Indian Social Media Landscape

This is the second in series of the essentials of a blog. In the first part we spoke about content, layout and subscription features. There are sevral ways to increase visibility for your blog but right now let’s continue with highlighting some of the other features that are a must for your blog before you start promoting it.

1.    Maintain a blog roll

Blog roll is an individual’s favourite list of blog links that you have mentioned in the side bar of your blog. Most of the bloggers exchange links in order to increase their visibility and get more readers. The blogs links could be about subjects related to what you write about or could be on your other interests you pursue.

We have received mails from people who would like us to explain the basic terminologies about blogging. Apparently, these are terms that are widely used without correct interpretation available.

To a lot of you who have already started blogging, you might run through it and let us know if we have missed out any terms that can be included in this list

We have categorized all the terms into different sections for better understanding. With these terms, you will definitely be in a position to start your very own blog.

Blogs and Blog sites:

Blog – It has been derived from the term ‘Web log’. It is usually maintained by an individual, with regular posts containing text matter, pictures or videos. The key feature of blogs is that readers can leave behind their comments thereby making it interactive and participative.

Blog Post – An entry written and published on a blog is called as blog post.