Day 3. Follow along as metaprinter.com founder and senior writer Robert Ivan builds a community news blog for Aberdeen Township New Jersey at NJcircles.com/AberdeenTownship.
Today I added pages for Services and Township Stats to help emphasize my focus on Aberdeen Township. The services page lists and links to things like the police dept., municipal court, tax collector, planning, etc… The township stats page aggregate information about the township in one location and links out for greater detail.
The idea is to get search engines associating targeted content to the site. I published two posts for this very reason and to start seeing what people are interested in. Ideally I should be posting 5 quality post per day to build traffic and see what works.
On the technical side I added Movable Type, OpenID, LiveJournal, Vox, Yahoo!, Facebook, WordPress.com, and Google as possible log in methods. You must have a Facebook profile in order to set up the Facebook log in application. On the Movable Type dashboard just go to Preferences > Comment > Setup Registration then follow the directions for the Facebook plugin. It’s pretty straight forward.
That’s it for now. Stay tuned as I continue tweeking this site. In case you wanted to keep tabs on other entrepreneurial journalists’ experimentations and progress, go to http://rjicollab.ning.com/ . (link courtesy of Suzanne Yada)
Related posts: