Blogging these days has got a great popularity and has attained importance for those who have no means of expressing themselves to people at large. A blog is a way to express oneself or to do something creative. There are different types of blogs – apart from blogs on which one can write one’s feelings or stories or poems or types of certain other information, there are blogs consisting of only photos, videos or audio blogs. The blogs also serve the social purpose of generating awareness amongst masses on certain issues of importance. For blogging, certain website make available the platform. The popular blogging platforms are www.blogger.com and www.wordpress.com. These platforms also make available different designs and fonts for the blogs. For blogging in hindi or any other languare, we need to write in Unicode format so that whenever the blog is opened, the reader doesn’t have to download and install hindi or the font of particular language. For writing in Unicode Hindi, there are free softwares available. These softwares can be installed and used by enabling the Regional Languages by going in the Contol Panel.
While the bloggers may find it useful for themselves to express their views, a few people know that blogs can also be the means to make money for themselves. But before taking further action in this direction, they can analyse their incoming traffic by registering their blog on http://www.google.com/analytics. Popularity of blogs can be achieved through certain sites like http://blogcarnival.com . For hindi blogs also, there are sites like http://www.blogvani.com and http://chitthajagat.in . By making use of these sites, one can popularize his blog and attract traffic towards his blog. For making money through one’s blogs, one can make use of the sites http://adsense.google.com, http://publisher.yahoo.com, http://linkshare.com, http://cj.com which offer display of advertisements on your blogs and thus you can make money.