A clear view of WWW-290 course

A clear view of WWW-290 course:
The term "blog" is a blend of the words web and log."Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Blogging:
First of all I became familiar with blog in this course it is not a scary animal anymore,It is full of fun and source of useful information. Blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order with chunk of text, images, links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Leaving comments by readers makes the blog more interactive.

Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs(photo blog), videos(vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media. Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software, Many blog hosts are free (off course not fully featured) like "Blogger and Word Press" that made setting up a blog more easier. If you sign up with a blog host, you can create your post using the simple tools built into the host website without any technical knowledge, from any computer and internet connection. Also possible to update a blog via a regular phone, from a PDA, camera phone(case of a moblog).

"For WWW-290 course we mostly used Blogger.com for creating blog and "Feedburner.com"for creating Podcast". With new features being added all the time, Blogger is highly recommended for first-timers. By default, all Blogger blogs are hosted on "blogspot.com" Google allowed Blogger to incorporate compatibility with the photo-sharing utility Hello which lets you quickly post photos to your blog- and also manage and search through the photos on your computer. It is useful for "photo blogs".

(RSS) Really Simple Syndication (previously also called Rich Site Summary and RDF Site Summary) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcast. Users of RSS content use software programs called "feed reader" or "feed aggregators".The user subscribes to a feed by entering a link of the feed into the reader program. The reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of
those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user. RSS formats are specified in XML. Also To view feeds you can sign up with a Web-based aggregator such as Bloglines or Google Reader. All you do is that create an account, log in, choose which feeds you'd like to keep track of, and the website will create a customized page for you, displaying the relevant headlines. With Bloglines you don't have to deal with any software.

There are many types of blog, and in the way content is delivered or written each are different. Some blog focus on a particular such as project blogs, political blogs fashion blogs, travel blog
blawgs(leagal), splog(spamming), Slog(website) etc. Few blog search engines are used to search blog contents(blogosphere),such as Feedster, Technorati and blogdigger. A blogroll is a collection of links to other weblogs When present, blogrolls are often found on the front page sidebar of most weblogs. Various weblog authors have different criteria for including other weblogs on their blogrolls. An entry in a blog with many entries is accessible from the site's front page for only a short time. Visitors who store the URL for a particular entry often find upon their return that the desired content has been replaced by something new but if you use Permalink it will stay for permanent. After all blog is, open to the public to view and respond to So one unfortunate consequence of blogging is the possibility of attacks or threats against the blogger.

Also used Google Analytics (GA) which is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website or a blog. Its main highlight is that a webmaster can optimize their AdWords advertisement and marketing campaigns through the use of GA's analysis of where the visitors came from, how long they stayed on the blog or website and their geographical position.Most important thing is that, a webmaster can define and track conversions, or goals. Goals might include lead generation,sales, viewing a specific page, or
downloading a particular file. By using this tool, marketers can determine which ads are performing, and which are not, as well as find unexpected sources of quality visitors.

From pop-ups to banners,advertising is everywhere on the web,So we used free "Google AdSense" which is a service that provides unobtrusive advertising on your site based on the contents of each page. AdSense also provides a Google search box for your visitors,and each time it's used in combination with a follow-up click on an ad in the results you get paid.

For increasing traffic to the blog you can manually submit your blog address to the bigger search engine like www.Google.com/addurl.html

I think it is becoming too brief about blogging now so I should end here. Only thing I can say more is that keep on reading different blogs from Google reader and improve writing skills more.Learning never end.