Dictionary For Beginners: Bloggers Blogging Terms You Should Know

Many Handsomeblogger.cf readers who ask questions about the specific terms that are often used in the world of blogging and make money from blogging.

Some of the questions are pretty easy I could immediately answer. But some questions I don't know the meaning, I was forced to answerfor what it is: "sorry, I don't know."

Lucky Daniel Scocco helps us identify and understand various plural terms used by the bloggers in cyberspace.

In the article the beginner Blogger for this Dictionary I presents a translation of the writings of Daniel Scocco, entitled "The Bloggers Glossary."

The hope of course by recognizing terms that are frequently used bythe blogger, we will be increasingly understand the ins and outs of the world of blogging and make money from blogging.

DICTIONARY FOR BEGINNERS BLOGGERS

A-LIST:

A list of bloggers who have a blog with traffic is relatively high and is widely known in the blogging world. Usually refers to the list of 100 Technorati Blog.

AdSense:

Online advertising network is the most famous on the internet. Google Adsense is owned by Google and give a chance to the bloggers to do monetization blog by displaying contextual ads on their blog. Every time someone clicks on text ads Google Adsense, then the blog owner will get a number of commissions.

AdWords:

The opposite of Adsense. Google Adwords allows companies or individuals to advertise and promote their products, services or their sitebased on the calculation of the cost per click (CPC). An advertiser should specify the dibidiknya keyword and what price could he give to each kliknya. Adwords ads can appear on Google search results pagesas well as on Adsense ad units on your site or blog that follows the Adsense program.

AFFILIATE MARKETING:

Also called affiliate, is a very popular way to earn money from the internet in which an owner affiliate programs give other people a chance to market their products or services in Exchange for a number of commissions. The Commission can be fixed or changeable, and can bebased on clicks, leads (could be email subscribers) or sales going on.

AKISMET:

Spam filter plugin for blog berplatform WordPress are very popular.Made by the same company that makes the code of WordPress, Automattic.

ALEXA:

An online company (belonging to Amazon.com) that monitors traffic of all sites on the internet. The rank system used is based on statistical data from the toolbar of the browser of internet users. Later they change this ranking algorithms to eliminate the many toolbar bias favouring technology-related websites. The lower the Alexa ranking, then the higher the trafficnya. However, there is a certain amount of controversy regarding the accuracy of Alexa rankings.

ANCHOR TEXT:

The text used in the back links. Most expert search engine optimization (SEO) agreed that anchor text is one of the important factors thataffect the position of the ranking of a site or blog in search results ofsearch engines.

Atom:

A syndication feed format that was developed as an alternative to RSS. Atom allows one to get updates of articles from a website or a blog when there are new posts.

AUTOMATTIC:

The company was founded by Matt Mullenweg and responsible for the development of WordPress.org (blog software) and WordPress (hosting) in addition to other projects.

BACKLINK:

Link that appears in your blog or other sites and link on the main page or any other page in a blog or site. Backlinks are important because Google and other search engines use the number and quality of backlinks as a measure of the level of trust of a blog or site.

BLACKHAT:

The combined techniques of SEO and online marketing are often unethical and even illegal with a specific purpose. Hiding text behind an image or use doorway pages with re-direct is an example of blackhattechniques.

Blog:

A type of site where the owner to publish your thoughts, ideas or knowledge about a certain topic. Usually its content in the form of articles, called a post, and arranged by chronological order. Initially appearing as an online diary blog, but blog covers a wide variety of niche topics, and compete with the mass media most.

BLOG CARNIVAL:

An event when the bloggers gathered to to make a collection of articles on a particular topic. Blog carnival usually consists of just one blog with numerous participating blog submit article.

Blogger:

Someone who has a blog. Blogger is also the name of a commercialplatform and Google's free blog hosting (better known by the name of extension Blogspot).

Blogging:

Activity write something in my blog. It could also mean a wider activity conducted by a blogger (e.g. interacting with readers, prepare the material content, and others).

BLOGLINES:

One of the RSS Feed Reader is the most popular. Bloglines is a web-based application that allows users to subscribe to and manage RSS feeds.

The BLOGOSPHERE:

A term used to describe a world that was created by a network of blogs.

