What Were They Thinking?
By bloggerbible | February 12, 2008
This list of domain names shows just how much thought went into choosing their name. So next time you are thinking about registering a domain name, don’t be one of these guys…
Who Represents is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is
www.whorepresents.com/
Experts Exchange is a knowledge base where programmers can exchange Advice and views at
www.expertsexchange.com/
Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at
www.penisland.net/
Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at
www.therapistfinder.com/
There’s the Italian Power Generator company,
www.powergenitalia.com/
And don’t forget the Mole Station Native Nursery in New South Wales,
http://www.molestationnursery.com
If you’re looking for IP computer software, there?s always
www.ipanywhere.com/
The First Cumming Methodist Church Web site is
http://cummingfirst.com
And the designers at Speed of Art await you at their wacky Web site,
www.speedofart.com/
I know there’s probably a ton of these out there, feel free to mention others I may have missed.
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Finally, A Blog Dictionary
By bloggerbible | January 29, 2008
It sucks encountering a term you don’t know when reading as many blog articles as we do. To help ourselves and others, we decided to post the Blog Dictionary here as a reference. You will probably be familiar with the majority of these terms, but a few will surprise you, enjoy.
A
Autocasting: Automated form of podcasting that allows bloggers and blog readers to generate audio versions of text blogs from RSS feeds.
Audioblog: A blog where the posts consist mainly of voice recordings sent by mobile phone, sometimes with some short text message added for metadata purposes. (cf. podcasting)
B
Biblioblogosphere: A humorous reference to the world of librarian blogging
Blaudience: The audience, or readership, of a blog
Blag: A humourous misspelling of ‘blog’
Blath: A math oriented blog. A portmanteau of “math” and “blog”.
Blawg: A blog focusing on commentary about the law, generally written by a law professor, law student, or lawyer. A portmanteau of “law” and “blog”.
Bleg: A blog entry consisting of a request to the readers, such as for information or contributions. A portmanteau of “blog” and “beg”. Also called “Lazyweb.”
Blog Carnival: A blog article that contains links to other articles covering a specific topic. Most blog carnivals are hosted by a rotating list of frequent contributors to the carnival, and serve to both generate new posts by contributors and highlight new bloggers posting matter in that subject area.
Blistless or B-listless: When a blogger becomes listless or apathetic about posting. It is also indicative of what will happen to the blogger’s mailing list.
Blog client: (weblog client) is software to manage (post, edit) blogs from operating system with no need to launch a web browser. A typical blog client has an editor, a spell-checker and a few more options that simplify content creation and editing.
Blogger: Person who runs a blog. Also blogger.com, a popular blog hosting web site. Rarely: weblogger.
Bloggernacle: Blogs written by and for Mormons (a portmanteau of “blog” and “Tabernacle”. Generally refers to faithful Mormon bloggers and sometimes refers to a specific grouping of faithful Mormon bloggers.
Bloggies: One of the most popular blog awards.
Blog Farm: A website constructed from a group of linked weblogs, typically with the main blog aggregating the total content/acting as a gateway.
Blog feed: The XML-based file in which the blog hosting software places a machine-readable version of the blog so that it may be “syndicated” for further distribution on the web. Formats such as RSS and Atom are used to structure the XML file.
Blog Hopping: To follow links from one blog entry to another, with related side-trips to various articles, sites, discussion forums, and more.
Bloglet: A small blog entry, usually one or two sentences long. [1]
Blogoneer: A portmanteau of “blog” and “pioneer”, meaning a person who blogs with an expert or pioneering attitude.
Blogorrhea: A portmanteau of “blog” and “logorrhea”, meaning excessive and/or incoherent talkativeness in a weblog.
Blogosphere: All blogs, or the blogging community. Also called blogistan or, more rarely, blogspace.
Blogroll: A list of blogs. A blogger features a list of their favorite blogs in the sidebar of their blog.
Blogsandwich: A blog that contains several different topics.
Blog site: The web location (URL) of a blog, which may be either a dedicated domain, a sub-domain, or embedded within a web site.
Blogsite: Sometimes confused with a simple blog or blog site, but a blogsite is a web site which combines blog feeds from a variety of sources, as well as non-blog sources, and adds significant value over the raw blog feeds.
Blogsnob: A person who refuses to respond to comments on their blog from people outside their circle of friends.
