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Articles Howto SBI Rss Tutorial shows you how Easy Blogs lets you create article pages that will be indexed into the blog system...AND these articles are RSS'd right away!

Yes, when you create an article with the Easy Blogs software, it becomes part of the whole RSS system. This means that your articles are listed in the MyYahoo RSS directory right along side of your blog entries....and they are syndicated across the web!

Short descriptions are written and your article can be picked up as new news by rss news aggregators and rss syndication services, too.

Understanding How Articles Work In The Easy Blogs Software is Helpful.

Article links are generated automatically and indexed by the software on the "Article Index Page" that you set up in Step 7b of TUTORIAL II : Setting Up Your News Blog.

If you did not set up the articles page and do not wish to use the articles page, please see this tutorial for clarification of what to do with the articles page in your Easy Blogs folder.

If you did not setup the articles page at the beginning and you want to change this, please see the create articles howto tutorial, How To Create Articles In Easy Blogs That Are Fully Search Engine Optimized and Ready For RSS Syndication!

Ways to Use the articles page:

1. Generate a list of articles and have them posted by month or by title.

****These articles are automatically rss'd across the web! So, not only are your entries rss'd but so are your articles when you build them in your blogging software!

If your articles are written around time sensitive information then this is an excellent bonus feature of having a News Blog on your site.

You can write some of your pages in the Easy Blogs software using their HTML editor interface. Those articles will then be listed by title (with keywords in the title, of course!) and can automatically be archived in the month they were posted to your site.

This is optional. You don't have to archive your articles by month and can just list them by title.

To create an article: Click here for a comprehensive tutorial on setting up your articles.

2 . If you don't have or won't be having a page on your website that lists your articles, then why not send them to your site map!

Why would you want to generate articles with Easy Blogs or, at the very least, link to the articles on your website from your News Blog home page?

The primary reason takes into consideration that some people will enter your site from your News Blog page. In fact, lots of people will since this page is constantly being up-dated and we know, by now, that the search engines will visit this page often as long as you keep adding new entries to your News Blog and pinging your blog.

When they get to your News Blog home page, you want them to find links to other pages of your site besides just to your home page.

A link to your articles index page can be included in the navigation menu of the News Blog pages by checking the box, "Include Article Index in Nav Bar" in Advanced Options.

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Note: This is NOT the same as the NAV Bar on the rest of your SBI site. This refers to the navigation text menu that is on your blog pages. (Where on your pages is determined by which blog template you are using.)

You can rename the Page name (also called the file name) for the articles page to something like "Our-Articles" and have that page shown in your menu.

That wraps up Articles Howto SBI Rss Tutorial. To get the full tutorial look here.

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