Straight texts Photographs or images (photo log) Video (video log) Audio files (audio log) Hyperlinks

Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, Blogs are essentially used for the following purposes:

Online journal or a web diary Content management system Online publishing platform

A typical blog has the following components:

Post date -the date and time of the blog entry

Category - the category that the blog belongs to

Title - the title of the blog

Main body - the main content of the blog

RSS and track back - links the blog back from other sites

Comments - commentaries that are added by readers

Perm links - the URL of the full article

Other optional items - calendar, archives, logrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins

A blog can also have a footer, usually found at the bottom of the blog, that shows the post date, the author, the category, and the 'stats' (the number of comments or track backs).

There are numerous types of Blogs. Some of them are the following:

1. Political blog - on news, politics, activism, and other issue based Blogs (such as campaigning).

2. Personal blog - also known as online diary that may include an individual's day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.

3. Topical blog - with focus either on a particular niche (function or position) that is usually technical in nature or local information.

4. Health blog - on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.

5. Literary blog - also known as lit log.

6. Travel blog - with focus on a traveler's stories on a particular journey.

7. Research blog - on academic issues such as research notes.

8. Legal blog - on law (technical areas) and legal affairs; also known as 'blows'.

9. Media blog - focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.

10. Religious blog - on religious topics

11. Educational blog - on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.

12. Collaborative or collective blog - a specific topic written by a group of people.

13. Directory blog - contains a collection of numerous web sites.

14. Business blog - used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.

15. Personification blog - focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).

16. Spam Blogs - used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as 'slogs'.

Bogging is typically done on a regular (almost daily) basis. The term "bogging" refers to the act of authoring, maintaining, or adding an article to an existing blog, while the term "logger" refers to a person or a group who keeps a blog.

Today, more than 3 million Blogs can be found in the Internet. This figure is continuously growing, as the availability of various blog software, tools, and other applications make it easier for just about anyone to update or maintain the blog (even those with little or no technical background). Because of this trend, loggers can now be categorized into 4 main types:

Personal loggers - people who focus on a diary or on any topic that an individual feels strongly about.

Business loggers - people who focus on promoting products and services.

Organizational loggers - people who focus on internal or external communication in an organization or a community.

Professional loggers - people who are hired or paid to do bogging.

Prolonging (professional bogging) refers to bogging for a profit. Prologues (professional loggers) are people who make money from bogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired logger).

Below are just some of the many money-making opportunities for prologues:

Advertising programs RSS advertising Sponsorship Affiliate Programs Digital assets Blog network writing gigs Business blog writing gigs Non bogging writing gigs Donations Flipping Blogs Merchandising Consulting and speaking

The following are a few things that you need to consider if you want to be successful in prolonging:

1. Be patient. Prolonging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.

2. Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.

3. be an 'expert'. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the "go-to" logger on that topic.

4. Diversify. Experiment with various add and affiliate programs that enable you to make money online (aside from bogging).

5. Do not bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacing, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.

Certainly, it is possible to earn money from Blogs. One just needs to take risks, the passion, and the right attitude in order to be a successful prologue.