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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.
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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.
What tools do you need to blog?
Just about anyone can start a blog. Pick a topic you are interested in and decide whether you want it to be private or public then set one up online. Google slash blogger offers information and tips on how to set up a blog.
How do you put a playlist on wordpress blogs?
You can use HTML5 MP3 Player with Playlist or Audio Playlist Manager with Autoresume plugin.
You can find it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=playlist
Also, some useful plugins can be found here:
http://www.wordpressfamily.com/category/plugins/
What are the best free blogging sites?
BlogKast is the best place for engaging blogging, a free top-rated online blog platform, is leading fastest growing amongst the blogging platforms. On this blogging platform, you are allowed to register yourself for free. You might have several excellent ideas or knowledge in your mind. It could be top business ideas, amazing technology information, and software service. You may have a writing passion.
Yes.
Yes, if you share your thoughts, ideas, poems, pictures and just generally have fun.
To begin blogging, you firstly need to create a safe site that may not harm yourself or your audience. To build a site easily, you can build a WordPress site, for there are many free and premium themes, say in http://www.mageewp.com/, you can find kinds of themes to build your site.
You could potentially open yourself to stalkers and pedophiles who actually go looking at blogs for easy targets. There have been numerous cases where some perv' found his victim through their BLOG because of an address or other identifying information.
Here's some rules and notes to keep in mind when using your blog.
Never post your phone number or home address. Avoid posting your School's name or adderss/location, especially if its a small town. Photos of you which "give away" your location, like standing on your porch with the addess and street sign visible.
Be careful about how descriptive you are with the place you live. I can say, "I live in Washington and really enjoy the beautiful countryside" and that's fine. But if I were to say, "I live in Washington and really like to hang out at the Red Apple store behind my high school on my way home to my pink and yellow striped house with no doorlocks..." all a clever stalker would have to do is Google for all red apple stores in Washington then mapquest them to see which has a high school near it. And easy drive to that location, looking for pink and yellow striped houses and I am good as dead or worse!
have fun be careful. there's weirdos and hateful people out there amongst the good people.
How do you post widgets on your blog?
It is difficult to say without know which blogging platform the question refers to.
In Wordpress you have a way to edit widgets through the design template itself.
Try looking at the Help center of you blog platform to get more information.
How do you delete a blog on blogspot?
First you Log into the blog.
Then go to dashboard of blog.
Then go to tools.
Then delete blog.
Then after delete my blog permanently.
Add-ons are small complements to softwares. Mozilla Firefox, for example, is famous for the big collection of add-ons you can download to impreove your experience.
Add-ons add features to softwares. A lot of softwares offer this support. Some programs don't necessarily encourge it (Such as MSN Messenger), but make it possible. Some programs encourage it (Such as Pidgin and Mozilla Firefox) and some programs don't allow it.
How do you make a Blogger account?
Go to the Blogger homepage (see attached related link) and fill up all the necessary information and verify your account. Upon verification you can create one or more blogs using blogger.
How do you make money blogging?
The most frequent form of making money by blogging is through ad revenue. Programs such as Google AdSense pay the blogger when visitors to the blogger's website click on or view advertisements. YouTube has a similar program for videos.
Is it against the law to take photos without permission?
only if you put them on a website or something like that
There can be privacy considerations, even if you do not distribute the photos, if you're taking photos of people in a situation where they could expect privacy.
The term blog comes from the shorting of the phrase "web log". A blog is basically an online journal. You can write about just about anything. Some blogs are personal, while others are for businesses. Some free blogging platforms are Blogger, Wordpress, and Livejournal.
