What is a Blog or Blogging?

Gopi Makwana
3 min readApr 14, 2021

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Blog is a website or a web page run by an individual or a group of people, consisting of different graphics and videos with specific subjects or topics in written. An individual can write blogs on different topics for business purposes where blogging refers to writing a post for a blog.

Difference between Blogs and Websites.

Blogs and websites are both in written format. Blogs can be used for temporary purposes and websites are for permanent or long time.

To engage an audience, business people are hiring bloggers to write and share posts related to their products, while websites don’t need to be updated on a daily basis.

In current time, Blogs are as important as websites. To keep updating the audience, blogs are an easy way to share things on social media. Businesses are nowadays using it in written or in a video blog form which is known as Vlogging to reach and make awareness to their targeted audience.

Who can start a Blog and How?

Everyone and anyone can start their own blog to earn online or for any business purposes. Blogs can be started from different business purposes. Here are the few examples of popular blogs that anyone can start;

  1. Business Blogs
  2. Fashion Blogs
  3. Lifestyle Blogs
  4. Travel Blogs
  5. Personal Blogs
  6. Food Blogs
  7. Parenting Blogs
  8. Fitness Blogs

It is easy to start your own blog if you want to start a career in it or work for your own business requirements. Different platforms like Blogger, WordPress, Tumbler and medium are easy to get started with publishing the content and to reach a target audience. For different business purposes, people are also hiring freelancers or full time employees to write blogs for them and in return they pay monetary amounts to the employees. Hiring can be of specific project purpose, contract base or regular job purpose.

Before starting a blog, it is mandatory to select a niche and know the interest. Which type of blogs may not bore you and can write anytime at any space.

On a person’s writing skills they can earn well in future. It also has extreme career options after reaching a certain level of experience.

Careers in Blogging:

For the next 10 years, it has a wide scope of bloggers who write, share or post content on social media to engage their audience. Whether writing for others or for own self. After Covid 19 pandemic everyone got used to online working and services. Online platforms are in demand and have been a favorite for every employee and whoever is working and earning.

With great skills and sufficient knowledge in writing and blogging, anyone can start their journey and step out in the market to get a wonderful experience of the world.

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Gopi Makwana

MBA | HR Professional | Writer | Proofreader | Avid Learner | Techno Geek