As an Administrator, you have the ability to require alt text to
be used for images uploaded into posts across your network.
Alternative (alt) text is descriptive text associated with an image
that will display if the image doesn't load. Including alt text
also allows search engines to 'see' what the image is.
Please note:
Authors can always add alt text to images regardless of the
network setting. Requiring it is turned off by default.
1. Login at www.compendiumblog.com with your...
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It is possible to change your blog domain name but Compendium
does not recommend it.
Changing your domain will have a negative impact on your blog
campaign. It will likely result in the loss of the following:
- Search engine indexing
- Search engine rankings
- RSS subscribers
Please note:
Compendium needs written permission in order to change a blog
URL
As an Author, you have the ability to edit your account settings.
You can modify your name, email address, time zone, password, blog
title, and blog description from the Account page.
1. Login at
www.compendiumblog.com with
your Author credentials
2. In the top navigation bar, click
Account
3. Below are descriptions of each setting displayed on the
Account page:
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Username: The name used
to log in to your account and is often an email
address. Usernames cannot be changed once
they have been...
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As an Author, you have the ability to add images to your posts
using the Compendium text editor.
Please note:
If you are using Internet Explorer, you may be prompted with a
security warning asking "Do you want to view only the webpage
content that was delivered securely?". Be sure to select 'No'
so that you can view the image properties box.
1. Login at www.compendiumblog.com with
your Author credentials
2. Click on the ‘Image’ icon
3. Browse to locate the image on your computer or paste
the...
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As an Author, when you add or edit an image in the Compendium
text editor, a pop-up window will appear with numerous image
property options. These options will allow you to add an
image description, adjust the image size, add image padding, add an
image border, and align the image within your text.
Alternative Text: The image description is a
text field that will assign the alt tag, image title, and hover
text for the image. These descriptions are searched by search
engine crawlers and will...
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As an Author, you can add categories to your image descriptions
using the Compendium text editor. As a best practice, be sure
to not stuff categories into the description and instead only
describe what the image truly represents.
- Login at www.compendiumblog.com with your Author
credentials
- After uploading the image to a post, add a description for the
image and include the applicable keywords
The image description is a text field that will assign the alt tag,
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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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In terms of search, blogs outperform websites due to the following
characteristics:
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Recency and frequency: Content on blogs is new
and fresh, whereas website content tends to be stale and
dated.
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Amount of content: A content heavy
website will interfere with usability, whereas blogs are
content-driven and focused.
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Age: Content and history of content is rarely
taken off a blog, wheras a website content is replaced and old
content is rarely saved.
Ultimately, both blogs and websites should look to...
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Search engines do not penalize or credit you for
punctuation.
Ultimately, a search engine serves a searcher the most relevant
content based on the words used in that specific search
phrase.
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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