A blog is a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.
- Blogs often provide commentary or news on a
particular subject, such as
Ø food,
Ø politics, or local news
Ø some function as more personal online diaries.
- A typical blog combines
a) text,
b) images,
c) links to other blogs,
d) web pages,
e) other media related to its topic.
The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of most early blogs.
ADVANTAGES
Blogs are easy to create
Now creating blog has become child's play. You don't need any advance and expensive softwares or monkey tricks to create a blog. You just have to sign up to blog providers (Blogger, wordpress, typepad , etc). Then you have to follow just 3 steps i.e. name the blog, Choose template (blog providers will offer you varieties of templates) and start posting.
You don't need any software to maintain your blog. You can maintain your blog online. After you sign in to your blog account you can create a post, edit post, change blog template, customize your blog and change blog settings easily.
Blogs are search Engine Friendly
Since each post of the blog is assigned with different URL address. Each of them will have its own and separate web page. If you care of making good posts focused on a specific topic and carefully choose good keywords describing your posts then it will have more chance of ranking well with search engines. Also blogs trends to be updated regularly, search engines will crawl them easily to their index since search engines prefer fresh posts.
Blog hosts are for free.
You have probably seen in various sites or blog "5 mb web hosting just for $5 per year". People waste their money doing web hosting. Blogs are free for all. Any people of this world can start blogging in just few minutes. Blog allows you all the features provided as the site. Some more features are also provided by blogs. Not only blogs are free but also you can earn money from blogging
