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Deciding a Layout for your Blog

Kaushal Srivastava 3 Before Starting a blog, Blog Design, Blog Layout, Blogging Basics, PreToPro Blogger 09:15

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<i>Many Bloggers don't pay attention to their layout. Almost every new blogger just creates a blog and selects a default template or get some template from other free or paid template providing websites. But the most important thing that they do not pay attention to is : <b>Layout. </b>Some who pay attention to the layout select or design the layout that they like. But what about the visitors? After all every blogger make content for its visitors. So, how to understand which layout visitors prefer more? Here are few tips that may help you to select your layout:</i><br />
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Nearly 70% of internet users have big screen of resolution of either 1024x768(most), 1280x800, or 1280x1024. So, you could select a layout that looks good in big screen with high resolutions but do not forget the rest 30% visitors with small screen and low resolutions. Because every visitor is important. So select a layout that does not have horizontal scroll. Visitors hate to scroll horizontally.<br />
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As you have seen that most users use big screen. So, in my opinion you should use center aligned layout. Not only it looks great in big screens but also makes your layout more adjustable.<br />
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How much columns to choose?</h3>
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Choose either a 2 or 3 columns layout. And it would be better if you keep the sidebars on the right because visitors look for menu items and other action items Make sure that your post content is not thinner than the sidebar(s).<br />
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Outline Blocks or not?</h3>
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Test shows that outlining your blocks (For Example: Social bookmarks, forms, blogrolls, categories, etc) is better.<br />
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Also Read: <i><a href="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.in/2013/07/blog-design-and-content-guidelines.html" target="_blank">Blog Design And Content Guidelines</a></i></h3>
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Deciding a Layout for your Blog

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5 Tips on how to get your Blog noticed?

Kaushal Srivastava 1 Blog Tips, Blogging Basics, Getting Famous, Getting Noticed, PreToPro Blogger 03:05

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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Once You
have done all the <a href="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.com/2013/07/seo-ing-your-blog.html">SEO-ing</a>, you need to get your blog noticed. Here are some
points that you should consider while getting your blog noticed:</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Take a hard
look at the content you are generating. Are you just expressing your views on
news items like a billion other bloggers? What makes your Blog Unique? You
might get many visits but there’s a huge difference between getting people to
come to your blog and getting them to stay and getting them to frequently haunt
your Blog. There is no trick that can help you if your blog’s content is poor.
Obviously, writing style plays an vital role too. Make sure you check the
<a href="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-to-write-blog-post.html">spellings and proofread every post</a> before publishing them.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Be active in
the blogging community : Take part in Blogging discussions inside the blogging
community. Comment on as many blogs as possible (do not spam them, as it may
leave a bad impression. Only make intelligent comment that will generate
interest in you.). Doing this on high traffic blogs will ensure that someone
may visit Blog too and the links work as backlinks to your blog.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Update your
Blog Regularly: Regular Updates will keep your visitors coming back for more,
and search engines bots too love to visit blogs that are frequently updated.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Get into
link exchange deals with similar themed blogs containing content same as your
niche. In a nutshell make sure that there are links to your blog as many places
as possible on the web.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Email people
when you have made a new post. If you get stinkers for spamming, just email
people when you have some killer “Don’t miss This” Content.</span></li>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Finally,
remember one thing – Blogging is an ever-changing realm, and there’s nothing
you should not stop yourself from trying if it </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">isn't</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i> illegal.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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What is Alexa and how to claim your Blog on Alexa?

