What Should I Blog About?



                 "Finding a topic to write about can be a bit much. But if I can, you can too".

You've heard it over and over again, "Write What You Know," "Write What You Like," "Write What You Love". Really. What kind of writing rules are those? Those are just stupid conversational wisdom suggests. You can write about your interests. Forget about those stupid sayings. You can write about what you want to learn more about. Want a real golden writing rule? Well, writers write about all kinds of things, don't ever believe "you must brand yourself as an expert in your niche" ...  It's just a MUST ignore dissuading rule that shouldn't even exist.

Remember.
If you want to become a successful blogger, you should write about something you know. Something you like or something you love. Or if that doesn’t work write about something you want to learn or simply improve.

Writing about something you want to learn or simply improve. Believe it or not, many great bloggers started writing about things that they wanted to know more about. just like me. I started this blog because I wanted to learn more about the subject (blogging), and share what I've learned with anybody who wants to read.

If you're going to blog about something you know nothing about, here is what I suggest:

What are you going to blog about?
First, find what you're going to write about. This can be from "how to make money blogging" to "how to cook Chinese food".

Use your favorite search engine and look for that topic. You can write about whatever you wish, Internet is your friend. If you're having trouble on finding what looking for, look for books at your local public library or Amazon.

The more you practice, the better you'll become.
If you want to become great at what you're going to write about, then you should practice as much (or as often) as possible. Doing something over and over again is the only way to do it well.

This article is mostly focus on starting a blog in a topic you know nothing about, and it doesn't mean that you can't start a blog in topic that you have knowledge of. So if you're a web designer and want to start a blog about web designing. Go head and start blogging.

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What Is RSS?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a format used to deliver information from websites or blogs that get updated constantly. The advantage of RSS is that allows people to read the latest headlines from their favorite sites without even visit them.

This is how it works if you have a blog: Every time you write and publish a new article on your blog, an email notification is sent to your subscribers with your latest article for them to read it. This email notification (or RSS document) is called news “news feed”, “web feed” or just “feed”. These special computer programs “RSS aggregator” are specially developed to automatically access the RSS feeds of your website and organized the result for your readers. RSS feed and RSS aggregators are sometimes called “RSS Channels” or “RSS Readers”.

 

The acronym RSS stands for many versions, but does it matter? Of course not, you can use any of the versions available (all of them are used for the same thing).

·        Really Simple Syndication

·        Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)

·        RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)

·        Real-time Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)

All of us have some typical website we like to visit, we can subscribe to the RSS feed of all those websites and receive the latest information in the form of headlines. If you have a website or blog you can distribute the latest information to all your readers via RSS.

RSS is really a win, for both subscriber and publishers. Want a simpler explanation of what RSS is? Watch this awesome video that explains RSS in plain English.

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Why Should I Start A Blog?

I don’t see a single reason why you shouldn’t start a blog, as it depends on your motivation; blogging is something for anyone and everyone.

However, online blogging can have its advantages and disadvantages, whether it is to help increase the existence of you online business, or just to share and discuss ideas with people of common interests.

So whether you want to exchange information and communicate with your co-workers, give your customers a chance to connect with you, advance you online presence, blogs are a great tool to grow you business.

Should you start a blog? Take a look at the list below to help make your decision about blogging.

According to the list below you don’t have to choose any of these 5 reasons to start a blog, remember! - You can start blogging for any reason and blog about whatever you want.


5 common reasons why people start a blog

 1- You can create a blog to express your feelings and share your thoughts or opinions, blogs are a good place to start because they are heard and you can update your posts wherever you are.

  2-If you’re a thoughtful person you might want to help people, if you’re a teacher, psychologist etc. Or just a person full of knowledge and want to help those looking for help, blogs gives you the opportunity to do it.

  3-Have family and friends in different parts of the world? blogs allow you to connect with your family and friends all around the world with just a simple way to share stories, photos, videos and more.

  4-Blogs are also a good tool for future writers to practice their writing skills, so if you want to improve your writing skills you should start a blog then, many English teachers recommend their students to start a blog because blogging is an excellent tool to advance their learning process.

  5-Start a blog to make money, it’s important to know that blogging to make money can be easy if you have the right knowledges; it requires patience and commitment.


Did this list help you? If not, can you tell me why should you start a blog? Tell me what you think.

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What Is A Blog?

1. A blog is whatever you want it to be
2. Someone who keeps and maintains a blog is called blogger
3. The activity of maintaining a blog is called blogging
4. The blogging community is called blogosphere
5. Blog entries are generally display in reverse-chronological order (the most recent post appear at the top)

Blogs haven’t been aroung for that long. Blogs have been over the internet since the year 1994. Before, they were known as online diaries where people share their opinions or personal events. Now blogging has evolved, and is increasingly gaining an enormous popularity in our everyday life, Becoming more than just a simple diary or online journal.

As blogging has became a “must have” for most companies. There are different types of blogs, these blogs can be categorized as:

Personal blogs – The most common types of blogs are personal blogs; blogs about personal topics like family, friends, travels, health or whatever, it’s up to you. (These kinds of blogs are usually private)

Cultural blogs – These talk about music, art, dance, theater, popular culture etc.

Business blog – These blogs write about the stock market and other business related topics.

Collaborative blog – Written and publish by more than one author, based in a single topic, such as politic or technology.

Educational blog – Usually use by teachers and student to participate in classroom projects like research papers or their findings.

Sports blog – Anyone who would like to talk about their favorite sport can create this kind of blogs.

How-to tips – If you specialized on any subject such as web design, English or even blogging, you can create a how-to blog to share your experiences and knowledge.

Reviews blog – Reviews blogs can be about cooking, movies, games, books and so on.

And finally the three most unwanted blogs:

Scrapers blogs – these types of blogs are managed by individuals who steal other people’s content and re-publish it without permission of the author.

Warez blogs - managed by CHARLATANS to promote pirated content such as e-books, software packages, movies, video games etc.

Affiliates marketing blogs – Scammers with the primary purpose to drive traffic to affiliates programs and get-rich-quick scheme. (Be $camsmart)


A blog gives the opportunity to raise your voice and feel heard by others. It’s a fun way to talk about whatever you wish. You can blog about anything you want or in any imaginable topic you can think of, there is no rule to start blogging (unless if it is for a good purpose). Blogging is all about connecting with your friends, family, co-workers or anyone who wants to read your work (Don’t forget that you’re the only one who decide who can read and comment on your blog). You can also decide who can write on your own blog, by creating a collaborative blog as explained before.

Are you still confused? Here is a cool video that I’m pretty sure that any of you will find it useful.



Now if you don’t have a blog yet, what are your purposes to become a blogger?

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