Use the Office website > News menu to add news articles or ‘blog pages’ to your website.
A a great way improve the ranking of your website and just good business to add regular news pages to your website.
Topics could be; Local news about your local market, New Agents and or local Industry news more...
TABLE OF CONTENTS
By adding new articles to your website keeps Google indexing coming back to your website
New Article
Click on the New button to add a news article page.
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,
Select either Image file or Document
Use meaningful files names, so that they are easy to find after upload.
Hyperlinks
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
Preview End
This button tells the summary blog/news page to only display up to the preview end
If you do not use the insert preview end button it will automatically stop after the first 250 characters of each news page.
The height of each blog card on your News/Bog summary page is set by the height of the longest blog article. If you have many cards with a lot of blank space this may be due to one news page missing the Preview End.
Place the cursor where you want the Preview to end and then click on the Preview End button
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
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.
The summary blog/news page will display each news page as a card with the first 250 characters of each news page.
Layout 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
List view or Gallery view.
The blog summary page will display each article as a card on the News/blog summary page.
There are two layout options for your blog page, List view or Gallery view.
Display search box
Search your Blog - When you Blog starts to have a lot of article pages turn on the Display search box option so visitors can search across all news articles.
Caption or date label
You can set how the date is displayed on your blog