Web Design, SEO, Blog Marketing and
Social Media Marketing for your Business

1. Adbrite – An advertising program that allows website owners to generate income from visitor traffic. A keyword driven marketplace for buying and selling advertising space on individual websites.
2. Adsense –Google advertising program that allows website and blog owners to generate income from displaying relevant Google ads on their websites.
3. b5media – Commercial blogging network with more than 250 blogs. In a commercial blog network the organization owns the blogs and hires writers to create blog postings.
4. Blogads – Ads specifically for blogs that allow blog owners to earn advertising income.
5. Blogger – A free blog publishing system owned by Google. Blogs can be hosted on the blogspot.com (Google’s Server) or externally on the user’s own server.
6. Bloggies – Blog awards that were started in 2001. Bloggies are an annual blog awards that involve nominations and then chosen by the public.
7. Bloglines – A web based news aggregator. Free online service that allows searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds and blog feeds.
8. Blogspot – Free blog hosting service for Blogger.
9. Del.icio.us – Social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing web bookmarks. Announced in September 2007, the website’s name is planned to change to “Delicious” when the site redesign is released.
10. Digg – Social book marking site. News stories, blog postings and websites are submitted by users. The most popular are promoted to the front page of Digg.com.
11. Feedblitz – A service that monitors blog and RSS feed updates and turns these into emails for subscribers.
12. Feedburner – A Google owned feed management provider that provides services for blogs and RSS feeds. They offer tracking the statistics RSS feed usage.
13. Flickr – A digital photo management and sharing website. Flickr allows photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means.
14. Icerocket – Search engine specialized in searching blogs, also searches web and MySpace.
15. LiveJournal – A free blog publishing system owned by SixApart. In addition to being a blogging platform, LJ is a is a virtual community with some social networking features
16. Movable Type – A blog publishing platform developed by California based Six Apart in 2001. Movable Type needs to be installed on a user’s own web server.
17. Newsgator – A News Aggregator service that displays content news and updates from the Web, the blogosphere.
18. Odeo – Online application that allows recording and sharing of podcasts.
19. O’Reilly Media – Company that originally coined the term “Web 2.0” in 2003. Company established by Tim O’Reilly in 1978. In 1992 they published the first book about the Web.
20. Pageflakes – Ajax-based start page similar to iGoogle. Allows users to read news and blogs, check their email, etc.
21. Pingoat – A web service that notifies dozens of blog ping servers every time you make a new post or update your blog. Similar to Pingomatic.
22. Pingomatic – Service used by most blogs to notify other ping servers every time you post a new article on your blog. They relay your ping to over 15 other ping engines.
23. Radio Userland – One of the early Blog publishing platforms that is still in use today. This was the first blogging software to allow adding audio which later became podcasting.
24. Sphere – Blog search engine based on algorithms that combine semantic matching with authority factors.
25. Technorati – Blog search engine that competes with Google, Yahoo, Sphere and IceRocket.
26. Typepad – Paid hosted blogging platform from Six Apart. Originally launched in 2003, TypePad was based on the Movable Type blogging platform.
27. Weblog Awards –Annual blog awards program, considered the largest of the annual blog award competitions.
28. Wordpress.com – Free blogging platform, this is the hosted version of the Wordpress blog. Competes with Blogger and Typepad.
29. Wordpress.org – Most popular self-hosted blogging platform. Open source, written in PHP and completely customizable.
30. YouTube – Google owned video sharing website where users can upload and share video clips.

