Author: implementations

Content Scheduling

Future publish an article By default, an article publishes immediately after you hit the Publish button, but you can schedule an article to publish at any time in the future by following these steps: In the Publish box on the Article edit screen, click the Edit link next to Publish immediately. Set a future publish date and time. Note: Time must be…

List Of Rayos Core Plugins

Core Rayos Developed Plugins GTX CNN VAN Dashboard GTX Gallery GTX Object Versioning GTxcel Ad Manager GTxcel App Breaking News GTxcel Atom Feed Customization GTxcel Author Bios GTxcel Conditional Shortcode GTxcel Content List Plugin GTxcel Content Wrapper GTxcel Excerpts GTxcel Featured Images GTxcel Google Analytics GTxcel Links GTxcel Oembed Extension GTxcel Popular Posts GTxcel Post Expiration GTxcel Release Plugin GTxcel…

Technology Protocols

A website is a series of plugins, files, code and services that all come together to generate each web page. In most cases, the great majority of that code is managed by the Rayos team. However, if you have requested customizations and/or integrations, there may be plugins, files and code that are custom to your website and content that are…

Understanding URLS

Once your article is saved as a draft and/or published, you will see a Permalink URL show up below the article title field. This is the URL of your article. SEO importance of the URL By default this URL will include all the words in your title sans basic words like “a”, “and”, “the”. It is always recommended to have…

Developing An Overall SEO Strategy

Overview Developing an overall SEO strategy for you site that generates robust and productive search traffic, multiple page views and repeat viewers is an effort that requires pre-panning and then attention and focus on a daily basis.  The key aspects of your SEO plans are: A deep understanding your content based on ongoing research on your current search traffic A…

Search Engine Basics

Overview Search engines have become an indispensable aspect of modern life, but most of us don’t have a clue about how they actually work.  Let’s take a look at the three major components that power search engines, and the general approach to “spoon feeding” them so they understand our content and rank us the way we want. Crawling You’ve likely…

Writing For The Web

Optimizing your content for both your web audience and for search engines is a challenge unique to writing for the web. The recommendations here will help you fine-tune your writing to both boost your search rankings and improve your visitors’ experience on your site. In the past, web writers relied on metadata and tags to improve their SEO.  However, after…

Why do I get a low score on Google Site Speed Tools?

Google promotes a couple different tools, Test My Site and Page Speed Insights, to help you understand what could be improved on your website to make it faster. At the end of each test, Google gives you a score for mobile and desktop to indicate whether you have areas that could improve in order to be a fully speed-optimized site by…

Why Don’t I Rank Higher On This Search?

When someone searches for a term or phrase using Google or other search engines, how your site ranks in the results depends on both your site content and an overall concept called domain authority, a concept that describes how important your website is in relation to other websites. Your ability to influence your rank on a specific search is dependent on…

Share Content On Social Media

Open Graph tags determine what text and images to display when a link from your site is shared on a social media platform. Open Graph tags are in a site’s source code and GTxcel for Broadcast populates these tags differently depending on how you build your article. To have better control over how your content appears when used on platforms like…