Blog
What is a blog?
A blog is a online website that is updated regularly by a person,
group or business, sharing their thoughts, story's, product, or passions with the world.
This allows people a global audience to express themselves or for a business to have their product talked about.
Blogging has grown from day to day life much like a journal or diary tho some people still use it for this purpose.
It has become popular and todays blogs are used for more, some sharing up to date global news or how to get your hair perfectly purple, there a great source of information, and trending more around the world.
What types of blogs?
There many types of blog out there is mostly depends on how it is intended to be used,
for example there is:
Video blogs:
YouTube is one of the most well known places for video blogging, they can range from how to videos to a business showing how to use their product.
Personal blogs:
There are many blog site that can be used for personal blogging, They can be used for whatever a person is wanting to share, family life, a weight loss journey or their ideas on a topic.
Business blog:
Business can use a blog to traffic more global attention to their products, Some many use the blog as a personal blog but showcasing their carefully placed product or links within the blog or images.
5 Blogging systems
Google Blogger:
Free set up with no additional payments needed, with server hosting by Google.
Receiving a free domain name making it easy for a person to remember or to share.
Google blogger is very popular with a large number of users and most suggesting blogger for beginners.
Easy to set up with options for customising your blog with templates.
The only negatives that were found being there is limited support available with basic documentation or user form being the support platform.
Instagram:
Instagram is free to set up linking to some of the main stream social media accounts and making it easy to share one image across all media systems at once.
Many are turning to the photography side of blogging, with a image or video being the main interest in to reading the content.
The negatives to using Instagram are the cap of character being set a 2,200 so there is limited space to get a post across to followers.
With no customisation to personal profiles.
Very limited filters and editing tools.
Youtube:
With more the 1 billion users registered on youtube, and hundreds of videos being added daily, this is a great system to reach a global audience.
Easy to set up and free to use, With the ability to add videos in to a playlist and having additional space to post a written blog under the video.
With easy sharing videos from youtube to your social media being a few clicks.
Allowing users to customise there channels with banners and profile photos.
The negatives for youtube is until you have a fan basic your video go unwatched and the total amount of negative comments and trolls found on youtube could turn people away.
Wordpress:
https://wordpress.com/create/
Wordpress is considered by most as one of the easiest to install and operate, With loads of options.
With the ability to add plugin and enhance the over all design.
With giving options to scheduling publishing making it easy to create, set and forget.
Free basic set up but can be made into a premier account for more options.
Wordpress offers email and live chat support.
The negatives for Wordpress are the communicational options are limited to mostly comment sections,
WordPress default settings can be vulnerable to hacker attacks and virus without knowledge to set or change these a blog could be venerable.
Also recurring need for hosting that come additional cost.
Squarespace:
With a start up 14 day free trail Squarespace have multiple options for templates and uploading your own design.
Everything on square space is owned and developed making it user friendly, and
Offering 24/7 customer support via live chat and email.
The cons for Square space is the cost per month is large at $26 month to month for the most popular plan.
Square space would best suit someone with experience and could be challenging for a beginner.
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