1. Ajax - Acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. A combination of several programming tools to build interactive applications. Allows the content of a web page to be updated or changed without the entire page being reloaded.
2. CGI-BIN–A place (folder) where common gateway interface (CGI) scripts are stored for a website or blog.
3. Creative Commons – A non-profit organization. Creative Commons has developed a set of free public licenses to enable authors to share their work with others. See Some Rights Reserved.
4. CSS– Cascading Style Sheets are a standard for specifying the appearance of text and other webpage elements.
5. Folksonomy – Short for folk (or folks) and taxonomy. A user generated taxonomy used to categorize and retrieve Web pages, photographs, Web links and other web content using open ended labels called tags.
6. Footer – The bottom part of a blog or webpage. Usually consists of navigation links and a copyright statement.
7. FTP - Short for file transfer protocol. A standard protocol for exchange of files between computers on the Internet.
8. Header – The topmost portion of a web page or blog page. Common elements include website title, graphics and navigation.
9. HTML – Acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. The dominant programming language used to create websites and web pages on the World Wide Web.
10. Index page – The home page or front page of a blog or website. This is the default page that displays when the top level of a website is accessed.
11. Link Popularity – A measurement of the quality and quantity of inbound links to a webpage. A factor which affects a website’s search engine rankings.
12. Live Bookmarks – A feature of the Firefox web browser. Updated content from your favorite sites is brought to you.
13. Mashup –A web application that combines data from multiple sources into a single integrated tool. Example: Cartographic data from Google Maps is used to add location maps in a real estate listings website.
14. Navbar – Short for navigation bar. A common navigation feature, this is a horizontal row of navigation buttons or links usually located near the top of a website or blog.
15. OPML – Short for Outline Processor Markup Language. This is an XML format that allows exchange of outline-structured information.
16. Page Rank – Google’s measurement of how important a page is and affects search rankings. This is an index that values Web pages on a scale of 0 to 10, based largely on link popularity.
17. PHP – Short for Hypertext Preprocessor. An open source, server-side HTML scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. A programming language for creating web applications.
18. Read-Write Web – Another name for Web 2.0. The second generation of the web making collaboration and interacting easier using blogs and wikis.
19. Reciprocal Links – These are links to another website placed on your site in exchange for links back to your site from theirs. Used to improve search engine rankings. Sometimes called link love.
20. Semantic Web – The future evolution of the World Wide Web. The Semantic Web will allow people to more easily find, share, and combine information.
21. SEO – Short for search engine optimization. Techniques and strategies (white hat, black hat) to gain higher rankings in the search engine results.
22. Social Networking – Social networking is linking people to each other in some way. Social networking sites bring people together who people interested in a particular subject.
23. Some Rights Reserved – This is a concept started by Creative Commons without any charge. This allows copyright holders to more easily share a copyrighted work and overcome the inherently restrictive nature of copyright law.
24. URL – Uniform Resource Locator. The complete address for a webpage or file. Example: http://www.dougwilliams.com/index.php
25. Web 2.0 – A term coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004 to describe a second generation of the web. This describes more user participation, social interaction and collaboration with the use of blogs, wikis, social networking and folksonomies.
26. Web Syndication – A form of syndication in which a section of a website is made available for other sites to use. Examples are RSS and Atom feeds.
27. Widgets – Visual objects, icons or graphical interface elements that can be manipulated by the computer user to perform a desired function online or on their computer.
28. Wiki – Short for “wiki wiki” which means “rapidly” in the Hawaiian language. Wiki is a website that allows visitors to edit content using their browser. This is a collaborative website.
29. XML - Short for eXtensible Markup Language. A simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML; a general-purpose markup language for blog syndication.

