Blogging - What’s It All About?

This is the first in a series of articles on how I make my living online by working from my RV anywhere I decide to park it. Read the entire series and you too could be well on your way to living any lifestyle you choose with complete financial independence.

Web Logging, or “Blogging” is very quickly becoming one of the most popular Internet-related activities for millions of people all over the world; it represents a great opportunity for those who create blogs and for those who use them. Very often misunderstood as just a way of keeping personal diaries online, blogging is far more complex. The range of topics blogs deal with is incredibly wide; from politics and economics to sky diving and snorkeling. The next very important aspect after blog content is actually the interactive format of the pages that allows users to take action on the site.

Part of the history of blogging includes the very first attempts to run an account of one’s personal life, and many of the blog owners liked to call themselves journalists or diarists. In the early days of blogging around the mid-90s, people enjoyed the experience of belonging to the online community that went beyond all sorts of boundaries. This was the time when the very first combination of text, pictures and videos were included in a blog, as the most accurate way of reflecting one’s life. Sometimes, bloggers transmitted live images with the help of various portable devices, creating the so-called semi-automated blogging.

At the beginning, blogs were not individual pages, as they mainly functioned as components of larger websites; nevertheless, with the rapid development of technologies, it came into everyone’s power to create and support a personal independent web log. The only condition to enjoy a successful blogging experience is to stick to high quality content that makes any visitor return to the site and even take action on it. Creativity and innovation are probably the best ways to define the blogging experience since we can identify a true craze to be seen online.

Blogging is one of the most effective ways I’ve found to supplement my online income. I use blogs (like this one) all over the internet to promote products I receive commissions on, support my own products, and earn income from pay-per-click advertising. In the next few articles I’ll explain what blogging is, how to do it and how I use it as a major part of my online income.