Blogging phenomena
The internet world has been swept by Web 2.0 storm. Blogs and blogging in general is one of the main contributor in the web 2.0. phenomena where social media are getting more attention. Blogging starts of only as a way to express oneself; call it an online diary if you like. After tweaking and exposures to the internet world though, blogging has shifted in direction. Nowadays, more and more blogs are going live as a way of self actualization in the internet world. People get more focused and blog in a specific direction, not as general as it originally was.
A free publishing method
Blogging could also be considered as a free publishing method. With blogs in hand, we are able to release contents without going through the hassle of contacting a publishing company, reviewers and all those traditional rushes that traditional publishing have. Even better, for bloggers, we are giving out information in the form of opinions and personal experiences which resulted in a more intimate relationship with readers.
Blogging also leverage social communication through the means of commenting. By commenting, bloggers and site owners get to know each other. And who knows, a joint venture might just sprung
Looking forward
Due to this leverage, more and more information can be attained through blogs. Be it through the original article that was written by the blog owner and even more resources from the comment section where visitor actually left their thought. In response to these high quality contents, people and companies are starting to advertise in blogs relevant to their field. This resulted in some people actually making huge amount of full-time income through blogging.
Some bloggers are really going big and become an authority figure in their respective areas, take for example Yaro Starak who gain his success through entrepreneurs-journey, Jeremy Schoemaker in his blog shoemoney, Brian Clark through copyblogger and Daren Rowse through ProBlogger. These people started off doing what they love and blog about it.
Starting Out to Blog
How do you start blogging? there are a lot of blogging platform out there. The most popular at the time of writing is blogger and WordPress. These blogging platform not only offer ease of setting up, they also offer free hosting to start with.
If you are really interested in becoming a professional blogger, join the blog mastermind program by Yaro Starak, there's a ton of great information and helps provided. If you want to know the quality of Yaro's material, feel free to download the blog profit blueprint here. It is free and available for public.
Hope you have fun if you plan on blogging
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hey this is a very interesting article!
Blogger as a free platform is best and wordpress as self hosted platform is best. I have a site one on blogger and another on workpress both look same.. Just try
http://freeplr.in this is using wordpress
http://www.freeplr.in this is using blogger
I was testing both and felt both are the best....
Pradip