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Tag Archives: curation

Favorite Feature #11: Adding Related Links Pointing to Another Site

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Ryan Singel

The middle of the month deserves a sneaky feature, so here it goes: Here’s how you can add a second site to your curation search and have Contextly think it’s your default site. Let me explain: say you wanted to … Continue reading →

Posted in Favorite Feature, HowTo, Innovation, Wordpress | Tagged curation, NaBloPoMo, related links

Favorite Feature #5: Creating a Curated In-Story Sidebar

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Ryan Singel

We love sidebars in stories. So much so that we have both automatic and curated ones. Here’s how to choose the stories to add to a sidebar that lives in the body of a story. Continue reading →

Posted in Favorite Feature, HowTo | Tagged curation, engagement, favorite feature, NaBloPoMo, sidebars

Favorite Feature #3: Choosing Related Posts, Made Simple

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Ryan Singel

Contextly doesn’t require writers to choose related posts, but for those times when they do want to, we made curating related links wickedly simple. Continue reading →

Posted in Favorite Feature, HowTo | Tagged curation, favorite feature, NaBloPoMo, related links, related posts, wordpress

Favorite Feature #2: Linking Out to The Web, Made Easy

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Ryan Singel

Linking out to other sites shouldn’t be hard, so we made it simple in one of Contextly’s earliest features. Continue reading →

Posted in Favorite Feature, HowTo | Tagged blogging tools, curation, links, NaBloPoMo, seo

Favorite Feature #1: Linking to A Previous Story

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Ryan Singel

Adding a link to your previous content should be easy. That was one of Contextly’s first features and remains a favorite. Continue reading →

Posted in Favorite Feature | Tagged curation, link, NaBloPoMo, related content, related links, seo

In Defense of Categories and Tags

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Ryan Singel

When I was at Wired, I dutifully added tags and categories to stories I wrote and edited, but I was never sure I ever understood why we all bothered, other than that’s what one was supposed to do. It just … Continue reading →

Posted in Innovation, Metadata | Tagged categories, content recommendations, curation, metadata, tags

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