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Writing blog posts is easy once you understand it, because it's just a matter of grabbing information and forming an argument. But writing professional-quality articles means you need to do your research, write with clarity and imagination, and most of all make sure that everyone understands what you're saying. Nowadays weblogs are the best way to get your message across, so here is my list of the best suitable weblogs for different types of content.
• A Blog for Your Company: Businesses use a blog to gain more exposure in any given industry and create brand awareness in their local area. The content on these blogs can be informative or satirical depending on what their target market wants to hear.
• A Blog for Writers: These blogs are best used for carefully crafted and intriguing content, because they are most suitable for long-form articles. Readers want to read something that's never been seen before, so they'll keep coming back again and again for more.
• A Blog for Entertainment: These blogs tend to be short (10,000 – 50,000 words) compilations of various posts by various authors, which can be funny or shocking at times. They also tend to be lighthearted in nature.
• A Blog for Students: This type of blog is a good fit if you're writing your coursework or essay at university and need an outlet for your ideas. It is also a good place to get feedback from fellow students, so that you can go back and improve your content.
• A Blog for Professional Writers: These blogs are usually longer (50,000 – 300,000 words) and written by an established writer—although there are some exceptions. They provide ample space in their articles for regular readers to submit comments so that these can be discussed by the writer and other readers. This makes a blogger better at their craft and more approachable as a result.
• A Blog for Librarians: The primary focus of a blog for librarians is to provide information about recent publications, research resources available online, events related to their profession and more. But this is not to say that a librarian can't also give some helpful tips about the latest technology.
• A Blog for Research: This type of blog will only provide quality information relevant to your specific research topic, so make sure you're writing with the end in mind. It's best if a post is long enough to draw attention but short enough to be read through quickly—just like an article or report would normally be.
• A Blog for Medicine: These blogs are usually focused on a particular illness and its treatment, diagnosis and research. They're more likely to contain some advice about the effects of different medications or the best therapy for that particular illness.
• A Blog for HR professionals: These blogs are mainly used to provide guidance to the public, as well as a statement from the company (in the form of an FAQ). You'll find information about personnel issues such as personal websites, compensation plans, job postings and more.
• A Blog for Fire Fighters: The content of these blogs is mostly related to the fire crew members' personal experiences. They will contain funny moments that only fire fighters can relate to.
• A Blog for Nurses: These blogs are very similar in scope to those written by doctors or other medical professionals because they focus on providing helpful advice and information about different procedures and treatments.
• A Blog for Teachers: These blogs are mostly used to give advice and information to the public about new teaching methods, curriculum changes or general classroom practices. The content is usually related to specific methods and concepts that teachers need to help students understand the material better.
• A Blog for Architectural Students: These blogs are more commercial in nature because they focus on connecting students with potential employers. An entry in this category would be a similar thing to a CV (curriculum vitae) for architecture students, except that it would contain writing samples, sample student projects and work experience.
• A Blog for Computer Professionals: These blogs are used to give valuable advice to the public and other experts in the same field. The focus is on offering really in-depth content that is geared towards a specific audience (the people you're trying to attract).
• A Blog for Students of Fashion: This type of blog has two main focuses: providing guidance for beginners and showcasing student works. If you can offer a mix of both then you'll be very successful in attracting the people you want.
• A Blog for Business Owners: Just like any other type of blog, it's quite common for business owners to make use of their own personal weblogs as a way to get their company name out there. However, there are other options. If you need to get your business name out there, then you should consider writing a guest post for another website or forum.
• A Blog for Social Media Marketing: This type of blog is more aimed at sharing personal opinions and experiences with social media marketing. There are plenty of different posts that can be written in this category, such as the best time to post on Facebook or how to get more fans on Twitter.
• A Blog for Social Media Users: These blogs tend to focus more on entertainment than those in other categories. They are more about how you can have an enjoyable social media experience and get more out of your social media activities.
• A Blog for Social Media Gurus: These blogs are written by the experts and others who's main focus is teaching others how to better use these social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google+
• A Blog for Social Media Business Owners: This type of blog is primarily written by the people who are managing a business on these social media platforms. They will share their experiences with other members of their community. They can also provide guidance in the form of useful content that will help other business owners to get started.
• A Blog for SEO: SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and these blogs are used to discuss some of the industry secrets and topics that are popular at any given time.
• A Blog for News: This type of blog is used to post short news updates that are relevant to the readers. They tend to focus on a small number of topics, but with a wide range of opinions on those topics. For example, one blog may suggest that Obama's re-election will be good for America, another may disagree and say it's bad for America.
Conclusion
You should now have a good idea on how to make the right choice of a blog category. A blog could be set up for a number of different reasons. Whether you just want to get your name out there, or you're more interested in profit, it doesn't really matter. The only thing that matters is that you'll be blogging and making money with it! So, if you think that blogging may be something for your business, then check out the other things I've written about this topic (and feel free to bookmark them all). If not, then at least make sure you start writing on your own blog.