2019 WRITE: BLOG: Use auto-curation on your blogs

Use auto-curation on your blogs

If your blog carries evergreen content, you want to think about curating it.  The best curation requires manual intervention, but auto-curating is always up-to-date.

• About curation
• Are some of your blog posts evergreen (of lasting interest)?
• If so, you want to help people to find them in the future. 
• Blogs stay available indefinitely.  
• Here are some ways you can help your readers find articles in your blog.

• MUVE update 1/17/2019 Murder for dessert, OpenSim Fest, blogs, voice

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General search (SEO)

What terms might people use when looking for info you offer?

• You use keywords to help people find your articles in regular search.
• But regular search covers everything on the internet.
• If you have readers on your blog, you prefer to send them to one of your articles.
• Chrome puts a search bar at the top left of Blogger pages.
• You can use this bar to make a link for searching your blog for a term you choose
• To search this blog for articles about blogging, click here.
• This link is a live search--it will do a search when it is clicked. 
• So it is always up-to-date.

Working with search links

• A live search link looks like this:
• http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/search?q=blog
• If there are multiple terms, the search link looks like this
• http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/search?q=t.+rex
• You can make your own search link from the lines above.
• Replace virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com with your url.
• Replace blog or t.+rex with the search word(s) you want to use.
• Words are separated with plus signs (xxx+yyy+zzz)
• About curation

Make a search link

• Google search for a topic you are covering in your blog.
• Copy the search command from the search (url) bar of your browser.
• Insert it as a link into the term in your blog article.
• This method works in Blogger, with the Chrome browser. 
• I have not tested any other browsers since I don't use them.

Keywords on a Blogger blog

• Blogger lets you put labels on your blog articles.   
• You can use the labels to gather collections of articles with the label you choose.
• You can also use the labels to gather such articles for your readers:
• Articles in this blog about writing
• To see the search instructions, right click on the link and choose "Copy link address."
• Then paste that anywhere convenient. I pasted it below:
• https://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/search/label/WRT
• You can replace WRT with any label on your blog.
• And you must replace my url with the url for your blog at the beginning.

Readers can search the page

• Search the page:  Ctrl+f (type in the search bar, top of the page)