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Professional blogging is still a very new concept, one which many entrepreneurs look towards as containing a great deal of promise and the potential to generate an appreciable revenue for those with a vision and able to stick with it for the long term. As of now there are very few who would call themselves professional bloggers, with even fewer bloggers making their writing their sole source of income. However, there are an ever increasing number of people who are monetizing their blog as a means of supplementary income.

There are a lot of bloggers who are excited by the possibility of blogging for profit. After all, many of these bloggers spend more than an hour a day updating their blog for no financial reward whatsoever; if they could build some sort of revenue stream for their efforts, they certainly would do so. There are a few viable ways of making money from a blog; the most common of these is to sell ad space on one’s blog either through the popular Google AdSense program or directly to a company which wants to target the niche which reads the blog. The number of people able to support themselves solely through the sale of ad space on their blog, however, is very small.

A majority of blog readers are themselves bloggers, given that those who use the platform themselves are the most likely to have an interest in what other bloggers are doing. This is one of the reasons that the most successful bloggers, at least in the financial sense are those who have invested a lot of time in learning and writing about blogging itself.

As blogging grows, professional blogging is certain to change greatly and become far more complex than it is today. As of now, the bloggers who are having the most success monetizing their blogs are those who speak to an audience of bloggers on the topic of blogging. As the audience for blogs expands, this will change and professional blogging will have to change along with this shifting landscape lest they be left behind.

It is nearly impossible to predict exactly what the future holds for professional blogging - the blogosphere is in constant flux, which is one of the things which makes it so interesting.

Marenda :: Nov.19.2008 :: Business :: No Comments »

As you start of your career as a blogger, you are going to have to learn some of the important terminology which bloggers use. These are the four most important words for you to learn as a novice blogger: blog, domain, platform and web host. Once you learn these terms, you’ll be able to discuss blogging as if you’ve been at it for years. When you understand how blogging works you’ll have no trouble passing your blogging 101 exam.

Blog is an abbreviated form of the word weblog; that is to say a series of posts presented by date, much like an online diary. The majority of blogs are plain text, but video and photo blogs are out there as well. Blogs themselves are relatively simple, but to set one up you’ll need to learn some of the technical aspects; you’re going to need a web host, a domain and a platform.

First, there are platforms. A platform is the software which you’ll use to edit and write your posts and upload them to your blog. Platforms also include tools which you can use to customize the design of your blog; colors, fonts and more elements which can personalize your blog are there for your use.

Web hosts are the next term we need to address. A web host is the computer which your blog will “live” on (this is not your own computer) - think of it as a sort of virtual file cabinet which holds your blog posts.

Domain is simply the web address of your blog, typically ending in .com.

Now that you’ve learned these three important terms which all bloggers need to become familiar with, congratulate yourself- you have completed blogging 101.

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