What Is A Blog?

First of all, all you need to know clearly is what you are doing and what you want to do.

Let me introduce with some terms using in blogging.

-What Is Blog?

A blog (short for weblog) is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs are defined by their format: a series of entries posted to a single page in reverse-chronological order.

Just look some other people say about blog.

Problogger.net said

A blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.

Wiki said

A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.


Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.

Here,Blogger.com, said

In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.

Since Blogger was launched in 1999, blogs have reshaped the web.

For those who would like to find more about the definition of Blog, Blogging and Blogger, u can go and see here.



-Which blog you are using?


Normally there are many blog hosting sites. But most blogger create a blog at blogger.com and some choose wordpress.com. While wordpress can give lots of templates , blogger.com has a big community that you will be in the commnity. Many bloggers choose blogger.com as long as I see. However, I'll only discuss concerning with the blogs from blogger.com.


-Which format you are using?

At blogger.com, you are asked to started with .xml based templates which are aimed to be easily accessible by users. If you want to learn about html or you know it them well, you can do it by just clicking 'Edit Html' under 'Layout' main menu. Then you can find the link for 'Revert to Classic Template' just bel0w on left side. Their templates are rare to find. But its easier for you to start with .xml which is the original format you are given.

10 Things To Know To Do A Blog

Which field you are doing?

The most important thing is the content that you are doing. Depending on your choice, the readers, the targeted market will be specific. If you are doing for information of certain country like Thailand's, Myanmar's, you can see all your readers are from Thais or Myanmars.

While you are choosing the field, firstly you come to your head is what field you gonna to choose.

1.It must be your favorite one or the one you will never get bored.

2.The targeted market should be niche means your readers can't find your information widely. (It is very important because when you choose of Britney Spears, how can you possibly compete other websites, news, blogs that are doing about her up to date all the time.)

3.The information must not be shortage or lack from continuous getting them for its survival.

4.Are you really a writer? It means you can produce your own thought, idea and opinion for your constant reader. Otherwise, you have to think how to maintain your constant or royal readers.

5.Choosing templates is also one of the main things that you and your readers never get bored and ease to read. There are many good template generating websites you can find. I recommend jackbook (or you can google them).

6.You have difficulties for starting your blog? You should read other blogs or sites which can give you idea or source. The more you can spend to get your information, the more source you can get for your site.

7.It's better to separate your posts than to combine together in one post with all information. It will help to popularity of your site and more possible for search engine to read the content.

8. Go other sites, give good comments that means you are not going there only for advertising your site. They will definitely find where are you from.

9. Find the way how to interact with your readers to get their feedback, idea, source and what they want. You can make Chatting Box, recommend to comments and take care of them.

10.Update regularly however and whenever if you think as your readers.

11 Reasons People Don't Visit Your Website

No Original Content

It's important to give your visitors information they can't find anywhere else. If you're the only source for a certain type of information, people will definitely keep watching your web site as their pet.


No Free Stuffs

Most people want to download some free softwares which are necessary for their computer, such as some e-books, link to download fonts if your mother tongue is not English.



No Directory

No images, no movies, no directory then you let your readers get bored and it will be hard to get to your targeted audience. People will visit because they will find what they're looking for, all in one place.



Only Passive Ways

If you like that your readers to just stay silence and need not to be royal visitors, you can use passive way which will loose your traffic, money and effort. Try to be interactive with your constant readers, take care of them and make it active. Voting can be applied.



No Feeds

Most people love to get free information that they're interested in e-mailed to them or to organize them as a feed reader. This saves them time and money.


No Blog Rolls

No Links means you are isolated. Make many link exchanges with other websites as much as you can which can really drive traffic to your site.

Loading Too Slow

If your site is unbearably slow, your new comers and almost everyone will just simply close your site before the loading to be end. Loading speed is depending on what materials you put. Most of them are java script, large file size of images and large amount of data.

Not User Friendly

If you don't want only limited amount of users among billions of internet users around the world, you should not make your site as not User-friendly which include adult things, rated materials which are not suitable for all ages, violence, cheating others and non-ethical stuffs.


User Disturbance

No pop-ups or message box ( such as forcing users to Bookmark or click all the time) if you want people not to be disappointed visiting to your site. So be careful when you are trying to use pop-up ads.


Wrong Information

I hope you may not provide wrong information to your audience without getting the right one. This will make your readers confuse and they will response what they believe.


No Update

This is the most hardest things that every blogger faces. No current information or news is like living in the same pond. Supply news stories related to your web site. People want up-to-date news on the topics they are interested in. They will also be interested in visiting your web site.

How To Deal With Blog-Create Post

Hope you are ready for start doing a blog. Here are some helpful detailed information since you all are my friends.

How to get to 'Create post' or 'New Post'

After you have created a new blog, you will find that blog at your dashboard (http://www.blogger.com/home). If you have more than one blog, you will see all of them as sorted from the one that you updated most lately.

Each Blog has links beside to modify more quickly and easily for 'New Post', to create your new post, right side of 'Manage', 'Post', to manage your old posts, 'Setting',to manage your blog setting, 'Layout', to edit your design of your site or template. Right most of the title of blog is 'View Blog', to view your current blog.

To create post, click 'New Post' there. After you are there, you can also make another new post by clicking 'Create' at the left second top menu list.

How to write inside the post

For normally, you will see title bar that you write for the specific address of individual post. That is the most important part of the content that readers get you through search engine.

Below that, you will see two tab at right "Edit Html" and "Compose".

For a beginner, you are recommended to stay at 'Compose' and just writing what you want to write. You can see all accessible options as menu bar just below it. All are user-friendly as Microsoft Word.

How to upload images and videos

When you want to upload the photo, you can click the 'Add image' button there. The new window will appear. Then you will see two places to upload the image; left is for uploading your own image from your computer which is lower than 8MB file size and right one is for grabbing the image from other website with their individual link that won't take you long time. You can add more images link up to 5.

After that, you have to choose a layout the way you want your photo appear where 'None', to drag your image any where in the post, 'Left' to keep that left side of the paragraph so on.

Image Size doesn't mean to reduce the quality of your site. It just make the web to be shown suitable appearance. You can still view the original size of image when you click on that.

You then upload images which will take u a couple of min depending on the image size.

Uploading video is also easy to understand as you can see there.


When you are ready to publish your post, you can make the labels for that post so that you and readers can easily organize them and find the posts with same label. You can separate with commas and up to 200 characters.

Then in Post options, you can just leave it unless you don't want the readers to comment the post or allow backlinks (which is the link appeared when other people forwarding to your post).

You can also change for post date and time.

In HTML editing, you can edit every detail format of each word. For some code, you can only edit at 'HTML', paste and post.

For example, if you want to publish the video that you like from 'YouTube' in your site, you can copy the embed code from 'YouTube' and just paste it under 'Edit Html'.

If you are willing to learn Html code and blogging in perfect way, you better do all things under 'Edit Html'. But that are not recommend for beginners for hoping that they are not editing the code and all.

You can preview it before you publish the post. If there is some error in html code, you will be asked to manage it.