Blogger Terms Dictionary
A-List: A list bloggers who have a blog with traffic is relatively high and much is known in the blogging world. Usually refer to the list of 100 Technorati Blog.
Adsense: online advertising network of the most famous on the internet.
Adsense is owned by Google and provide the opportunity for the bloggers to monetize their blogs with displaying contextual ads on their blogs. Every time someone Google Adsense clicks on your ad text, then the owner will blog get some commission.
Adwords: The opposite of Adsense. Adwords allows companies or individuals to advertise and promote products, services or their sites based on the calculation of cost per click (CPC). An advertiser must specify the keyword to target and what price he could give to every click. AdWords ads can appear on Google search results pages and in the Adsense ad units on your site or blog that followed the Adsense program.
Affiliate Marketing: Also referred to as an affiliate, is a way very popular to get the money from the internet where a affiliate program owners to give other people a chance to marketing of products or services in exchange for a number of commissions. Commission may be fixed or variable, and can be based on
clicks, leads or sales that occur.
Akismet: Spam filter plugin for WordPress blog platform very popular. Created by the same company create a code of WordPress, Automattic.
Alexa: An online company (owned by Amazon.com), which monitors traffic of all sites on the Internet. Ranking System used is based on statistical data from the browser toolbar Internet users. Later they changed their ranking algorithm is to eliminate the bias that many profitable toolbar technology related sites. The lower the Alexa ranking, then trafficnya higher. However there are a number of controversy about the accuracy of this Alexa ranking.
Anchor Text: The text used in the back links. Mostly expert search engine optimization (SEO) agreed that the anchor text is one important factor that influences the position ranking of a website or blog in search results.
Atom: A feed syndication format that was developed as RSS alternative. Atom allows one to get updates article from a website or blog when there are new posts.
Automattic: The company founded by Matt Mullenweg and WordPress.org responsible for the development of (software blogs) and WordPress (hosting) in addition to other projects.
Backlink: hyperlink that appears on blogs or other sites and links on the main page or another page in a blog or website. Backlink is important because Google and other search engines use the amount and quality of backlinks as a measure of the level trust a blog or website.
Blackhat: Incorporating SEO and online marketing techniques that often unethical and even illegal at times with a specific purpose. Hiding text behind a picture or use the pages doorway with the re-direct is an example of blackhat techniques.
Blog: A new type of site where the owners publish thoughts, ideas or knowledge about a particular topic. Usually contents of the article, called the post, and prepared on chronological order. Blog initially appeared as an online diary, but current blogs cover a variety of niche topics, and compete tight with most of the mass media.
Blog Carnival: An event when the bloggers come together to to create a collection of articles about a topic particular. Blog carnival usually consists of only one blog with number of participating blogs submit an article.
Blogger: Someone who has a blog. Blogger is also a commercial name and hosting free blog platform owned by Google (which better known by the name extension Blogspot).
Blogging: Excessive write something in the blog. It could also mean wider activities undertaken by a blogger (Eg, interact with readers, prepare the materials content, etc.).
Bloglines: RSS Feed Reader One of the most popular. Bloglines is a web-based application that allows users to subscribe to and manage RSS feeds.
Blogosphere: The term used to describe the world created by a network of blogs.
Blogroll: blogs are very popular feature that allows owners blog displays a list of other blogs recommended. This feature is usually displayed in the sidebar. But this time the little blog that shows my blogroll.
Comments: Almost all blog platforms allow readers to provide comment and leave feedback on every pages of a blog posting that article. These features make the blog into a direct conversation and the media has become one, one factor of success in the world of Internet blogs.
Comment spam: Comments are written solely for get a backlink and hopefully it will provide traffic flow visitors to the blog party who wrote the comment spam.
Compete: The company web analysts, like Alexa, which monitor and estimate the amount of traffic your site or blog.
CPC: Short for cost-per-click, and it represents a forms of online advertising where the advertiser (advertiser) give some money to each visitor who clicks
ads and visit a site or product sales page. On the other hand, there is an ad publisher (publisher), which displays ads CPC on the website or blog and earn money for each click a visitor site or blog. The CPC ad network The most famous is Google Adwords.
CPA: Short for cost-per-action, and he represents a form of online advertising where the advertiser (advertiser) will be pay when visitors a site action (eg when they subscribe to newsletter or buy a particular product). Most affiliate programs
CPA scheme.
CPM: Short for cost-per mille, which means the 1000 mille in Latin. CPM, so that means the price per 1000 impression, and it represents a form of online advertising where the advertiser (advertiser) pays a certain price when banner ads or other ads they display every 1000 times a site or blog.
CSS: Short for Cascading Style Sheets, and is programming language used to create pages Wes written with HTML or XHTML code. CSS Advantages is to allow you to control the web page view simultaneously from the same location (CSS files).
