Dictionary of Terms in Blogger

WordPress Plugin: special codes created with the aim to develop a software capability, in this case is WordPress. There are thousands of WordPress plugins that have been made, with very diverse functions.

Pro Blogger: A professional bloggers who make money through blogging and life from which he received income from blogging activities.


RSS: short for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a format used to transmit information from a site and which pages are updated regularly. An RSS document (which is called feed) contains a summary or the entire content of a site. The biggest advantage to use RSS is a site allows visitors to stay connected with your favorite sites without having to visit them online. When you subscribe to an RSS feed, you will automatically receive updates when the site's content relevant sites publish new content.

Scraper: A person who copied the content from other sources (either sites or blogs) and publish it on their own blogs, with or without giving credit link, and without asking permission from the original author. Scraper can be done manually or automatically and usually use the tool scraping RSS feeds. Scraper is clearly a violation of copyright.

Splog: Blogs are only used to publish content spam. Splogs usually contains text copied from other sources, combined with links to sites of illegal drugs, booze and gambling.

SEO: search engine stands optmization. SEO involves a number of activities aimed to improve the ranking of a site in the search results pages search engines (especially Google). There are two types of activities undertaken, namely: on-page optimization, ie optimizing the use of tags and content of a site and off-page optimization, ie optimizing the external factors such as the number and quality of backlinks, promotion techniques, and others.

SERP: short for search engine results page. When you search for a keyword through Google search engine, you'll get 10 pages of search results that match the keywords you are looking for. Page that is called a SERP.

Social Bookmarking: Also called aggregators or social bookmarking community. Social Bookmarking is a site that allows users to find, deliver, distribute and gave vote of an article from the Internet. Social bookmarking sites are most popular Digg.com, Reddit.com, StumbleUpon.com and del.icio.us.

Social Media: A general term used to define the sites and web applications where there are elements of social interaction in it (in the form of text, images, sound, video or a combination of these). Examples of social media sites are blogs, online forums, social networks, Wikipedia and others.

Social Networks: In the Internet world, this term refers to a number of sites and applications, where the aim is to give its users the opportunity to have a similar interest to connect, interact and share. Examples of popular social network sites are MySpace.com and LinkedIn.com.

StumbleUpon: popular social bookmarking site that aims to enable its users to find new sites and interesting. StumbleUpon works by using a browser toolbar that allows users to vote and to click "Stumble!" Which will feature a number of sites or pages based on the choice of site users and what the vote by other users.

Subscriber: Visitors sites or blogs that subscribe to the RSS feed or subscribe to a site via email. When the site is updated with new content, customers will receive the content via RSS Reader or email. The web masters and bloggers are concerned the number of RSS subscribers because it represents the number of loyal readers and constant traffic of visitors.

Tag: Almost the same as categories, tags are used to classify content atupun an article in a website. Tags are more flexible than categories and are usually used with a more specific way. One article or post is usually given a large category and many tags in it.

Technorati: blog search engine service, which provides tracking information blogs, posting links and links from around the world. Very popular in recent years even started to lose attention. One of the most famous features is the Technorati Top 100 list, which ranks 100th in the world's most popular blogs based on the number of links from other blogs.

Twitter: A social networking service and Microblogging is now very popular. Twitter users can "follow" other users to get the latest news updates from them. Each update may only contain 140 characters, with or without a hyperlink.

Text Link Ads: A form of online advertising where the advertiser buys a link on another site with a text that he chose himself, and usually without a nofollow tag. This practice is very popular until then Google began to give a penalty sites that sell or buy text links in order to improve search results.

Trackback: A networking tool, similar to the pingback, which is used to provide information to a site when someone linked a link to that site.

Unique visitor: Unique visitors is the number of human visitors who go to a site within a certain time, Say 3 people visiting a blog on the same day, 2 people visited twice and each opening 5 page blog. So on the day, this blog has 3 unique visitors, total visitors 5, and 15 page views.

Viral Content: Content that spreads very rapidly in the world of the Internet, such as the flu virus in real life. Content itself can be articles, pictures, or video, but it must be very funny, controversial or very useful so that people feel the need to write about it. or tell friends about it.

WordPress: The most popular blogging software in the world of the Internet, created by a company called Automattic. WordPress gained popularity mainly because of community support is very active. There are thousands of people who provide free templates, plugins and support for WordPress development projects.

URL: stands for Uniform Resource Locator. URL includes the domain name and the protocol used. Example URL is http://www.namadomain.com.