Kaushal Srivastava 0 Alexa, Alexa Rank, Blogging Basics, Claiming Your Blog, Improve your Blog rank, Increasing Traffic, PreToPro Blogger 07:17

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<i><a href="http://alexa.com/">Alexa.com</a> says itself as <b>Web Information Company </b>and truly it is. Alexa is the top most site to check your website/blog status in the world where it stands in the www(world wide web). If you are blogger then you must get your blog claimed on alexa and you must focus on increasing your rank as it is the alexa rank that shows the authority of your website/blog. If you want to monetize your website/blog then also Alexa must be considered as many advertiser check your alexa ranking, daily unique visits, page views etc. before buying ad space in your blog. Alexa rank under 100k is a good and so first you must focus to get ranked below 100k. But before that you must create a account on alexa. Then claim your site/blog and then focus on increasing your ranking. Here are the steps to get your sites claimed on Alexa:</i><br />
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Creating Account on Alexa:</h3>
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<li>First of all go to <a href="http://alexa.com/">Alexa.com</a></li>
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Claiming You site/Blog:</h3>
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<li>Now go to alexa site owner page (<a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteowners/claim">or click here</a>). Enter your site/blog url and click on Claim your Site button. <i>Below is a Screenshot.</i></li>
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What is Technorati And how to get your blog registered on it?

Kaushal Srivastava 0 Blog Search Engines, Blogging Basics, Increasing Readers, Increasing Traffic, PreToPro Blogger, Technorati 18:43

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<i>If you are not new in the blogosphere world you must have heard about <a href="http://technorati.com/">technorati.com</a>. If you don't know about technorati yet this post will help you to know what is technorati and how to get your blog registered on it? But before that let me answer some questions:</i><br />
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What is Technorati?</h2>
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Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry, with its headquarters in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik was the site's Chief Technologist. It is an Internet search engine for searching <a href="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.in/2013/07/what-is-blog.html">blogs</a>. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. The name Technorati is a blend of the words technology and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism. Many bloggers get many pageviews sent from technorati. So, in a nutshell we can say it is a blog search engine.<br />
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Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry, with its headquarters in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik was the site's Chief Technologist.<br />
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How Does it improves a blog traffic?</h2>
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<li>Technorati rates each blog's "authority," the number of unique blogs linking to the blog over the previous six months.</li>
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<li>Go to this address <a href="http://technorati.com/account/signup/">http://technorati.com/account/signup/</a></li>
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Having problems regarding claiming you blog? Technorati.com has claiming FAQ <a href="http://technorati.com/blog-claiming-faq/">here</a>. I have listed the frequently asked questions provided by technorati below:</blockquote>
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Claiming your blog will add it to Technorati's <a href="http://technorati.com/blogs/directory/">Blog Directory</a>, in the categories you specify, and will let you see links from sites in our index to your blog. You can also specify tags for your blog, and it will appear in the lists of blogs on our Tag pages for those tags. If there are links to your blog, we will track your <a href="http://technorati.com/what-is-technorati-authority/">Technorati Authority</a> over time Your claimed blog will also appear on your public profile page, so anyone who views that page (perhaps clicking through from a comment you make) will see it.<br />
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Simply <a href="http://technorati.com/account/login/">sign in</a> and go to your personal profile page by clicking on your name in the top right of any page. You will see the place to begin your claim by entering your blog URL just after the section that contains your profile image. If you do not already have a Technorati account you can sign up for free in less than a minute <a href="http://technorati.com/account/signup/">here</a>.<br />
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What does Technorati do with claimed blogs?</h3>
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Blogs claimed by Technorati members are added to the <a href="http://technorati.com/blogs/directory/">Technorati Blog Directory</a>. The member claiming the blog can also supply categories and blog tags for the blog, and we will include the blog in the blog lists for those categories and tags. You can specify up to three categories for your blog, and Technorati users will be able to find them in those categories. Not all claimed blogs are added to our index, which is the list of sites that we crawl to collect content from. Sites must be included in our index to contribute to <a href="http://technorati.com/what-is-technorati-authority/">Technorati Authority</a> or for their content to appear in search results. We are constantly reviewing additional sites for inclusion in the index.<br />