Digg: The most famous social bookmarking sites in the world. On Digg is basically a site that lived by its users, where members of the Digg community to give vote to a articles that will appear on the front page of the site. For most site owners, appeared on the front page of Digg is a pride. He could give thousands of visitors only within a day. Nevertheless, there is controversy on the quality of visitor traffic coming from Digg because Usually we rarely go back and rarely click on ads.
Domain: Also known as domain name or names hosting domain, is the name of your site or blog listed in the world Internet. Example domain names are Yahoo.com.
Duplicate content: Content duplication of results (usually in the form text / articles) within a site or blog. Search engine (eg Google Search Engine) tend to impose penalties for the site or blog with duplicate content.
Favicon: Short for "Favorite Icon", is an icon associated with the logo of a website or blog and would appear on the browser or the bookmark. Intended Favicon to make it easier to identify a site or blog.
Feed: Also called a web feed or news feed is a format data used in the world of the Internet to facilitate users get updates from the site or blog articles favorite. There are two main types of feeds formats: RSS and Atom Feeds Feed.
Feed Count: Usually refers to the widget from FeedBurner function to report the number of RSS subscribers on a site or blog.
FeedBurner: An online company owned by Google which provide RSS feeds. FeedBurner is a service provides free RSS feeds with various interesting features,
and eases site or blog owners to collect statistical data RSS Feed site 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 service hosting company, you need FTP to transfer files your site from your computer to the hosting company's servers.
Google Analytics: A free service from Google that gives site owners a range of information and statistics on the number of traffic and visitors to its site. Google Analytics also known as one of the most trusted web services (other services like
Webalizer or AWStats figures tend to overstate the include non-human traffic into the data generated).
Google Reader: RSS Reader is the world's most popular on the internet. Google
Reader is a web-based application that allows the users to subscribe and manage your site or RSS Feed particular blog. Because it was so popular, many sites Google Reader is displaying a special badge so that readers can subscribe to RSS feeds through Google Reader.
Hotlinking: Also known as inline links and a thief bandwidth, hotlinking refers to practices using certain object (often an image) from one site into other sites. Although this practice was originally a part of great design world wide web, but lately people tend to associate with the practice of abuse. When you doing hotlinking an image on another site, for example, You have been "stealing" bandwidth to the site and likely also has violated its copyright.
Linkbait: All kinds of content (articles, tools, quizzes, videos, pictures) created with the main objective to attract links to sites concerned. The quantity and quality of backlinks is one factor behind the Google search engine algorithm, that was the reason why people really take notice. There's even an online marketer specializes in creating ways linkbait campaign.
Movable Type: blogging software that was created by Six Apart. In the year 2007 Movable Type becomes free blogging service (Issued under the provisions of the GPL or General Public License).
Meta tags: Meta tags are HTML codes that exist in parts pages of a site. Unlike other HTML tags, meta tags does not appear on post pages, so most visitors never saw it. Meta tags have different functions different, but generally it is used for provide additional information about the condition of a page site to the search engine robots.
Niche: In the jargon of the Internet world, a niche refers to a particular topic or subject. Most sites include one or more niche. Examples of such niche is sports, gossip, humor and finance. Some are considered more popular and niche profitable than others.
Nofollow: Also referred to as the nofollow tag is a tag links are inserted in the code that serves to instruct the robot search engines so that they do not follow the relevant links, and therefore do not consider it a real link. Google and other search engines recommend that all paid links use nofollow tags.
PageRank: Google PageRank is also often called, is a metric system used by Google to assess the level trust a site. Google PageRank has a value scale from 0 up to 10, where 10 is the highest confidence level value you can get. There is a complex algorithm is reversed scale PageRank, but the most important factors that influence it is the amount and quality of backlinks a site or blog. PageRank value (Which can be viewed using the Google Toolbar) are updated every
once every three months.
Page Views: Also called impression. Every time a user Internet opens a particular web page, one page view will be calculated. An Internet user, for example, can get sejumalh page views during the visit a site. Popular sites can get millions of page views every month.
PHP: Hypertext Processor Programming Short, is a programming language designed for creating web pages that move. Many sites (such as Digg.com) built using PHP, as well as some blog platforms (Eg WordPress). If you are a blogger or web master, there is most likely that you will be using PHP.
Pillar article: A term first coined by Yaro Starak, for referring to a long article and structured, containing information or a useful reference source, which is published
on the blog. This article is very important to build the pillars of authority and attract visitor traffic to your blog. Both the above factors come from other bloggers who benefit from pillar articles and link the link to the article pillar.
Ping: A computer network tool used to test whether a computer or hosting can be opened on the internet. In jargon of the world's bloggers and web masters, ping also means action sending messages to a server network to inform that you update your blog or website. Every time you publish a new article post, for example, you able to ping the search engines to inform the update you do.
Pingback: A tool used to notify network a site when someone linked a link or reference to sites. Most blog platforms are noted pingback automatically. That is, when someone links to a link the articles you write, the link will appear on your blog comment section You.
