For some time now, we have filled ourselves with terms in English that have become indispensable from day to day. This is even more accentuated if we have a blog. Online marketing is riddled with Anglicisms. It is easy that if you are new, you find yourself surrounded by words that do not sound like English, but Chinese.
Do not despair, because that feeling of not understanding anything is universal for everyone when we enter the blogosphere. The normal thing is that with the use these expressions are incorporated into our vocabulary in the most natural way.
Do you want to lose your fear and start as a blogger? Put an end to your digital gaps and learn essential blogging vocabulary. Surely with this first impulse you get hooked on this world so sacrificed, but at the same time so exciting.
Obviously they are not all who are (far from it). We can always go on doing a series together to learn from.
Essential blogging vocabulary
Influencer
He has been baptized with this word of English root who will be considered as one of the ambassadors of the brand, that is, neither more nor less than an influential person. They are those bloggers or social media prophets whose words and opinions move the foundations of the digital universe, thereby breaking through all other barriers.
Its strong point lies in a charisma, wisdom or a kind of star, capable of generating conversation around a topic or brand, achieving a feeling that translates into numbers, followers and great interaction. Every blogger's dream, wow.
Engagement
If we want to know what engagement is, we have to see it as the end of the creative. It is a kind of attraction that moves the passions of users, achieving that interest is translated into comments, likes or acquiring the product that is offered to them.
And to achieve that seduction or engagement, you have to work making a lot of noise with social networks, creating interests through contests or prizes that encourage participation and especially the contribution of interesting and illustrative content.
Domain
Delving into the more technical aspects that concern our blog, we will have to be very clear that the domain, after the basic idea that originates everything, will be the second most important. It is the name that will identify our online space and will make us known worldwide (always positive) in the digital environment.
What can generally mislead us into an almost incorrigible problem is the confusion between the terms "domain" and "hosting". It's a classic among classics that causes despair among long-suffering technical support staff.
When you buy the domain, you only get the name (which is not little), while the hosting is the blog's hosting service, that is, a kind of online storage room where we will store information from the site, email accounts to databases among many other junk.
Post
Without complying with the strict rules of translation they have sold us the word "post" like the entries we make in blogs. We are facing a meaning that is far from what mail, letters, mailboxes or deliveries would originally be, but being so extremely spreading it is a difficult battle to face.
Theirs is to assume that this is so without asking for more explanation and dedicate ourselves to publishing a new post complying with the established calendar, that is quite a feat!
Footer
Or what is the same, the feet. An unglamorous translated meaning that explains why Shakespeare's language is used without discussion to determine the area under everything on our blog.
It is a space dedicated to adding aspects such as social networks or different forms of contact as a reminder, although it is not the point par excellence of better visibility.
Slides or slider
The slide, as its translation indicates, through which the images slide. They are all those graphic representations that usually appear on the home page at the top as a presentation or carousel with the most characteristic that we are going to find on the blog. Your pass can be made automatic or assisted by clicking the mouse.
Template
It is the showcase to which we will load content and applications, achieving with its structure and the creative contribution of each one the personal touch that will shape our blog. It's the code or a very cool way of defining what is just a template.
Viral
Surely on some occasion you have been overwhelmed because everyone was talking about a video that you had missed. That content that is all the rage among Internet users, that even involves anxiety to those who do not know it and that spreads like the most lethal virus on social networks is what is called viral content.
It can be a video of the most sympathetic babies, cats moving in rhythm or any political slip. Everything has a place and can be susceptible to being viral, although it has to be accompanied by a very specific context.
Likeshunter
Maybe because of this word you don't really know the meaning of a very common term in blogs. That hunter to the obsession of "likes". His life goes on his list of followers and he will not hesitate to harass you until you have shared his post. It is a unique kind of tiring in the age of the digital age.
Have you been wanting more? I assure you that it is only the beginning because there are countless words to study. Let's keep collecting, this promises much more.