Monday, May 24, 2010

10 Advantages of blogging

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Blogging is more than just writing words on your blog. It is a place to showcase your talents and capabilities in writing. You will also be able to find out instantly how good you are as a writer. Here are the good things about blogging:


1. Freedom of expression: There is no restriction on what you wish to write. Write things that you are interested in. This is a platform to express yourself freely. The best part is that you share your feelings with everyone on the Net and they comment on what you have said.

2. Writing: The more you write the better it gets. You develop quality in writing after writing continuously for many months. The most important thing is to start, write daily, and become a good habit.

3. Making money: Money is only a by-product of what you do. In this case, your primary objective is writing. Your articles attract the attention of readers because they find your articles easy to understand, useful, able to solve their problems, and lift their mood. You put Adsense ads on your article pages and you earn when readers click on the ads. Write for the readers and the readers will click on your ads.

4. Technology: You learn the nitty-gritty of blogging such as SEO, keywords, links, HTML, ping, upload images, and many other things. Learning new things is good for you and your brain

5. Networking: Getting connected with others takes a new dimension on the Net. You make friends worldwide instantly through Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In the past, it is pen pals and snail mail

6. Building a brand: You write articles in a particular subject regularly and consistently and soon you develop yourself as an expert in this particular niche. You build up a name for yourself over time.

7. Credentials: Your articles are proof of what you know in a particular area of interest. You get favorable comments on what you have written. The articles and comments are a good gauge of what you are capable of. When you are accepted as a guest writer by other bloggers it is further proof of your ability.

8. Your credibility on the Net: You have to wait for your annual appraisal to find out your performance when you are an employee. On the Net, you are appraised every day by the number of visitors to your blog. Readers’ visit to your blog is a popular vote of what you are offering. Your popularity is translated into Traffic Rank; the quality of your writing is determined by PageRank and Technorati’s Authority Rank. All these markers will determine your position on the Net. The followers of your blog are also an indication of your acceptance by others.

9. Passion: Are you passionate about writing and blogging? You can turn blogging as your career goal. I do. I am only doing this part-time and I look forward to doing full time when I have more readers

10. Satisfaction: As for me, the greatest reward of blogging is that I have improved my writing. However, there is still plenty of room to improve further. The next thing is that I am thrilled to see my TrafficRank and my Authority Rank go up. It is a good sign that my articles are acceptable to my readers.


Blogging is very challenging and it is for the long term. The most important thing is to write continuously for the readers with quality articles


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