Do you know what is a blog? Are you still ambiguous about what is a blog page or what’s the difference between a normal website and a blog page?

You are at the right place! Keep reading till the end to learn about what is a blog and how do you structure a blog!

What Is a Blog?

A blog is also a type of website where the content is presented in such a way that the latest content appears first — reverse chronological order. Website or blog can be run by an individual or a group of people to present the information relevant to the title of the blog. In most of the cases, a blog is run by a single person and blogs with significant traffic are often the source of income for a person — whom we call a blogger!

Over time, blogging has become immensely popular and people who have enough knowledge about a particular niche, they start their own blog and promote their brand. A well-structured blog can rank in top searches on Google, ultimately generating more traffic and more traffic would mean more revenue!

How Do You Structure a Blog?

The basic difference between a blog and website is that a blog is frequently updated and updated content always comes first in a blog. However, in a traditional website, every page has a different content and updated content goes to the page it belongs to.

So, while designing your own blog, structurize it according to the following guidelines:

Navigation

Like a website, your blog also needs a user-friendly interface to generate traffic. Design the navigation of your blog on HTML and CSS or if you don’t know to design, get it done by a professional. A user-friendly blog that is easy to navigate, has higher chances of getting ranked in top searches by Google. Just like a traditional website, a blog too needs SEO to bring more traffic.

Categories

If you like to write on diverse topics or once your blog starts growing, you might want to write on different niches, name and design categories according to that. Appropriate naming of categories and which content falls in which category is essential to increase user inerest in your blog. People tend to leave those blogs that have inappropriate structure in form of irrelevant content in categories belonging to a completely different niche.

Internal Linking

Internal links are important for your blog because;

• They help users to navigate
• They establish an information hierarchy that user may find handy
• They hold cardinal importance in ranking of your blog.

It’s not as complicated as it sounds to be. All you need is some link to or some link from another website to a page of your website — linking of navigation to the main categories or sub categories apart!

Remove Outdated Content

Once your blog has become established, remove the outdated content and keep adding the updated one. Outdated content on any blog decreases the credibility and overall worth of that blog because users are always eager to read what’s new and more informative. Structure your blog in such a way that removal of outdated content become easy and doesn’t disturb the rest of the strucutre.

Benefits Of  Having a Personal Blog

The field of blogging has evolved in last few years, and blog has become more than just a platform to express your opinion. log has become a marketing tool that can be very effective for companies to promote their brand or for bloggers to generate revenue through paid promotions, affiliate marketing and selling their own products.

Online Presence

By having a personal blog you can interact with people and get involved in healthy discussions. In a nutshell you build your identity online that also helps you in your professional life.

Writing Skills

By frequently writing for your blog, you keep improving your writing skills that is considered one of the essential skills to survive in professional world.

Earn Money

If people begin to like your writings and follow you regularly, your blog can earn you significant amount of money through Google AdSense. Paid promotions are also a very simple way to earn money through an online platform.

Start Your Business

If you want to be an entrepreneur, a blog can help you to build credibility and later sell your product to your visitors who trust you and expect you to come up with something innovative and worth buying!