Terms related to blogging

In this article I am writing about the terms related to blogging these will help you on various aspects of your blogging journey.

1. Gmail: Gmail is Google mail that is generally used to send and received personal mails. Since when Google announced their new policy “one policy one world”. It became a multipurpose key by which you can open your Gmail account, Blogger account, Google plus and even Google dashboard. You can open an account by going at Gmail > signup, to create a Gmail account it hardly takes one minute. 

2. Google dashboard: Google Dashboard is the place which designed to offer you transparency and control but here each and everything related to each activity is under record, but totally personal not publically. That means only can see it. In other words it is the place which ssummarizes the data associated with each product you use only when signed in to account. By logging in Google dashboard through Gmail account you can manage over 20 products and services related to Google including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Alerts and YouTube, and can personalize every setting.

3. Blog: Blog is the area provided by the sites to write your views and share these with public. It has both features free and custom domain. In free domain you have nothing to pay while in custom domain you can purchase .com by paying a certain amount. A paid domain has many benefits than free domain.

4. Blogger (Google free service): Blogger is the free service provided by the Google to write the things and share your idea with rest of world. It has many benefits like personality development and also you can earn money from it.

5. Blogger (writer): Blogger is the person who writes the things in blog for the benefit of people or to share his own views publically.

6. Title: Title here means blog title. It should be like that says about everything about your blog in one word. Short title is preferred over long title.

7. Domain name: Strings of letters and numbers that are used to name organizations and computers and addresses on the internet. These are as .com, .net, .org like…

8. Security code: It has multiple role like to check spam, to check threat etc. It is the combination of numeric numbering, special characters and English letters.

9. Terms and conditions: These are legal written document for benefit of users, privacy and company. These are the limitation up to which a blogger has to work, unless they have to face criminal case.

10. Posting: When your content is ready and then it is published on the blog is called posting.

11. Setting: These are the different optional things which are set by the blogger according to their content, or according to their way how they wants to show , how much to show the world. Here you can make the miner to major changes whatever looks convent to you.

12. Monetize: It is the tab in blog associated with your earning. It is the place where you chose ads to be displayed and also to apply for Google AdSense.

13. Google webmaster: In Google webmaster you will get Google webmaster tool, by which you can get Google's view for your site and diagnose problems, for malware, crawler errors etc. You can view links internal and external and also will see Google queries how they find your site. Even with the help of this tool you can send site map to Google for your blog. 

14. Google reader: It is the service provide by Google for the benefits of reader. By subscribing in Google reader they can keep themselves up to date about all the site to which they wants to read at one place. Benefit of this is that they don’t need to go and remember each and every site, but here you have to subscribe each which you want the part of reader. It is free service and even you can share it with your friends and family.

15. Social sites: Todays social site has their own importance in sharing the things with the friends and rest of world; here most of thing is for public. Social sites have also a big role in popularizing a site in these days. Whatever you write can share with the whole world in just a click with the help of Social sites.

16. Directories: Blog or site directories are the place where people send their blog under the category which they fall. These are also a good source of popularizing the site and also optimize the SEO, even also helps in site linking. These also help in building Google PageRank.


Other terms are Google AdSense, Google AdWords and Google PageRank, but about these I have already written in detail.