1. Aggregator – Software or web program that gathers syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs in a single location for easy viewing. Also known as a feed aggregator, RSS Aggregator or a feed reader
2. Atom – (Atom Publishing Protocol) A specific web feed format that uses an XML language and ) is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating Web resources.
3. Blog – Short for “Web log.” A web application that contains periodic postings on a webpage. These are often but don’t have to be in reverse chronological order.
4. Blog client – Blogging software which manages (posting, editing) for blogs.
5. Blog feed – XML Machine-readable versions of the blog that may be “syndicated” for further distribution on the web. These are generated by the blogging software in formats such as RSS and Atom.
6. Blog site – Short for blog website. A blog is short for weblog and is a user generated website that allows for postings that are listed in reverse chronological order
7. Blogging platform – This refers to the blogging software which is used to create the blog. Popular blogging platforms include Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad and Movable Type.
8. Blogins - Short for “blog” and “login.” This is a list of a list of blog logins or passwords.
9. Blogroll – A listing of favorite blogs and websites usually in the sidebar of a blog. Also referred to as link lists or bookmarks
10. Categories – A method of organizing blog content into logical groupings. Categories represent a summary or list of content that can be found on your entire blog.
11. CMS - Short for Content management system. Software that allows website or blog users to login and update content online. The content is usually stored in a database and the web page or blog page is created dynamically.
12. Comment spam – Unwanted comments that attempt to drive visitors to another blog site. Usually generated by automatic software or “spambots.” This is a serious problem that requires anti comment spam software on most blogs. Similar to email spam.
13. Comments – Comments are submitted by readers of blogs enabling them to leave remarks and add to the “blog conversation.” These usually appear at the bottom of a blog posting.
14. Dashboard – The primary screen visible when you login to your blogging account. This summarizes the current status and shows the controls for operating your blog .
15. Expandable post summaries – The first paragraph or two appears on the index or home page of the blog with a link to the full article.
16. Permalink – Short for permanent link. For a blog entry, it is a unique URL that remains for the life of a blog.
17. Ping – Short for Packet Internet Groper. A utility that forwards data packets to notify or verify a connection. Helps to notify blog tracking tools for updates, changes and trackbacks.
18. Pingback - See TrackBack.
19. Plugins – A computer program that works with a software application to provide a specific function. Wordpress plugins can add specific features to expand a blogs functions.
20. Post, Entry- A single or individual blog article of any length and can be made up of text, graphics or video. Collectively, blog postings make up a blog.
21. RSS – Really Simple Syndication. A family of web feed formats used in web syndication. These are an XML based system for aggregating information from blogs, news and frequently updated websites.
22. RSS aggregator – See Aggregator
23. RSS feed – See Web Feed.
24. Sidebar – Columns on one or both sides of the main body area in a blog or website. In blogs a sidebar will frequently contain blogroll links, categories, contact information etc.
25. Skins: Customized or interchangeable graphic templates for blogs or websites. Altering the graphic look is sometimes called skinning the blog.
26. Tag cloud – A graphical view content keywords used on a website or blog. Tags are typically listed alphabetically, and tag frequency is shown with font size or color.
27. Tags – Descriptive keywords/phrases that normal users add to their blog postings
28. Template – Pre-designed blog or website formats for text and graphics.
29. TrackBack – Alerts a web or blog author that somebody has linked to one of their documents. This allows writers to keep track of who is linking to their blog postings or web content.
30. Web Feed – These allow subscribers to see new content as they are published on blogs and websites. Sometimes called an RSS Feed.

