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OK, in the previous post we’ve looked at what is blogging; now we’re discussing the basics of blogging.  And to start, we want to define a few words.

Blog:  Web log, a quick and relatively casual method of publishing information online.  Less setup than a website, close to being as flexible.  Blogs contain posts, which are published in reverse chronological order (i.e. most recent first).

Blogger:  One who writes in a blog.  Usually the owner, but some bloggers “ghost write”, or are “guest writers” for others.

Blogsphere:  The world of blogging.  Encompasses not only blogs and bloggers, but also the way they work together.

Frequency:  How often you post a blog entry.  Frequency has a direct effect on traffic; the more frequent the posts, the more the search engines tend to pay attention.

Platform:  This usually refers to where and how the blog is hosted.  For example, Blogger and WordPress.com are free blogging platforms.  TypePad charges a small fee, or you can host your own blog platform on a web server.

SEO:  Search engine optimization.  Search engines tend to love blogs to begin with, due to the nature of the frequent postings.  But SEO lets a blogger better his or her chances of making it to the top of the search engine results.

So these are the basics of blogging; terms you want to know before you get into the nitty-gritty of the next post, how to start blogging.