PHOTO BLOGGING

In this post i will try to discuss about photo blogging, would not be separated from the Smart blogging it self.Many people feel that photo blogging is the most exciting kind of blogging that exists. Building and maintaining a photo blog is no more difficult than creating and updating a text- based blog, and many people feel that the internet's high speed,full colour technology reaches the pinnacle of it's appeal with the transmission of image. Posting photographs in a blog format on a daily,weekly,or occasional basis is a great way to express yourself while reaching viewers in a emotionally charged and aesthetically engaging way,and surfing photo blogs can help you to get a whole a new perspective on the world in which we live.

Many people who run image blogs are photographers by trade,but photo blogging is also very popular among hobbyists and amateur shutterbugs. To be certain,a lot of the most popular photo blog have gained attention because the picture on them are of the highest artistic caliber,and a lot of the people whorun these striking blogs are graduates of prestigious art schools and have impressive professional portfolios. However,some of the most well known and most often visited photo blogs are as notable for their concepts as for the pictures themselves. Certain photo blogs, like the popular "cute overload" which features picture after picture of adorable animals, are more about the thematic content of the pictures than they are about the style in which the snapshots are taken.

The fact that photo blogs range from forums to display the work of highly skilled artisans to playful collections of curiosities shows that photo blogging is a truly diverse form. The fact the photo blogs are so easy to build and to updates makes this kind of visual communication very democratic, and enables people at all skill levels to become a part of the global conversation about the nature and value of photography today.

Whether you are an artist or hobbyist who wants to create a photo blog, or whether you are just somebody who enjoys learning about new places and thing, spending some time looking at the most popular photography blogs on the internet can be a very rewarding endeavor. You can travel to another place or another time by seeing pictures of faraway locations and long-gone eras. You can see your own neighborhood with fresh eye by discover how local artists have photographed the town or city in which you live.Photo blogging allows people to communicate all of these things and more,which makes it a very exciting part of the modern blogosphere. If the best thing about web technology is that it allows people to reach each other in a very personal way from across great distances, then in many ways photo blogs are the most successful kind of web sites.

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Making Money From Blog

This time we will try to discuss about the professional blogging (problogging) because a blogger can actually make money from his blog.
A webblog (or simply blog) is a website that "publishes"or features articles (which are called blogposts,posts,or entries) written by an individual or a group that make use of any or a combination of the following:

> Straight text
> Photographs or images (photoblog)
> Video (videoblog)
> Audio files (audioblog)
> Hyperlinks

Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are essentially used for the following purposes:

> Online journal or a web diary
> Content managament system
> Online publishing platform

A typical blog has the following components:

> Post date -the date and time of the blog entry
> Category - the category that the blog belongs to
> Title - the title of the blog
> Main body - the main content of the blog
> RSS and trackback - links the blog back from other sites
> Comments - commentaries that are added by readers
> Permalinks - the URL of the full article
> Other optional items - calendar, archives, blogrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins

A blog can also have a footer, usually found at the bottom of the blog, that shows the post date, the author, the category, and the 'stats' (the nubmer of comments or trackbacks).

There are numerous types of blogs. Some of them are the following:

1. Political blog - on news, politics, activism, and other issue based blogs (such as campaigning).

2. Personal blog - also known as online diary that may include an individual's day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.

3. Topical blog - with focus either on a particular niche (function or position) that is usually technical in nature or a local information.

4. Health blog - on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.

5. Literary blog - also known as litblog.

6. Travel blog - with focus on a traveler's stories on a particular journey.

7. Research blog - on academic issues such as research notes.

8. Legal blog - on law (technical areas) and legal affairs; also known as 'blawgs'.

9. Media blog - focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.

10. Religious blog - on religious topics

11. Educational blog - on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.

12. Collaborative or collective blog - a specific topic written by a group of people.

13. Directory blog - contains a collection of numerous web sites.

14. Business blog - used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.

15. Personification blog - focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).

16. Spam blogs - used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as 'splogs'.

Blogging is typically done on a regular (almost daily) basis. The term "blogging" refers to the act of authoring, maintaining, or adding an article to an existing blog, while the term "blogger" refers to a person or a group who keeps a blog.

Today, more than 3 million blogs can be found in the Internet. This figure is continuously growing, as the availability of various blog software, tools, and other applications make it easier for just about anyone to update or maintain the blog (even those with little or no technical background). Because of this trend, bloggers can now be categorized into 4 main types:

> Personal bloggers - people who focus on a diary or on any topic that an individual feels strongly about.
> Business bloggers - people who focus on promoting products and services.
> Organizational bloggers - people who focus on internal or external communication in an organization or a community.
> Professional bloggers - people who are hired or paid to do blogging.

Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers (professional bloggers) are people who make money from blogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired blogger).

Below are just some of the many money-making opportunities for probloggers:

> Advertising programs
> RSS advertising
> Sponsorship
> Affiliate Programs
> Digital assets
> Blog network writing gigs
> Business blog writing gigs
> Non blogging writing gigs
> Donations
> Flipping blogs
> Merchandising
> Consulting and speaking

The following are a few things that you need to consider if you want to be successful in problogging:

1. Be patient. Problogging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.

2. Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.

3. Be an 'expert'. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the "go-to" blogger on that topic.

4. Diversify. Experiment with various add and affiliate programs that enable you to make money online (aside from blogging).

5. Do not bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacings, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.

Certainly, it is possible to earn money from blogs. One just needs to take risks, the passion, and the right attitude in order to be a successful problogger.

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