Benefits of Blogging

A blog is a type of web journal and it get its name from an abbreviated form of weblog. Blog have being around since the mid to late 1990s  but really started gaining popularity since 2009. Blogging is the act of publishing content to a blog, blog has really become a cultural phenomenon with million of blogs now in existence.
 Blogging is more than writing because of it unique nature, let us considered few benefits of Blogging before looking at the golden laws.

Benefits of Blogging
 While there are many reasons while people want to start blogging, there are also many benefits to blogging as well.

1. Becoming a Better Writer
Writing is a skill that requires constant practice. Blogging daily is a habit that will lead to better skills as a writer.
As you immerse yourself in your chosen niche, your knowledge will grow and blogging will provide experience at expressing yourself in a written format. While you may struggle at first to put together a simple blog post, with practice and consistency, you will grow as a writer and creating content will become natural.

2. Establish Your Self as a Writer
If your content create quality content/ or have a unique view on a topic , your readers will start to think of you as an expert. As your readership grows, so Will your scope of influence, eventually you may find other business, or corporation, magazines, and individuals reaching out to you for your opinions or to hire you to write something for them.

3. Making Money
As you increase your readership and establish yourself as an expert in a niche, there will be opportunities to monetize your blog as well. While its not recommended you monetize your blog immediately, once you have established your blog, you will be able to monetize your blog through advertisements, AdSense, promoting affiliate products, or creating and selling your own products.

4. Making Friends and Having Fun.
Not the least of benefit of Blogging, you are going to meet new people, share ideas, and have a lot of fun in the process. Blogging is a lot of work, but if you are blogging about a topic  that you are passionate about you will enjoy your work.

There are many benefits of Blogging
- this is a very short list, but still pretty powerful.

 By Desmond Arodoye.