1. Audioblogging – The act of using audio to reach the audience instead of text used by traditional blogs.
2. Autocasting – Automated form of podcasting that uses software to convert text from RSS feeds into audio formats.
3. Bleg – To use a blog to beg for assistance. This can be for information or money. Someone who “blegs” is called a “blegger.”
4. Blog Carnival – A type of blog event. Similar to a magazine that is dedicated to a single event or topic. Readers are asked to submit articles for inclusion in the upcoming event.
5. Blog Fodder – Interesting ideas that can be used as material for your next blog posting.
6. Blog Hopping – Following links from one blog entry to the next and along the way reading and leaving comments.
7. Blogcasting – Combining podcasting and blogging into a single website..
8. Blogging - The act of writing and posting a blog.
9. Bloglet - A small blog entry, usually one or two sentences long. Also a discontinued service that allowed visitors to subscribe to email versions of your post.
10. Blogopotamus – A very long blog posting
11. Blogorrhea – An unusually high volume of blog postings. Frequently refers to meaningless ranting and raving on a blog
12. Blogstorm – When a large amount of blogging controversy, discussion, information and opinion erupts around a particular subject. Sometimes called a blogswarm.
13. BlogThis – Pioneered by Blogger.com. Allows the reader to generate a blog entry based on the blog entry he/she is reading, and post to their blog from their browser toolbar..
14. Boreblogging - Writing about personal matters that are barely interesting even to the writer
15. Digged – Digged means to have a link placed on digg.com and can drive traffic to your blog. Digg is a user driven social content website. All of the content on Digg is submitted by their community of users.
16. Down thread – Earlier blog postings or comments that are found below the post.
17. Fisking - To rebut a blog entry in a detailed point-by-point criticism that highlights perceived errors.
18. Flame - An intentionally crude or abusive remark, usually of a personal nature.
19. Link Love – Posting a link to sites that you enjoy, admire, or find useful. Frequently these are credible and reputable resource sites.
20. Linkbaiting – Content on a website or blog that is designed for the specific intention of gathering links from as many different sources as possible.
21. Podcasting – Originally short for “iPod broadcasting” but now means Posting audio and video material on a blog and its RSS feed, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers..
22. Vlogging – Short for Video Blogging. Posting blogs that primarily feature video instead of text.
23. Vorage – The act of foraging for video to use in Vlogging.

1. Biblioblogosphere - The community of library and librarian blogs is known as the biblioblogosphere
2. Blaudience – Short for Blog Audience. A blaudience is the audience or readers of a blog.
3. Blistless or B-listless - When a blogger loses interest and becomes listless or apathetic about posting. See Blogathy
4. Blog mute - Someone who seldom puts up a blog posting.
5. Blogathy – Short for blog + apathy. This is someone that does not care about posting today.
6. Blogger – The author of a blog. Also blogger.com, a popular blog hosting web site.
7. Blogiverse - see blogosphere
8. Blogoneer – Short for blog + pioneer. This is a person who blogs with an expert or pioneering attitude.
9. Blogosphere - All blogs that make up the Internet blogging community. Also called blogistan, blogspace or blogiverse.
10. Blogsnob – A blogger who refuses to respond to comments from people outside of their circle of friends.
11. Bloll – Short for blog troll. A Bloll is a commenter whose sole purpose is to attack the views expressed on a blog and incite a flamewar. See Troll.
12. Blooger – Short for blog + booger. This is a blogger who lacks good manners and acts in an immature adolescent way.
13. Blurker – Someone who visits and reads many blogs but never leaves any trace such as comments or any contribution to a discussion.
14. Commenter – Someone who participates in a blog discussion and leaves remarks / comments.
15. Dooced – To be fired because of comments made by an employee on a personal blog.
16. Flamewar – An electronic insult match with repeated abusive and insulting email or blog exchanges.
17. Multi-blogger - An individual or business that runs multiple blogs.
18. Problogger – This is a professional blogger who gets paid to blog.
19. Public Voice: the collective voice of individual consumers over the Internet, often influencing consumer behavior.
20. Scribosphere – The community of blogs written and maintained by screenwriters and aspiring screenwriters.
21. Troll – Someone with the extreme opposite viewof the theme of the blog who comments in order to attack the views expressed. See Bloll.

Here are more definitions of types of blogs.

