Creating an Article

The article manager allows you to upload articles online. These may be anything from "How To" guides, to press releases and general information.

To Create a New Article:

1. Click on Article Library when you are logged into your Database Marketing account.
2. Click on the Add Article tab in the top navigation bar.
3. Give the article a Title. This will appear in Heading 1 paragraph text at the top of the article.
4. Give the article an Author. This is an optional feature. It's best used if you have multiple contributors to your article library that you want recognised, or you may have a special industry expert contributor whose name is well known within your industry.
5. Choose a Category for your article. You can either select from the drop down menu, or click "Create New" > give the new category a Name > click Save.
6. Upload an image for your article by clicking on Choose File and finding the image location on your computer.
7. If you have your Twitter account synced with your Database Marketing account, you can automatically post this article to Twitter by selecting "Yes".
8. Click on Show more options. This will give you some more options for your article. This is an optional feature.
9. Select the Date you want on the article. This is the publication date that will be shown on the article.
10. Give the article Keywords. These are words related to your article that will enable it to be found in searches done in your article library.
11. Give the article a Meta Description. This description is used by search engines to identify the content of the article and its relevance to certain search topics. Ensure the description is rich with the keywords related to this article.
12. Articles to Link to allows you to associate this article with other recently posted articles, related articles, or a random selection of articles. These articles will appear as links below the article.
13. Publish This Article to my Website allows you to choose whether or not you want to have this article to appear on your website. If you choose "Yes" the article will appear in your sitemap, your article listing page and your RSS Feed. If you don't want it to appear in these, select "No."
14. A Custom Snippet is a fraction of text that will appear as the preview of your article. If you select "No" the preview of the article will be the beginning of the article content. You can change the length of this Snippet in the field below. If you select "Yes" you will be prompted to type in the text you want as your article preview.
15. Force Site Template is for clients who have both their Website and Database Marketing with us. If you leave the selection as "No" the article will appear in its default template. If you select "Yes" you will be given the option of choosing the template you want to use for this article. We don't recommend you change this field unless you are very confident with what you are doing.
16. Enter your content by clicking on the large white box, typing your content in or copying and pasting. There are many options for formatting including adding links to the text, adding images and changing paragraph styles. Go to Formatting Text to learn more about this.
17. Click Save.
18. Your Article will now appear in the Articles table. Check its Published status. If you need to change this status, check the box next to the article title then scroll to the bottom of the table and click on Update Publish Status. Choose the correct status from the drop down menu.

You have now created your Article.