Manual categories allow Authors and Administrators to easily bucket
content into specific categories. They are typically more generic,
overarching terms that you want to use in organizing your network's
blog content.
Example: If
you want a "Current Events" category, you can add a "Current
Events" manual category and select relevant posts to appear on that
blog page.
Manual categories differ from Compendium's standard automatic
categories. Relevant content automatically compends to the
appropriate...
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A 301 redirect occurs when a author types in an address to a
website and is automatically redirected to another. This redirect
happens server-side and is seamless to the end user. The 301 status
code indicates that the web page has permanently moved to another
place. The purpose of a 301 redirect is to ensure that authors get
to the proper webpage even if there was a typo in the address bar
or a permanent change in the location they are trying to
access.
A web page may be redirected for several...
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A CNAME, short for Canonical Name, record is an entry in the Domain
Name System (DNS) that specifies where a author can find your web
pages, or any other URL. You'll use this to associate your custom
domain with your blog. A CNAME specifies that the domain name
is an alias of another canonical domain name. With a CNAME record,
multiple domain names to be pointed to another domain which can be
managed over a single or in Compendium's case, several
IP addresses/DNS servers.
If you want more...
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Page Rank is a linking algorithm
used by Google to measure importance of a web page relative to all
other web pages in the network.
The numerical rank
value indicates the importance of a particular page. A hyperlink to
a page counts as a vote of support, with the strength of the 'vote'
depending on the other page's Page Rank. A page that is linked to
by many pages with high Page Rank receives a high rank itself. If
there are no links to a web page, there is no support for that page
and it is...
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Search engine
indexing collects, parses, and
stores data to facilitate fast and accurate information
retrieval. An alternate name for the process in the context
of search engines designed to find web pages on the Internet is Web
indexing.
Popular engines focus on the full-text indexing of online, natural
language documents. Media types such as video and audio and
graphics are also searchable.
The purpose of storing an index is to optimize speed and
performance in finding relevant documents for...
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A blog, also known as a "web log," is a website where entries are
commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.
"Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning 'to maintain
or add content to a blog.'
Blogs can be private, or used to enhance the communication and
culture for marketing, branding, and public relations for your
business. The latter type of blog is also referred to as a
"corporate blog."
A blog post or blog entries are the individual content entries that
make up the blog. A typical...
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Compendium is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. SaaS
is software that is deployed over the internet and hosted by a
vendor or service provider; Compendium is the provider that
licenses the application to its customers. It is made
available to customers who have an internet connection, as well as
a username and password associated with the application that allows
them to log in. Software as a Service is also referred to as
an "on-demand service."
Because Compendium is a Software as a...
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The uber blog, also known as the main company blog, is typically
the start page for a blog network. The uber blog is not
focused on a specific Author, but instead, all contributors of the
network. It displays all posts created in the network and
approved by the Administrator with the exception of Author's
sticky posts.
Please Note: While the uber blog is the main
company blog, its title can be specified during the New Client
Set-Up Process. For SEO purposes, it is a Compendium
best practice...
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As an Author, you have the ability to create a sticky post to
appear at the top of your individual Author blog.
Sticky posts typically share information about the author with
readers or it can provide readers with the purpose of the company
blog. Specific content of a sticky post should be discussed with
your Administrator. Authors usually set up sticky posts during the
initial setup of their account.
Sticky posts do
not appear on the uber blog, or
main company blog, because the uber blog is...
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the
visibility, volume, and quality of search traffic to a website or
blog through organic results. Organic search or natural
search is the result in a search engine that is not a paid
advertisement. The results that come up naturally are based on
their *indexing within a search engine. Organic search
results are beneficial to your company, and you should strive for
high rankings in organic searches using optimized category
phrases....
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