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I'm having trouble claiming my blog! What's wrong?</h3>
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There are a number of possible causes of claim failures. Here are some pointers to help make your claim successful:<br />
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1) Don't redirect A redirect is a mechanism for telling a browser, or anyone trying to find content at a given URL that they should look at a different URL. For example, some who used to have a blog at http://myOldOldBlogSite.zzz and now has a blog at http://mySnazzyNewSite.zzz might set up a redirect so that anyone going to the old site gets automatically sent on to the new site. This can be quite useful, but if you do this, please do NOT try to claim the old site URL. When it tells us there's nothing there and we should look elsewhere, we believe it, so we don't want to add the old URL to our system. If you want to claim the new site, please do, but use the new URL. Of course, we don't have a problem with minor redirects that are essentially the same location, such as redirects that add or remove www or a slash at the end of the URL, or to go from http://mySnazzyNewSite.zzz to http://mySnazzyNewSite.zzz/index.php<br />
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2) Make sure the claim code (also called the claim token) is in a post and is visible in your feed. Technorati relies very heavily on feeds for all of our processing, so make sure we can find the code there. And the code needs to be in a post -- there are too many ways to get text onto someone else's blog page, so we require that you demonstrate that you can actually make or edit a post to claim a blog.<br />
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We realize that putting this odd code text into your feed means that all of your feed followers (and perhaps Twitter, Facebook, and other sites) will see it, but it's the best method we've found so far to demonstrate to us that you control the blog. You can remove the code once the claim is complete.<br />
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It's probably best to put the code at the beginning of an existing post, and then remove it after claiming. Many feeds do not include the full post, so putting it at the start of a post ensures it gets into your feed. Then when you're done, you can remove it and it's gone. If you create a new post for the code and then delete the entire post, many systems cannot tell if the post was deleted or just aged off of the feed like an old (but still valid) post, so may not remove it when you do.<br />
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3) Do not block Technorati using the robots.txt access control mechanism. Web sites can host a file named robots.txt that specifies what automated software ("robots") are allowed to access. Not all software obeys these directions, but Technorati does, so if you have a robots.txt file that doesn't allow us to read your site, we won't.<br />
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If you use a blogging service such as BlogSpot or LiveJournal, this is likely controlled via your blog settings for privacy. Look for settings relating to allowing search engines to index your blog.<br />
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If you are hosting your own site, make sure to permit access to Technorati Bot (currently our UserAgent is TechnoratiBot/8.1). You can learn more about using robots.txt and the Robots Exclusion Standard at <a href="http://www.robotstxt.org/">robots.org</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard">Wikipedia</a>.<br />
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Blog Design and Content Guidelines

Kaushal Srivastava 20 Blog Content, Blog Design, Blogging Basics, PreToPro Blogger, SEO 17:18

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<b>Here Are some basic but still important guidelines that you should follow while designing your blog and adding content to it :</b><br />
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<li>Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn't recognize text contained in images. If you must use images for textual content, consider using the "ALT" attribute to include a few words of descriptive text. (Write for the humans but also make sure that your content is readable to the search engine robots/crawlers)</li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.796875px;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><i>After going through many popular blogs I concluded that the most important fact that makes a blog a popular one is the visitors. Everything we write in the blog is obviously for its visitors and if the blog is not visitor friendly no one would like to come again. They will come only when your content is exceptionally great. But if it’s not anyone would prefer to haunt again… To understand what features constitute a visitor friendly blog I visited some popular blogs and I concluded following features to be considered as visitor friendly: </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.796875px;"><i><br /></i><b>1.)</b> <b>Font Characteristics</b>: Fonts should be large enough so that the visitors may not have to squint to read the content. Font colors of normal and links should be different from that of the background to provide proper contrast with the background.