There are Many Different Types of Blogs - Marketing - Social Marketing

There are many different types of blogs although most blogs are a little bit of all types. So the type of blog you build is limited only by your imagination. You may also want to do a bit of research to see what type of blog styles are currently out there. For example some blogs focus on one topic that may be very general like animals where other blogs will be more specific such as a blog about only dogs or even a blog about only German Shepherd dogs. When you are organizing your content for a blog the smaller your focus the easier your organizing will be since the topic will be very narrow it will be easy to choose categories. When you are focusing on a larger, more general topic, choosing categories may become more difficult.

When building a blog there are typically 9 major areas that all blogs fall into: business, culture, community, politics, religion, science, travel, online diaries, and gossip. Again, when looking at these categories you will see how many blogs will cross into multiple areas at different times depending on the topic of the most recent post. Even business blogs can have gossip or politics or even religion depending on the voice of the person creating the blog and also depending on the business the blog is for.

When you are considering setting up your blog another thing to consider is the program or software you will use to create it. Most blogging software tends to have links to other blogs created with the same software easily available to other users. Wordpress blogs tend to have links to other wordpress blogs and blogger blogs tend to have links to other blogger blogs built right into them. This is the same for social networking types of blogging platforms. Sites like Livejournal and MySpace allow users to surf from blog to blog based on friend links and similar content.

Blogs can be more than just articles that you type up and post to the internet. There are also photo or video blogs. In these blogs the information is usually conveyed using pictures or videos. With a video blog the blogger might record themselves talking about the topic that day or maybe record an event that is occurring that they want to share with the world. They then take that video and post it to their blog and make it available for everyone to watch.

While most blogs are created by a company or an individual there are blogs that allow many people to participate in providing information. Some that are gaining in popularity are geographic blogs. These blogs focus on information pertaining to a specific region of the world, may it be a country, a state, a city or one neighborhood. Then everything on the blog would be directly related to that specific area.

So you see, blogs can be as unique as the people that create them. It is best to determine the purpose of your blog before you get started and consider what you hope to accomplish by having one and therefore what the best platform will be for your particular type of blog. But you also want to remember not to get too caught up in the planning. A blog in your head does you no good at all. Part of the point of blogging in the first place is to get your information out onto the internet where the world can see it. With a little bit of planning and preparation you will be able to get started on your blog very easily.