Getting Started with Content Writing and Blog Writing
By: Aman Kumar Dewangan
Tags: History, Blogging Tips, Content Writing, Blog, Blogger

With time every decade, we see a new job opportunity, opening-up to everyone around the world. At the beginning of the 21st Century, no one even thought that Jobs like Web Developers, App Developers, Influencers, Network Architects that even didn’t exist a decade before are today in huge requirement by the companies. With the time we humans have brought out new job opportunities for everyone, with time. With the upcoming of Platforms, like Youtube around 2005, a new stream of Job Opportunities came over. Online Education Platforms, Media Influencers, and Motivators emerged as a new way to generate income, publicize there products and services, and became a new mode of publicizing your brand.

Seeds of a similar stream started growing when in 1994 when a Student named Justin Hall created Links.net created a blog website to publish his writing over the internet. The site consisted entirely of brief posts, each one sharing a link and some of his thoughts on the content within.

Others quickly followed in Hall’s footsteps, creating their own sites to share their personal lives and thoughts. With the term “blog” not invented yet, these sites were referred to as “Online Diaries” or even “Personal Pages”. In 1997, the term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger of the influential Robot Wisdom blog to describe these sites.

Many of those early blogs were created by programmers and focused on highly technical subjects, but in 1998 Jonathan Dube became the first journalist to blog an event.

As blogging became more popular, tools appeared to help people curate their blog reading list or market their blogs. 2002 was a particularly big year for the blogosphere. People also started to monetize their blogs with sites like BlogAds, a precursor to Google AdSense.

The first-ever blog search engine, Technorati, launched that November.

2002 was a big year for blogging, but 2003 turned out to be even bigger. Google purchased Blogger and introduced AdSense, making it possible for anyone to monetize their blog without needing to join a special network like BlogAds.

2003 also saw the birth of two new brand-new blogging services that would further alter the blogosphere: TypePad, a commercial blogging platform that hosts blogs for major multimedia companies like the (BBC News Magazine)BBC, and WordPress, the open-source platform we use for ThemeIsle and our sister sites. These platforms made it easy for companies to create their own fully customized blogs and sell advertising directly to companies for improved profits.

Rise of Vlog and the boom in Content Writing

The rise of vlogging was only one sign of a major shift in internet usage: as internet connections grew faster and more stable, images and video became more prominent. Images and design also became gradually more important to blogging success. Early blogs consisted almost entirely of text that stretched across the entire page, with only the occasional small image.

Blog Design

The design aspect of blogs has evolved and grown more important with each new iteration of the concept. Early platforms like LiveJournal and Blogger offered limited but simple customization. This allowed people with no coding experience to create unique sites. Popular LiveJournal layouts also introduced some elements of design that are still common in WordPress themes, like the centered text pictured below:

When WordPress launched its open-source code in 2003, design possibilities exploded. Developers could use the WordPress technology to build themes, and people with no previous web design experience could customize those templates and build their sites with ease.

Since then, premium WordPress themes have become an industry to themselves. ThemeIsle joined this wave of companies in 2012, with a strong desire to make WordPress themes more fun for both site owners and new visitors.

The rise of responsive design

No article about the history of blogging would be complete without a mention of the mobile revolution. Mobile traffic was responsible for more than 50% of all internet traffic in 2018. But websites created in the early-to-mid 2000s don’t look great when you view them with a mobile phone.

Some companies created separate mobile sites designed for phones, but this was costly and impractical. The better answer, it seemed, was responsive design. Responsive design, or design that alters itself to fit the user’s screen, has existed in some form since 2001 but rose to popularity in 2015 when Google announced that sites would be penalized if they weren’t mobile-friendly.

Today, responsive design is built into most WordPress themes, including all the themes you’ll find here at ThemeIsle.

Blogging in recent years

Blogging continued to grow at a steady pace, but there wasn’t true innovation in the blogosphere until the creation of Medium in 2012. Throughout its lifetime, Medium(Medium) has made waves by introducing new ways to pay creators. They introduced a subscription model, and in 2017 replaced it with a partnership program. Today, Medium is home to thousands of blogs with varying levels of success, and they even employ some writers directly.

LinkedIn(Nature) introduced its own blogging platform, Pulse, for select users in 2013. Over time Pulse was rolled out to a growing number of users, becoming available to all in 2015.

While some creators use Medium, LinkedIn Pulse, and the outcropping of similar sites as their primary blog, many use them as secondary and tertiary posting grounds. This brings content hosted on low-traffic domains to large new audiences.

Social media works with blogs in a similarly symbiotic fashion. Most bloggers today have some kind of social media marketing strategy. They share every blog post on a plethora of social media platforms. Vloggers use similar marketing tactics, and many also run blogs as well.

What you need to learn as a Blogger??

When you start off your carrier as a Content Writer, you don’t need to think of the stream with which you are currently associated with. What matters is your thought process, your language skills, presentation, and designing skills. If you wish to pursue a carrier in the same direction:

Familiar with the language in which you write, and be interactive with the content. It should be able to communicate using messages to the user and serve its purpose. No one should feel that he/she has wasted his/her time going through your article. If you wish to add some modifications of your own, I suggest you have some hands-on experience with @HTML5MeetSpain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it gives you a lot of independence to design your website. Your blog should be responsive in nature, no one should feel like it’s so plain and looks weird. In Order to make earning Ads and Google Adsense provide a lot of features and if you are familiar with CSS and JavaScript you can design your own ads.

I have a no. of friends who are in this stream, to tell their views on this topic: Kuldeep Pisda, Amrita Mishra, Vrihas Pathak, Vatsala Saxena, Samveg Thaker to give some suggestions over the article.

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