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Blogging Terms New Bloggers Should Know
When you’re just starting out (and honestly, even after you’ve been blogging for a while), the amount of jargon thrown around can feel overwhelming.
Good news — I’ve got you covered!
Below is a list of common blogging terms, explained simply, so you can feel more confident navigating the blogging world.
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Blogging Terms for Beginners: A Simple Glossary for New Bloggers
Blog: Short for Weblog. This is a collection of thoughts, media, etc... shared online.
Blogosphere: This is the entire network of blogs.
CAPTCHA: Short for Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computer and Humans Apart. A CAPTCHA will ask you to verify you are human when leaving comments on a blog.
Favicon: This is a small graphic that shows in your browsers address bar. This is typically your logo or another image that represents your brand.
Hosted: This refers to a blog that resides on a host serves. Popular host platforms include Blogger, and Wordpress.com.
Non-Hosted/ Self-Hosted: This is when your blog is hosted on your own server (usually a third party you pay to host your website). e.g. Wordpress.org.
HTML: Short for Hyper Text Markup Language. This is the language used to define how elements display on a web page.
CSS: Short for Cascading Style Sheets. This controls how your website looks to a user. This includes your page layout, colours, and fonts.
Permalink: The url of a particular post within a blog.
No Follow: A link attribute that prevents links from being crawled by search engines.
Do Follow: A link attribute that means links to external sites are acknowledged by search engines,
Meme: This is when an image, video, phrase, or even just an idea spreads from one person to another. They often involve sharing specific information about yourself e.g. answering specific questions. If you invite someone to play along with a specific meme then it's called a tag. These are a great way for bloggers to connect with the rest of the blogging community.
RSS: Short of Really Simple Syndication. This is a means by which readers can subscribe to your blog feed. Subscribing makes it easier for readers to follow your content and updates.
Meta Description: This is the text that describes your post and will appear under the link in search engine results. It should contain relevant keywords you'd like to rank for.
Bounce Rate: This is the percentage of people that visit your website, and immediately exit without visiting a different page on your site.
I hope you found this useful.
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