News Systems
Adding a news page to a website gives your customers a place to visit to find out what is happening in your world.
While most web designers and SEO specialists will agree adding regular, relevant content is a great idea the implementation of a news page is something people get wrong too often. In practice most News pages are impractical and clients have told us that they found adding news stories difficult to manage and time consuming. All too often previously stories are removed and replaced with a new story.
This is why dhrystones have developed our own news system. Available with any CMS website, this add-on is the perfect way to enhance your website. A fully programmed news system will make your task of updating a website both quick and easy. Even more benefits will be felt from our news system because it automates the whole process making a news page that works for you and for search engines.
News system features
A unique page for each news article
For every new news article you create a whole page is created and links to this page are added automatically. A summary of the news article is shown on news page allowing visitors to decide at a glance which article takes their fancy.
Search Engine Friendly news articles
Search engines
Archive old news articles
No longer is there a need to delete old articles. Your CMS will automatically move current news articles to the front of your news page while keeping the older news articles for those who still wish to read them. Remember that [search engines] [index] (add “what is this?” links) news pages too and if you delete our replace content it will potentially reduce your [rankings].
RSS Feed for news articles
Your customers can choose to subscribe to your news page using an automatically generated [RSS feed]. This means that they can receive updates whenever you add a new news article – and they don’t even need to visit your website to read it. RSS feed allow visitors to use software or even mobile phones, which will regularly check and receive updates automatically.