When we mention “tag” in blogging, it refers to a keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (blog posts). In short, it’s a post description in the form of keyboards. It’s just like categorizing or labeling your blog posts.

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Web 2.0, what is it? Now you always see people mention about Web 2.0 but how much do you know about Web 2.0? It is a new trend in the WWW (World Wide Web) technology. The term “2.0″ simple means second generation. It involves web-based community such as social networking / bookmarking sites, wikis, blogs and more.

Blogs! Yes, blogs are also one of the Web 2.0 technologies. That is why I mention Web 2.0 here. Why should you even care? If you are going to become a blogger yourself, this is some basic background knowledge that you have to know. It has its impact in the blogging world which involves issue like SEO. [...more]

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PageRank (PR), is an algorithm implemented by Google. It’s part of SEO, which works towards link analysis. It rates webpages according to the number of inbound and outbound links among websites. A high PageRank indicates a higher position in the search engine results.

There is an algorithm behind this ranking system, defining how a page will be assigned a rate ranging from 0 to 10. For me, I would rather leave the study of that algorithm behind, because by seeing the explanation of the formula, I feel dizzy. [...more]

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Once you learn about blogging, you will come across this term - SEO. Almost every “teach you how to blog website” will talk about this. What is it? It stands for Search Engine Optimization.

What is it all about? Is it that important that a website/blog owner should be aware of it? Well, I can tell you that, there are many things to cover when talk about SEO. It’s a subject to learn by all times. [...more]

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Always hear about “RSS” or “Feed”? Or have you notice the orange button which looks similar to the right appear in most blogs or websites? That is an RSS button.

What is RSS? It stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is a document that contains frequently updated contents of a blog/site. It can be either a summary of a blog post (site updates) or a full text entry from the blog (site). What does this mean? [...more]

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