Zemanta – a blogger’s apprentice

by Praval Singh on June 12, 2008

in Blogging Tips, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Tutorials, Wordpress-Widgets

I have always fancied my chances with tools and widgets which make blogging fun and easy. Bloggers who post regularly on professional blogs wish to concentrate more on the content for its freshness and readability, apart from being informative ofcourse. Based on my personal experience, we tend to spend more time in finding great images, links, tags, etc to support our post and make it more appealing. Had it not been great if your browser could understand what you are blogging about and suggested you pictures, articles, links and tags to make your posts more vibrant?

Be glad! With the advent of this smart firefox-IE-wordpress addon, such an assistance is at your disposal. Think of some valuable suggestions in context with your article you’re writing on the blog’s editor. It would save you a lot of time that is generally spent looking out for related content over the internet. Look out:

To see how Zemanta works with Wordpress, check out this cool screencast.

Apart from helping you write better, Zemanta also has the following salient features:

  • Saves your precious time – related and relevant content from around the web is at your disposal in the real time – as you’re typing.
  • Gets more traffic – search engines are known to love better tagged content. Moreover, your posts get linked to others having related conversations.
  • Flexibility – you can use Zemanta on most of the popular blogging platforms or browsers.
  • Re-blogging - This cool feature enables bloggers to easily quote other blogs. An intuitive interface helps you quote the original post with proper reference and publish it on your own blog.

To know more about Zemanta, visit the FAQ section of this great start-up project. Try it out, I’m sure you’ll fall in love with Zemanta.

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1 Jure Cuhalev June 12, 2008 at 7:50 am

A great review. I also invite you to try it out in your blogging, and share your experience of how it works for you while you blog.

If you have any problems or further suggestions, I invite you to our forum – getstatisfaction.com/zemanta of just drop me a mail – jure@zemanta.com

Jure Cuhalev, Zemanta

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