What Is Blog? Blog Types

When someone hear a word "Blog" for the first time in his life, he may ask questions: "What is Blog? That is the difference between a blog and a website?"

Now we'll try to find out the truth.
Technically blog is a type of website. Blogs, as a type of sites, stand at one line with forums, news site, internet shops and other site types.

But what makes blog unique among other website types and what is it used for?

To answer this question we should firstly take notice of the fact that blogs themselves are divided into 5 types.

Here they are:
1. Personal Blog
2. Professional Blog
3. Brand Blog
4. News Blog
5. Nontraditional Blog

Now we will analyze each type in details.

Personal Blog - is a weblog that constitute itself as an online diary. You may usually find there posts about blogger's daily life. Common post's names are something like: "Yesterday went to the cinema. The movie was great" or, for example, "Check out my new laptop i bought last week".

These online diaries are usually made for author himself and his friends who usually also have such weblogs. Celebrities also often make such kind of blogs.

Professional Blog. If a person is a professional in some sort of activity, he or she may create such an online diary. For example, professional photographer may post some advice for beginners about how to choose a good camera or post his latest works. When this blog becomes quite popular it begins to earn money for its author, for example, with the help of context ads.

Brand Blogs are usually made for promotion of a certain brand, person or company.

News Blog. Commonly news blogs are run by several authors. They choose a certain niche like "All about Apple" and start posting news about Apple company on constant basis.
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