Integrate your blog into your site

When you enable the blog, you have the choice to make it the homepage of your website, or you can add it as a complement to your other content. To perfect the blog's accessibility, make it ergonomic, and have clear navigation use the widgets specialized for the blog.

Let's see the widgets and options that will be useful when you make a blog.

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Display the latest posts

A widget that allows you to automatically display your latest posts on your blog anywhere on your website.

  • To use this widget in a page, add a block or a column. Click on Other Widgets > Blog > Latest blog posts. Choose the number of posts you wish to display and Save
  • To use this widget in a side menu, go to Settings > Menus, click on Add a widget > Blog > Latest blog posts Choose the number of posts you wish to display and Save

The widget updates automatically. We used the widget to show the last 8 blog posts of the emyspot blog.

Finding and fixing a broken link

On 28/08/2019

The existence of broken links can seriously harm your credibility and may even have a negative impact on your referencing!
Links are called internal or external (or outbound) hyperlinks when we place links directing to text or images on another page of the same site or to a page of another site. But it is not only the links present on your site that are concerned. You must pay attention to backlinks, also called inbound links, i.e. links placed on external sites that direct to your site.

Let's see together how to check whether your site contains dead links and fix them!

A website for your accommodations service

On 18/07/2019

Whether you run a hotel, a guesthouse, work in the hospitality sector or rent out your spare room, giving your customers the opportunity to reserve an accommodation online is essential.
In the competitive landscape of websites dedicated to hospitality, allowing users to book and pay safely online is more important than heaving a visually appealing site.
New generation users are used to have it all "at the touch of one fingertip".

We will give you an overview of the booking system and its benefits.

Use Pinterest effectively on your website

On 19/06/2019

If you aim to increase your products online visibility and/or bring more visitors to your website, Pinterest could be of great help.
Pinterest is a social media, which is similar to a "visual-based search engine", that can be very helpful for your daily website traffic. Indeed, this social media platform is known to be a great source of referral traffic, which is why we recommend our users to leverage this social "search engine" to promote their services and products to great effect.

Internet has changed how we consume

On 14/06/2019

Consumption patterns have evolved due to the rapid growth of e-commerce and the Internet broadband access.

A few weeks ago, Instagram presented a new feature that allows it's users to purchase products whithout leaving the app. The main goal is to convert this sharing photo app into a shopping tool and facilitate the purchasing process for their users. Before the Shopping on Instagram release, users had to exit the application to complete the purchasing process. Fortunatelly, users can now do it completelly in situ. It is now possible to purchase products from more than 22 different brands on the platform.

Innovations like these shows how the online shopping experience has improved. Today, we want to reflect how online retail sites growth and internet  have transformed the way of consuming.

5 Blogging Essential Tips to Break in

On 07/06/2019

Blogs have become the perfect media to express ideas, share one's passion, showcase one's expertise with worldwide users. For our part, we use our blog to give you tips about website creation, and to keep you informed about the new features released on emyspot and much more.

Carrying out a Blog properly, requires time and continued work plus the following 5 blogging essentials that must be observed.

A website to showcase your artwork

On 28/05/2019

Make yourself known, show your work and sell your creations. These are some artist's expectations to be able to live from their art.
Whether you are an aspiring artist or an established art master, creating an artist website is your chance to own a permanent art gallery open to the whole world:

5 emyspot tutorials for e-merchants

On 16/05/2019

Emyspot is an online CMS that allows you to create websites, online store or blogs. Each type of website has it's own specific features, creating and managing an e-commerce site not quite the same as creating a booking page of a restaurant. You can find tutorials about all the website possibilities emyspot offers. Overview and step by step creation process, tips and illustrations to better understand our tool.

What follows is a list of 5 useful tutorials to help you setting-up a successful online shop.

4 practices to avoid and improve your website referencing

On 07/05/2019

Website referencing is to make it appear and visible in search engines such as: Google, Bing, etc.. If you aim to achieve good results, then you will need to do it step by step as if you were following an Meringue Pie recipe. Today we list some common practices to AVOID in order to have a good SEO.

Display the blog categories

As we saw in the section: write and manage your posts. When you write a post you should put it in a category. There is a widget that displays a "list of categories "which allows site visitors to discover your categories and it's associated posts.

  • To use this widget in a page, add a block or a column. Click on Other Widgets > Blog > Blog categories and Save
  • To use this widget in a side menu, go to Settings > Menus, click on Add a widget > Blog > Blog categories and Save

This widget allows your site visitors to see at a glance what your blog offers, and we have an example of the list of categories of the emyspot blog.

Other widgets perfect to use to show off your blog

There are other widgets specialized to the blog (like the ability to display a tag cloud, author list, search engine etc etc) and other widgets that may be interesting on a blog. For example, activate the "Similar posts" option to propose related posts to your blog readers, this is done automatically suggesting articles from the same theme.

Display the latest comments

This widget allows you to automatically display the last comments left on your blog. Perfect for developing interaction with your site visitors and spark discussion!

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Display free text

The free zone widget allows you to add the text you want in your menu, ideal for creating an editorial or presentation insert that is displayed in the side menu for site visitors to consult.

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Links to social networks

With the social network widgets, blog readers can share your posts with a click. Or you can ask them to join you on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Pinterest, etc..

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