Use the Office website > News menu to add news articles or ‘blog pages’ to your website. 

Keep adding regular news articles to your website. Regular content is important for keeping your site visible to Google and AI-driven search engines.


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By adding new articles to your website keeps Google indexing coming back to your website 


News Article 

Click on the + Add New Blog button to add an article page to your website. 

Page Name

Give your page a meaningful name, note this name is not displayed on the website. 

You cannot use special characters for your page name. 


Page Title

The is the heading for your article page

Date

The date is the date that you want the article to be displayed. 

Your News article pages are displayed in Date order.


To change the order of your blog pages just change the article Date

Editing your page 


Use the Format drop down for headings - heading 1 for the title on the page , heading 2 for sub titles

Plain text 

Always use Paste as plain Text, if in doubt select your text and then click on the Clean formatting button. 


Images & Documents

It looks good to begin your News page with an image. Inserting images can be a hassle! It is a two step process, 

1. Click on the Upload button to upload the file to your website

Select either Image file or Document


2. Insert - Click Picture button to 
Enter some of the file name in the Search box press enter then select your image.

Use meaningful files names, so that they are easy to find after upload.



Use the hyperlink button to link to another page or location in your file

Use your mouse to highlight your text and then click on the insert hyperlink button


Written by

This option will display the author of the article. Select ‘blank’ if you do not want to attribute an author to the article.


Publish your page

Your page will not be visible until you make your Active page YES

To remove a news article set Active page to NO 

View your News page

Click on the eye link to view your news article.

SEO

Open your News article and select the SEO tab to add your SEO tags.

Page tile, Description and key words

Pages with SEO added will show with a tick in the SEO column on the News grid.

News on your website

Showing on your home page

If you’re publishing regular News posts, be sure to enable the option to display them on your homepage. Once selected, your three most recent articles will appear automatically.

Adding a News page to your website 

You should already have a News page enabled on your website. If not, please contact support to have it activated, or follow the instructions below.

To show your News articles on your OSL website add the template page News/Blog summary to your website.

The News/Blog template page displays a preview of your news article page.

News options

You have two layout options for your News pages These settings are maintained on the website Details tab in your website settings. That means you need to log into your website settings to make these changes.

Login into your website and on the Settings tab scroll down to the Blog News settings panel

  • Caption or date label - You can set how the date is displayed on your blog