Glossary of terms related to blogging internet and technology

A Blogger is generally a kind of internet addict, the idea behind having a blog might be different for individual bloggers but bloggers it is anticipated that bloggers know more about internet than other users. Many people who do not operated a blog might also be interested in knowing about terms related to blogging and internet. Here is a list of terms related to blogging , internet and technology.

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Ajax - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a technique used to make websites dynamic
Alexa Rank - A rank in the website ranking system by Alexa Internet – most preferred website ranking system
Anonoblog – A blog operated anonymously
Apache - Apache is a web server software to serve web pages from a web server
Atom - Atom is a content syndication format
Back-links - Links to a web page found on other web pages
Black Hat SEO - Negative Search Engine Optimization techniques
Blammer- A person responsible for spamming blogs
Blargon – Blogging Glossary
Blaudience – Blod readers
Blawg - A blog dedicated to law
Bleg - A blog post requesting information or input
Blego - Blog+Ego Measuring blogger worth
Blog Carnival – Links to other blog post about some topics
Blog Day – A day you find new blogs
Blog hopping – Switching from one blog to other
Blog of Note – A known blog recommended by readers
Blog Tipping – Complimenting a blog
Blogathon – Updating blog with extremely high frequency
Blogathy – Not posting on a day
Blogger bash - A blogger party
Bloggerel – The same opinion posted repeatedly on a blog
Bloggies - A known bloggers award
Bloggies- Annual blogging awards
Blogging Platform Blog publishing platform
Blogiday- Holiday from blogging
Blogiversary – Birthday of your blog
Blogiverse – Blogging universe something relevant to Blogosphere
Blogoholic - Addicted to blogging
Blogophobia – Fear of blogs and blogging
Blogopotamus – Extremely long blog post
Blogorific - Terrific blogging
Blogorrhea – Extremely high blogger output
Blogosphere – Group of blogs/bloggers existing in some specific area or category
Blogroach - A commenter who rudely disagrees with posted content
Blogsit – Maintaining a blog for some period in absence of blog owner
Blogsite - A web site that combines blog feeds from a number of different sources
Blogsnob – Denying to respond to a blog comment
Blogstorm – Suddent increase and huge amount of blogging activity due to some reason
Blogvertising – Advertising on blogs
Blogware – Software for blogging
Blook – A book created from blog posts
Blurker – A reader who does not post comment
BOBs – A bloggers award
C-Panel – An utility to manage various aspect of hosting a website
CAPTCHA - Span protection utility
Category – A category of publishing post
CC – Creative Commons is a type of license under which free to use content is provided
Celeblog – A blog talking a bout a celebrity
Celebriblog – A blog by a celebrity
CMS – Content management system used for creation of blogs and websites
Comment Spam – Posting irrelevant and links as comments repeatedly on many blogs
Comment – A reply to a blog post
Content Keyword – Most important word repeatedly used or found in content
Content Syndication – Making content available of various websites
Content – Article pictures videos and other media generally posted on a blog
Contextual Ads – Ads that are closely associated with the content on a page
CPC – Cos per click a blog monetization model
CSS – Cascaded Style Sheets are used to style WebPages
Dark Blog- A private blog
DNS – Domain Name Server keeps the record of a domain and its various aspects
Domain – A Website identity/location on internet e g Facebook com Google com
Doppelblogger – Plagiarizing wrongly copying content of other blogs
Draft Post – A post which is yet to be published
Edu-blog – Blog about education
EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation a group working to protect bloggers interest
Feed Aggregator – Tools that fetch feeds from various sources and put them at one place
Feed Reader – Utilities used to reader feed from a source
FeedBurner – A know utility to offer feed subscription
GAD – A habit of unnecessarily checking Google AdSense earning repeatedly
Google Analytic – A service by Google which offers analysis of various aspects of visitors to a website
Google Authorship – Establishing connection between a blog/blog post and its author profile on Google Plus
Google Honeymoon – A period when new sites receive high traffic from Google search
Google Publisher Ship –Establishing connection between a Google Plus Page and a website
Google SandBox The period when Google Search puts new websites away from displaying in search results till their legitimacy is proved
Hat Tip- Acknowledgement of source for a news
Hitnosis – Refreshing browser repeatedly to find response to a blog/ blog post
Hosting – Maintaining a website on a webserver
HTML – Hyper Text Mark-up Language is the key language used to create webopages
HTTP – Hyper Text Transfer protocol is the protocol on a web server that is used to serve web pages and content
HTTPS - Hyper Text Transfer protocol secure is the protocol on a web server that is used to serve web pages and content securely
IP – Internet protocol is generally the numeric address of a web server or a location on the web
JavaScript – A client side scripting language which is used to make WebPages interactive
Keyword Density – The volume of important words in some content
Keyword Research – Research to find a keyword or various aspects about a keyword generally related to Search Engine optimization
Keyword Stuffing – Unnecessarily using irrelevant keyword in an attempt to fool search engines
Kittyblogger – writing about cats
Label – Similar to category a keyword or phrase to categorize a blog post
Linguablog – A blog writing about languages and translation
Linkbaiting - Writing content just with an anticipation of getting back links
Metablog – A blog publishing about blogging
Milblog – A blog abour=t military or armed forces
Moblog – a blog crated to be viewed on a mobile device
Mommy Blog – A blog primarily talking about home and household things
Monetizing – Making money from a website or blog
Movlogs – A blog that offers videos to be viewed from a mobile device
Multiblog – Maintaining multiple blogs
Open Graph – A mark-up generally used by Facebook
Organic Traffic – Traffic that comes from search engine without paid advertising
Page Rank – A Ranking system by Google Search that evaluates the reputation of a web page on the web on a scale from 1 to 10 where higher is better
Permalink – A hyperlink to a webpage
Photocast- An automatically updated photo blog
Ping – A way to notify various services about a new blog post
Podcasting – Podcasting is offering rich media like videos photos audio and other image files
Post Slug – Slug is search engine friendly terms used in an URL of a post
Post – A blog post
Pro Blogger –An experienced expert and known blogger
Reciprocal Links – Offering links in anticipation of links
RSS – Rich site Summary or Real simple Syndication is a feed format
SEF – Search Engine Friendly
SEM – Search Engine Marketing is are techniques used to promote something in web search results
SEO – Search engine optimization are techniques to make web pages compatible with search engine crawlers generally
Shocklog – Provoking discussion by publishing such content
Sitemap – A map of various section and web pages on a website created for users and search engine crawlers
Slashdot Effect – Getting huge temporary traffic after publishing a post link on Slashdot m Digg or such sites
SMM –Social media marketing are techniques to promote something using social media sites
Social Sharing – Sharing links and content on social media websites
Social Signals – The volume or response for a link shared on social media sites
Splog- A spam blog
Spomments- Spam comments
Tech blog – A blog publishing about technical topics
Technorati- A known blog search engines
Track Back – Offering links and notifying other blogs similarly receiving notification from other blogs
Vlog – Video blog
Warblog – A blog writing about war
Web mastering – Maintaining various aspect and tasks related to operating a website or blog
Web Property – A website or blog
Weblog – Original name of a blog
Webmaster Tools – A service offered by Google to take care of various search related aspects of a website
Website Traffic – visitors to a website
WYSIWYG – What You See Is What you Get is type of editors that allows user to create and publish web content without needing or using any mark-up
XFN – XHTML Friends Network Is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks

 

A sincere request

I have created this post just to ensure that internet users and enthusiasts have a place to known about few important terms related to blogging, technology and internet. This post was written in a short time and may lack many important terms. I request readers to contribute such terms in comments and make this post more useful.