Glossary of blog terms
Before we start to involve in blogging, we must concern and know at least the basic important terms in blog. This is important in order to use any blogging tools so you can make the most of it.
Archives-Sidebar link to previous posts, organized by day, week, or month.
Blog - Website assembled from short, frequent posts, characterized by reader comments, numerous links, and RSS syndication. Read my post Why we call it blog?
Categories-Sidebar links to previous posts displayed by topic.
Comments - Ability of readers to agree or disagree with specifi c posts. Comments can instantly appear, or must be first approved.
Description - Text identifying blog content or purpose, with keywords to attract search engines.
Display name - Blogs and comments posted under a screen name, instead of an actual name.
Draft - Posts are usually immediately published, but you can save unfi nished posts for publishing later, after completion.
Forms - You create posts by entering titles and text into online text boxes that are automatically formatted when published.
Keywords - Terms appropriate to your market, included in titles, descriptions, and posts to attract search engine traffic.
Links - Text accessing website pages, downloadable fi les, e-mail links, or other posts in your ownâ€â€or another’sâ€â€blog.
News readers - Software that permits RSS subscribers to scan the headlines, andâ€â€oftenâ€â€initial sentences, of recent posts.
News aggregator - Software that permits RSS subscribers to scan a single fi le containing posts and
comments assembled from several blogs.
Permalink - Web addresses of individual posts, so others can refer to specifi c posts in their blogs.
Ping - Software feature that automatically notifies search engines when new posts or comments have been published.
Podcasting -Emerging RSS technolgy that syndicates MP-3 audio fi les.
Post - Posts are the building blocks of blogs.Each post is a separate web page with a specific URL.
QuickPost - Feature that makes it easy to link specific web pages to posts created while surfi ng.
RSS - Real Simple Syndication; popular format for announcing blog updates to others.
Sidebar - Information like e-mail and background links, archives, and categories, placed to the left, rightâ€â€or both sidesâ€â€of posts.
Status - After creating a post, you can immediately publish it, save it as an unpublished draft, or publish it at a specific time on a specific future date.
Syndicate - RSS feature that automatically informs subscribers when new posts or comments have been published on your blog.
Team blog - Blogs written and published by more than one author, such as members of a research team or sales force.
Template - Feature that provides consistent formatting and structure for posts, defining colors, content, layout, and typography.
Timestamp - Time and date information automatically added to posts and comments.
Trackback - Feature, based on Permalinks, that lets you keep track of references to your posts in the blogs of others.
TypeList - Sidebar links to recommended resources like recommended books, glossaries, URLs, photographs, or individuals.
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