The term 'Blog' is the shortened name of Web Log. It is thus a website and comprises text, hypertext, images and links to other web pages. The act of making addition of articles to the existing blog is termed 'Blogging'. Individual articles so posted are termed blog posts, posts or entries. One who posts these entries is called a 'blogger'. These postings are arranged in reverse chronological order; the latest being featured first. The concept of blog emerged in late 1990, coinciding with web publishing tools such as HTML and FTP. Blogs usually cover certain specific areas such as web design, home staging, sports, or mobile technology. Other blogs may present link to other types of links. There may be yet other blogs dealing with political activities, personal experiences of the author.
Most of the good quality blogs have provision for interaction, wherein visitors are allowed to make their own comments and exchange message through GUI widgets on the blogs. The objective of blogging is not only to make contents for posting onto their respective blogs, but they adopt it as a medium for establishing and maintaining social relationship. There are a number of ways in which blogging is utilized such as remarks and views on specific topics, personal diaries, and brand advertisement of a company. Blogs have certain common features such as a main content area, with articles arranged chronologically, an archive of earlier files, a way for visitors to leave their comments, a list of links connected to other sites, called blogroll and feeds such as RSS, Atom or RDF files.
Content is the principal constituent of a web site and needs to be up-dated with the latest information, on regular basis for making it worth visiting. The information may be a catalog of products presented in a retail site. It may be about campuses, curriculum and faculty presented in a university site. You may find a number of observations, reviews or comments if it is a personal blog. Content consist of articles written by authors, composed in a web-based interface that is built into the blogging system. Next to 'content' come the 'comments' that the visitors to the sites are allowed to leave on the blogs. Through pingbacks or trackbacks, one blogger can leave comments on another blog without visiting it and also can keep other blogger informed as and when they cite any article from other site into their own.
There are different platform for blogging like "Wordpress", "Blogger", "Joomla", "Drupal" etc. Other terminologies you need to know about are Archives, Feeds, Blogrolls, Syndication, Trackbacks and Pingbacks. Monthly or Yearly archives keeps track of articles on site. A software 'Feed readers' provides automatic access to a site looking for new content and thereafter, post updates about the new content to other site. Blogroll is list showing links to webpages that may be of interest, often coming in a side bar. A feed is a content publication readable by a machine, usually XML. Syndication feeds informs new posts in blogs. Trackback facilitates notification between websites and Pingbacks provides solutions to some problems found with trackbacks.
Devjeet K Singh is a professional writers, Internet Marketer and lover of his family. He has written multiple articles on Blogging Tips and blog promotion at his SEO blog.
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