The most common question arises in someone’s mind when you talk about blogging to him is what is it? Well there is no proper answer to this question. Blog is like a personal or professional diary where someone shares his knowledge or just write about himself/herself. When someone writes on a blog actually he does blogging.
I love blogging. 
According to WikiPidea -
A blog (a contraction of the term “web log“) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. 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.
Sometimes blogs often become more than a way to just communicate; they become a way to reflect on life or works of art. Like some bloggers (people who blog) have started pro-blogging which means they earn their monthly salary through blogs only. Some of pro-bloggers like Darren Rowse and Rahul Bansal have started companies which do blogging and web designing services.
Blogging is a good time pass which can be turned into a good source of income if used in a right way. We can make a lot of money by just blogging if he does it in a correct way. The pro-bloggers (professional bloggers) mainly earn through the following -
- PPC Advertising Networks
- Affiliate Marketing
- Text link advertisements
- Product reviews.
There are many platforms to blog, but if you are new to blogging and want to learn it first without wasting a single penny I would recommend that you to try Google’s Blogger. No doubt that WordPress is best platform to blog, but too geeky for newbies. I don’t think any newbie can understand WordPress easily. Later if a blog becomes popular, then you ca easily move it WordPress without any problem with SEO.
If you know WordPress well enough and want to start a blog on it, but don’t have money to buy hosting and domain, then you can go for Budding Bloggers which provides an advertisement free hosting account with domain of your own choice.
Things that matters a lot in blogging
- SEO – Search engine optimization is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via natural search results. A detailed post about SEO and how to optimize WordPress for it can be found here.
- Commenting – Its an easy way to improve a blog’s traffic.
- Quality – Yep, quantity of your blog matters a lot.
- SEM – Traffic also matters on the way you share your stuff (media, post) on a social networking site with others.
That’s all for tonight, I think I have discussed a lot of blogging tonight. Stay tuned we’ll be sharing a lot more every day.