What is Blog?
A blog (shortening of “weblog”) is an online journal or informational website displaying information in the reverse chronological order, with the latest posts appearing first. It is a platform where a writer or even a group of writers share their views on an individual subject.
What is the purpose of a blog?
There are many reasons to start a blog for personal use and only a handful of strong ones for business blogging. Blogging for business, projects, or anything else that might bring you money has a very straightforward purpose – to rank your website higher in Google SERPs, a.k.a. increase your visibility.
As a business, you rely on consumers to keep buying your products and services. As a new business, you rely on blogging to help you get to these consumers and grab their attention. Without blogging, your website would remain invisible, whereas running a blog makes you searchable and competitive.
So, the main purpose of a blog is to connect you to the relevant audience. Another one is to boost your traffic and send quality leads to your website.
source:https://firstsiteguide.com/what-is-blog/
Advantages of Blogging
Networking with various people worldwide.
One of the important benefits of blogging is its feature that helps us to network with a wide range of bloggers from different walks of life across the globe. Interacting with people from different country and culture may lead to friendly relations with them that may help you start new ventures like starting a new business with someone outside of your country. It may help you get more fans for your business or celebrity facebook page or on other social media sites.
Blogs help you to improve your writing skills.
If you start to write a blog, all of a sudden you get into the habit of improving your writing skills and style. You may feel that you are going to be criticised if you make a mistake. This fear is a big step that will make you motivated for improving your writing skills. Automatically, you will start trying to improve your writing skills while writing more and more posts for your own blog.
The flexibility of working hours.
If you are engaged in blogging as a work-at-home job, the flexibility of working hours makes it suitable for you to find out time for your other day to day activities. Imagine how you can pick up your children from school at 3 ‘O’ clock when you work in 10 to 5 job. You need to find other alternatives in this situation. When you are a full-time blogger, it is possible for you to stop all your engagements with the blog at any time of the day for carrying out any other chores. As you are your own boss or may be the one and only boss of your business, it is really a great experience.
source:https://digitaldimensions4u.com/twenty-two-advantages-of-blogging/
APPS USED FOR BLOGGING
WordPress
WordPress is undoubtedly the most popular blogging platform on the Internet. This app, made compatible with self-hosted WordPress blogs as well as blogs hosted on WordPress.com, allows you to perform many essential tasks such as creating, editing and publishing blog posts, moderating comments, checking on analytics data as well as publishing photos or videos taken with the camera on your mobile phone.
Writer
Blogging and getting things done using your smartphone is not easy, especially when there are so many distractions on the screen itself. Apps and incoming notifications are the most common productivity killers. Writer is a stripped-down word processor that aims to solve this problem by providing a distraction-free writing environment within your smartphone or tablet so that you can focus solely on creating text content with peace of mind.
SwiftKey Keyboard
This is a dream-come-true app for those who are tired of typos and the small keyboard buttons on your tablets or smartphones. SwiftKey Keyboard does not only auto-correct your typos, it also offers word predictions based on your past typing activities. You can even personalize the word predictions by asking the keyboard to learn your choice of words on Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and blog posts.
source:https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/android-apps-for-bloggers/
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