Blogging Tips

The ABC of The Blogging World

April 1, 2008 , 2 Shawn

Often, there are people asking me what is RSS, what is blog marketing, what is RSS feed, and so on and so forth. So, in this article, I’m going to tell you exactly what are these things. They are the jargons of blogging world, and if you don’t know the meaning of them, it will be a major road block in your route to blogging success. Most starters who face this kind of problems will have a very big time to solve it. This is because they don’t know what it is, they are going to lose their focus and maybe stop and give up.

Take RSS for example, many people who just started to blog did not know what is RSS. They are going to crack their head, search for information regarding with RSS, and they will receive a lot of information which are not really going to help. This is also known as information overloaded. I knew this problem because I’m once a newbie as well. I’m just like you, start from zero, learn everything from scratch. The moment you face setback, there are only two routes for you. Look for more info and learn about it, or stop and give up.

So I hope that with all the blogging jargons explained here, you will have a clearer view of what blogging is all about. You have to build up a solid foundation and learn from the basics. Don’t even think about making millions from your blog if you don’t know what these are:

• Blogsphere – Represent the world of blogging, consists of all blogs
• Blogging – To blog is the process to write about something in one’s blog
• Comments – Response(s) from readers toward a post. Readers can leave their comments under a post in a blog (if the comments allowed setting is on, if it is off, readers are unable to leave their comments)
• Comment spam – Just like email spam, people or bots may spam your blog with un-resourceful comments.
• File Transfer Protocol, FTP – A file transfer program which allows you to upload or download files from or to your website
• Content Management System, CMS – Software for facilitating the maintenance of contents
• Content Syndication – Make part or your full blog content available for posting on another site
• Podcasting – Posting audio and video content in your blog instead of simply written content
• Real Simple Syndication, RSS – Everyone’s favorite question, it is the way to handle website contents and posted on websites or blogs. It allows you to reproduce part or all of the website content simple and automatically
• RSS Feed – File format containing a blog’s latest contents. It is read by RSS reader or aggregator
• RSS Reader or Aggregator – Software or online service allowing a person to read multiple RSS feed at one page, especially the latest posts on his favorite blog.

These are the blogging jargons that often confuse those blogger who just started to blog. I hope by now you will understand more about these terms and therefore you can handle your blog much more easily. All these are the ‘language’ of blogging. They are just like the computer language, if you don’t know them, you will not understand how to write a computer software. The same concept applies here. If you don’t know them, you are not going to create a solid blog.

It is just like your brain. Did you know that there are actually brain or mind language which we called neuro linguistic program or NLP? It is the language of your brain, how your brain works and how you can make use of these brain language or patterns to achieve amazing results in your life. You have to first understand the language, then only you can master your mind much more easily. The same goes for blogging as well. Learn the language and basics of blogging, and you can master the blogging skill at a faster rate.