What is a Blog?

Building content websites with hundreds of articles or ecommerce websites, and marketing them through search engines have a steep learning curve and the process takes considerable time. However, such difficulties don't exist in blogs.
A blog is a non-technical man's website. It is a web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically — like a what's new page or a journal. A blog is a kind of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent entry at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom. A blog is also known as a web blog. It is a type of online journal or diary that can be frequently updated.
For example, if you start a blog on cooking, you will publish your thoughts, ideas, experiences, advice, stories, jokes and tips on cooking on your blog regularly using internet. Each thought is an entry. Your readers will post their comments on your thoughts on your blog site.
You can even blog about your daily mundane activities such as buying vegetables, watching television episodes and let your family members and friends know what you have been doing today and they can comment on your blogs.
You can start a blog on any topic. Some blogs are for play. Some are for work. Some are for business. Some are for career. Some are for self-promotion. Many are for making money. If you want to make money out of your blog, your topic must be useful to others. Only then they will come to your blog site and read your blogs.
The content, aims, goals and purposes of blogs vary greatly — from website links or advertisement links, to reviews about products, to discussion of ideas, to news about a person, to stories, photos, jokes and poetry.
The blog's money earning power is activated when you get your thoughts, ideas, views and opinions - about a topic useful to others - out in the world and develop a small or big community of like-minded readers.
Blogs are different from online forums. In an online forum any member can start a thread – topic – and others can join the discussion. However, in a blog, only the blogger or the person he authorizes can start a topic. Others can only comment on the blogger’s topic. Maintaining and updating a forum is cumbersome.