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All About Blogs Blogging Blog History Common Blog Terminlogies

Satya N — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:33:37 +0000

A weblog (the word was coined by Jorn Barger in 1997) is a log or record or collection of stuffs like personal opinions, links to different websites, written and maintained in form a regularly updating website by any person or a group of persons . In a weblog a person expresses his opinions, his favorite sites, even his personal facts,thoughts.

But this was how weblogs were understood in it’s initial phase (1996-97) before Peter Merholz segregated weblog in to two words “we blog” and since then they are known as blogs as blog was the word that was accepted worldwide. But by this time blogs were no more opinions, favorite link collection of any person but represented what ever the owner of the blog liked and the blogs had content in form of running journal where many pages would be added on top of older pages. People expressed their opinions, thoughts, ideas and anything in their blog. By 2003 there were lots of blogs around the world with many new blogs shining up each day. In this period around 2003-2004 blogs received a lot of attraction from bloggers, audience and others and keeping up to such a heavy demand top companies launched many free blogging platforms where any one can create and manage their own blog. One of the finest example is Blogger which was aquired by Google in 2004 and till date is one of the most popular free blogging tool or platform where any can create a blog in minutes.

In this era i.e. 2003-2004 mostly people blogged about personal thoughts, musings,opinions. Some people showcased their works like paintings, writings,poems etc. Also some journalists started writing in blogs regarding world news happenings politics and after the web 2.0 fever caught up this world in late 2004 many people started to help other people by blogging about something they know it may be software tricks or website tricks or gadgets information or reviews they blogged anything. This is the current style of blogging where blogs provide information regarding several niches/categories to other peoples regularly.

Terms Regarding Blogs

Blog Blogs (weblogs of yesteryears) are websites that contain information regarding any specific category in form of several blog posts or articles which are stored chronologically according to the date of publication in a journal format. Also currently this is a place where latest information, latest buzz are written out.

Blog Post This is an entry or an article that you publish in your blog. A blog post consists of either text written by you, links,videos.music,anything. A blogpost can be a tip, a guide, a tutorial any thoughts. It can be a review of any new product you use or you like or you recommend.

Comment Each of your blog posts and pages have a field comments where any users can comment regarding the post/article, ask a question to the author of that article, or give some suggestion. This is the way where the users of the blog interact with themselves and with the authors also.

Trackback When some other blogger links to any of your blog post, then he may send a track back to that post of yours which he linked, so that readers reading your post would know what he (who linked to u) talks regarding your post because his post with title and a link will appear bellow your post in form of a comment.

Readers Those who read your blog posts regularly are your blog’s readers and same with those who come to your blogposts via search engines or other blogs.

Subscribers & Feeds As we know blogs are nothing but collection of articles posted regularly. Several new articles are added regularly and appear in the top of previous article/post. But if you subscribe to the feeds of that blog, you’ll get the updated content of the blog i.e. the new blogposts / articles either emailed to your inbox or would be displayed to you in your feed aggregator software (this type of software displays the feeds to you). All those who have applied to read feeds of your blogs either in email or feed aggregator softwares are your blog’s subscribers or feed subscribers. they receive all your blog posts and do not need to visit your blog to read them. There are 2 main formats for feeds one is RSS which is widely used by most websites including ours and other one is atom feeds. Details regarding feeds

Users They are users who registered with your blog if your blog has an option of user registration (like this blog) . Many blogs like this require each commentators of blog to be registered with them.

Blogging Platform This is a set of tools or scripts provided either as a service by any third party vendor like Blogger.Com or as a software like Wordpress using which you can create your own blog. That may be a site which allows to create a blog under it or a software which you install in your own webhost/servers and create n setup the blog there. Blog Management System or Blog CMS or Blogging System are nothing but different forms of blogging platform

Blogging The art of writing blogposts /articles in a blog is blogging. These are either information regarding anything or personal thoughts of the blog author.

Blogger The person who maintains a blog and who writes in a blog is a blogger. A blog can have multiple authors/bloggers with different roles.

