Straight texts

Photos or images (photoblog)

Video (videoblog)

Sound Recording files (audioblog)

Hyperlinks

Normally showed and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are essentially practiced for the following uses :

Live journal or a web diary

Content managament system

Online publishing platform

A normal blog has the following components:

Post date -the date and time of the web log launching

Category - the category that the blog belongs to

Title - the title of the blog

Main body - the main message of the web log

RSS and trackback - links the web log back from other sites

Comments - comments that are contributed by readers

Permalinks - the URL of the full article

Some Other optional points - calendar, archives, blogrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins

A blog can also have a footer, commonly seen at the bottom of the web log, that records the post date, the author, the category, and the 'stats' (the amount of commentaries or trackbacks).

There are many types of blogs. Many of them are the following:

1. Political blog - on news, politics, activism, and some other subject based blogs (such as campaigning).

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

3. Topical blog - with stress either on a particular niche (function or position) that is ordinarily practiced in nature or a local info.

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 noted as litblog.

6. Travel web log - with concentrate on a traveler's reports on a specific travel.

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

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

9. Media web log - concentrate on untruths or inconsistencies in people media; usually selective for a newspaper or a television network.

10. Spiritual blog - on religious topics

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

12. Collaborative or collective blog - a special topic published by a group of masses.

13. Directory web log - contains a collection of some websites.

14. Business web log - used by enterprisers and corporate employees to campaign 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 advertising affiliated sites; also identified as 'splogs'.

Blogging is typically done on a regular (almost everyday ) basis. The term "blogging" refers to the act of authoring, keeping, or bringing an article to an active blog, while the term "blogger" refers to a person or a group who maintains a blog.

Now, more than 3 million blogs can be seen in the Internet. This number is continuously growth, as the accessibility of various web log software, tools, and some other applications get it easier for only about anyone to update or keep the web log (even those with little or no technical background). Because of this trend, bloggers can instantly be categorised into 4 main types:

Personal bloggers - masses who stress on a diary or on any issue that an individual looks strongly about.

Business bloggers - individuals who concentrate on promoting products and serves.

Organisational bloggers - people who concentrate on internal or outside communication in an organization or a community.

Professional bloggers - mass who are hired or paid to do blogging.

Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers (professional bloggers) are mass who get money from blogging (as an personal web log publisher or a employed blogger).

Below are just some of the many money-making chances for probloggers:

Advertising programs

RSS promoting

Sponsorship

Affiliate Programs

Digital assets

Blog network writing gigs

Business web log writing gigs

Non blogging writing gigs

Donations

Flipping blogs

Merchandising

Consulting and speaking

The coming are a couple of things that you require to think if you wish to be successful in problogging:

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

2. Recognize your audience. Directing a particular audience or group is essential to constructing a readership.

3. Be an 'expert'. Focusing on a particular niche topic and strain to be the "go-to" blogger on that issue.

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

5. Do not bore your readers. Stress on the layout. White spaces, line spacings, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to show.

For Certain, it is possible to earn money from blogs. One just needs to consider risks, the passion, and the right position in order to be a successful problogger.