Blog Terms - definitions of blogging terms - Make money with your blog
>> Tuesday, March 23, 2010
BLOG TERMS
Ever wonder what some of the common blogging terms mean. I do so I compiled a list of some of the common blogging terms.
Anonoblog – by an anonymous blogger
Blammer- Blog spammer
Blargon - Also called Blogssary. Blogging slang and glossary
Blawg – blogged by lawyer / related to legal stuff
Blego - Blog+Ego. Measuring blogger worth
blog - a website that is often updated with content called “blog posts”
Blog Carnival – Links to other articles covering a specific topic
Blog Day – 31 August - Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting and tell them
blog hop - groups of bloggers that post links so readers can hop from one blog to the next
Blog of Note – a recommended blog
Blog Tipping – Compliment 3 blogs on day 1 of every month
Blogathon - update your website every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. Maybe collect sponsorships
Blogcasting - the blog and the podcast merged into a single website
blogger - a person who blogs
Blogger bash - a blogger party
Bloggerel – the same opinion posted repeatedly on a blog
Bloggies- Annual blogging awards
Blogiday- you get fed up and take a holiday from blogging
Blogoholic - addicted to blogging
Blogophobia – Fear of blogs and blogging
Blogopotamus - A long long blog post
Blogorrhea - unusually high output of articles
blogoshere - the online community of all blogs
Blogroach - A commenter who rudely disagrees with posted content
Blogroll - list of links to other blogs in your sidebar
Blogspot - free Blogger hosting blog at name.blogspot.com
Blogsnob – refusing to respond to blog comments from “not-friends”
Blogstar- blogger running a popular blog
Blogstipation - writer’s block for bloggers
Blogstorm – a large amount of blogosphere activity due to particular controversy. Also called Blog Swarm
Blogther - a fellow blogger
BlogThis - a function allows a blogger to blog the entry they are reading
Blogvertising - Also called blogvert. Advertising on a blog
Blook - a book created from a blog
Celeblog – focused on a celebrity
Celebriblog – maintained by a celebrity
CEOBlog – run by a chief executive officer
Kittyblogger – writing about cats.
Klog - used by company knowledge workers
Metablog – a blog about blogging
Metablogging - writing articles about blogging
microblog - blog with very short posts - mini posts
Milblog - a military blog
Moblog - A blog posted and maintained via mobile phone
Movlogs - mobile video blogs
niche blog - blogs that talk about one specific topic - like "make money" or "dogs"
Photoblogging - a blog predominantly using and focusing on photographs and images.
Plog - a project blog. Also for Amazon.com personalised weblogs
Problogger - professional blogger
Progblog - A progressive blog
splog - spam blogs - blogs with no real content, just advertising
Spomments- Spam comments
Vlogging - blogging with videos Read more...
Google Wonder Wheel - Best Keyword Search Tool - SEO adsense
>> Saturday, March 13, 2010
In May of 2009 Google offered a new feature to assist in finding the best keywords for your website and blog. It is a great, new, totally free feature. It is called Wonder Wheel.
The Google Wonder Wheel is a wheel of relevant search terms and provides a visual display of these terms. In the middle of the wheel is the keyword you searched and radiating from that center point are the most searched keywords. You can click on any of those keywords and another wheel will be displayed.
Here is how you find this great tool. Go to google.com and type in and work like "apple iphone" in the search bar. Then click on the “show more options” link on the top left side. The Google Wonder Wheel will be displayed on half of your google screen. As you continue to play, and click on any of the keywords displayed your graphic will grow and grow - along with your creativity. Read more...
Make Money with your blog with Adsense keywords - SEO traffic
>> Friday, March 12, 2010
The appearance of your ads can affect the amount of click throughs you get. You can choose the color and borders of your ads to fit right in with the color scheme on your site if you wish, but it’s worth experimenting with having no borders at all around your advertisements since this makes them blend in with your content more seamlessly and may encourage more click in a subtle but effective manner.
Even when you integrate Google Adsense into your current blog or website, there is a limit to the amount of money you can make from one site. If you get tons of people visiting your site then you can expect to get a good income. If don’t get a big number of visitors you will need a separate strategy to try and up your numbers.
In this case you can go to the advanced level of Adsense income and think about starting several sites, all based around a different yet popular subject. You will find that you can get lots of traffic to a site but people aren't clicking on the ads. You then place a different kind of site and notice more results. It will take experimentation on your part.
Remember, even if you are not get clicks on your ads, you can direct the traffic you are getting from that high volume site to one of your other sites that is performing better. 5% CTR is considered to be very good.
Types of google ads:
- Google AdSense for Content - A variety of size and shape ads for placing in your content are available. These can be text or image ads or both - you specify what you'll allow. Ad units are full ads. Link units are simply a strip of text links that your visitors might want to click. Google allows you to put up to 3 Ad Units and 1 Link unit on each page of your Web site, provided you follow its policies - both for AdSense and for Webmasters.
- Google AdSense for Search - This places a search box on your Web site. When a user enters a term and conducts a search, a search results page opens, that hosts more pay-per-click ads. You can customize the color scheme of the search results page to harmonize with your web site.
Market your website - Ping your blog Posts - RSS feeds - facebook - twitter
>> Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Submit your site to Search Engines - Search engines send robot "spiders" to index the content of your webpage. You can go to each search engine individually and manually input your website information or use submission sites - many are free and submit to numerous sites at one time.
META Tags and keywords - This describes your website. The description should be a sentence or two describing the content of the web page, using the main keywords and key phrases on this page. Add to your websites html.
Ping your Blog -to improve the popularity of your blog and make sure the search engines can find you. There are many free websites that with a click of a button will send you blog or website out to dozens of internet sources were you will get lots of exposure.
WHY: to make sure your website shows up on searches
WHEN: only ping when you have added new content to your site or a new post
RSS (Rich Site Summary) - is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
Basically RSS is what is used when you subscribe to a website or blog - you get notified anytime there is new content on their site.
Headlines - Headlines are very important - use important keywords in your title of each post or entry - instead of "Home sales are rising" put "Home sales are rising - St. Louis, Mo Jefferson County Real Estate". Make your Titles unique and expand on your theme. This gives the search engines more words to pick up on.
Links - Links to your site from other sites drive additional traffic and increase your page rank with the search engines, getting your higher on the page. The more the links are related to your site the better.
Comment - Search other sites that are similar in content to yours and leave a comment. When you do this you also leave your name and the URL of your website. This is one of the best ways to drive pertinent traffic to your website. You make new friends too.
Bookmark - Have a bookmark on your site, so that you and others visiting can quickly share your post with others. When visitors click the button on your page, they are automatically taken to a page that allows them to choose which bookmarking service they prefer, and then pre-populates the appropriate form with the title and URL of your webpage. Try it out now.
Signature - use a signature in your email with the link to your website, blog, facebook, twitter, etc. Read more...
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