The term “Blog” is short for “Web Blog”. A blog is an online journal or diary. You can write what you like in your blog, including, thoughts, feelings, Peotry, songs, opinions, updates about your business, or music. A blog can hold Text, Images, and Videos. A Blog is very quick and easy to update, and if written well will attract regular visitors to your website.
A blog is a great way to easily build a lot of content to your website without having any technical knowledge at all. There are many blog programs available to install to your website, including, WordPress, SmartBlog, and many more.
The term “Blac Hat” is a term that is given to an SEO technique that is not ethical to the major search engines guidlines. Black Hat SEO techniques will often see a website perfoming better than they should for a short period of time, until the search engines realise that Black Hat techniques are being used.
A site that is using Black Hat techniques is usually penalised, and sometimes banned by the major search engines when found out or reported.
“Below the fold” is a term that is refered to content or a web site that can be seen at the bottom of a web page (so you have to scroll down the web page to be able to see it).
Backlinks is the terms for links that are pointing to one website from another.
Using backlinks is one of the major factors of search engine optimisation. There are many different ways to increase the backlinks to your websites. Some tips on building backlinks can be found here Backlink Building Tips.
An Alt Tag or Alt Text is used to describe a picture or image that has been put on a web page. This is normally used for SEO purposes so that a search engine knows what the relevance of the image or web page is to.
Alt Tags are a low priority in search engine optimisation, however, still a worthwhile technique to implement. Be sure not to stuff the Alt Tags with your keywords as this can see you penalised with certain search engines.
Anchor text is the text that is placed on a link. For Example (SEO UK) is the anchor text of the following link – SEO UK
Anchor text tells the search engines what the site that the link is pointing to relates to. For example Secured Loans is related to Secured Loans.
