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Need Pics and Links?–There’s Always Zemanta!

Posted by Dr.D | October 21, 2008 .
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What is Zemanta? It is a very helpful application for blog publishers.  It provides the writer with possible pictures and images in public domain, links to websites, links to Wikipedia articles, and a list of possible related articles to choose from all while you’re in the process of writing.

The program picks up key words from your article and automatically provides you with a number of different media choices that might enhance and enrich your post.

For example, in this article, the ‘Zemanta’ image was provided by the program, also with a point and click I was able to add a link to the Zemanta website, Windows Live Writer, and all the ‘related articles’ at the bottom. What a handy tool and a real time saver!

I’m using the Zemanta plug-in for Windows Live Writer, they also have applications for the following:

Check it out! For some platforms the application works through the browser, for self-hosted sites there are plug-ins.             *Top 

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  1. Stephan Miller October 22, 2008 7:14 am

    Also, when you are in the system, you get backlinks when someone chooses one of your posts as a related article, which I thank you for. :)

  2. Dr.D October 22, 2008 6:24 pm

    Thanks for the visit and tip Stephan!

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