Definitions About The Blogging Community

Blogging is a wonderful community with millions of members all over the world. If you aren't part of the community yet or are just getting started, you might be hearing a bunch of words that you may not understand. Here is a short list as this will be updated with more words and links to specific sites.

• Weblog - A site maintained, usually by an individual, that is updated regularly with comments on many different topics.


• Blog - Shortened version of weblog.


• Blogosphere - The community of bloggers.


• Blogging - The act of writing posts; to blog.


• Post - An entry on a blog.


• Bloggeries - The posts contained on a blog.


• Blogger - Someone who runs and writes on a blog.


• Photolog - A blog with photos taken by the blogger.


• Vlogging - Instead of posts that are written, the vlogger will record a video of them talking and post it to their blog.


• SEO - Search engine optimization is basically things done to a site to improve search engine rankings


• SMM - Social media marketing; marketing towards the social media channels.


• Microblogging - Another form of blogging that is generally short, text message like entries that is available for others to see.