Blogstipation: The state of being unable to think of any topic to blog about, leading to irregular, strained blog entries. A rush of interesting events can clear the block; this is sometimes known as a blenema.
Blogstorm: When a large amount of activity, information and opinion erupts around a particular subject or controversy in the blogosphere, it is sometimes called a blogstorm or blog swarm.
Blogstream: A play on the term mainstream that references the alternative news and information network growing up around weblogs and user driven content mechanisms. Can also be used as a play on the phrase “thought-stream”, referring to the stream of consciousness as expressed through a weblog.
BlogThis: Pioneered by Blogger.com, BlogThis links on a blog allow the reader to automatically generate a blog entry based on the blog entry he/she is reading, and post to their blog.
Bloll: A troll who specialises in blogs. A portmanteau of “blog” and “troll.”
Blooger: A blogger who exhibits adolescent tendencies and lacks basic social graces or good manners. A portmanteau of “blog” and “booger.”
Boreblogging: Writing about personal matters that are barely interesting even to the writer — preferably in a slightly bent fashion so as to make it fun to read in spite of the subject matter.
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C
Categories: This is a method of organizing blog entries by assigning each entry to a predetermined topic. Each topic (category) will link to a list of entries, all with related content.
Celeblog: A blog detailing the lives of movie stars, musicians, and other celebrities, much like tabloid magazines. They often feature embarrassing or revealing paparazzi photos.
Clix: A person’s circle of online communities.
Collaborative: Blog A blog (usually focused on a single issue or political stripe) on which multiple users enjoy posting permission. Also known as group blog.
Comment spam: Like e-mail spam. Robot “spambots” flood a blog with advertising in the form of bogus comments. A serious problem that requires bloggers and blog platforms to have tools to exclude some users or ban some addresses in comments.
D
Dark Blog: A non-public blog (e.g. behind a firewall)
Desktop Blogging Client: An off-line blog management (posting, editing and archiving) tool
F
Fisking: To rebut a blog entry in a line-by-line fashion.
Flog: A portmanteau of “fake” and “blog”. A blog that’s ghostwritten by someone, such as in the marketing department.
A Photoblog.
Feeds: RSS Feeds
G
Glog: A first-person recording of an activity, in which the person doing the recording is a participant in the activity. Probably a portmanteau of “gonzo” and “blog”.
GBCW: The “Good Bye Cruel World” diary is when a Kossack decides that Daily Kos has become too (fill in the blank) or isn’t nearly (fill in the blank) enough for him or her to continue visiting the site. General chaos ensues in the Comments as other Kossacks agree, disagree, and wish the diarist good luck or good riddance.
Gulog: A portmanteau of “gulag” and “blog”. Used when a blog is so dismal and depressing, it’s as if it were written in a Soviet labour camp.
H
Hits: Number of users visited is often referred as hits. (website / blog hits)
HT: “Hat Tip” An acknowledgment of the source where you found the noteworthy item.
I
Instalanche: Sudden and possibly overwhelming increase in traffic to a site after being linked to by the Instapundit
K
Koufax: An annual quasi-Liberal webblog award.
K-log: aka “knowledge log”, a type of blog usually used by knowledge workers and posted on a company intranet for sharing company knowledge.
Kos Kid: A term for any one who posts, or reads regularly, the blog Daily Kos. Also known as “Kwazy Kos Kids” after the eccentric nature of some of the members.
L
Lazy Web: Making a suggestion to an internet community in the hopes that someone else will do the work.
Link Love: linking to a site or blog, usually unsolicited, that you like, enjoy, or find useful.
Log in, blog to, log out: A catchphrase referring to blogger style of activity.
Linkroll: A list of recently-bookmarked links with brief descriptions, in the sidebar of a blog.
M
Milblog: Term for blogs written by members or veterans of any branch of service - Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines. A contraction of military and blog.
Moblog: A portmanteau of “mobile” and “blog”. A blog featuring posts sent mainly by mobile phone, using SMS or MMS messages. They are often photoblogs.
Momosphere: Term to encompass blogs written by mothers. A portmanteau of “mom” and “blogosphere”.
Multi-blog: Creating, maintaining, and running multiple blogs (2 or more) simultaneously.
Multi-blogger: An individual, business, or institution that runs multiple blogs.
