A blog, short for weblog, is a website or section of a site made up of individual posts, usually displayed with the newest first. Posts often allow comments and are organized with categories and tags.
Why it matters
Blogs give people and companies a place to publish regularly without a newsroom. For businesses, a blog supports search visibility by answering questions people search for, and it builds an archive of useful pages. Technically, a blog is usually run on a content management system, which stores posts in a database and assembles pages from templates, and many blogs also offer an RSS feed.
Example
A company site has the structure:
example.com/blog/ (list of posts)
example.com/blog/uptime-tips (single post)
example.com/blog/feed (RSS feed)Each post has its own permanent URL, a publish date, an author and categories, while the list page shows summaries.
Common mistakes
- Publishing posts with no clear audience or purpose, which rarely rank or get read.
- Changing post URLs later without redirects, which breaks links and loses search ranking.
- Leaving comments unmoderated, which invites spam.
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