<br /><br /><b>2.)</b> <b>Page Style</b>: Very much garishly pages are a put off; many may not like to read too much varied colorful texts. Avoid such texts. I am not saying that using colorful texts are bad. Colors can be used to depict the mood of the blogger. But it must be done carefully. If the bloggers mood is a happy one, using a gloomy grey text would make it difficult to connect with the reader.<br /><br /><b>3.) Page content:</b> Extraneous content can be blighting. A blog with a two line post and a hundred comments will not only take time to load but will also make the readers upset as they come to your blog to read what you write not what your readers comment . Reading he content will depend upon the reader’s patience. Many will even leave before waiting for the page to load. Also comment moderation is an important aspect. SPAM comments must be weeded out or else it would leave a bad impression on the reader. Using ad in posts is a conspicuous thing. While having many posts per page will make it slow to load again making the readers to read before reading the content.<br /><br /><b>4.) Page layout:</b> The reading experience should not be marred by the layout. Inserting ads in the middle of the posts is rather a bad idea. Have links to important pages at the bottom of the post is a good idea as not having them at all.<br /><br /><b>5.) Visitor Aids:</b> Visitors should have easy access to links for sharing the posts. They should also be provided with links to subscribe to blog feeds so that they remain updated about the changes to your blog. Visitors also like to voice their opinion or feedback. So, a comment box should be provided. They should not be made to wade through all the posts in search of a specific category post. So a search box along with a categorized post app must be provided. Easy access to previous posts or preferably an archive or calendar showing the post or the dates of the posts will not only save the effort of the reader but will also keep them engaged more on your blog. Again this can also be done by providing links of related posts at the end of the posts.<br /><br /><b>6.) Optionals:</b> A blog is known by its links. Proper links, whether of sources or extra information providing links must be given this will not only help the reader of your blog to find the information they want but will also improve your page ranking. Adequate apps must be in your blog. If you are adding apps/widgets in your blog always try to add the ones provided by the platform. Using external widgets in your blog can make your blog load slower. So to make your blog load faster use apps/widgets provided by the platforms.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Making your blog visitor friendly is all about keeping your visitors haunt again and again to your blog thus increasing your daily traffic. Also you know better about the visitor that comes to your blog and for what do they come for. So, I leave it up to you; do what you want to do to make your blog visitor friendly. After all it’s your very own blog.</span></i></span></h3>
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Five Points To Remember While Writing a Blog Post.

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Well I was reading Robin Sharma's Novel "101 Ways to Success" And Found These Points and realised that these may apply for Blogging (Writing Posts) too.<br />
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<li>Be an original<b> –</b> to thine own self be true. To many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our own writing skills to follow the others.</li>
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<li> People(readers) want to know that you are real, that you are decent kind and trustworthy. They want to feel you and  sense you and look into your eyes to see what you are made of, through your writing and your blog. They want to know your passion for whatever it is you write for. And when they sense that you are the real deal , they will read your posts. When they see that you have their best interests in mind, they will trust you. Once they will get that you are good, they will be good to you and your blog (along with your life) will get to a place called world class based on those trust connections. It is easy to forget that readers read the blogs of those whom they like. And who make them feel good. Success of your blog is all about consistency around fundamentals.</li>
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<li>Touch the hearts of the people(readers) you write for and they will be back for more. Engage their emotions and they will become your raving fans.</li>
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<li>Write as the best writer the world ever had, as martin luther king said,“if a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as michelangelo painted or as beethoven composed music or shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well, that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,’ Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job so well’.”.</li>
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<li>The more successful you and your blog become, the more good and quality contents you must give to your readers. The more committed to efficiency and relentless improvement you need to add. Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you and your blog to the top of the mountain is the very moment you and your blog begin the slide down to the valley.</li>
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What to Blog About?

