Many would-be bloggers are put off from entering the field because they feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of blogging words they’d need to learn.
I was conversing with a potential blogger on Facebook, and he told me that he hadn’t begun blogging yet even though he could do so for free using Blogspot because “there are too many terminology in blogging that he didn’t understand.”
To be honest, I wasn’t too surprised, but what has surprised me recently is that this particular guy hasn’t begun blogging; hence, it inspired me to write this piece for people like that; other aspiring bloggers.
I’ve compiled a glossary of blogging terminology and their definitions below; please read it well before proceeding.
List of Important Blogging Terms For Beginners
- Backlinks
- Blogging
- Crawlers
- Content Management System (CMS)
- Control Panel (C-Panel)
- Do-Follow Backlink
- Domain Name Server (DNS)
- Domain Authority (DA)
- Domain Ranking (DR)
- Domain Extension
- Downtime
- External Link
- Inbound Link
- Internal Link
- Keyword
- Keyword Difficulty (KD)
- Keyword Research
- NameServers
- No-Follow Backlink
- Paid Difficulty (PD)
- Ranking
- Search Engine
- SEO Difficulty (SD)
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Search Volume
- Traffic
- Outbound Link
- Outrank
- Plugins
- Search Difficulty (SD)
- SSL Certificate
- Themes
- Unique Article
Now, let’s look at the meaning of those blogging terms and how they help in improving a website or blog
Important Blogging Terms and Their Meaning
1. Backlinks
These are linking or referring links from one website to another or one webpage to another.
When a page or post on a website links to another page or post on another website, it is said to be an external link.
When a page or post on a website links to another page or post on the same website, it is said to be an internal link.
This is possible even on a single website; backlinks are thought to play a role in a website’s rating, and it is generally assumed that a website with much more links from other sites would be placed higher in search results.
There are two types of backlinks, a “do-follow” link or a “no-follow” link. Backlinks are discussed further here.
2. Content Management System (CMS)
Hosted blog owners can create and administer their site with no prior knowledge of HTML or CSS by using this program.
WordPress, one of the most widely used content management systems, is a good illustration of this.
3. C-Panel (Control Panel)
This software is used to administer a web-hosted blog, and it provides a graphical user interface (GUI) as well as automated tools.
4. Downtime
This occurs when a blog’s web server or host is unavailable. During a blog’s downtime, visitors cannot visit the blog or read its contents, and neither can crawlers.
This has an adverse effect on the website’s ranking, traffic, and other metrics.
5. Keyword
Keyword is the main and primary focus of a blog post for example, if you are writing on ‘how to install plugins in WordPress’ or ’10 methods of installing plugins on a WordPress blog” your keyword can be “how to install plugins in WordPress” (a short tail keyword) or “installing plugins in WordPress” (a long tail keyword).
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6. Keyword Difficulty (KD)
The difficulty of a keyword indicates how challenging it is to find using various search parameters.
Tools like UbberSuggest, Semrush, MOZ and Ahref can be used to learn how challenging a certain keyword is.
7. Rank
In search engine results, “rank” refers to where a particular webpage or blog post appears.
For the term “how to start blogging on blogger,” for instance, the first result (post) that appears on the first page of Google is considered to have “rank #1” (First).
8. Search Engine Optimization
“SEO” stands for “Search Engine Optimization” and is frequently used in blog postings.
It is a method for increasing your blog’s traffic from organic search results on websites like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and others.
9. SEO Difficulty (SD)
This shows or denote how hard it is to rank using a specific keyword, it could be gotten from websites like UbberSuggest or Semrush.
10. Traffic
This is what matters most, it indicates how many people read, click, or otherwise engage with your blog posts and pages.
If one hundred visitors visit your blog on a given day, that is one hundred hits. The two most common sources of website visits are organic (through search engines like Google) and inorganic (From external sources like Facebook, Referral, Direct, WhatsApp etc).
11. Unique Articles
A unique article is an article that has special contents which stand out and cannot be found elsewhere on the internet or other blogs or sites.
If you want to make sure your piece is truly original, you can use a free SEO checker or plagiarism tool to see how similar it is to other articles on the web.
