What does a Blog mean?

Blog is an acronym for Web Log, where new content is chronologically added or you can say updated. It can be on just any topic or niche you can think of and millions already exist on web. Person who updates these blogs is called a blogger and the whole process of creating and maintaining a blog is called blogging.

Two easy and most used ways to create a blog is through blogger.com which belongs to Google and also through a bit more technical but easy processor known as WordPress. The purpose of a blog is to provide information and a blogger can write personal diaries, provide information on any skills they have or provide information on their profession to the whole world and therefore, maximize profits by attracting larger clientele base.

Thus, it can have both professional or you can say business or personal use. Blogs have archives of the information or content posted in the past while the main front or home page displays the recent content. Blogs should always be friendly, concise and conversational and that is why the column of comments or feedback is given at the end where readers can post their comment and share their views.

Trends as well as purpose of blogs keeps on changing and the monetary aspects have taken the biggest piece of the purpose pie and this means many people use it to make money through Ad based programs run by search engines. Content is king when it comes to blogging and more useful and productive content and information you post in your blog, more traffic of visitors it generates.

More popularity means more clicks on the Ads and therefore, more money falling in to your account. Blogs helps in exchanging views, voicing opinions, sharing information, creating ideas, demonstrating skills through videos and also pictures, getting exposure and most of all, reaching across the globe.