Questions about Blog Terminology

Every day I’m faced with questions about blog terminology, so today I’m going to give it my best shot to answer some of the more common ones:

Q. I have seen the term “pingback” show up on my WordPress dashboard and in my comments section on my blog.  What exactly is a pingback?

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A. Basically a Pingback notifies the original author of an article that you linked to in your blog.  If the links you include in an article you write on a blog lead to a blog which is “pingback-enabled”, then the au

thor of that blog gets a notification in the form of a pingback that you linked to his article. (more…)

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How FAQ Pages Could Boost Your Ratings

I recently came across this great article about FAQ pages and how they can actually boost your ratings on Google and other search engines.

faqFAQ Pages Could Boost Your Google Rankings

By Chris Crum – Fri, 03/13/2009 – 08:00

Catering to Intent-based Search the Key
In a recent report, Hitwise said that the length of search queries has increased over the past year. Longer search queries, averaging searches of 5+ words in length, have increased 10% from January ’08 to January ’09 they noted.

Ask has an interesting blog post up interpreting this data, and the gist of it is summed up with this paragraph from it: (more…)

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