What is a Blog?
It sounds like it should be something nasty or icky doesn’t it?
Despite the rather ugly sound, blogs have become very popular.
So where did the crazy name come from? Back in the early days of the net, some daring pioneers began journaling online. The term ‘web log’ or ‘weblog’ was coined to describe the new journal or diary type website. Somewhere along the way the space was moved and ‘web log’ became ‘we blog’. Whether it was a typo or intentional is unknown – but the change stuck and blogging was born.
In many ways blogs are like having your own editorial column in your own private newspaper. They can be about whatever you want them to be about. Some stick to a narrow topic, some are all over the place.
As a general rule, blogs are update daily with a new ‘post’ (article, editorial) each day. The posts are usually listed in reverse chronological order. Many blogs are now adding categories or tags to give the reader alternative ways to search and display the content.
Search engines are constantly looking for new content to add to their index. Blogs that get updated frequently get revisited and reindexed frequently.
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