Zemanta Gives Bloggers More Inspiration
Zemanta is a Firefox add-on which integrates naturally with the dashboard of popular blogging platforms like Blogger, WordPress, Drupal or Movable Type and provides suggestions for the currently edited content by displaying images, links, articles and tags in an easy to use and understand web browser based graphical user interface. Practically, Zemanta gives bloggers the possibility to re-publish existing web content related to their articles in order to enhance the quality of blog posts. In the same time, the authors are allowed to promote their own blogs or to share various content sources with other web writers.
All content displayed by Zemanta in the dashboard of your blog is easy to add to any edited post with a single mouse click. For example, you can add a relevant image to an article by selecting it from the Zemanta gallery or insert optimal tags, targeted for a better SEO. In the same manner, related articles or links to similar web resources could be embedded in the structure of your articles.
The Reblog button allows the rapid publishing of articles that were already made available over the Internet and inside Zemanta service: a quote alongside your comments, will be added at the specified position of a blog post with just a single mouse click.
Zemanta works also with popular email services, such as Gmail or Yahoo! Mail and gives users more alternatives to create unique messages with rich content, individualized personal “postcards”, persuasive professional introductions and more.
Zemanta is available for free download as Firefox add-on, bookmarklet, Live Writer plug-in or server side plugin for WordPress, Drupal and MovableType. The suggested content is filtered based on copyright too, therefore the material proposed for inclusion into blog posts is free to use. These are the main features of Zemanta utility:
- content analysis and suggestion of related articles, images, links and tags;
- affiliate link support
- re-blogging – cross-platform quoting support for blogs;
- spam-free database of 4000 news sources and blogs;
- copyright filtering for suggested images.
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