N
Natural Blogarithm: Used to describe the vibe or rhythm of the blogging community. A portmanteau of blog and natural logarithm.
P
PENUS Potentially Exciting News Under Scrutiny: Use this when you have something big that you can’t wait to show to the blogosphere.
Permalink Permanent link: The unique URL of a single post. Use this when you want to link to a post somewhere.
Phlog: Type of blog utilising the Gopher protocol instead of HTTP
Photoblog: A blog mostly containing photos, posted constantly and chronologically.
Ping: The alert in the TrackBack system that notifies the original poster of a blog post when someone else writes an entry concerning the original post.
Placeblog: Tim Lindgren has used the term “place blogging” to describe weblogs that focus on events and people with a hyperlocal scope.
Plog Political blog: Blog containing mainly politically-oriented material.
Podcasting: Contraction of “iPod” and “broadcasting” (but not for iPods only). Posting audio and video material on a blog and its RSS feed, for digital players.
Post: An entry written and published to a blog.
R
RSS: Really Simple Syndication is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
RSS aggregator: Software or online service allowing a blogger to read an RSS feed, especially the latest posts on their favourite blogs. Also called a reader or feedreader.
RSS feed: The file containing a blog’s latest posts. It is read by an RSS aggregator/reader and shows at once when a blog has been updated. It may contain only the title of the post, the title plus the first few lines of a post, or the entire post.
S
Scribosphere: Term to encompass blogs written by professional and aspiring screenwriters. A portmanteau of “scribe” and “blogosphere”.
Shart: An acronym; Stubborn, Hostile And Resentful Troll, the most feared kind. A blog that falls victim to such a troll is said to have been “sharted”. A blogger who vandalises their own page for sympathy is said to have sharted themselves.
Shocklog: Weblogs to produce shocking discussions by posting various shocking content.
Spam blog: A blog which is composed of spam. A Spam blog or “any blog whose creator doesn’t add any written value.”
Slashdotted: The Slashdot effect can hit blogs or other website, and is caused by a major website (usually Slashdot, but also Digg, Metafilter, Boing Boing, Instapundit and others) sending huge amounts of temporary traffic that often slow down the server.
Splog: A term used to refer to a ’spam blog’, made popular in 2005 by Mark Cuban
Storyblog: Also written as “slog”. A term used to describe blogs used primarily to publish written stories and poetry used for practice usually by aspiring writers.
Subscribe: The term used when a blogs feed is added to a feed reader like Bloglines or Google. Some blogging platforms have internal subscriptions, this allows readers to receive notification when there are new posts in a blog.
Svithe: A spiritually themed post on a blog not normally focused on spiritual matters.
T
Template: Templates, used on the “back end” of a blog that work together to handle information and present it on a blog.
Theme: CSS based code that when applied to the templates will result in visual element changes to the blog. The theme, as a whole, is also referred to as a blog design.
TrackBack: A system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it. The system works by sending a ‘ping’ between the blogs, and therefore providing the alert.
Troll: A commenter whose sole purpose is to attack the views expressed on a blog and incite a flamewar, for example, a liberal going to a conservative blog, or vice versa. The word trolling means literally ‘to fish’, ie. when the troll fishes for a clashback from the blog writer and/or pro commenters. Many trolls will leave their remarks on multiple posts and continue to visit the blog, sparking spirited debate amongst the blog’s regular readers. Trolls’ verbosity can range from eloquent to crass, although most trolls probably fall into the latter category. Originally, trolling only meant the custom where someone was commenting just to get a flamewar going, by using exaggarated points of view not held by themselves.
V
Vlog: A video blog; a vlogger is a video blogger (e.g. someone who records himself interviewing people of a certain field).
Vorage: A marriage between the words forage and video defined as “The act of foraging for video on the internet and sharing it with others.”
Vloggers: Those who share streaming or downloaded video content on the web often engage in voraging, scouring search engines and obscure websites to present a curated collection of videos that usually fall within a set theme or editorial perspective.
W
Web Keynoting: Having a blog’s text dictated by a web keynote (also, voice professional). Service provided by Ch4tter.
