So, What is a Blog?
Thursday, April 20th, 2006A traditional blog is chatty and opinionated. It is the thoughts and musings of the author. Some blogs can be pretty personal, like a personal journey though an illness, or a day-by-day blow of a trip. Some are political as these 2004 Election Blogs and others are just ramblings. But they all have a couple of things in common. They are formatted in a diary like way; one post after the other by date and each post is then archive in a category for future reference and reading.
A blog can be as open or private as the author wishes. The admin of a blog can open it up for comments on some, all or no posts. They can choose to have the post closed to all comments. They can link to other blogs via Trackbacks. Or can make the blog private, locked away so only those with the correct password can read them - just like an old diary. Blogs can have all kinds of information on them that the author has added. For example; a recommended book list or a list of recommended sites to visit etc.
Once a post is made the search engines are notified of new content on the site, via ‘ping’ which helps the blog in search ranking because the spiders come out more often, each time they are ‘pinge’ to indeax the new content.
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