The term "web log" came from the reference of a server's log file. It was then expanded upon to include online personal journaling. Hence, the word blog was born. They are a little more technical that those early and simple web logs. The overall concept, however, still remains the same. It is still a place where someone can put their own personal thoughts and opinions online. They can range from details of upcoming weddings to corporate business plans.

Blogs are great because they give the average person a channel to tell the world their opinions or even their own unique look at various things in their lives. Because there are so many different people with a whole ton of different reasons for starting their own blog, there are various kinds of bloggers all over the internet. Here are five of the most popular types of blog authors:

The best bloggers are the ones who reprint your article on their blog but ask for your permission first. The best part about it is the fact they do so with back links too. Normally, these people are your normal bloggers who take what they do seriously and are just looking for some relevant content to add to their site.

My second favorite kind of bloggers are the ones who use your content on their site even though they do so without asking for permission to use it first. These bloggers are ok in my book cause they still have the good decency to link back to your site as the source of the article. I'll basically look the other way for anything as long as I get a link in return, so I'm fine with these bloggers.

Next on our list of types of bloggers are the ones who blog about something you have done and then to the original artic. They even add their own unique commentary to it and providing a point of view from another source. What makes these posts so great is that it isn't a complete copy of yours so no worries about any duplicate content penalties. Oh, don't forget about that backlink, too. Don't be surprised if you see harsh criticism about your post since it they are writing their own opinion on your work.

One of the more amusing bloggers are the folks who blog on about someone else's topic for the sole purpose submitting it to social sites as their own work. It borders on sleazy if you ask me. It's the original author who put in all the hard work and research but its this blogger who is getting all the traffic and links from the social sites.

These people are probably my least favorite people in the world. They are the scrapers who use your content with no links and then load up the page with contextual link ads and AdSense among other crappy spam tactics. Unfortunately, this is an extremely prevalent tactic these days. Actually, I think nearly three quarters of the Google results pages are these types of blogs.