What Is Problogging & Why You Should Know About It:
A weblog, or “blog” is a website that publishes articles known as posts or entries, written by an individual or group.
Blogs are usually arranged in reverse chronological order.
Most blogs have the following components-
Postdate: the date and time of the blog entry
Category: the category that the blog belongs to
Title: the title of the blog
Main body: the main content of the blog
RSS and trackback: links the blog back from other sites
Comments: commentaries that are added by readers
Permalinks: the URL of the full article
Other optional items: calendar, archives, blogrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins
A blog can also have a footer, usually found at the bottom of the blog, that shows the post date, the author, the category, and the stats.
Here’s a list of some of the most popular types of blogs-
Political blog: on news, politics, activism, and other issue-based blogs (such as campaigning).
Personal blog: also known as online diary that may include an individual’s day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.
Topical blog: with focus either on a niche that is usually technical in nature or a local information.
Health blog: on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.
Literary blog: also known as litblog.
Travel blog: focuses on a traveler’s stories on a particular journey/journeys.
Research blog: on academic issues such as research notes.
Legal blog: on law (technical areas) and legal affairs, also known as “blawgs”.
Media blog: focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.
Religious blog: on religious topics.
Educational blog: on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.
Collaborative or collective blog: a specific topic written by a group of people.
Directory blog: contains a collection of numerous web sites.
Business blog: used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.
Personification blog: focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).
Spam blogs: used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as “splogs”.
The term “blogging” refers to the act of authoring, maintaining, or adding an article to an existing blog, while the term “blogger” refers to a person or a group who keeps a blog.
Bloggers can be categorized into 4 main types-
1. Personal bloggers: people who focus on a diary or on any topic that an individual feels strongly about.
2. Business bloggers: people who focus on promoting products and services.
3. Organizational bloggers: people who focus on internal or external communication in an organization or a community.
4. Professional bloggers: people who are hired or paid to blog.
Problogging(professional blogging): refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers(professional bloggers) are people who make money from blogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired blogger).
The following are 5 things that you need to think about if you want to be successful problogging-
1. Be patient. Problogging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.
2. Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.
3. Be an expert. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the “go-to” blogger on that topic.
4. Diversify. Experiment with various ad and affiliate programs that enable you to make money.
5. Don’t bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacing, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.
It’s possible to make money blogging. It’s possible to make a lot of money blogging. How much will you make? The answer is, it depends. As with most things, you are likely to get out what you put in.
“How do you create a successful blog or website? Either write or share content that is worth reading on a regular basis. The internet might be packed with information, but there will always be a need and a want for useful information.” Michael “MJ The Terrible” Johnson – Founder & Owner – Masters of Money, LLC.
From Starting A Blog To Making Money Blogging – https://www.therealmjtheterrible.com/from-starting-a-blog-to-making-money-blogging/
