If you are having a particular love for something, whether it's a hobby or an job, and you have something to say about it, blogging could be a money-making way to pour out your creative stream of thinking. The point here, as with several other services on the Internet, is in selling advertising.After making up a personal blog, many writers sign up for ad services like Google AdSense, which introduce these common sponsored links you always watch on the side and on the top of sites. The more your blog readers click on these ads, the more money you will make through the ad service. This works fine if you are a pro blogger, and you can make alot extra spending money. But if the blog is consistently perfect, unique content and really takes off, you may be approached by companies who want to acheive your lovers base with graphical advertising around your blog. Some of the more successful blogs, like Translation time and Boing Boing, have become pop-culture phenomena, and their bloggers have been able to quit their day jobs and blog full time because of the money they make from advertisers.

What is a "blog"?
"Blog" is an abbreviation for "weblog," which is a method to explain web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of info. A blog options diary-type commentary and links to articles and posts on other sites, usually presented as a numbered list of entries in reverse chronological order. Weblogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects.

Several weblogs concentrate on a particular topic, like web design, real estate, sports, technology. Presenting links to all types of other websites. And others are more like personal journals, presenting the author's daily life and thoughts.

Generally speaking (although there are exceptions), weblogs tend to have a few things in familiar:


The Blog Content
Content is the reason for any web site. Retail sites feature a catalog of products. University sites have info talking about their campuses, curriculum, and faculty. News sites display the latest news stories. For a personal weblog, you could have a group of observations, or reviews. Without few sort of updated unique content, there is few suitable reason to visit a site more than once. Content is like the president of the website.

On a weblog, the content are made of articles (also sometimes called "posts" or "entries") that the author(s) writes. Yes, some weblogs could have several authors, each writing his/her own content. Typically, weblog authors compose their content in a web-based interface, made in the blogging system itself. Some blogging systems also support the ability skill to use stand-alone "blog client" program, which give permission to  authors to write content offline and upload it at a later time.

Comments
Want an amazing site? Would not it be perfect if the readers of a site or blog could post their comments, tips,  impressions,  instructions and guidelines about the site or a specific article to increase its productivity? With weblogs, they can! Posting comments is one of the most exciting features of blogs.

Most weblogs have feature to allow visitors and readers to post comments. There are also nifty methods for authors of other weblogs to post comments without even visiting or reading the weblog! Called "pingbacks" or "trackbacks", they can tell other bloggers whenever they cite an article from another site in their own content. All this ensures that online talks can be protected painlessly among several site users, readers and visitors .

The Difference Between a Blog and CMS?
Program that provides a way of managing your website is commonly called a CMS or "Content Management System". Many blogging softwares are considered a specific type of CMS. They support the options needed to make and protect a weblog, and able to make uploading on the internet as simple as writing an article, giving it a header and a title, and organizing it under (one or more) categories. While some CMS softwares provide vast and sophisticated options, a basic blogging tool offers an interface where you will be able to work in an easy to some degree, intuitive manner while it takes responsibility of the logistics involved in creating your composition displayable and publicly available. All in all, you get to concentrate on what you want to post and write, and the blogging software takes responsibility of the rest of the site management.

Have fun blogging and remember, there are no rules to what you post on your blog except copying! :)