BLOGROLL:

A very popular blog feature that allows blog owners blog-displays a list of other blogs that direkomendasikannya. This feature is usually displayed at the sidebar. But this time the less blog featuring my blogroll.

COMMENTS:

Almost all platforms blog allows readers to comment and leave feedback on each page of a blog article post. It is this feature that makesthe blog became a direct conversation and media has become one of the success factors blog in the internet world.

COMMENT SPAM:

Comments written purely to get backlinks and will hopefully providea steady flow of traffic to the blog visitor parties who write spam comments.

COMPETE:

Web analyst company, as does Alexa, which monitor and estimate the amount of traffic your site or blog.

CPC:

Short for "cost-per-click, and it represents a form of online advertising where the advertiser (advertiser) gives a sum of money to any visitors who click the ad and visit your site or product sales page. On the other hand, there is the Publisher of the advertisement (publisher) who display ads on your site or blog the CPC and earn money for every click a visitor made the site or blog. CPC ad networks is Google Adwords.

CPA:

Short for "cost-per-action, and it represents a form of online advertising where the advertiser (advertiser) will pay when a visitor performsa specific action (e.g. when they subscribe to the news letter or buy aspecific product). Most affiliate programs using the scheme of CPA.

CPM:

Short for "cost-per-mille, where mille means 1000 in Latin. CPM, thereby means the price per 1000 impression, and it represents a form ofonline advertising where the advertiser (advertiser) will pay a certain price when banner ads or other ads they are shown every 1000 times on a site or blog.

CSS:

Short for Cascading Style Sheets, and is a programming language used to create web pages written in HTML or XHTML code. The advantages of CSS is to allow you to control the look of the site pages simultaneously from the same location (CSS file).

DIGG:

The most famous social bookmarking sites in the world. Basically Digg is a site that it lives by its users, where Digg community members give vote against an article that will be featured on the front page of the site. For most website owners, appeared on the front page of Digg is a pride. He can give you thousands of visitors in just a day. However, there is controversy as to the quality of traffic visitors coming from Digg because visitors are usually seldom back again and rarely click ads.

Domain:

Also known as a domain name or domain hosting, name is the name of your site or blog listed in the internet world. Examples of domain name is Yahoo.com. GoDaddy.com for instance is a domain provider.

DUPLICATE CONTENT:

Content duplication results (usually in the form of text/article) in a site or blog. Search engines (for example Google Search Engine) are likely to drop the penalty for your site or blog with the results of the content duplication.

FAVICON:

Short for "Favorites Icon", is an icon associated with the logo of a siteor a blog and will appear on the browser or bookmark. Favicon is intended to make it easier to identify a site or blog.

Feed:

Also called web feeds or news feed is a data format used in the internet world to facilitate its users get updates of articles from his favorite website or blog. There are two types of main feed formats: RSS feeds and Atom feeds.

FEED COUNT:

Usually refers to the widgets from FeedBurner that serves to give the report the number of RSS subscribers on a site or blog.

FEEDBURNER:

A Google-owned online company which provides services for RSS feeds. FeedBurner is a free service that provides RSS feeds with a variety of attractive features, and makes it easy for site owners or blog collects statistical data site RSS Feed or blog.

FTP:

Short for File Transfer Protocol. FTP is a network protocol used to transfer data from one computer to another. If you use the services of a hosting company, you need FTP to transfer Your website files from your computer to a server hosting company.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS:

A free service from Google that gives site owners a number of information and statistical data about the amount of traffic and visitors of the site. Google Analytics is also known as one of the most trusted web services (other services such as Webalizer or AWStats tend to melebihkan the numbers by entering a non-human traffic into data generated).

GOOGLE READER:

The most popular RSS Reader in the internet world. Google Reader is a web-based application that allows its users to subscribe to and manage RSS feeds of your site or blog. Because I was so popular, many sites featuring special badges Google Reader so that readers can subscribe to the RSS Feed via Google Reader.

Hosting:

As the name suggests, hosting is a service provider (or host) and data storage blog. Hosting for example used if a blogger using self-hosted WordPress. An example is SiteGround hosting service (which I use), BlueHost and Hostgator.

