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Blogging
Questions and answers about blogs, blogging, and bloggers. Information and advice on how to create and maintain a personal blog or a corporate blog.
756 Questions
What is the word blog short for?
Blog is an abbreviation of the words Web Log.
The first postings on web sites on the Internet at the very beginning of the World Wide Web were lists of cool or interesting sites that people wanted to share with their friends.
So a web log or 'blog started out as a page of 'look what I've found'.
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Why would somebody use a blog?
You can use various Purposes as like your research information, Lecture Sheet, Tutorial Information. Business Information. Blog work as like a Real Website.
Blog Maintenance it's very easy because everything in Blog CMS for Blog Create.
Can you copy article first into notepad or Microsoft Word and then into blog?
Why, yes you can, just copy the article, paste in Word and then Copy from there and paste on to your blog... you will find the Copy paste etc. buttons on the right click menu!
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What is the difference between a blog and a newsgroup?
There is a major difference between an email listserv and a newsgroup. A listserv allows people to post things, while a newsgroup simply presents the information, and does not allow anyone to post.
What are good blogging topics?
You can blog about your personal life, you can blog about your opinion on things...it really depends on you. What interests you? What do you enjoy doing/learning/etc? Write about it! (for example: I blog about cats and Christianity because I love cats and I am a Christian).
Can other people post on blogs?
To post on a blog you have to have Author permissions to access the management panel. Some blogs support multiple authors.
Most blogs offer a comments section where anyone can post a comment. Some blogs require users to sign-up first to be able to comment.
What should you call your blog?
Try and come up with a name that will somehow connect to what you write about.
Are weblogs or blogs public allowing anyone to view them?
Yes, anyone can view them while using a web browser
How do you find someone's blog site?
You can use any search engine or blog search directory such as Technorati.com
You can try searching for that person through search engines. You can also search blogging directories and aggregators such as Technorati.com
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Do blogs have to be interactive?
Most blogs are, but you don't have to. There is usually an option to disable comments, and you can also make your blog private.
Many of the popular blogging platforms out there have features that allow you to add an RSS feed to the sidebar of your blog template. Wordpress and Blogger are two.
Another way to do it is to find a third-party widget that you can add to the sidebar which will receive the feed. Dapper.net offers an excellent tool for creating RSS feeds and then turning them into HTML widgets for blogs.
How do you improve blog traffic?
There are many ways to increase traffic to your blog. Fresh content always brings back readers, so be sure to post often.
1. Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization is important. Use the right keywords in your posts and tags to get higher in search results. Also, make your HTML and CSS Search Engine friendly.
2. Social Bookmarking
Add your blog posts to the social networking sites you're apart of such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Ning. This will put your post in front of your target audience.
3. Comments
At the end of your post, ask a question or encourage your readers to make comments. Comments help keep your blog active. They also help build traffic. If someone leaves a comment interact with them. This gets harder as your blog grows but it's particularly important in the early days of your blog as it shows your readers that their comments are valued, it creates a culture of interactivity and gives the impression to other readers that your comments section is an active place that you as the blogger value. It's also a great way for your blog readers to chat between themselves and make friends.
4. Link Building
Add your websites to Link Building sites such as TrafficG.
Blogging has become a way for individuals to do what's of the following?
1. Share their opinions, ideas and knowledge on the World Wide Web
2. Build an online community of engaged followers
3. Market yourself ( services or products ) online
4. Monetize and earn from the blog through adsense, adbrite, etc.
Is social networking good or bad for kids?
Yes it is because it helps people be more social if they weren't already. Being social is part of our human nature, social networking can help with that.
How do you put pictures on a wordpress blog?
simply copy the embeded code and paste it in the HTML view in wordpress.
Youtube will give you the code to imbed a video in your wordpress post or page
The code will look something like
<iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BUOajz7y5Pw" width="420"></iframe
The BUOajz7y5Pw is the id of the video in youtube. You can also control the size of the video on your web page by changing the value of the width and height parpameters.
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How do you add logo in wordpress site?
You'll need to upload the new image you'd like to use (using FTP) to your blog's directory.
Then change the image URL in the code instead of the existing logo.
There is also a second option.
go to you dashboard - navigate to media- click on the media link- click on add new next to media library- locate your image on your computer or externally- select file- save changes.
from there you can add your logo to your site by selecting media as mentioned above but this time the logo will be in your media library already.
There is nothing wrong with using (ftp) but if you don't know how to do it, it can get a little complicated.
What two words does the term BLOG come from?
Blog is short for "web-log" which is an online journal or newsletter that is updated frequently and is posted on a website for people to read.
It can literally be defined as a place on the Internet where you can keep "logs" or updates of your daily happenings.
The term 'Blog' is the evolved term coined by Peter Merholz in 1999.
It's not an acronym,...it's a colloquialism. It comes from the conjoined terms web and log...as in weblog. Then it evolved into simply blog when Peter Merholz coined the term in 1999.
When did blogs first begin to appear?
Online journals first appeared in the early 1990s. Justin Hall, who began personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers, as is Jerry Pournelle
How do you start a blog and popularize it?
There are many ways and there are also many bloggers who write about this topic across the blogosphere. Some strategies are:
* Link exchanges: Start a blogroll and add bloggers you know and like (this is a list of bloggers, linked to their blogs). Many bloggers will add you to their own blogrolls once they have been added to yours.
* Refer to other bloggers in your posts: Become part of the blogging community - go out and make friends. Write about other bloggers.
* Comment: Leave comments on other blogs. By doing so, you're leaving a link to your own blog and a way for potential readers to find you.
* Register your blog on Technorati.com and other blog directories.
*Mailing Campaigns: Write about your best post and send a mail to your friends. You can add a line like for more articles visit < your blog URL >. If the mail is interesting the mail will get forwarded and you will get the traffic you need.*Sign up for Twitter and post blog titles and links as Tweets*Add to business cards and all other social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn
*Add a link on your Website
If you look at someones blog will they know?
Blogger know how many people visited their blog. Some platforms allow bloggers to see what IP's visited the blog but they won't be able to tell which individual person visited a blog.
But if a blog uses services like facebook connect or Google connect that allow users to sign-in using that account blogger will have a way to know who went on their site.
