Kick-start Publishing On Your Business Website With A Robust Article Manager Software Solution
Content build up and ability to manage it is one of the key advantages of any good social software platform for a business website and that content comes in the form of everything from discussions, notice boards, comments and scores of other media. One of the earliest of these which is still as popular and relevant to business websites today is the articles section. Some use them in the form of a press section, others under the resources section and some as articles but they have always been an important part of the communication channels between a business and its customers. Where things have advanced is the technology side of things which can have an impact on how well your business utilizes this function.
Having a dynamic article management software function weaves into your website makes content management not just easier but more effective too. A lot of businesses end up ignoring their online publishing are put off by their content administration systems or complete lack of it and that results in article sections which are stagnant or just not being updated as often as they should. Giving this requirement due importance, the article manager feature is one of the main components of our Communifire social / community software platform.
The article manager administration section gives comprehensive control in creating and managing articles, segregating them under the right categories for easier access, moderation, comment and user feedback management. The layout of section needs to be given equal thought so the software also provides control over what goes on the front page, what articles get featured and how they appear.
The social component of articles which lays emphasis on the ability to comment on them and share them with others is good to have and is often missing in earlier versions of article management and publishing software. The RSS feature built into the article manager makes up one of the more important distribution channels for all the content that will be published on the site and allows users to subscribe as well as employees to redistribute the content and reach out to wider audiences.
Last but not least, articles distributed on your business website are all foundations for search traffic and create a way for people to find the website. The Communifire Article Manager and software are optimized and search friendly adding that all important SEO friendly structure to your website.
So if you’re articles section hasn’t been updated in a long while and the backend or software that supports it is partly to blame, seek out one that fits your requirements and will help ignite the publishing again.
Let me leave you with a list of features from our own Article Manager function:
Admin area:
- Articles
- Manage articles
- Create articles
- Categories
- Manage categories
- Create categories
- Comments
- Manage comments
- Moderate comments
- Manage spam reported comments
- Turn comments on/off
- Show/hide comments
- Choose who can comment (anyone, registered users)
- Moderation
- Global moderators
- Article moderation / Editor review queue
- Public / private articles
- Control over articles appearing in
- featured articles
- latest articles
- Administration
- System settings
User Area
- Article ‘homepage’
- List of categories
- List of articles
- List of authors
- Articles
- View an article
- Forward to a friend
- Change the font size of an article for easier viewing
- Print this page
- Add comment
- RSS feeds
- Latest articles
- By category
- Comments per article
- By author
User Control panel
- Articles
- Manage articles (view & update)
- Create articles
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