Common Blogging Terms with Definitions

Here are the most common terminologies used in blogging with brief explanations each.

SEO - Search Engine Optimization. Making your blog rank higher in search engines and get more visitors.

Monetize - Make money with your blog. It is by terms of advertisements, sponsors, affiliates.

Ads in blogs - These ads is where a blogger earn money. Advertisers will display ads in a blog and pay the blogger for amount of visitors and ad clicks.

Affiliates - This is also a way to earn money in blogging wherein you will suggest or refer a visitor to a certain product or service and you be paid for every referral.

Niche - The main topic of your blog. This is where all articles are focused on.

Web hosting - Where you will be hosting your blog. An example is on blogger.com or wordpress.com which is free and very popular and trusted. You may also try paid hosting and the most recommended platform to use is wordpress.org. Example of paid hosting are bluehost, dreamhost, etc.

Blogging platform - Examples: Blogger, Wordpress.

These are at least the most common used terms.

more terms and definitions will be posted later or you can ask for the meaning of a certain word in the comments below.

Creating Good Articles for your Blog

In blogging your articles or blog content is one of the most important thing to be successful. The very first thing in making an article for you blog is originality, you should take time in writing and not just copying articles form other blogs, doing this is not considered blogging and you can never call yourself a blogger. Original authors of good articles take hours in writing their contents. Number one reason why you should make original content is you can never get visitors to your blog, specially from search engines because google, yahoo and other search engines filter and pick only the original contents and shown in search results. For short copied articles are useless.

Let's proceed to our topic, a good article should have enough words and not just a single sentence or two. make it at least 3 or more long paragraphs. Doing this will make it worth reading for readers and a long article will contribute in your blog's SEO in terms of keywords (for short it will also make your blog rank higher in search engine results), I will explain this further in later articles.

Your article should also have at least one photo. Adding image also make your article attractive, by the way in adding images it is always recommended to post your own photo and if the image is not yours you should always give credits to the real owner. 

How to Pick Your Topic/Niche for your Blog

Picking the topic before starting your blog is very important. Just for these simple reasons, Firstly you will enjoy writing articles if the topic of your blog is your personal interest or hobby. And if you love what you are writing all about you will not have any problem thinking of a new article so your blog will have many contents in no time.

As I was saying the topic you should pick should be connected with your interest, skills, education, knowledge, and experience. At least these are the main source of your articles. As we all know blogging can be considered a job and can be considered the easiest in many ways. Once you made number of articles you can now monetize or make money with your own blog. And still connected with what i am saying in the first words of this article, from the saying about jobs "If you love what you are doing you will never feel you are actually working. If you really passionate in blogging and very willing to share your ideas and knowledge you can be just like us bloggers and do blog for living, seriously.

This is why many people nowadays are leaving their current work and continue their blogging career instead. Because they already noticed that they can actually earn money in blogging just like a normal work in companies, offices, etc. But before thinking about making money in blogging, you should at least learn some basics and guides in starting your own blog.

What Makes a Good Blog

What I mean with a good blog is a blog that is informative or entertaining and the reader will be pleased with what they get in it. The main characteristic also of a good blog is original and high quality contents. This will make it more possible for these blogs to succeed and also give the author the opportunity to be recognized and be famous among bloggers and even for all people reading and knowing his/her blog.

A good blog should also be updated, meaning it should always have new or fresh articles, this will keep the readers in visiting again and again. Many quality articles will also help in making your blog rank high in search engines. 

Another one is the layout of the blog. You should not concentrate mainly on the content, it is the most essential part of a blog but your blog layout or design must also be neat and easy to navigate to make the readers comfortable also while reading your articles. Just a glance in the design will change the impression of the reader and will decide immediately if to continue reading or find another website instead.

What is a Blog

A blog is mostly like an information website where the blogger or the author of the blog is writing about what he/she thinks about a certain topic or share experiences and knowledge to other people. 

If you search for something like a tutorial for computers for example, there's a great possibility that the first search result will be a blog, blogs ranks higher in search engines or simply more likely to appear when you search something in google or yahoo because compared to other information websites blogs are more organized, direct to the topic, and good blogs are more SEO friendly, we'll talk about SEO on later articles.

There are many types of blogs, almost all topics and categories of tutorials and information are topics of certain blogs today. This includes technology, entertainment, sport and others. You may also find blogs that contain all these categories but these are common. This is because a blog with a specific or only one topic will have big chances of success.