Manage Advertisements In Your Blog On Your Own To Earn More-All Details Here

Satya N — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:09:27 +0000

You might have seen many top/authority bloggers do not use Google Adsense or any other advertisement programs in their blogs to earn money. The reason is simple such programs bring a lot of advertisers who pay to advertise on your blogs but they take big commissions for it.TextLinkAds which is web’s biggest link advertisement network keeps 50% commission of what advertisers pay to be featured in your blogs. Same is the case with adsense but the commission amount is unknown. So you don’t get everything what advertisers pay and the middlemen, the ad brokers benefit from it. You can get the entire money paid by advertisers in this way.

How To Earn The Full Amount/Revenue From Advertisers

This is even more simple. In your blog you manage your own ads and advertisers would directly advertise by paying you via payment gateways like Paypal,Moneybookers or credit cards. So you would have your own ads system like adsense,TLA so that no middlemen would take commissions & you get full revenue.

How To Manage Own Ads In Your Blog

1.Set up a Advertisement Page like we have here and there you should put all the advertisement options that an advertiser can avail in your blog. This includes all common advertisement methods for blogs like PPC,Text Link Ads, Sponsored Reviews etc. Also you should mention the prices monthly n total prices in this “Advertise Here” page.

2. Have accounts in online payment gateways like Paypal which you can use for receiving payments. Also paypal helps to receive credit card payments online. Paypal has a system known as Transaction ID which is a unique number assigned to every transaction like sending/receiving money so ask your sponsors to pay the money to your paypal account and quote the transaction ID and you match it with latest IDs in your paypal acc to confirm that there is no payment problem. Advertisers would contact you using the contact us page of your blog so it’s a good practice to have a contact form page that can be done by using wordpress contact form plugin.

3. You can have PPC Ads like adsense and to do this you need to install few Advertisement management scripts in your server. Some of best open source and free ad management scripts are OpenAds,AdMan etc . Some of these scripts manage everything and provide a clean user interfaces for billing advertisers based on ppc, displaying clicks n other stats to them and have options to receive money via paypal and others. For Link Ads sponsors would use contact form and give you details like link url, anchor text and other details. Also they would manually pay via paypal and quote transaction ID as proof. besides PPC Ads and Link Ads you can have few 125X125 Badges (small images) placed on blog’s sidebar and charge a monthly price for it.

4. Now you need to set prices and prices would directly depend on your blog’s rankings like Alexa rank,Google Pagerank and also depends on daily traffic to your blog. The best way to choose an optimal price is to look at several ad brokering sites like TextLinkAds.Com and check what they charge for advertising on a site or blog with nearly same alexa rank and same pagerank as yours. For PPC you have to charge less than sites like Adsense to get more sponsors and for setting price for 125X125 badges look other blogs of your niche with nearly same alexa rank & popularity for what prices they have set. It’s all competition among bloggers so price should adapt to market. To get advertisers pay more you need to have better blog rankings.

5. And at last you need to promote and say every potential sponsors that you have such good advertisement option for them in your blog and let them know the benefits they would get after purchasing Ads in your blogs.Here benefits refers to traffic to advertiser’s site or the buzz (sponsored reviews) or leads like signups n sales, SERP (text link ads) etc. You need to offer all details like blog stats, type of visitors, niche etc. to the advertisers for earning the best. Disclosing them in public in your blog’s “Advertise Here” page is a good practice.

Caution While Selling Ads - Google is banning/penalizing many blogs who sell text link advertisements to manipulate serp and pagerank of advertiser’s sites so be careful. The same applies for sponsored reviews.

Back Again After Health Problems-Resume Posting

Satya N — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:34:41 +0000

You might see some inactivity here since last post which was on valentine’s day. I feel sorry for it but i suffered from severe cold n Bronchitics and rested most of the time the last 15 days. Very rarely I could get online and hence could not post anything here since last 2 weeks. But I’m back now, recovering quite well and according to doctors it was due to Allergy. I would start posting again here from tomorrow as usual so please bear with me n enjoy your stay at BloggingTruths.Com.