Blog It! Web Page

Blog It! Tier 2 Web Page

The Blog It! Tier 2 Web Page information section appeared because you clicked Yes for the question "Do you want a Blog It! page?"

Blog It! Tier 2 Web Page Details

Complete these five sections to build your Blog It! page.

Directions for Use

Name the NavBar button/navigation menu item for the page.
Name Your Site Blog.
Enter the Description of your Site Blog. 200 characters maximum; 150 is better.
Enter the Introductory Text.

Name the NavBar Button/Navigation Menu Item

Enter a name for the button (or horizontal navigation menu item). Keep it short -- enter a single word if possible.

Remember that this is a button or menu item! Click on the Preview NavBar Button button to make sure it looks OK.

Solo Build It! adds the button to your navigation about 15-30 minutes after you click on the RSS/Blog It! button at the bottom of the page.

If you want to then move the button in the navigation order, click on the Site Navigation button in Site Central and re-order the navigation.

For horizontal navigation, the menu item will appear at the beginning of the menu (the left).

If you don't name the button/menu item, it will not appear on the NavBar or the navigation menu.

Important

Button-naming applies only to SiteBuilder-built pages that include a NavBar or horizontal menu tag, and to HTML editor-built pages that contain the ***NAVBAR*** tag.

Name Your Blog It! Page

What do you want to call your Blog It! page? Make the name consistent with how you're positioning it. Understand the nature of your visitor/reader and the purpose of the page. What is it ultimately supposed to achieve?

Different feeds, different reasons, different benefits for the user of your information. It's important to find a great position/purpose for your Blog It! page, and then name it accordingly.

SBI! will use this entry to form the Title and Headline of your Blog It! page, include your Site Concept Keyword (the Specific Keyword of your site's home page) as part or all of the name of this page.

For example, the Site Concept Keyword for anguilla-beaches.com is "Anguilla." So here's a good, simple name for the Blog It! page...

"Anguilla Updates"

Click here for more information about positioning your Blog It! page to maximize its potential.

Enter the Description of Your Blog It! Page

Enter your Description of this page. Limit it to 200 characters maximum; 150 characters is better.

This Description does not appear on your web page. But your human readers will see it in the listings on search results for the Specific Keyword of this page.

Since Blog It! uses this entry to form the Meta description tag of your blog page, include your Site Concept Keyword (the Specific Keyword of your site's home page) within the description.

For example, the Site Concept Keyword for anguilla-beaches.com is "Anguilla." So here's a good description...

Anguilla Updates keeps you up-to-date with all additions and changes to the anguilla-beaches.com website. Subscribe here.

Tips

RSS Feed Validation: If you enter weird characters into your Description (the most likely spot for this to happen) or Title, it's possible to "break" an XML feed. It has nothing to do with us, that's just the way it is.

One common example is replacing "and" with "&". Some RSS readers can't read this as a text character, so they can't access your feed. Avoid this problem by spelling words instead of using symbols.

If Blog It! finds a special character in the Description, it simply deletes the offending character (from the .xml file, not from the web page), and then proceeds to build your file. It doesn't happen often, and it would appear as a minor typo.

To avoid this, stick to the standard alphanumeric characters (0-9, A-Z, a-z, dashes, etc.). Check your first few feed updates to be sure.
Don't worry too much about getting the Specific Keyword for this page spot-on.

If you click on the small Analyze It! button in the Keyword Ranking Report section of Search Engine HQ, interpret the results in the light of the instructions here. So...

Don't worry about notices that "you did not use a Headline Block" or "Text Block." You skipped those steps when using Blog It!. You have planted the right Specific Keyword in the right places and you do not need a perfect Analyze It! report.

Enter the Introductory Text

Enter text into this box. It should...

introduce your the page in an appealing way
position the content (see Name Your Site Blog, above)
explain how your subscribers will benefit by subscribing to your RSS feed
include a note explaining that they should click on "that orange button" to subscribe to your RSS feed
close by leading into "the items below."

Blog It! uses this entry to form the introductory text at the top of your page, which leads into the actual items on the page.

So include your Site Concept Keyword (the Specific Keyword of your site's home page) within your Introductory text, in the same way as explained above for Blog Name and Description.