Website Types Series - Pure Blogging - Website Type One

Blogging has become a bit of a generalization recently as so many webmasters are using the standard website platform – wordpress as the basic structure for their normal website layouts. I am a big fan of using this system to build a variety of different website designs.

This report is not going to go into too much detail about that side of the website / blogging aspect

What I want to help you grasp here is the original idea of blogging and how you can turn a daily web log into a website business and earn a living from it. The original idea of hosting a personal diary of stories and daily posts or log entries is where the true form of blogging originated. I admit that I do love the idea of having the entire world seeing my point of view on a specific subject and then allowing open and frank debate on that topic of the day.

It would not matter much as to what the topic of discussion is as I am the sort of person that enjoys sitting around a fire or a table with coffee dissecting a subject and analyzing it with good friends.

Now the concept of this form of pure blogging is just that, and if you choose your style correctly from the beginning you could find yourself in a position where your personal style and daily input has turned into an international business.

What I definitely need to point out to you here is a very important fact about blogging, and that is that there are millions upon millions of blogs out there on the internet. You will find yourself in competition with literally a flood of similar styled bloggers as competitors that you might feel that the idea is not worth the effort.

In my personal opinion I feel that you not only stand a good chance of getting your head above the crowed and noticed, but could get your blog into a position of high visibility if you plan correctly and stick to that plan like a possessed person.

Here is a list of some of the things that you will need to do to be a super blogger.

• Choose your style of blogging carefully as you will need to stick to that format for a very long time. If you start to change your style on a regular basis you could lose a lot of your regular readers. What I mean here about style is the mood or "flavor' of your blog. You need to set a tone like being funny, sarcastic, frivolous, serious, and friendly chatty or any other of a long list of styles that you have to choose from. All I ask is that you give it a lot of thought especially if you are going to target a specific niche like pregnancy. Funny stories about pregnancy are ok, but in a niche like health it might not be too advisable to be constantly cracking jokes about people's health.
• Plan the look of your blog carefully as it needs to be open and easily legible. Nothing stops people from ever coming back as quickly as a confusing or cluttered blog.  I suggest that you keep the look as simple as possible and do not even have a header. You could have pictures in your posts, as this is a good thing, but too many adverts and stuff is confusing, and you will lose readers.
• Your blogs title has to be planned from a keyword point of view so carefully that I do in fact suggest that you take a lot of time thinking about the name of your blog (and the domain name naturally as they are almost the same thing)
• Equally you need to give a lot of thought as to which specific niche you want your blog to be involved in. The most common types of blogs normally are about topics like celebrities or sports and this is not really a bad thing but you need to consider this carefully. It might pay you to consider a more stable niche or platform to set up your soap box in and you could be more successful there. Your choice. I do suggest that you go and look at the hot trends aspect for ideas, and perhaps start there.
• Make the RSS aspect of your blog very prominent on your blog, and equally the social bookmarking aspect is absolutely vital to the viral aspect of your blogging success. Be nice to all the bookmarking websites as they will be you make or break department.
• Post often and never put up a post without making sure that it is properly thought out. You could chase away 50% of your regular readers simply by posting a stupid post or one in bad taste. I suggest that you post twice a day as this will not only keep your content fresh, but will have the search engine spiders expecting your blog to be busy and always fresh.
• Do not give up as this form of internet business is built one word at a time, and eventually you will have a solid base of visitors and advertisers and a great business.
• You have to continually post your articles onto the great article directories, and then keep bookmarking those posts and articles. Your regular readers will do further bookmarking for you if your content is fresh and popular.

Go and start right now if you think that you are writing orientated.