You need to go in flashback of your childhood, when you were in school or college. Remember those days when you’d forgot meaning of a word then most probably you used dictionary to find meaning of that word. Everyone needs dictionary either he/she is topper (expert) or Failure of the class.

When I was starter in blogging then I had lots of problem regarding various terms used in blogging like Feeds, Guest Post, Atom, etc. Most of my time I used Wikipedia and Google to clear basic terms in blogging and now I am aware of most of the term in blogging. Now start your expedition to search meaning of your blogging term.

NOTE: You can also suggest your words in comment; I’ll update your words in next edition.

A-

Advertiser- Who advertises on blog.

Atom- Feed which is alternative to RSS.

Audioblog- It is a part of Podcasting and most of the blog posts are voice recording.

Author- Who writes blog.

Autocasting- Another form of audioblog that automatically updates blog post based on voice.

B-

Blawg- A blog for law.

Blog Carnival- A blog post that contains links to other blog post; generally it comes in category of internal linking.

Blog Software- In general, it is blog client to manage blog’s activity like blog post edit, publish, update, etc. For example: WordPress is an open source software for blogging.

Bloggie- A award for bloggers (who writes blog).

Blogroll- A list of blog’s link (generally placed in sidebar) managed by blogger to give link from one blog to other blog.

Blogosphere- Our Blogging community.

Blogware- A client which is used for content management system.

C-

Collaborative Blog- A multi-author blog.

Comment Box- A box which is placed at the end of blog post where readers share their personal views regarding blog post.

Comment Spam- Bogus comments posted by spambots for the sake of advertisements on blogs.

D-

Desktop blog client- Offline blogging software to create, edit design content.

Do-Follow link- Link that search engine counts.

E-

Education Blog- Blog that shares information regarding study, colleges, universities, Exams, Tests, etc.

F-

Feeds- RSS Feed generally used to broadcast your blog post.

Fisking- To prove blog entry is wrong in line by line fashion.

Finance Blog- Blog that shares information on finance (monetory).

Flog- Fake Blog, which is written by a ghost writer.

G-

Google AdSense- It is Pay Per Click plan by Google to monetize your content.

Guest Blogging- Guest blogger writes blog on other blog (host blog) for building links and relationship.

Guest Post- Post created by guest blogger on host blog.

 H-

Health Blog-  Blog that shares information on health and fitness.

Host Blog- Blog that gives invitation to guest bloggers to write guest post.

 I-

Income Report- Bloggers shows chart of their income from blogging.

Indexing- Generally, it is called site indexing that means site added by search engine.

Internet Marketing- Marketing technique which is used to make money online.

 J-

JBlog- A blog on journalism.

 L-

Legal Blog- A blog about law.

LifeBlog- A blog about daily life activity.

LitBlog- A blog about literature.

 M-

MilBlog- A blog managed by military, Army and other defense person.

Mommy Blog- A blog for family and food.

Mob Blog- A blog especially for mobile.

Multi Author Blog- A blog where more than one author write blog post.

 N-

News gallery- A Blog that share news.

News Theme- Theme made by StudioPress, where designing can be done; also it is the interface where visitor interact more.

Niche- It is the Subject of specialization by blogger for writing blogs.

No-Follow links-  Links that search engine do not counts.

 O-

On-Page SEO- It is SEO technique which is used to optimize content.

Off- Page SEO- It is SEO technique which is used to optimize website.

 P-

Permalink- It is unique URL for particular post.

PhotoBlog- A blog that contains photos.

Pingback- A notification generated, when any other blogger writes content similar to your content and you get link from their blog.

Podcast- It is digital form of blog in which blogger post content in the form of video and audio.

Publisher- Who publish advertisement on blog.

 R-

RSS- It stands for Really Simple Syndication, which is used to publish latest updated content.

RSS Feed- Set of files that contains latest posts; generally presented by title of the post.

RSS Reader- Tools which is used to read RSS feeds. It is also called as RSS aggregator.

 S-

SEO- It stands for Search Engine Optimization.

Sitemap- It contains all information of your site at a single place to easily index your site by search engine.

Slug- A portion of URL that represents posts in common language.

Social Media- Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon are social media sites.

Spam Blog- A blog does not have any value and mostly they contain copied content.

Subscribe- It allows readers to receive notifications regarding blog post directly to their email id.

 T-

Template- It is form of theme to make interface between readers of the blog.

Theme- It is also called blog design. It displays all the information of blog. It is based on CSS coding.

TrackBack- It is directly proportional to pingback system that it notifies you if any one writes a post similar to your post.

 U-

Upload- It is referred to keep data in your database.

Update- It is referred to re-publish your published article if you’ve made some changes in it.

Upgrade- It is similar to update. It allows you to update your plugins and themes with new versions.

 V-

VBlog- A blog that share information in the form of video.

 W-

Weblog- Another meaning used for blog.

 X-

XML Sitemap- It is sitemap in .xml format. For example: www.makemenoise.com/sitemap.xml

 Y-

Yoast- It is plugin for WordPress to make your site friendly for search engine.

 Z-

.Zip File- Generally, All plugins and themes comes in .zip folder.