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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px;">Figuring out what to blog about can be easy or hard: A blog is well suited to sharing information, documenting your life, exploring a hobby, or expressing your passion for a subject. The key is choosing just what to talk about on your blog.</span></h1>
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Think about these things when you start a blog:</div>
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<b>Choose a subject that genuinely interests you.</b> Don't choose a topic that you think looks good to be interested in or will attract a lot a readers. You're the one who will have to do the writing for the blog, and it really helps if you’re enthusiastic about your subject. That passion will shine through to your readers and keep them coming back.</div>
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<b>Decide whether any topics are off limits.</b> Bloggers who keep personal diaries for their friends and families might decide to keep certain subjects out of the public forum of the Internet. For example, do you really want your boyfriend reading a frank account of last night’s make-out session? How about your mom or your boss?</div>
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<b>Think about your potential readers.</b> Who are they? How can you appeal to them and get them to keep reading your blog? Do you even care about how many readers you have? If you do, what do you have to show or teach or ask them?</div>
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For most bloggers, being successful is defined as attracting, keeping, and growing an audience of interested readers. . . Preferably an audience that leaves comments and interacts with you and with other readers.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>The key here is to find a niche and exploit it fully. Picking a niche and sticking with it can be tough to do. Fortunately, you get a lot of leeway in how you handle a subject, in evolving your own style, and in what you blog about.</b></span></div>
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Some subject areas have proven to be popular and successful blog subjects already. You can take on the competition and start a blog about</div>
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<b>Your kids:</b> Baby books might have gone out of style, but that doesn’t mean you can’t document your child’s growth in detail on a blog. <i>Mommyb</i><i>logging</i><i>,</i> as it has come to be called, is on the rise in a big way.</div>
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<b>Your hobby or interest:</b> Blogs are beautifully suited to making connections, so feel free to use yours to become part of a community of folks that share your passion for knitting, sport fishing, geocaching, carpentry, or whatever your interest is.</div>
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<b>Technology:</b> Many of the original bloggers chose technology as their focus, and what a great decision that was. There’s a huge interest in technology and technology issues today. After all, more and more people have cell phones, personal computers, and MP3 players, and everyone has problems using them!</div>
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<b>Politics: </b>A number of popular political bloggers have turned their online punditry into thriving careers in traditional media.</div>
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<b>News of the weird:</b> Some popular blogs make the most of the many strange Web sites by posting links and quick summaries of the site on their blogs. It’s the lazy man’s approach to surfing, and if you’re interested in sharing the quirky oddities you find, you’ll definitely find an audience for them.</div>
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<b>Specialized news:</b> Offer a service for your busy readers by aggregating all the news on a particular topic, with quick tidbits and links to sources. This can work for both serious and comic topics — think cranial surgery techniques to coverage of the latest teen sensation.</div>
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<b>A personal diary:</b> If you have enough going on in your life to keep <i>you</i> interested in it, you can stick with the tried and true blog. With a unique voice and great writing, you can attract readers who will to be friends.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />First of all what is a blogging client? The Post Content is Prepared by using  a Blogging Client. It Usually Consist of A text Editor with Some extra tools to facilitate the inclusion of images and other things into your blog post. So using a blogging client one can focus on creating the content and forget about the intricacies of creating a webpage in html. Advantages Of Blogging Clients :</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The ability to save drafts</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Features like cross-posting to multiple blogs</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Faster uploading and addition of photos</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />A Blogging Platform Grants the blog its features and layout. It Needs to be installed on a server along with some other essential add-ons  to make the blog functional.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Every Site on the web is hosted on a web server. A web/blog host is an entity that Provides web space on the web server to publish the webpages of your blog online.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOGGING</span></span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Weblog</strong>- An online dated diary listing your periodic thoughts on a specific topic, often in reverse chronological order.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blog</strong> – short form for weblog</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogging </strong>- the act of posting on blogs</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogger </strong>- a person who blogs</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogosphere </strong>- The internet blogging community</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOGGING FORMS</span></span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Photoblogging </strong>- a blog predominantly using and focusing on photographs and images. Photoblogs are created by <strong>photobloggers</strong></span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Podcasting </strong>- a method of distributing multimedia files (audio / videos) online using feeds for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. <strong>Podcasts</strong> are created by <strong>podcasters</strong>.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Autocasting </strong>- is an automated form of podcasting</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogcasting </strong>- the blog and the podcast merged into a single website.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Vlogging </strong>- Also called <strong>video blogging</strong>. Shortened to <strong>vlog</strong>. Posted by<strong>vlogger</strong>. A variant on the blogging using video instead of text.