Blogs are treated as personal websites. Blogs can be created on Blogspot, WordPress and other free content hosting websites. WordPress can be installed on your domain and you can create a blog on your own website too.
It is easy to create a blog. There are several websites on the internet where free blogs can be created. Blogs are generally used for instant updates. You can publish instant updates of your area, career, subjects, technologies, fields etc to update your followers and friends.
Generally, 300 words are the ideal word limit for blogs. You can submit images, videos and audio files on your blogs. Because of efficiency and easiness, blogs are preferred for getting backlinks.
Blogs are even a good medium for earning. If you are able to promote your blog and thousands of visitors are visiting your blog monthly, you can earn by writing a post for a client on your blog. For posting blogs on your blog sites, you can charge accordingly. You can enrol for Google AdSense and earn by monetizing the blog’s traffic.
Amazon has also created an affiliate section for blogs. It means you can use amazon’s badge on your blog and if anyone buys any book through your blog, you will get a decent affiliate commission. Because all blogs are yours and you have complete rights to your blogs, you can optimize your websites through linking from your blogs. That’s why blogs are essential while doing SEO of your website.
Benefits of the blog:
- Blogs are good to optimize your website.
- These are good sources for branding and promotion.
- Through blogs, you can update your clients while launching new services on your website.
- Blogs facilitate you to post your business or product updates instantly on the internet without any hardness.
On the internet, you can see a new face of blogs i.e. Microblogs. Twitter is an example of microblogs.