It just got even easier for your friends to find you!
Today we added another new feature to your Triond profile page called the ‘Find Me On’ widget.
Many of you were asking for options to give links to your other social media accounts and blogs. We saw you were already posting your links on the About Me section and so we decided it was time to create a designated and organized area for this.
The ‘Find Me On’ widget allows you to link to your Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg and Blogger accounts in a user friendly manner.
To use it, just drag the ‘Find Me On’ widget to the area you want your links to appear, click on the wrench icon and enter your username for each website you use.
Make sure that the username you enter for Facebook is your vanity url name. For example, if your vanity url is www.facebook.com/josephsmith then enter ‘josephsmith’ in the widget.
Blogger usernames are found at the beginning of your blog’s url: [your name].blogspot.com. So if your blogger url is joe.blogspot.com, you’ll need to enter ‘joe’ as your blogger username.
For a demonstration on how to put the ‘Find Me On’ widget on your Triond profile page, watch this video:
Following closely on the tail of our recent image and tag suggestion features, we are excited to announce today the release of a new link suggestion tool in the Online Editor.
You already know that embedding links extends your articles’ relevance online. Articles with links are viewed as being further developed and more resourceful than articles without links.
Now adding relevant links to your articles is easier than ever because we’ve found the links for you! After you have started to compose your article in the Online Editor, you can use the link suggestion button (find it directly below the Article Body box) to add links to related articles to your work.
For a demonstration on how to use the link suggestion tool, watch this video:
Wondering what topics are climbing the charts? Ready to write but just ran out of ideas?
Our latest new feature, popular topic suggestions, puts real-time trending topics in the palm of your hand. This feature lists major trending topics gathered from news sites, blogs, and web searches.
You can access the topic suggestion feature from its quick action link on the Dashboard or directly from the Submit tab. Click on any one of the listed topic titles and instantly see the most recent news stories, blog posts, and search results for the topic. Use it to discover new ideas, find out the hottest topics, or even break writer’s block.
On the heels of our two latest additions to the dashboard comes a third new feature – Top Search Phrases. This time, we’ve added a box displaying the top search phrases that bring readers to your content items.
We love data, and the Top Search Phrases box provides insightful data of all sorts:
See which search terms and keywords help readers discover your articles;
Take note of similar phrases to learn which one returns more unique viewers;
Cross analyze your most popular articles with the top search phrases to inform future writing;
Track how people find your work over time by looking for variations day to day and month to month.
Enjoy the new feature and as always, happy publishing!
Graphs were invented to get humans to improve. There’s something about a horizontal line that makes you want to see it go higher and higher. As part of our constant efforts to give you the publishing tools you need, we’ve added the Visit Trends, as you can now see in the Dashboard. This graph shows the number of cumulative daily visitors to your content over the previous 30 days.
We hope that this graph will provide you with a wider picture of your content performance and motivate you to make that line go up by creating more and more content.
Stay tuned for more new and appealing features to come.
Today we bring you not one, but two network site redesigns!
Notecook has a yummy new look. The remodeled food and recipe site mirrors a well designed kitchen; it’s comfortable, easy to navigate, and well equipped.
Sportales also has a sleek new look with improved usability. Now you can see more snippets from a wider range of sporting categories.
As with our other network site upgrades, Notecook and Sportales now run more smoothly inside and out.
As you can probably tell, we have been rolling out these upgrades on a regular basis. To keep tabs on all the great updates, subscribe to the Triond blog via RSS, or follow us on Twitter.
Today we added a new feature that suggests images for you to use in your articles. There’s a new ‘Get Image Suggestions’ button right next to the Article Body section of the Online Editor.
In order to get the best functionality from the feature, it helps to have your title, description, body, and tags already written. After you have some text entered in these fields, just click on the ‘Get Image Suggestions’ button to see a column of images related to your article. Simply click on an image and -poof!- it appears in the body of your article.
Watch how it works (for best viewing, expand the video to full screen):
Our new homepage and dashboard are live! We’ve completely redesigned the pages to make them more friendly to visitors, and more usable for users.
Among the new elements on Triond’s homepage, the most notable are a snazzy new video all about the Triond service and community, and a list of links to sites in our diverse publishing network. And, we moved the Hot Content list so that it now appears in the Explore tab.
We’ve addressed the issue of users being able to stay logged in to Triond; simply check the box “Remember me” once, and from then on you will stay logged in whenever you visit a Triond page from the same computer. If you want to log out (if you’re on a computer used by more than one person, for example) make sure you click “Log out” at the top of the screen.
We’ve also revamped the Dashboard layout and added a Quick Actions section. From the Quick Actions section you can go directly to submit and edit your articles, update your account, and check out new feature additions.
There’s more where this came from, so check back here early and often.
Last December we included advice on tagging in the newsletter, but since it’s so important (and because we have a new feature!), we’d like to revisit the topic. Relevant tags help your article get found in searches, they help our Editorial team know where to publish your work, and they help readers understand your article’s subject at a glance.
Now, it’s easier than ever to add relevant tags to your articles. We’ve added a new feature in the Online Editor that suggests tags for your article based off of your text. Getting tag suggestions is easy; when you’ve finished writing your article, scroll down to the Tags field. Like always, you can enter your own tags or, you can click the new ‘Get Suggestions’ button to witness tagging magic. The new button automatically scans your content for relevant keywords and suggests tags for you. You can keep them or erase them, it’s up to you.
Here’s a short video that demonstrates how to use the new feature (for best viewing, expand it to full screen):
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