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Audioblogging </strong>- Also called <strong>audioblog</strong>, MP3 blog or musicblogs. a variant on the blogging using audio instead of text. Created by<strong>audioblogger</strong>.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Moblogging </strong>- Also called <strong>moblogs</strong>. A blog posted and maintained via mobile phone. Moblogs are created by <strong>mobloggers</strong>.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOG COMPONENTS AND FUNCTIONS</span></span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Index page</strong> – the front page fo the blog</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Header </strong>- the topmost part of the blog usually listing the blog title.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Footer </strong>- the most bottom part of the blog usually listing navigation and copyright statements</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Sidebar </strong>- One or more columns along one or both sides of most blogs main page</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Categories </strong>- A collection of topic specific posts</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Post, Entry</strong>- individual articles that make up a blog</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Comments </strong>- enabling readers to leave their remarks</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Captcha </strong>- short for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. Those word and letter verification images you need to type in to show you are human and not a bot. Helful to block automated spam comments.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Ping</strong> – Short for Packet Internet Grouper. Blog and ping helps to notify other blog tracking tools for updates, changes and trackbacks.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Trackback </strong>- A system by which a ping is sent to another blog to notify that their article has been mentioned by you</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Pingback </strong>- See trackback.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Permalink </strong>- A link to a specific article</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Tags </strong>- labelling / attaching keywords to collect similar posts</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Tag cloud</strong> – Displaying tags lists or keywords in a blog.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogroll </strong>- list of links to other blogs in your sidebar. Also see blogrolling.com</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Sideblog </strong>- A smaller blog usually placed in the sidebar of a blog.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Template </strong>- the blog presentation design</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>BlogThis </strong>- a function allows a blogger to blog the entry they a reading</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Plugins </strong>- Small files that add improved functionality and new features. WordPress plugins can greatly improve your blog usage and interactivity</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Dashboard </strong>- When you login to your blogging account, it is the first screen with all controls, tools and functions.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Archives</strong> – a collection of all your posts on one page. Can be categorized by month etc.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Expandable post summaries</strong> – show a small teaser part of the post on the index page that link to the full post.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Jump</strong> – the continuation of a the story on another page to preserve space on index page.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>FTP </strong>- short for file transfer protocol. Transferring file to and fro from your web host using FTP tools like Filezilla</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WEB FEEDS</span></span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Web Feed</strong> – allows online users to subscribe to websites that change or add content regularly.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>RSS </strong>- a family of web feed formats used for Web syndication. Short form for Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0), Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0), RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0). WordPress generates RSS 2.0</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>XML </strong>- short for eXtensible Markup Language. a general-purpose markup language for syndication formats used on blogs.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>RDF </strong>- short for Resource Description Framework. A web content syndication format.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Atom </strong>- another specific web feed format. Blogger feeds are usually of this type.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>OPML</strong> – short for Outline Processor Markup Language. It is an XML format for outlines. Easily import and export multiple blog subscriptions between different rss aggregators.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Photofeed</strong>- a web feed with image enclosures.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOGGING SOFTWARE / CLIENTS</span></span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogger </strong>- a free blogging platform by Google.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogspot </strong>- free Blogger hosting blog at name.blogspot.com</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>LiveJournal </strong>- free blogging tool by SixApart</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Movable Type</strong> – paid blogging tool by SixApart</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Typepad </strong>- paid blogging tool by SixApart</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>WordPress.org</strong>- Free. Easy to Upload, customize and upgrade.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>WordPress.com</strong> – A WordPress blog hosted free for you.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Radio Userland</strong> – another blog publishing software package</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TYPES OF BLOGS</span></span><br />
