Creating blog articles

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This article will demonstrate how to write blog articles and publish them to your website.  Blog articles are a way of connecting you to the relevant audience online. Search engines are always looking at your website to see if the content is being updated, so it's a good opportunity to show what your business is about, engage your customers, and improve your search engine rankings! 

Writing a blog article

Steps

  1. Navigate to Setup > Website Content > Blog & Articles

  2. Click Add New Article button

  3. Complete the following fields:

    1. Set a Title

    2. Set a Page Url (no spaces). This is the unique URL for the blog article.

      1. If this is updated after it’s been published, it will prompt you to add a permanent redirect (or you can also add 301 and 302 redirects from Setup > Domain > Url Redirects).

    3. Set Status to Draft or Publish when ready to be publicly displayed

    4. Under Category, select Change link to set a category

    5. Under Author, select Change link to change the author

    6. Add and edit article content in the Content text area using the built-in editor

  4. Click Save

Tip for editing articles

You can click the 4 diagonal arrow icon in the text editor to open the drag n drop editor. This will give you special text and image blocks you can drag onto the page

Tip for article writing

Remember to drop in a few keywords like your location or service into your blog posts



Displaying your blog on your website

Blog articles are not located on your website menu by default, so you must enable this page in the website header.

Steps

  1. Navigate to Setup > System Settings > Business Detail 

  2. Select the Pages tab

  3. Under Client Web Pagescheck Articles

  4. Customize the name of your articles tab (e.g. blog) by selecting from the dropdown list (optional)

  5. Click Save All


Article menu heading not appearing

Please note if you've enabled the above setting but it's not showing up in the title heading menu, ensure that you have at least 1 article that is set to published.