Blogging is the most passionate term
for a blogger and this is the reason why blogs have become essential
branch of our online society. Blogs are turning out to be a major source
of education. Practically everyone prefers to read blogs, either they
are official blogs (From a Specific Brand) or any other blog associated
with a specific niche i.e. Entertainment, Education, Blogging,
Traditional, Tips and etc. This is the reas
As
currently we are in the 21st century the era known for information
technology blogger are becoming central branch of learning so it is essential
that we must learn who planted the tree of blogging and now what strategies are
adopted to make this tree ever refreshing.
The Early Stage Of Blogging From 1990s to 1999:
The
term blog was unrecognizable till 1990s, the history of blogging started with
the digital forums. Before the term “blogging” became popular, forums were
considered as an open source blogging.
1994 First Ever Blog Created:
The
First ever web Blog Links.net was
created by Justin Hall in 1994, who
was the student of Swarthmore College. For sure, at that time it was not named
as blog. As he just referred it as his personal homepage (Biography)
1997 Invention of the Term “Weblog”:
In
1997 the term weblog came into being. It was introduced by Jorn Barger, who
himself was a blogger. The term weblog was created to reflect a
"log" of the web (A Personal Diary of an author where he shares his
personal experience with others)
1999 Word “Blog” Came into existence:
In
1999 an intelligent programmer Peter Merholz created an ingenious word “BLOG”.
Being a thoughtful guy, he just renamed “Weblog”
to “Blog” which was later
accepted as the word of the year by Merriam-Webster
August 1999 Finally Blogger.com Came
Into Being:
On
August 23, 1999, blogger.com the first ever blogging platform was introduced by
Pyra Labs it was the earliest and
most enthusiastic blogging tool for publishers. In February 2003, Google.inc
acquired blogger.com from Pyra Labs and hence one after another a never ending wave
of achievement started for blogger.com. And till now blogger.com is one of most
prominent and reliable platform for bloggers which allowed them to send their
voice to the entire world.
2000 To 2003 The Time Which Changed The Way of Blogging:
In
late 2000, Google introduced a pay per click service. AdWords is a program
which allowed advertisers to select the most appropriate blog where they can
put their advertisement. And currently it is the leading and most reliable
advertising program which is vastly recommended by 80% advertisers.
Google Adsense Came Into Existence -
2003:
In June
18, 2003 Adsense was introduced by Google.inc it was the most dedicated
advertising program which allowed users to advertise on their blog so that they
can earn some revenue from their blog. People of that time did not accepted
Adsense readily but as the time passed it became the basic need of almost every
blogger. And now in 2012, having a Google Adsense account is a dream of every
blogger in the other words we can say that it is another name of excellence.
WordPress – First Self Hosted Blog –
2003:
WordPress
was
launched on May 27, 2003, which became the second blogging portal and a
free to use platform. Unlike blogger.com it permitted user to run their
own
organization by allowing them to create their very own self hosted
blogs. And currently
in 2012, WordPress is the second most leading blogging platform which is
hosting almost fifty millions blogs.
The Ultimate ERA of Blogging - 2004 to 2012:
FeedBurner
came into existence in 2004, it is a web feeds management source which was
founded by Dick Costolo an excellent student of University of Michigan, who
later become the CEO of twitter 2010. But on June 3, 2007, FeedBurner was
acquired by Google.inc since then it has become the center of almost all blogging
activates.
YouTube Launches Vlogging - 2006:
In
2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion and since then Youtube
have never look back it is the only video steaming website which is among the top
ten website of the world. It is only Video streaming website which provided an excellent
chance for bloggers who want to earn heaps and heaps of money by doing Vlogging
(Video Blogging).
Beginning of In-text Advertising –
Infolinks – 2007:
In-text
advertising is a type of appropriate advertising where particular keywords are
targeted in text of a web-page and advertisement are shown in a form of text. Infolinks
was the first in-text advertising program which was introduced in 2007 and
still it is the top most in-text advertising platform.
The Modern World of Blogging – 2012:
As
the time passes the things are becoming more difficult to handle with back to
back Google Penguin and Panda Algorithm update it is getting really complicated
to survive. But those bloggers who are following the correct strategy by creating gorgeous
and unique content are living luxurious life
as blogging has provided boost to their income to a great extent. Piracy is another
bitter truth of modern world of blogging, according to the latest surveys almost
70% blogs are pirated (coping others hard work). Still DMCA is trying its best
to stop piracy and it is successful in greater many cases.
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