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 [...]

CommentLuv - LinkyLove - NoNoFollow

Photo Credit lovelypetal’s photos

Links create love in blogoshpere.
However, “no follow tags” are set as a default on many blogging platforms. Even if you use the CommentLuv plugin, when your blog is crawled, the bots and spiders don’t give commenters “credit” for their link.
Today’s Lesson
On my travels through cyberspace no follow tags are often [...]

How Important Is A Robots txt. File

Over the past two days, I have been writing about duplicate content. As discussed earlier, WordPress blogs are notorious for duplicate content. Duplicate content can confuse search engines, and can get you penalized by Google.
Today’s Lesson
While researching on Google’s website (webmaster tools), Google suggests using a robots.txt file as one way [...]

Confusing Blog Stats - Is a Visit a Visit?

As written earlier, in my post, Is A Hit, A Visit? we found out that a hit is not a visit.
So, is a visit a visit? It all depends on which stats program you’re using.
Today, I’m analyzing five different blogging statistics platforms. It’s going to get confusing. What [...]

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 [...]

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