Pligg: An open source software that allows users to create social bookmarking sites on its website. The most famous site that uses software is Pligg Sphinn.com.
WordPress Plugin: special codes created with the purpose to develop a software capability, in this case is WordPress. There are thousands of WordPress plugins that have been made, with very diverse functions.
Pro Blogger: The term for a professional blogger earn money through blogging and living from the income that he receive from blogging activities.
RSS: Short for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a format used to transmit information from a site and the site's pages are updated regularly. A document RSS (which is called feed) contains a summary or full content from a site. The biggest advantage is to use RSS allows visitors of a site to keep in touch with their favorite sites without having to visit a online. When you subscribe to an RSS feed, as You will automatically receive content updates related sites if the site is to publish new content.
Scraper: A person who copy content from other sources (both sites or blogs) and publish it on his own blog, with or without giving credit links, and without asking permission to the original author. Scraper can be done manually or automatic and usually use the tool scraping RSS feeds. Scraper clearly a violation of copyright.
Splog: Blogs are only used to publish spam content. Splogs usually contains text copied from other sources, combined with links to sites of illegal drugs, liquor and gambling.
SEO: Short for search engine optmization. SEO includes number of activities aimed at improving the ranking of a site in the search results page search engines (especially Google). There is two types of activities undertaken, namely: on-page optimization, ie optimize the use of tags and content of a site; and off-page optimization, ie optimizing the external factors eg number and quality of backlinks, promotion techniques, and others.
SERP: Short for search engine results page. When you a keyword search through Google search engine, you will get 10 pages of search results according to the word The keywords you are looking for. Page that is called a SERP. Social Bookmarking: Also called social aggregators or bookmarking community. Social Bookmarking is the site allows users to locate, deliver, disseminate and provide an article of the vote against Internet. The most popular social bookmarking sites are Digg.com, Reddit.com, StumbleUpon.com and Del.icio.us.
Social Media: A general term used for defining website and web applications where there is an element of interaction social therein (in the form of text, images, sound, video or combination thereof). Examples of social media sites are blogs, online forums, social networks, Wikipedia and others. Social Networks: In the Internet world, this term refers to number of sites and applications, where the aim is to give its users the opportunity to have a similar interest for interconnected, interact and share. Popular examples is the social network site MySpace.com and LinkedIn.com.
StumbleUpon: social bookmarking site that aims popular enables its users to find new sites and interesting. StumbleUpon works by using a browser toolbar that allows users to give a vote and clicking the "Stumble!" which will feature a number of site or web page based on user choices and what which in-vote by another user.
Subscriber: Visitors who subscribe to your site or blog RSS feeds a site or subscribe via email. Whenever site these are updated with new content, customers will receive content via RSS Reader or via email. The web master and bloggers are really concerned because he was the number of RSS subscribers represents the number of loyal readers and traffic visitors constant.
Tags: Almost the same as categories, tags are used for classify an article atupun content within a site. Tags are more flexible than the commonly used categories and more specific manner. One article or post is usually given a large category and many tags in it.
Technorati: blog search engine services, which provide information tracking blogs, posting links and links from around the world. Very popular in recent years despite losing attention. One of the most famous features is the list Technorati Top 100, which gives a ranking of 100 most popular blogs world based on the number of links from other blogs.
Twitter: A social networking and microblogging service that now very popular. Twitter users can "follow" users the other to get the latest news updates from them. Each update may only contain 140 characters, with or without
hyperlink.
Text Link Ads: A form of online advertising service in which the advertiser buys a link on another site with the text he select their own and usually without the nofollow tag. This practice is very popular until then Google began to give a penalty sites who sell or buy text links for the purpose of improve search results.
Trackback: A networking tool, similar to the pingback, used to provide information to a site when someone link the link to that site.
Unique visitors: Unique visitors is the number of human visitors coming into a site within a certain timeframe, Say 3 people have visited a blog on the same day, two people visited two times and each opening 5 pages blog. So on the day, this blog has three unique visitors, 5 total visitors, and 15 page views.
Viral Content: Content that spreads very rapidly in the world Internet, like the flu virus in real life. Content itself can be either articles, images, or videos, but it must be very funny, controversial or very useful so that people feel need to write about it. or tell a friend about it.
WordPress: The most popular blogging software in the world of the Internet, created by a company called Automattic. WordPress gained popularity mainly because of the support a very active community. There are thousands of people who provide free templates, plugins and support for development projects
WordPress.
URL: Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator. URL includes domain names and protocols are used. Example URL is http://www.namadomain.com.
Viral Marketing: A marketing techniques to disseminate information quickly using the means of emails, blogs and news from mouth to mouth. Many social media sites and social sites Bookmarking is also used as a means of viral marketing. Many social news sites and social bookmarking sites Also leads to secondary citations.
XML: Short for Extensible Markup Language, which is a simple text formatting and very flexible which is derived from SGML, and is used to facilitate the syndication of information with using RSS technology.
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