Every now and then you read a gloom and doom post about blogging like “Is blogging dead?” or “Where are all the bloggers?” Blogging is far from dead. Some people who were blogging five days a week four years ago may have slowed down or quit because they got burned out, and there’s no question that there are more bloggers than ever before, making it more difficult to get your message heard, but blogging is thriving like never before. Whether you’re a writer, doctor, interior designer or homemaker, there are many great reasons to blog. Here are just a few:
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1. To Express Your Ideas
Sometimes a Tweet or a Facebook post isn’t enough to say everything you want to say about last week’s school shooting, the upcoming election, the latest parenting trend, or the World Cup. Blogging is a great way to share your thoughts with others—whether they are friends and family or strangers.
2. To Make Friends
When people are going through difficult times, sometimes they find it’s easier to talk to strangers than to friends. Many people use blogging as a way to connect with others when they are feeling down.
3. To Build an Audience
Authors use blogging to build readerships for their books. They start long before their books are published by writing posts, sharing them, and commenting on other blogs. Musicians do the same with YouTube videos, then post them to their Facebook pages and blogs.
4. To Sell a Product
Whether you’re selling your dog-walking services or a new cat toy you invented, blogging is a great way to improve the SEO (search engine optimization) of your website. By blogging regularly, you’ll attract more customers to your site and increase the sales of your products and services.
5. To Practice Writing
In The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron suggests writing three “morning pages” every day before you sit down to work on your novel. Many people begin personal blogs in order to write their morning pages. Others write (and sometimes publish) scenes and chapters on their blogs in order to practice writing and get feedback from others.
6. To Feel Better
Writing is cathartic. It’s a form of therapy. By venting about your frustrations with your spouse, your job, your medical bills, you can shrug some of those burdens off your shoulders and get on with your life. You can make your blog private, or anonymous, or share it with your friends. It’s up to you.
7. To Inform
Blogging is a great way to share photos and stories with your friends and family about what’s going on in your life. Maybe you’re traveling around the world. Maybe you just had a baby. Maybe you want to document your grandfather’s life. Blogging allows you to gather all that information in one place and make those posts public or private depending on your preference.
8. To Share Information
Share your favorite recipes. If you’re a photographer, post a photo you took and explain what equipment and settings you used to get that amazing shot. List your 10 favorite places to go camping. Make DIY YouTube videos and post them to your blog. The possibilities are endless.
9. To Learn From Others
Not only will you learn from the comments people leave on your blog, if you’re a good blogger, you’ll read and comment on other blogs, too. And you’ll learn a lot from those other blogs. You’ll learn facts, you’ll discover new ideas, and you’ll come to better understand other people’s perspectives.
10. To Have Fun
Blogging is fun! It’s fun to write, to read, to connect with others, and to discover more about yourself by sharing your ideas. You don’t have to post on a schedule. You don’t have to build a huge audience. You can blog for yourself, because you enjoy it, because it’s fun.
What about you? Why do you blog?
Great post. Blogging is fun.
Fantastic reasons. I agree with them all!
Certainly these are all reasons I blog!
I definitely agree with blogging as a way to practice writing and to feel cathartic!
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Blogging is not going to die ever. You can blog about any stuff. Through blogging you can express your ideas and thoughts. You can make audience which is good for getting high ranks. In bad moods you must start blogging because it is cathartic.
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I totally agree. There are a lot of advantages to start blogging. It makes your writing more profound and also grammatically correct, it develops your communicative skills and gets you out of your shell.
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All of these are very good reasons, but for me it was mostly about expressing my ideas and my thoughts and finding people I can relate to. Of course, if you have a business, a blog will be a very important key to building a relationship with your audience.
All the reasons that you have listed here are just very much agreeable and I think almost every body who knows http://www.emethod.ca/ and something about blogging can relate to them. Even all the bloggers would be able to relate their reason of blogging from the ones you provided.