What type of blog do you want

Posted by Average Joe on February 8, 2009 under Blogs | Be the First to Comment

There are really four main types of blog that you can start, and which one is best for you is going to come down to your personal preference. The four types are Text Blog, Picture Blog, Audio Blog (Podcasting), Video Blog (Vlogging) and a combination of any of the four. Ok, ok so that is five, for the most part however the combination is the most common form.

TEXT BLOG – The easiest and quickest way to get started, you don’t even need actual blog software, because if you know a little bit of internet coding, you can do this on a basic website. Although it is often much easier and better looking for the visitors to your blog to use a service such as blogger, or to set up your own blog software on your web host.

PICTURE BLOG – Usually the next step over a text blog is either a picture blog alone, or a combination of text and pictures. Either are easy enough to set up with most blogging services or your own blog set up.

AUDIO BLOG (POD CASTING) – Some people find that they have trouble actually writing what they want to share and do so better using their voice. Pod casting can really land either side of a text blog, either it will lead into one, that compliments the pod casts, or will be derived as an add on to the text blog. Although some are purely that a audio blog or more commonly referred to as pod cast.

VIDEO BLOG (VLOG) – Well the name may not explain it all, but this is basically where you sit in front of a camera and talk about what ever you want to talk about. Youtube seems to have made this a lot easier to do, as well as a number of other similar sites.

A COMBINATION – Mixing it up and using one, two or even more variations of any of the above four is not uncommon, and in fact as long as it is interesting and what people want to see, hear or read then you would probably do better using a combination.

Anyway what it comes down to really is that if you want to start a blog you need to make a choice on one of these and just get out there and start one.