Mar

Blogging Jargons That You Must Know

Before we get into the thick of things, here are some common blogging jargons that you should know of.

a) Archives – Literally, this means a storage of articles on a chronological manner. Typically seen on a sidebar

b) Blogosphere – The blogging community

c) Comments – Abilities for readers to post their opinion, agree or disagree

d) Comment Spam – Bogus comments that are automatically written in the blogs – most of them advertisements

e) Description – Basically, it is the text that identifies blog content or purpose

f) Display Name – A pseudo name, typically used in place of the original name

g) Draft – A blog post which is the first cut before the original is published

h) Forms – A place containing text boxes for title and body of the posts that are automatically formatted when published

i) Keywords – Words that relate to your product or market, usually included in the titles, description and posts. Keywords attract search engines.

j) Links – A connector that connects you to a different webpage or product

k) Moblog – Acronym for Mobile Blog. A blog that can be updated remotely from anywhere using mobile or a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)

l) News Readers – Softare that permits subscribers to scan the headlines, its snapshot etc

m) News Aggregator – Software that permits to capture single file posts and comments that are assembled from several blogs. Also called as RSS Aggregator

n) Permalink – These are web addresses of individual posts. Helps bloggers to link back to that particular article

o) Photoblog – A blog primarily consisting of photos, posted on a regular basis and chronologically

p) Ping – A software that notifies the search engine whenever new posts are published

q) Podcasting – RSS Technology that syndicates MP3 audio files

r) Post – An article that is posted

s) RSS – A popular format for announcing blog updates. Stands for Really Simple Syndication. Also called as RSS Feeds

t) Syndicate – A feature that informs when new posts or comments have been published on your blog

u) Template – Quite obvious – a feature that allows consistent layout, structure of posts, typography, slots for pictures etc,

v) Timestamp – Time and date information automatically added to the individual posts and comments

w) Trackbacks – A feature that allows the blogger to keep track of his post on other’s blogs by using permalinks

x) Wiki – A website that can be easily updated by any visitor. Similar to blogs but different.