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April 05, 2008

Smart Link Verification Tool Simplifies Posting; Improves Content Quality

New MyST Blogsite "Smart Link" automatically verifies link properties and suggests meaningful link title and synopsis text to enhance content quality and improve SEO effectiveness.
MyST Blogsite Smart Link Tutorial

Everyone agrees that relevant, high-quality links improve the overall value of a blog post.  But for a busy business person, it is easy to overlook nitty-gritty "blogging" details such as choosing the most effective title or synopsis text for a link property.  In fact, while trying to be diligent about such things in my own blogging, it finally dawned on me that most of the time, the MyST Blogsite editor could automate those details for me.  Not only would it save me time, it would often do a better job at it than I would do.

So, once again, necessity (or laziness) has become the mother of invention.

The MyST Blogsite editor now includes a "Smart Link Verify" tool that verifies a link URL and suggests meaningful title and synopsis text for that link.  To make the workflow even easier, simply hitting ENTER after entering a link URL automatically invokes the Smart Link tool for that link.  The short video here shows the tool in action adding the link properties to this post.

Since its earliest incarnation, MyST Blogsite has supported distinct link properties that allow authors to create an annotated bibliography of links related to each post.  These properties are leveraged in a variety of ways by the MyST Blogsite platform, and offer many distinct and unique advantages over personal blogging tools that support only embedded hyperlinks.  Now, with the new Smart Link feature, it has become even easier to take full advantage of link properties.

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