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Group blog</strong>- with multiple contributing bloggers.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Event blog</strong> – focussed on an event</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Kittyblogger</strong> – writing about cats.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Celeblog</strong> – focused on a celebrity.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Celebriblog</strong> – maintained by a celebrity.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Clog Blog</strong> – written in Dutch and/or in Holland.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>CEOBlog</strong> – run by a chief executive officer.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Plog </strong>- a project blog. Also for Amazon.com personalised weblogs</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Movlogs </strong>- mobile video blogs.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Splog</strong>- a spam blog</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Tech blog</strong> – focused on a technical subject.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Anonoblog</strong> – by an anonymous blogger</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Linguablog </strong>- about linguistics, translation etc.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Metablog</strong> – a blog about blogging.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Milblog </strong>- a military blog.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blawg</strong> – blogged by lawyer / related to legal stuff</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Edu-blog</strong> – education oriented blog.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Progblog </strong>- A progressive blog.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Shocklog </strong>- provokes discussion by posting shocking content</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Klog </strong>- used by company knowledge workers. by Kloggers</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogsite </strong>- A web site that combines blog feeds from a number of different sources</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Dark Blog</strong>- A non-public blog</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Photocast</strong>- a photoblog that automatically updates when new photos are added.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">BLOGGING HABITS</span><br />
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Metablogging </strong>- writing articles about blogging</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogstipation </strong>- writer’s block for bloggers. Cant think of what to blog about?</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogathy </strong>- I do not want to post today and I do not care about it</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogopotamus </strong>- A long long blog post</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogorrhea </strong>- unusually high output of articles</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bleg </strong>- To use one’s blog to beg for assistance etc.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Hitnosis </strong>- Refreshing your browser repeatedly to see if your hit counter or comments have increased</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>GAD </strong>- Google Adsense Disorder. Repeatedly checking your adsense earnings.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blego </strong>- Blog+Ego. Measuring blogger worth</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blog hopping</strong> – jumping from one blog to another</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogroach </strong>- A commenter who rudely disagrees with posted content</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogoholic </strong>- addicted to blogging</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogorific </strong>= blogtastic – something which a blogger says is terrific</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogsit </strong>- maintaining a blog while the primary blogger is on leave</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogvertising </strong>- Also called blogvert. Advertising on a blog.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blurker </strong>- a blog reader not posting comments, just lurking around quietly.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogathon </strong>- update your website every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. Maybe collect sponsorships.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogiversary </strong>- your blog birthday</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blog Carnival</strong> – Links to other articles covering a specific topic.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Multiblog </strong>- running multiple blogs</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blog Tipping</strong> – Compliment 3 blogs on day 1 of every month.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogger bash </strong>- a blogger party</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Commenter </strong>- someone who leaves remarks / comments</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Reciprocal Links </strong>- called link love. You link to my blog, I link to yours. To improve search engine rankings.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Linkbaiting </strong>- a habit of writing good content with the sole purpose of getting it linked from multiple sites.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogstorm</strong> – a large amount of blogosphere activity due to particular controversy. Also called Blog Swarm.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogsnob</strong> – refusing to respond to blog comments from “not-friends”.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Doppelblogger</strong> – plagiarize the content of another blogger. To Doppelblog.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogophobia</strong> – Fear of blogs and blogging.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bloggerel</strong> – the same opinion posted repeatedly on a blog</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOGGER TYPES</span></span><br />
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Problogger </strong>- professional blogger</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blognoscenti </strong>- especially knowledgable bloggers</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogebrity </strong>- a famous blogger.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogerati </strong>- the blogosphere intelligentsia.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Commentariat </strong>- The community of those leaving comments.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Dooced </strong>- lost a job because of blog entries. To Dooce.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogther </strong>- a fellow blogger.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>A-List</strong>- the top bloggers who influence the blogosphere.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogstar</strong>- blogger running a popular blog</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OTHER BLOGGING TERMS</span></span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bloggies</strong>- Annual blogging awards.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>MSM </strong>- Mainstream Media, or old media like newspapers etc.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>BSM </strong>- Blogstream media. from most heavily trafficked blogs.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blog Day</strong> – 31 August. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting and tell them.