A blogger cannot become successful by not committing mistakes, but learning from them and not repeating them in the future.

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There are various types of blogging and the blog postings, which vary with the purpose of creating the blog. The following are some of the popular types of blog postings –

News related posts
These posts are based on the latest news. The blogger, posting news related posts, do not just focus on giving the breaking news, rather, he analyzes and presents it in his own perceptive.

Informative posts
Informative posts are created to provide information on a certain topic. These are most common type of blog posts and many a times serve as valuable resources of information. Generally, professionals or amateurs of the respective subject write them.

Review-based posts
Reviews on a product or service of a company are called review-based posts. These days, reviews have become very popular in terms of monetizing the blog. Many companies pay for positive reviews on their product or service.

Debate posts
A blog post, which features some discussion on a certain topic, does very well in the blogging world. The debate can be between two bloggers or between a blogger and commenter. It is essential to balance the post at the end of the debate.

Personalized posts
Posts, which feature the personal details of the blogger, are called personalized posts. They are also called online diaries. The posts can be on family details, likes-dislikes, daily life, etc of the blogger. Though it is unlikely for these posts to be successful, personalized posts of the celebrities are very popular among their fans.

Video posts
Bloggers, who have a very interesting or funny video to share with others, post it in their blog. Besides posting the video, they also provide additional information on the video like their review, significance of the video, comments, etc.

Each type of blog post has its own significance. The above information helps you to understand different types of blogs posts and helps to understand when to use which.

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Tools for monitoring your blog
Monitoring blogs is an essential task for any individual blogger or business blogger.

•    Page views: A page view is deemed as a measurement of how often a webpage is visited online. The number of page views can be gathered using any online stats program like gostats, awstats, etc.

•    Unique visitors: The number of distinct people visiting your blog gives the actual number of its unique visitors. It is simple to measure, and gives you the details of how many people visited the blog page. It is like measuring a unit of traffic in terms of number of unique visitors to blog.

•    Alexa rank: The alexa rank is calculated based on the number of visitors, and page views of each blog. It provides historical traffic data by showing trends to help in estimating whether a blog is gaining audience or losing its popularity. This can be found from alexa website.

•    Inbound links: Inbound links are number of quality back links to the blog/site. Monitoring inbound links on major search engine is important, as the number of inbound links can demonstrate blogs credibility.

•    Google Page Rank: Google page rank is a tool that rates websites on a scale of one to ten. It rates a site/a blog predominantly based on the number of quality back links. Based on the rank, you can get an idea of how search engines view your blog. New blogs need some time and quality content to get Google PR.

•    Subscribers: Success of blog is also measured based on the number of subscribers (If you offer any subscriptions). It represents the number of readers, advertisers, or bloggers who choose your blog post on regular basis. With increase in subscribers for your blog, the scope of the blog increases.

•    Technorati rank: Technorati is one of the largest blog search engine in the world. Technorati rank is based on the number of inbound links coming from other blogs. This helps in maintaining the blogs visibility and indicates the popularity of the blog.

The above information helps you in effective monitoring, and measuring the success of the blog. Do not measure a blog performance by considering only one parameter of the above. It is also suggested not to go overboard on any negative results, as it depends on many other quality and quantity parameters.

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Different types of blogs
Though there are hundreds of types of blogs online, mainly those can be classified into four types.

•    Personal blogs: Personal blogs is a major category, and many blogs online comes under this category. In these blogs, blogger writes about his personal details, emotions, experiences, reviews irrespective of topics. A personal blog is blogger centric.

•    Corporate blogs: These are the blogs published by an organization to achieve its organizational goals. These blogs facilitate the organizations with proper communication flow, concerning the culture of the organization. Corporate blogs can become private blogs in many cases. Corporate blogs can be maintained for external and internal purpose of organizations. External blogs are for communicating information with public for marketing and branding their products or services. Internal corporate blogs are created for sharing information and views within the organization.

•    Professional blogs: Professional blogs are created to share expertise on certain industry or a subject. Professional blogs are reader centric. These blogs are contrast to personal blogs. Though some blogs that appeal professionally are meant for promotion or to make money, many blog service providers do not allow that kind of activities.

•    Micro blogs: The concept of micro blogging has evolved from the idea to cope up with the latest minutia lifestyles of the people. These blogs have brief text posts or micro media such as photos, audio clips, etc.

However many blogs exists to serve different purposes, they help to know insights on various issues in the world. The above-mentioned information helps to understand blog types to create, maintain, and to get the benefits of blogging.

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