What are the benefits of creating a blog? I tried to write the benefits of blogs in this article: * Self-actualization Media One of the human needs is to be recognized. To be noticed. To show who he is. What was he thinking, what the concern is, what is interesting for him, what he enjoys, what he hates, what he thoughts and what he wanted. Blog able to facilitate this. With blogs everybody can actualize themselves in various media (text, image, graphic, video, audio, slide presentations, etc.) which can be accessed by the people all over the world in a network that connected to the internet. * Personal Branding Personal Branding or self-positioning. Position yourself based on what you can do. Making people think of you when they are confronted with certain problems. With blogs and the right strategy you can tell everyone in the world (which is connected to the Internet) what your expertise and why they should contact you when they think of one problem to solve. * Media Campaign Blog placed in Internet network. With the right strategy (SEO + SMM + Other Techniques) you can bring Internet users to your blog and make them read what you are promoting. * Getting a New Relationship It is the nature that people are always looking for other people who have similar interests. Start a blog about the topic you are interested and visitors who are interested in the same subject with you will come to you. They could comment on the article on your blog and can respond. Conversations happening there, and opened opportunities for the relationship. * Monetizing You can earn money from your blog via Google Adsense advertising services, or to sell banner spots. * Stress Release, Emotion Release Sometimes we just want to vent what we feel. Sometimes boredom and sometimes happiness. More exciting if there are responding to what we feel is not it? * Media for Sharing Sometimes we just want to share what we know, share the good or share knowledge. If you want to share it with others blogs can facilitate your desire to share. * Your Life Journal Notes Write down everything you feel and publish in your blog. One day in your life later on, read back what you’ve written. Most people laughed when I read what they wrote first. Sprout back old memories * Getting feedback on What You Feel The majority of blog has a comments feature on each article. This is to facilitate people to respond to what you write. Opinions of others are one thing that’s valuable in life?
It's just another way to display information. These types of articles really accomplish nothing. Name five reasons why vanilla ice cream is good? What?
I loathe vanilla ice cream. But yeah, I get your point. I could write five reasons why I hate it so much.
Good info. I like blogging because it's "no pressure" writing. You can just go for it without having to think too hard about keyword optimization (unless you want to) and generally don't have to worry about editorial guidelines. I have been hunting for sites that let you create a blog one level down from a high PR domain. i just discovered that MTV.com lets you do your own blog and include dofollow links, and they are PR8 i think.
I can't even think of anything wrong with blogging. The only downside is that it takes up time to write articles, but who doesn't enjoy just taking a break from work to write?
Why Google Love Blogs ? Blog Ranks well due to fresh and updated content. Mostly blogs are on WordPress which uses RSS feed service and Ping Service to get index fast. You can submit blogs to blog directories to get free backlinks. Webmasters use to link blogs not eCommerce websites.