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Understanding the Jargon of Blogging

Published Monday, November 3, 2008 by bloggerblognet73751 | E-mail this post

Small business blogging is fairly new to most people. The benefits of a successful blog are well-known but hard to attain. Blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject and have become a great public relations tool. Blogging can be confusing if you are new to the concept. Blogs, just like the internet, have created new vocabulary words. Learning the new lingo is essential if you plan to pioneer the blogging world. Here are 10 jargon words commonly used within the blogging community.

Blogosphere - A term encompassing all blogs and their interconnections. It is the perception that blogs exist together as a connected community or as a social network.

Biz Blog - A blog owned and operated by a business or corporation.

Blog carnival - A blog post that links to other articles and web site within or outside of the blog. They tend to cover the same topic. Blog carnivals are hosted by frequent contributors to the carnival, working in rotation. A blog carnival also highlights new bloggers that post on the topic in question.

Blog Roll - A list of blogs you recommend to visit. It is typical that these blogs also link to you and it is a community of shared opinions and ideas. Blog rolls are also called link exchanges.

Link Love - Posting a link of similar topics without being paid to do so.

RSS Feed - is a group of web feed formats used to publish updated content. This includes blog entries, news headlines and podcasts.

Vlog - A video blog. This is small but growing fad that could change the way people blog.

Trackback -A notification from one blogger to another sending a ping using software to tell of written material related to your blog post on my blog. Trackback includes a "TrackBack URL" with each post that displays other blogs that have linked to it

Common Moderation - This allows the blog directors to filter out comments they do not want posted on the blog.

Event blog - A blog that contains content specific to an event.

There are many more words new to blogging dictionary. These are just a few jargon words relevant to business and marketing blogs.

About the Author: Kurt is the Public Relations Manager for Kinetica Media, an Internet marketing company that works to harness the power of websites, email and search marketing for businesses so they can get and keep more customers. Visit http://www.kinetica-media.com/blog to see how their proven online marketing services can increase your customer loyalty & overall sales.

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