Oh That Blogging Language

Like any business/profession, blogging has a language of it’s own.
An article or story, is considered a post.
Amenities that are added onto a blog to make it perform better, are called addons, widgets or plugins.
You read about robots, crawlers, and spiders. The list goes on. Many of the words won’t be found in [...]

Social Networking Can Kill Your Passion

Blogging is a hobby by most definitions. That is, unless you are a problogger (a professional blogger who blogs for a living)
Today’s Lesson
The further you get into blogging, the more you learn about social networks and how, by joining, they can help promote your blog, i.e. gain exposure.
Join all social networking sites [...]

Blogging? Watch Your Language

Photo Credit iowa_spirit_walker’s photos

Earlier I wrote about profanity in blogs, today, I’ll discuss language of another kind.
Today’s Lesson
Do you think visitors to your blog know what a “post” is? Unless your audience is other bloggers, chances are, you are confusing them.
Let’s look at a sentence that is commonly used.
“In tomorrow’s post, I [...]

Google AdSense Ads - Do Less Mean More

Today’s Lesson
Two months ago, I started an experiment with Google AdSense, “ads for content”, ads.
As I stated in that post,
From this site, I have removed my Google Ads for Content, (which I had in the sidebar). Months ago, I read ( and I don’t know if this is true), that if you [...]

Blogging Definitions - A Fun Test - Part 1

Are you new to blogging? Are you confused with all of the blogging language? Don’t understand your blogging software?
Today’s Lesson
When a person is new to blogging, learning all there is to know, can seem overwhelming.
First of all, you have a new “language” to learn.
But, what do all of these [...]

Write Traffic Building Comments

Leaving a comment on another blog, can spark many things.
One comment can create a rush of traffic to your blog. A meaningful comment can also bring you many loyal visitors.
Keep in mind, “comment traffic” can be “spikey” traffic, i.e. you could see an immediate spike in your traffic graphs. However, [...]

I Hate The Word “Newbie”

I am not a newbie!
I am not a newbie!
I am not a newbie!
I am not a newbie!
Keep repeating this sentence, until you “get it”.
Hearing the term, “I am a newbie”, in blogging, reminds me of how some women will say, “I’m just a housewife”, or others who say,i.e… “I’m just the [...]

Above the Fold

If you blog, and add advertisements to your pages, you’ll often see the term, “above the fold”. So, what does “above the fold” mean?
Above the fold, is a term that is used to describe what a reader sees when then open your page in their favorite browser. Above the fold is the information [...]

Oh, That Blogging Language - Part 1

With blogging, the language is: CSS, HTML; XHTML, links, pings, trackbacks, URL’s, posting, stats, addons, widgets, plugins, SEO, page rank, RSS, and much more
When I was “blogging without a blog”, a month or more before I actually had a blog, the language of blogging, made my head spin. To top it off, many years [...]