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Blog
A Blog is a great way to connect with your existing customers, keeping them informed about latest product offerings or educating them, as well as to find new customers.
Adding new blog posts
To manage blog posts go to Content management → Blog
Select tab: Blog posts.
Click Add new and fill the information about a new blog post.
Define new blog post details:
From the Language dropdown list, select the language of this blog post. The Customer will only see blog posts for their selected language
Enter the Title of this blog post
Enter the Body text of this blog post
You can specify the Body overview if you want only part of the whole text to be visible on the main blog page
Enter Tags to be displayed on the Blog page in the public store. The more blog posts are associated with a particular tag, the larger size it has in the Popular Tags area, displayed in the sidebar on the Blog page
Select the Allow comments checkbox, to enable customers to add comments to your blog post
Enter Start and End date for displaying this blog post in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
Note
You can leave these fields empty if you do not want to define blog post start and end dates
- Select the Limited to stores checkbox, to enable defining the stores where the blog post will be available
While editing existing blog or after clicking Save and Continue Edit button for a new one, you can click on Preview button to see how the blog will appear on the site.
Setting up SEO for blog posts
To set up SEO for the blog post go to SEO tab
- Enter Meta keywords to be added to the blog post header
- Enter Meta description to be added to the blog post header
- Override the page title in the Meta title field (the default title is the title of the blog post)
- Define the Search engine friendly page name. For example, enter "the-best-news" to make your URL
http://yourStore.com/the-best-news
. Leave this field empty to generate it automatically based on the title of the blog post.
Managing blog comments
To manage blog comments select Content management → Blog
Select tab: Blog comments.
Here you can delete a blog comment, it will then be removed from the system.