The Types of Blogs
The types of blogs you can build are limited only by your imagination and by your willingness to conduct research. For example, while some bloggers focus on general topics, such as cars, other bloggers narrow the scope of their blogs even further to sub-topics, such as luxury cars or
antique cars. From an optimization standpoint, a weblog with a narrower scope would likely outperform a weblog with a broader scope in terms of conversions or clicks-per-visitor. So, if your objective is to make money, the categories of blogs you can build are limited.
In terms of actual topics for the categories of blogs you can build, there’s about 9 major areas that are popular for current blogs: business, culture, community, politics, religion, science, travel, online diaries, and gossip. Most weblog directories use similar topical categories to order blogs.
In addition to the topic for the categories of blogs you can build, you will also need to think about the program used to generate it. This is another way that directories categorize blogs. For example, blogs can fall under the section of the tool or program that was used to generate them. Some blogs are created using Google’s Blogger. These blogs are often lumped together in directories as the same “type” of weblog. They actually have an auto-surfing process that lets you jump randomly from Blogger weblog to the another.
Other types of blogs you can build include social networking blogs, which permit members of the same network to interact with each other using various weblog functions. examples are Live journal which was of the original social networking weblog systems–and My space, which is currently the largest, boasting a base of around 80,000,000 users. In recent months, marketers and business persons have begun using My space to introduce their product to potential customers.
Another type of weblog you can build is a video weblog or “vlog.” These usually contain videos and permit other posts to attach media in comments.
The last types of blogs you can build are geographical blogs. With such a powerful jogging a blog atmosphere–with users weighing in from all over the globe–directories, such as Weblog Wise will permit users to search for blogs by geographic location. In case you think you have some information you can contribute about your specific region, you may need to start a regional geographic weblog.
