Enhance your blog posts with Zemanta
The way your write and the way your post looks like adds attraction to your readers to stick to your blog. There are many ways that you can enhance your blog posts.
1. Pictures. Adding pictures relevant to or descriptive of your blog post is one of the proven ways to attract readers, make them stay and read your posts further.
There are several options you have to add images to your posts. You can either manually search for photos then post the image to your blog (what you call hot linking) or upload it directly to your website; add your hosted images from image-hosting websites like Photobucket, ImagesHack, and the like; and use an amazing plugin for WordPress users called Photodropper.
2. Relevant links. Adding relevant links will serve as reference or source of your posts. This adds credibility to you as a writer. Furthermore, you build camaraderie among your fellow bloggers for giving them link love.
3. Articles. Similar with giving relevant links, citing articles serve as a reference for your post.
4. Tags. A tag is a keyword used to describe the topic of a blog post. This serves importance in search engine optimization, categorization of posts, and on pinging Technorati, Google Search, Pingshot, and similar sites.
For you to integrate these “enhancers” to your posts, you have to be resourceful. Good thing that a new web 2.0 startup was created to make it easier for bloggers to add relevant links, articles, pictures and tags to their posts.
About Zemanta:
Zemanta is building a platform for assisted on-line content production for any web user. Our solution is best demonstrated by taking a text (a blog, an article or a web page) and feeding it into our system. The system recognizes the content and returns suggested images, smart links, keywords and relevant related stories from the Internet. It can be referenced from a user’s preferred content publishing platform through a simple plug-in.
You can try a demo from their page on how the service works. Basically you only have to download a browser plugin (currently available for Firefox browser only).
Zemanta works on WordPress.com, Blogger, Typepad and on self-hosted WordPress blogs. It seamlessly work on the new WordPress 2.5 version.
So get your blogs Zemified now!
Thanks for reviewing us and also for trying us out. If there are any suggestions or wishes, please tell them to us at getsatisfaction.com/zemanta or just drop me a mail at – jure@zemanta.com
Jure Cuhalev, Zemanta
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this is neat. But are those “related articles” purely from zemanta? What about the related posts from your own blog?
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Related posts from your own blog are not yet part of our index. We’ll add you to our index as our user, so you’ll start seeing them.
In the future it’s going to be more automated and you’ll also have ability to limit related articles to your own blog(s).
Jure Cuhalev’s last blog post..Black / Dark Google for Earth Hour
Wow! That’s good news.