HOTLINKING:

Also known as an inline link and bandwidth thieves, hotlinking refers to the practice of using certain objects (often in the form of a picture) from one site to another site. Although this practice was originallya part of the world's great web design, but later people tend to associate it with the practice of abuse. When you do the hotlinking a picture that is in another site, for example, you have been "stealing" bandwidth the site and most likely also had violated the copyright.

LINKBAIT:

All kinds of content (articles, tools, quizzes, videos, pictures, memes)created with the main purpose to attract links to the site in question.The quantity and quality of backlinks is one of the factors behind theGoogle search engine algorithm system, that's the reason why people are very concerned. There are even online marketers who specializecreating promotional linkbait.

MOVABLE TYPE:

The blogging software was created by Six Apart. In 2007 the Movable Type became a free blogging service (issued under the terms of the GPL or General Public License).

META TAGS:

Meta tags are HTML codes that are on the page sections of a site. Unlike other HTML tags, meta tags do not appear on the pages of the post, so that most visitors never see it. Different meta tags have different functions, but in general everything is used to provide additional information about the condition of a site page to search engine robots.

NICHE:

In the jargon of the internet world, niche or niche refers to a particular topic or subject. Most sites includes one or more niche. Examples ofniche for example are sports, gossip, humor and finance. Some of theniche are considered more popular and profitable than the others.

NO-FOLLOW:

Also referred to as nofollow tag is a tag that is inserted in the code links are function to instruct search engine robots so that they do not follow the links in question, and therefore does not regard it as a reallink. Google and the other search engines recommend that all paid links use nofollow tag.

PAGERANK:

Also often called Google's PageRank, is a metric system used by Google to assess the confidence level of a site. Google PageRank has a value scale from 0 to 10, where 10 is the highest level of trust that you can get. There is a complicated algorithm PageRank scale is reversed, but the most important factor that influenced him was the number and quality of backlinks a site or blog. The value of PageRank (which can be viewed using the Google Toolbar) is updated every three months.

PAGE VIEWS:

Also called a false impression. Every time an internet user opens a specific site page, one page view will be counted. A user of the internet, for example, can get the various page views during that visit a site. Popular websites can get millions of page views each month.

PHP:

Short for Hypertext Processor, Programming is a programming language designed for creating web pages that move. Many sites (e.g. Digg.com) is built using PHP, as well as some blog platforms (such as WordPress). If you are a blogger or web master, there is most likely you will use PHP.

PILLAR ARTICLE:

A term which was first coined by Yaro Starak, a reference to an articlelong and structured, contain information or a useful referencesource, published on the blog. A pillar article is very important to build authority and attract traffic visitors to your blog. These two factorsabove come from another blogger who benefit from the article pillar and link link to the article the pillar.

PING:

A computer network tool used to test whether a computer or hostingcan be opened on the internet. In the jargon of the world of bloggers and web masters, ping also means the Act of submitting a message to a network server to inform you that you have to update your blog or site. Every time you publish a post new articles, for example, you can do a ping to search engines to notify update you do.

Pingback:

A networking tool used to tell a site when someone link link or refer to the site. Most blog platform noted pingback automatically. That is,when someone link a link to an article you wrote, its links will appearin the comment section of your blog.

PLIGG:

An open source software that allows users to create social bookmarking sites on its site. The most famous site that uses software Pligg is Sphinn.com.

Plugin:

Special codes that are made with the intention to develop the capability of a software, in this case it is WordPress. There are thousands ofWordPress plugins that have already been made, with a very diversefunctions.

PRO BLOGGER:

A professional blogger earning through blogs and live off the income he received from blogging activities.

RSS:

Short for "Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a format used to send information from a site and the pages of the site that is updated regularly. An RSS document (which is called feed) contains a summary or the full content of a site. The biggest advantage of using RSS is a site allows visitors to stay in touch with their favorite sites without having to visit it online. When you subscribe to an RSS Feed, you will automatically receive updates of site content in question if the site publishesnew content.

SCRAPER:

Someone who copy content from another source (either a site or blog) and publish it on your own blog, with or without giving credit link, and without asking permission to the original author. Scraper can be done manually or automatically and usually use the tool scraping RSS feeds. Scraper is clearly a violation of copyright.

SPLOG:

Blog publish is used only for spam content. Splog usually contains text that is copied from other sources, combined with a link-link sites illegal drugs, liquor and gambling.

