Written by Jeffro On January 30, 2008 | Category Of Post (Blogging, Cool Stuff) | 341 views |

LifeOfABlogPost

The folks over at Wired.com sure know how to come up with interesting InfoGraphics which turn complicated datasets into beautiful visual aids. This is no exception. Wired.com has put together a nifty InfoGraphic of how a blog post travels the interweb. The graphic starts off with a post being written and then published on a blog. The blogging service then pings servers letting the search engines know you have provided new content to crawl. Next, your post is crawled by search engines, data miners and the obligatory text scrapers. Then, the post content makes it’s way towards ad servers that serve ads based on the keywords that are found within the post.

Aggregators then take your blog post and send it out to human reader. Once your post is out on the web, social bookmarking takes over. At this point, people who find your blog post may comment or write their own post about the first post and the entire process starts over again.

The blogosphere explained in an elegant fashion. Does anyone know if Wired sells posters of their infographics?




2 Comments posted on "Secret Life Of A Blog Post"
Keith on January 30th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

So… my question is… What about blog comments? :)

Jeffro on January 30th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
@Keith Well, I’d say there would be an arrow pointing from the readers, to the blog post. But then, what if the comment is on a blog that references the first blog post. Hmm, the more I think about it, the more my head fills up with arrows and lines :P

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