/related to legal stuff.

Edu-blogEducation oriented blog.

PhotocastA photoblog that automatically updates when new photos are added.

MicroBlog
A blog that allows up to 140 character long posts. Twitter is the most popular and allows text messaging for blog postings via cell phone.

Those are the most commonly used types of blogs on the Internet today. There are some more blog types there.