Using Zemanta to Save Time Blogging

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There is a Firefox Add-on called ZEMANTA that could save you time when you blog in a number of ways:

1. When you open your dashboard/ control panel at blogger.com or wordpress.com, you will automatically see a zemanta box where you can easily insert relevant pictures to your post without going through the hassle of searching, downloading and uploading your chosen pictures. You just click the picture you want from the given selection and it is automatically inserted to your post. Just remember to glance at the copyright note at the bottom of the picture to know if the picture is public domain.

2. You are also given a selection of related links to include in your post. While you may not need to insert these links, you could browse some to give you additional idea on the topic you are talking about.

3. When you publish a post with zemanta “on” or “enabled”, your blog post can also be shown by zemanta to other bloggers among the related links they could put in their article. When chosen, you immediately have an inbound link to your post without you exerting any effort in commenting to those blogs or submitting your article to various article banks or blog carnivals. Inbound links mean good SEO and higher ratings for your blog. It also means others could easily find your post through other blogs, hence, additional traffic at no time wasted on your part.

If you want to try out the demo (its absolutely free) for zemanta, look up at this link
http://www.zemanta.com/demo/

By the way, if you can see the “REBLOG” button below this post, know that it also came from using zemanta. When readers click this button, they could easily forward your post when making their own articles. It saves them time too! Try it and reblog about this post!