SEO:

Short for search engine optmization. SEO includes a number of activities aimed at improving the ranking of a site in the search results page of search engines (especially Google). There are two types of activities performed are: on-page optimization, i.e., optimize the use of tags and the content of a site; and off-page optimization, i.e. optimizingexternal factors such as the number and quality of backlinks, promotion techniques, and others.

SERP:

Short for search engine results page. When you search for a key word via the Google search engine, you will get 10 pages of search results that match the keywords you are looking for. That's called page SERP.

SMO:

Short for social media optimization. With the greater role of social media sites (such as Facebook or Twitter) at this time, a growing number of bloggers who make use of them for the benefit of online marketing. SMO is done by optimizing the use of social media sites to disseminate the content of the blog.

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING:

Also called aggregators or social bookmarking community. Social Bookmarking is a site that allows users to discover, disseminate, transmit and deliver vote against an article from the internet. The most popular social bookmarking sites are Digg.com, Reddit.com, StumbleUpon.com and Del.icio.us.

SOCIAL MEDIA:

A general term used to define the sites and web applications where there are elements of social interactions in it (in the form of text, images, sound, video or a combination of all of them). An example is the social media site Facebook.

SOCIAL NETWORKS:

In the world of the internet, this term refers to a number of sites and applications, where the goal is to allow users that have a similar interests to connect, interact and share. A popular example is the social network site Facebook and LinkedIn.

STUMBLEUPON:

The popular social bookmarking site aimed at enabling its users to find new sites and interesting. StumbleUpon works by using a browsertoolbar that allows users to vote and give a click on the button "Stumble!" which will feature a number of sites or site page based on user choices and what in-vote by other users.

SUBSCRIBER:

Visitors to your site or blog that subscribe to a site's RSS feed or subscribe via email. When the site is updated with new content, the customer will receive content via RSS Reader or email. The web master and blogger is concerned the number of RSS subscribers because he represents a number of loyal readers and a constant visitor traffic.

Tags:

Almost the same as categories, tags are used to classify an article atupun the content in a site. Tag is more flexible than categories and is usually used in a way that is more specific. One article or a post usually given to one large category and many tags in it.

Technorati:

Blog search engine service, which provides information tracking bloglinks, links and posts from around the world. Very popular even though a few years later began to lose attention. One of the most famousfeatures is the Technorati Top 100 list, which gives the ranking of world's most popular 100 blogs based on the number of links from other blogs.

THEMES:

In the world of blogging, themes refer to the blog template. Most of the blogging platform facilitates a blogger to change or update ourblog themes are used. Themes are available for free or paid. The example provider themes for example is MyThemeShop (this blog for example), ThemeForest and ElegantThemes.

Twitter:

A social networking and microblogging service that is now very popular. Twitter users can "follow" other users to get updates of the latest news from them. Any updates should contain only 140 characters, with or without a link.

TEXT LINK ADS:

A form of online advertising services whereby the advertiser to buy alink on another site with the text he chooses for himself, and usually without a nofollow tag. This practice was very popular until then Google started giving a penalty sites that sell or buy text links to improvesearch engine search results.

Trackback:

A networking tool, similar to pingback, which is used to give information to a site when someone link the link to that site.

UNIQUE VISITOR:

Unique visitor is the number of human visitors to a site in a given period, say three people visiting a blog on the same day, two people had visited her twice and each opened a 5 page blog. Then on that day, this blog has 3 unique visitors, total visitors, 5 and 3 page views.

VIRAL CONTENT:

The content is spread very quickly in the world of the internet, such as the flu virus in real life. The content itself can be articles, images, videos or memes, but it must be very funny, controversial or particularly helpful so that people feel the need to write about it. or telling his friend about it.

WordPress:

The most popular blogging software in the internet world, created by a company called Automattic. WordPress gained popularity mainly due to a very active community support. There are thousands of people who provide free templates, plugins and support towards the development of the project.

URL:

Short for Uniform Resource Locator. The URL includes the name of the domain and protocol used. A sample URL is http://www.domainname.com.

By understanding the important terms that are widely used in the world of blogging, You can more easily communicate with fellow blogger or in the community of bloggers you follow.

May be useful.