In today’s digital world everyone around is fascinating about this 4 letter word which is called “BLOG”
The blog is a truncation of “weblog” that means it is simply the posts of a website which keeps on updating (source: wiki)
The blog is nowadays part of a writer’s personality. After reading your blog post one can figure out your lifestyle, way of thinking, how you are serving the society or even taste of your life like, if someone likes interior decoration and likes to write as well then in his blogs there’s a huge chance of getting topics of interior decoration discussed.
There are endless topics on which blogs can be written.
Just by searching about Blogs on any of the search engines, you can easily get options to create an account and start blogging. These blog sites are easily available online for free and also in paid with premium services.
I am skipping names of blog sites to give you the chance to search and choose as per your choice if you are new in this blogging world 😀
So, once you have chosen the website to create your blog, you need to login to with your e-mail ID and one secured password.
After, doing these formalities, you are boarded on a page full of options available to customize the look, content background and other settings of your blog.
All these settings are done to customize the presentation of your blog
I have searched these points online when I was creating my blog for the first time.
Here I have penned down 13 important blog’s details which may confuse you for some time if you are a new blogger, and it will also make you easy to understand the blog page sections and settings.
· Archive: List of your past blogs.
·Category/Label: Categorizing the blog based on its content so it would be easier for the reader to choose according to their interest.
·Tags: These are a set of keywords that makes you blog visibility among people who are following these keywords or are searching the keywords online.
·Comment section: Space below you blog post where readers can interact with you, share their views regarding the blog, There is an option to approve the comment before publishing it for the world, if you turn that ON, then if anyone will comment on your blog after your approval only, it will be shown to others & that’s why it is a good practice to do.
· Domain name: Set of words anyone types on the site bar to search your blog/website.
·Font: Words and all set, look, size, color, background.
·Header: It is the very first section of the blog, it generally includes the topic of your blog post.
·Footer: Last section of your blog which generally includes copyright details and blog website on which you have built your blog.
·Link: It is a pathway to connect your post page with some other page while clicking on that Link, it moves you to the page attached with that link.
·Email subscription: Ability to provide a blog post on the email of the subscriber who has enrolled with his email on the post.
·RSS feeds the Same as an e-mail subscription.
·Primary Image: Image on the post which will show at the head of the blog and in the reader’s column while searching the posts on that blog site. It is advisable to always have an image in the blog post, it makes the blog look attractive and also easy for people to get an idea about the blog.
·SEO: Search engine optimization- is the process of increasing the traffic of your web post using specific keywords on your blog post related content so, at the time of search with these keywords on the Google or any search engine, the web traffic may route to those blog posts as well.
How is a blog different from a Website?
Many people don’t understand the difference between a blog and a website
A Blog is a set of pages created on a website, where the content of the post is about a particular topic.
The website is full of content on the company’s culture and work-oriented products and services and other available details required for the visitor to know more and to contact the person.
The website may also contain blog posts in one of its sections where blogs related to its product/services or work culture or any press-release would be published.
Which one is your favorite blog site?
Comments are always welcomed 🙂
Nupur Shukla 