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75 Year Old Grandmother Arrested At McDonald’s
By bloggerbible | January 22, 2008
Finding a good blog topic can be a stuggle sometimes, so look no further than Digg or Stumbleupon to see what’s hot. Of course there are several other places to look as well, its really up to you! Today on Digg, I see a story about a “75 year old grandmother getting arrested for not pulling up at McDonald’s”. The link is pointing to a Local 6 television channel’s website with the rest of the story. This story received over 700 Diggs, and according to my estimate at least 7000 unique visitors.
THE HEADLINE: Police: Grandmother Arrested At McDonald’s Drive-Thru For Not Pulling Car Forward
So how do bloggers benefit from these highly Dugg stories?
Post A Followup Article: Since this topic is hot, do a followup on this story and write a post and submit it to Digg and other social networking sites.
Post Your Point Of View: Express your opinion about this story and submit it with a relevant title such as “75 Year Old Grandmother Strikes Back At McDonald’s” (if the followup story is relevant)
Learn What Got This Story Dugg: The most important lesson is to learn why a story like this was Dugg to begin with. There are a few key factors that scream Digg me! This story involves the elderly, fast food and police, now that’s a recipe to get Dugg. And the best thing is the whole story is captured in the title. There are other reasons why this story got Dugg so many times, but I will leave that for a later post.
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Now That’s A Big Pile of Cash!
By bloggerbible | January 21, 2008
That pile of cash represents what’s available to earn online every minute of the day 24/7, and as bloggers…I know you want your share. The only problem is you don’t have enough traffic to your blog, so this post is dedicated to providing some down and dirty traffic tips.
Socialize Your Blog: Get your inbound links by joining social networking sites.
Submit Your RSS Feeds: There are hundreds of high quality RSS directories to submit your blog.
Comment: Do your share of commenting on other blogs and forums (especially those with “do-follow” enabled)
Create Mini-sites: Build mini-sites to promote your blog through free online services.
Email Signature: Put your blog address in your email signature for added exposure.
Paid Links: Purchase inbound links from higher ranking niche related websites.
Get Digging: Get your articles on Digg, Stumbleupon, Furl, etc.
Contest: Hold a contest and giveaway something your readers will want.
These are just a few ideas to help stir up traffic on your blog. I use most of these techniques and they work great. What I haven’t included here is the more in-depth methods I use to attain traffic, I will reveal those in future articles.
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Signs of Over Blogging
By bloggerbible | January 20, 2008
You check your stats more than 10 times a day: If you are constantly checking your blog’s stats, you are becoming obsessive. Unless you are monitoring the success of a new technique, don’t check your stats so often.
Your face shows up on a milk carton: If this happens to you, then you definitely need to take a break from your blogging and get in touch with your friends and family.
You suffer from blogger’s block: While this is a relatively new term, it is happening frequently as we try to create more and more relevant content. If you are currently suffering from blogger’s block, either take a day off to refresh your mind or read other blogs for inspiration.
Your friends and family check your blog to see how you are doing: Don’t be shy, now that you are a blogger, you can still visit your friends and family just like old times.
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Your health is deteriorating: Many of us may not recognize this is happening to us as we sit for long hours writing and researching. Try to limit your time blogging and take a health break frequently. Take walks, do the laundry and other physical activity, you will be surprised how refreshing it is.
Online friends out number real friends: This is a sad but true scenario for many bloggers.
Your ideal vacation is to go to a blogger convention: I know my wife may not share the same enthusiasm as I would on this one.
You wish you could delete some people’s comments in real life: If you start to think stuff like this, then ya you may be spending too much time on your blog.
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SEO Strategy For Bloggers
By bloggerbible | January 19, 2008
Every blogger needs an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategy if they are going to succeed online. Unless of course you are so gifted as a blogger that your writing makes magic ripples on the Internet effortlessly. For most of us, it requires a strategically planned outlay of specific tasks to make our blog successful.
Assuming your blog is already up and running, you will need key factors in place to make an impact. This short list provides some of the basics.
- Aesthetically Good Looking Blog
- Meaningful Articles Related To Your Blog’s Core Topic
- Timeless Writing Technique
- Professional Graphics - Tagged & Optimized Properly
- Intuitive Site Navigation
Once the basics are in place, you should carefully analyze the technical side of your blog to ensure it is optimized for search engines. This includes implementing proper “permalinks” to associate your url name with the titles used in your blog. For WordPress users this is an easy task done in the control panel. After that, remove any references to your blog’s platform if possible. This includes removing “powered by wordpress” links in the code. Utilizing these two techniques alone will separate your blog from thousands of others and will put yours at an advantage in the search engines.
