Business or corporate blogs are slightly different from personal blogs or general blogs since the main aim of these blogs is the promotion of business. Keeping this in mind business or corporate blogs can be classified in different categories.Most common kind of business blogs is everyday posts which are useful to the employees, business partners and clients of the company. These are usually about day to day happenings of the company which include information on new employees, employee benefit plans, advancements and achievements of the company and similar general interest issues of the company. These are usually of 250 words or lesser with links to internal pages of the company.

Redistributed posts are the easiest posts when the writer just summarizes any popular video, article, news or event and posts it in the company blog. It might be press releases of partners, slide shows of relevant material, videos of popular events which might interest the readers and other white papers.

Discussion posts are an important part of any business blog. It is through these posts that a conversation is usually started. These should relate to a current issue which can be external or internal to the company. The topic is made in a controversial style which motivates and instigates people to post comments or react to the post.

Posts on reports are also a common part of business blogs. These posts might be an internal report or any document which is relevant to all the employees. Such as report might be related to industry specific information of the company or on the quarterly financial status of the organization which the employees might be interested in knowing. Such a post usually has hyperlinks to the internal or other external pages of the company.

Thoughtful posts are those which can be posted once in a week or just once in every two weeks. These are actually very tedious posts and can be done once in a while very easily. The topics of these posts can be related to different trends of the industry, various techniques and ways of sales and marketing which can be very useful to the employees. It is important for these blogs to have a very captivating title.