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Blog: The Definition

The term blog is a blend of the terms web and log, leading to web log, weblog, and finally blog. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called blogging. Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries". A person who posts these entries is called a blogger.

A blog entry typically consists of the following:

Title - main title, or headline, of the post.
Body - main content of the post.
Permalink - the URL of the full, individual article.
Post Date - date and time the post was published.
A blog entry optionally includes the following:

Comments - comments added by readers
Categories (or tags) - subjects that the entry discusses
Trackback and or pingback - links to other sites that refer to the entry
Alongside the regularly updated entries, a blog site often has a less-frequently-updated list of links, or blogroll, of other blogs that the author reads; and/or, with whom he or she affiliates.

It is common for blogs to contain advertising in the form of AdWords. Popular blogs can generate significant revenue by this means, and also via banner ads and referral fees for promotion of items on commercial websites

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