Your content will be updated on your blog every time you build a page(upload it to your site). This means that every time you build a page(upload the page to your site)with an article you can have the title and the first few sentences of the article under it. Right below the preview of the beginning of the articles is a place to click to see the full article.
Using the blog that comes with your SBI site helps with time management because you can add content to your site as well as add to your blog. Another benefit is once you get 30 or so articles on your site you can go to your older article pages and upload them to your site again causing those articles to show as new content at the top of your blog. If you go to settings and click on 5 or 10 pages the old articles will not be on your blog anyway. Once enough new content is uploaded you can upload the old articles again because they will not be at the bottom anymore.
Setting up RSS/Blog It! is as simple as answering a few questions and inserting a few "bloglets."
Do you want to Site-Blog? Question #1 -- How many Web pages (items) do you want your blog page to list
Your RSS file automatically includes your last 50 pages (if you have that many) to maximize reasonable exposure to the Search Engines. What about the humans?...When folks subscribe to the RSS feed, they see the number of pages they want to see, since they set the number of items in their RSS readers. But you set the number of items to show on your site blog page.Set this to a reasonable number, based upon how many pages you have on your site, and how often you update your pages.
For example, if your site has 20 pages and you update or create new content only periodically, set your listing to about 5.Set to the higher range if your site is large and you build/edit at least 3-4 pages per week. Be realistic with this setting.Keep your human visitors in mind with this setting. They do not want to see dozens of listings on your blog -- info overload! A smaller number of select items (10 and under) will very likely increase the likelihood that they will investigate your blog.
Your basic choice boils down to....
1) User Focus -- Show a small number of items (5-10), for maximum human attention.--OR--(2) Search Engine Possibility -- List 30 pages. This might increase the number of pages that get spidered and listed when engines visit the actual blog page. Experience has shown that the engines love SBIers' Blog It! pages, often spidering them within hours or a day.It's your choice.
Question #2 -- Do you want to add the date to each item?
(Note: An "item" = Web page in your RSS file and on the site blog.)If you choose "Yes," the date will be added to the subject of each of your items. So a subscriber to your feed will see the Title and Description of each item, along with the date it was created or modified (for example, "Sept 29, Best Anguilla Hotels"). This is a good choice if you update or create new content on a regular basis.Also, your blog page will be formatted to show the full date of each item (ex., "September 29, 2005").If you're only updating your site occasionally, leave this box unchecked. The last thing you want your RSS subscribers to know is that your material is dated or not updated
Question #3 -- Do you want to Site-Blog?
If you do not want to offer a Site Blog, uncheck the check box. Clicking RSS/Blog It! will still publish and ping an RSS feed, effectively distributing your site via RSS to those who want to subscribe to it. However, no blog will appear on your site.If you choose "Yes" (in most cases, you should), SBI! converts the RSS file into a blog. This Web page will be a Tier 2 Web page that appears as a button on your NavBar (unless you leave the NavBar button name blank) and as a text link at the bottom of your home page (i.e., a typical TIER 2 page). Tip: Do you have a "Blog" button on your site's NavBar? If you think that your audience might not be familiar with that term, change the button's name to "What's New" or "News."
When you create your blog page, you'll note that each item in the blog is followed by a link to the full Web page or bloglet destination. This link is called a "Permalink." We include that blog-specific terminology (short for "Permanent Link") because Search Engines likely look for that word as a "hook" to help them understand that this is a blog.
If you put a check in the checkbox to Site-Blog, the page expands to show several more fields. If you're using SiteBuilder, complete those fields to set up your site blog. At the top of that Site Blog Web Page section is the full URL for your site blog page.
If you're uploading your own HTML, you'll enter your own Title, Headline, META tags, Autodiscovery tags, and introductory text into the page that you create in your HTML editor. Then you'll add the ***SITE-BLOG*** tag where you want your site-blog to begin.
NavBar RSS Buttons
You can display up to four buttons to help people subscribe to your RSS feed. This section allows you to choose the color of the background the buttons sit on, their location and action, and how many buttons you want to display. For example:
- Choose the background color.
- Choose which pages to put the RSS/XML button on.
- Decide on the location above or below your NavBar.
- Choose the button action when clicked.
- Include an Add to My Yahoo! button by adding a check.
- Include an Add to My MSN button by adding a check.
- Include an Add to Google button by adding a check.
You have plenty of flexibility concerning how you want the layout of your subscription buttons.You control which pages they go on and a great deal more. This is just another of the many ways an SBI site lets you build your own site without getting so bogged down that you don't have enough time to create fresh content, promote you site, develop and/or create a product or preform a service.
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