1. Blog Farm – A set of blogs that are interlinked to form a blog network typically with the main blog aggregating the total content/acting as a gateway.
2. Bloggernacle – Short for “blog” and “Tabernacle”. Blogs written by and for Mormons.
3. Catblog – A blog about cats and posting pictures of cats. “Friday catblogging” has become the traditional day for people to post pictures of cats on their blogs.
4. Collaborative blog – A blog written by multiple people and based on a single unifying theme. Also known as a group blog.
5. Event blog - A blog that is focused and contains content specific to an event.
6. Group blog- A blog with more than one regular contributing writer. Also known as a Collaborative blog.
7. Gulog – A shortened version of gulag and blog. This is used to describe a blog that is so dismal and depressing; it’s as if it were written in a Soviet labor camp.
8. K-log – A knowledge focused blog that is posted on a company intranet for sharing company knowledge.
9. Linguablog - A blog about linguistics, translation, languages, or other language-related subjects.
10. Metablog – This is a blog about blogging.
11. MicroBlog – A blog that allows up to 140 character long posts. Twitter is the most popular and allows text messaging for blog postings via cell phone.
12. Moblog – This is short for mobile blog. A blog that features posts from a mobile phone. These are often photoblogs.
13. Movlogs – These are mobile video blogs. These are similar to a Moblog, but they feature videos.
14. Multi-blog – To create or maintain multiple blogs at the same time with a single installation of the Blogging software.
15. Phlog – Similar to a blog, but runs off a Gopher protocol server. These are typically hosted off home servers running some sort of UNIX operating system.
16. Placeblog – A blog that focuses on the events and people of a local area. Place Blogging has a “hyperlocal” scope.
17. Progblog - A progressive blog that supports left, liberal or green political ideologies.
18. Project Blog – A blog dedicated to a specific project. This can range from a hobby project to a larger corporate project.
19. Tech blog – A blog that focuses on new technology information.
20. Weblog- An online journal or diary on a specific subject. Also referred to as a blog.

As with any new technology, blogging has its own jargon. We are all familiar with business blogs and personal blogs. Here are definitions of other types of blogs.

1. Anonoblog - a blog run by an anonymous author(s). The blog may display some information about the author(s), but not reveal the author’s true identity.
2. Audioblog - A blog that mainly publishes audio files (music or podcasting) sometimes with text and keywords for search engine optimization.
3. Blawg – Commonly called lawyer blogs. These are generally by lawyers, law students or law professors and focus on commentary about the law.
4. Blook - This is a shortening of “looks like a book” and is a book created from a blog. Typically published in a serialized form one chapter at a time.
5. Celeblog – A blog written about or by a celebrity. Usually focuses on news, gossip and often contains embarrassing or revealing paparazzi photos.
6. CEOBlog – A blog maintained by a chief executive officer of a company.
7. Clog – A shortened form of Corporate Blog. This is a blog published and used by a company or corporation to reach its organizational goals.
8. Crisis Blog – A blog created to deal with natural disasters such as Katrina and the Indonesian tsunami. Also refers to a blog dealing with a public relations crisis for an organization.
9. Dark Blog - A non-public blog (e.g. behind a firewall). This usually uses a desktop blogging client or an off-line blog management tool.
10. Edublog – An education related blog. This can include blogs written for or by teachers. They can be used for educational policy or classroom assignments.
11. Flog – Short for Fake Blog. This is a ghostwritten blog written as a marketing tool. Similar to astroturfing (fake grass roots campaign).
12. Medblog - A blog that deals with health and medicine.
13. Milblog – A War Blog or Military Blog is a blog about the military or covering news events concerning an ongoing war.
14. Photoblog – A blog whose primary content is photos. The emphasis is on the photography, not just images that explain or illustrate the text.
15. Political Blog – A blog that comments on politics. Political blogs often have a clearly stated political bias
16. Shocklog – These are blogs that use and slander to sling mud at current affairs, public individuals, institutions and so on. Originated in The Netherlands.
17. Sideblog – A smaller blog placed within the sidebar of a blog. This blog within a blog is used as an easy way to list out interesting links. Sometimes called a link blog.
18. Splog – Short for Spam Blog. This is a blog which is intentionally fake and doesn’t add any written value. Used to increase Page Rank or get ad impressions.
19. Storyblog – Blogs used to publish stories, poetry and other creative writing; usually by aspiring writers.
20. Vlog – Short for video blog. This is a blog that mainly publishes videos. Video podcasting is sometimes called vodcasting.