Blog Awards

Blogging and microblogging can sum up as sharing a text, a picture or a video, with the aim of communicating through Internet. Various definitions are given to the question "What’s Blogging?"

According to Wikipedia; a blog is a word coming from the truncation of web-log. A Weblog is a publication with diary-style text entries (called posts) on a content management system. A Content Management System (abbreviated as CMS) is a website that can be created by people who write what they want, the way they want to share, without requiring technical knowledge.
This kind of web based publication offers articles and comments, usually in ascending order.

According to Cambridge Dictionary; a blog as noun, also called weblog, is a record of your thoughts that you can put on the internet for other people to read. (While a blog as verb, is posting your written ideas about various topics on the internet.)

According to Larousse; a blog is a journalistic platform where internet users write what they want and share them with other users in general. The word can be used as verb or noun, such as keep blog (verb) and blog post (noun).

Among the synonyms of blog (as noun) can be counted; online journal, site, website, web log, diary and record.

While the word Blog is the same in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Turkish, the other words in other languages are the followings: (1) Bloc (in Catalan), (2) Blogg (in Norwegian & Swedish), (3) Blogi (in Estonian & Finnish), (4) Blogo (in Esperanto), (5) Blogue (in Portuguese), (6) Bloq (in Azerbaijani), (7) Dienorastis (in Lithuanian) and (9) Emuars (in Latvian).

What makes a blog better than other blogs?

While WebAwards.com is mathematicizes the values through a machine learning and artificial intelligence process, followings are considered in the digitizing the values to be used in grading:

- The domain name of a blog is very precious. A domain value is attributed to each blog during evaluation.
- The title and the introductory paragraph of blog posts are very important parts to be thinked and rethinked before publishing as this is crucial for both readers and search engine optimization which then creates the traffic values.
- Headings and subheadings should be well arranged to emphasize the hierarchy as H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 and H6.
- Closing paragraphs should end in accordance with the overall content.
- Bolding is very important to enable the user to read the content quickly and emphasize the keywords.
- Blog posts should not be taken from somewhere else and they should be 100% original.
- Recommended font size in blog posts is 11-13, but the choice is free.
- A cover image and at least one in-text image prettify blog posts.
- Image sizes should be well balanced.
- A meaningful and descriptive name is needed when saving your images.
- The total number of keywords should not exceed 2% of the content.
- The keyword has to be used in the first one tenth of the post.
- The content has not to be less than a minimum amount of words.

What are the best rated blogging platforms?

While the content is important, the supporting technological infrastructure has not to be omitted. The CMS, SSL, SEO, SEM are just abbreviations but behind these few letters there is a profound universe and thick know-how. So a successful blogger has to choose firstly a good platform, that is, the software to create the blog. There are many options such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Squarespace, Carrd, Wix, Zyro and Weebly. Some additional extensions or plugins concerning blog backups, contact forms, social media optimization, security wall, caching for speed, conversion, marketing, payment, analytics and page building; such as Yoast, WooCommerce, WPForms, WPRocket, Sucuri, WPML, Constant Contact, OptinMonster and SeedProd may also be necessary for the blog to head the competition among the bests.

Types of Blogs;
- Personal Blog: It is the most common type of blog. It enables people to share the events they experience in daily life and the situations they encounter with their readers.
- Corporate Blog: Platforms where companies share news and announcements about themselves and aim to increase their communication with customers.
- Thematic Blog: These blogs that have articles specific in their field and share certain expertise.
- Community Blog: Blogs that have a membership system and consist of posts written by these members. Its use has increased considerably recently.

Some popular blogs are;
- LifeHacker: It is a famous blog that contains very important tips, tools and software that will make life easier. You can find good surveys.
- Business Insider: It is the world's most popular finance website where finance and financial related topics are covered.
- Gizmodo: A blog that does product reviews in simple terms. However, it differs from other blogs with its versatile content and humorous approach to articles. The visuals related to the subject added by the commentators of the news on the blog attract a lot of attention.
- Boing Boing: It is a blog with high quality content created on topics such as science fiction, technology, politics and design.

How We Award a Blog?
Blog awards are given by an AI jury at Web Awards.com. This artificial intelligence uses both mathematicization and machine learning processes. In the machine learning part, the AI learns to analyze the best weblogs and keeps the big data. Mathematics comes into play because the properties of a domain name and a website are fully measurable and enumerated. As a result, the creative bloggers & influencers, caring about design, originality and perfection are rewarded.

Briefly, WebAwards.com distributes awards to best blogs; and our visitors are kindly invited to check the BEST BLOG AWARD WINNERS together with their respective valuation detail sheets in the complete list featuring in our AWARD WINNERS page.