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blaudience </strong>- your blog audience.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blargon </strong>- Also called <strong>Blogssary</strong>. Blogging slang and glossary. What I am telling you now.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogiversary </strong>- your blog birthday</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogiverse </strong>– see blogosphere</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>XFN</strong> – short for XHTML Friends Network. Is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogonomics </strong>- blogging conference on a Blog Cruise in 2006.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>EFF </strong>- short for Electronic Frontier Foundation. A nonprofit group working to protect blogger rights.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blog of Note</strong> – a recommended blog.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Navbar </strong>- a navigation bar usually seen on top of Blogger blogspot hosted blogs.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blook </strong>- a book created from a blog.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Hat Tip</strong>- acknowledgement of the source that tipped you the news.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Spomments</strong>- Spam comments</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blammer</strong>- Blog spammer</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>SOB</strong>- acronym for Successful and Outstanding Blogger. From successful-blog.com</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogiday</strong>- you get fed up and take a holiday from blogging</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOGGING TOOLS & SERVICES</span></span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bloglines, Rojo, Newsgator, Kinja, </strong>– are <strong>News Aggregators</strong> that display content from syndicated Web content from web feed. Can be configured online or downloaded on your desktop. Like . Also called RSS readers, feed readers, feed aggregators or news readers</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Pageflakes, Newsvine</strong> – Track multiple feeds on a single page by modules.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Odeo, Podnova </strong>– are <strong>Podcatchers</strong>, a form of aggregator used to automatically download podcasts and can sometimes transfer a portable media player. Like</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Feedburner </strong>- a professional feed management system</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Pingomatic, Pingoat</strong> – ping multiple blog tracking services.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Feedblitz, Zokooda</strong> – Email subscriptions and newletter tools.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Technorati</strong> – a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>b5media, 9rules</strong> – examples of popular blogging networks. Collection of blogs and bloggers providing great content, with revenue sharing sometimes.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>K2, Blix</strong> – names of some popular wordpress themes.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogexplosion(closed), Blogclicker</strong>- popular blog traffic generation / exchange services.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://google.com/adsense">Adsense</a>, Adbrite, CJ, <a href="http://chitika.com/">Chitka</a>, Blogads</strong> – popular affiliate programs to generate money from your blogs.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Sphere, Icerocket</strong> – blog search engines</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Live Bookmarks</strong> – a firefox web browser feature. Update themselves automatically with the latest content from the Web.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Creative Commons</strong> – licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>CoComment </strong>- Tracks your comments across different platforms and follow conversations</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>WBloggar, Ecto, Qumanna</strong> – desktop blog publishing tools</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Mint, Mybloglog, Measuremap, Analytics</strong> – site traffic tracking tools.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Haloscan</strong>- free trackback service</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>YouTube, Rapidshare</strong>- puts video on your blog</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Flickr, Imageshack </strong>- photo sharing service. Host images on your blog</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Del.icio.us, furl, spurl</strong> – share social bookmarks.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogburst </strong>- Syndicating your feed to top publishers.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bloggeropoly </strong>- professional blogger recruiting agency</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogger code</strong> – a way to describe different types of bloggers.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bloggoggle </strong>- Directory of Blogging Professionals</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>BlogHer </strong>- where the women bloggers are. At Blogher.org</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOG TRAFFIC SURGES</span></span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Digged </strong>- link posted on digg.com driving huge traffic to your blog</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Slashdotted </strong>- link posted on slashdot.org driving huge traffic to your blog</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Instalanche </strong>- link posted on instapundit.com driving huge traffic to your blog</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Farked</strong> – link posted on fark.com driving huge traffic to your blog</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Boing Boinged</strong> – link posted on boingboing.net driving huge traffic to your blog</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">MISCELLANEOUS BLOGGING TERMS</span></span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Ajax </strong>- acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. creates interactive web applications.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Greasemonkey </strong>- a firefox web browser extension that can alter the functionality of any website using specific scripts.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Wiki </strong>- a collaborative on-line software that allows readers to add and edit content.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>SEO </strong>- search engine optimization. To improve your search engine rankings.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Page Rank</strong> – Google measures of importance of a page which reflects in its rankings.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>CMS</strong> – short for Content management system. software used to publish and manage websites.</span></li>
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