Links on your blog will create additional traffic if executed properly. When it comes to links on your blog, relevance and positioning are key. If you write an article, try to provide at least one link that references another article on your website. This technique provides relevance for both the readers and search engines. For every three internally linked keyword phrases in your articles, you should try to have one externally linked keyword or phrase. This ratio works comfortably for most blog topics and will provide huge dividends over time. The 3 to 1 linking ratio combined with using your preferred keywords will provide ample opportunity to cultivate all of your articles for better search rankings while providing the benefits of outbound links.
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Outbound links from your blog have the same power as inbound links in some instances. Providing an outbound link to another’s blog brings in as much traffic as it could potentially loose. The potential loss of traffic due to the outbound link should be linked to a “new browser window” if possible to minumize any traffic leakage. One of the main reasons to use an outbound link is to receive credit from the link receiving website.
If you are writing an article about “search engines” and your blog’s theme is SEO (Search Engine Optimization), try to always leave room in your article to promote someone else. Once you integrate the mentioned website and provide the outbound link, try to notify the receiving website’s author to let them know about the link and article. If you execute this properly, it should provide you additional inbound links of relevance. Not every outbound link will earn you higher ranking inbound links, but at least they will be relevant.
The overall theme points to your blog having good characterists for both readers and search engines alike. Bloggers must distinguish their blogs in every way possible without jepardizing good logical context and framework. SEO techniques that complement both search engines and your readers experience will be the most powerful methods you can use.
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Ultimate Luxury Blogger Mobile Home
By bloggerbible | January 19, 2008
Someone was kind enough to send us some photos of what they referred to as their luxury mobile vacation home for retirement. We liked it alot and wished we had this mobile home for ourselves, this would make a very productive workplace for our blog.
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Blog With Passion
By bloggerbible | January 18, 2008
Some bloggers think they can choose a topic and start writing about it and that will gain them an audience. We know from experience that this strategy is unlikely to succeed, because those types of blogs lack passion. Our advice to both established bloggers and wannabes alike is to let the topic choose you, not the other way around.
You would think that we know ourselves best about what we are passionate about, but that’s not always the case. A useful technique to discover what you are really passionate about is to ask your family and friends what they think you should blog about. While this may produce several different answers, it will definitely provide insight that will be useful for you to choose the right topic to blog about.
Look at someone like Donald Trump, you may think he is passionate about money? Although money is probably a top priority for Mr. Trump, I doubt it’s his core passion. Instead, I think he’s passionate about being part of successful ventures that involve high profile people. By surrounding himself with celebrities and other influential people, Trump himself has become a celebrity. He clearly likes to be in the public eye and has cultivated his image as a world-class businessman (whether he is making money or not). Trump builds overpriced condos that he sells to wealthy folks who admire him and has earned a reputation of success. If Donald Trump were a blogger, he would be blogging about making genuine relationships with wealthy people and how to cultivate them for a sale.
Another fine example of a passionate individual is John Chow, who is a truly successful blogger. For those of you out there who think John used secretive evil techniques to get where he is, you would only be partly right. Mr. Chow, from Vancouver, Canada is personally my favourite blogger. Even after a bitch slapping from Google, John continues to dominate the blog world with his record breaking traffic and profits. John, like me is committed to blogging in a very big way. His commitment to provide his readers quality and relevant information on how to make money online has earned him a solid place on the Internet. While I enjoy the vast amounts of information available on John’s blog, I do recognize that he provides only part of the equation to making money online. John’s blog is a must read for the intermediate to advanced blogger. The techniques he talks about will only be useful if you have already found your blogger self.
Conquering the technical side of having your own blog can also be a challenge. Fortunately there are many options available today that allow even the most technically challenged individuals to have their own blog. Websites such as blogger.com, wordpress.org and several others provide a free blogging platform and hosting to anyone who wants to have their own blog. If you desire a more distinctive approach to blogging, then you will need some essentials that include a domain name, hosting account, graphics library, etc. At BloggerBible, we explore everything you need from beginning to end, browse our categories and read the articles that best suit where you are at. If we’ve missed a step, let us know. If our information needs correcting, you can let us know about that too, it’s all very much appreciated when our readers provide us feedback.