How to Add a New Blog Post

If you are on the Pro or Influencer plan, your account already includes 3 pre-written blog posts. If you’d like to add a new blog post using your own content, please skip to step 3 of this tutorial. (Content creation got you down? Did you know we offer a package of additional blog posts?)

If you are on the Starter plan, let’s get started!

1. From your dashboard menu, click on Sites > Blogs > + Create Blog Site

   

2. Give your blog site a title (this is what will appear in a browser tab title bar and search results), select your domain, and set a URL slug (this is what will appear after your domain in the URL. For example, you could simply set the slug as “blog” so that the whole URL would be “yourdomain.com/blog”)
   

3. To access your blog site, click on Sites > Blogs. Then click on your blog site
   

4. To add a new blog post, click on + Create Blog Post or New Post near the top right

   

   
   

5. Enter the SEO settings for your blog:

   • Choose a title

   • To add a cover image, click Change. Then you can upload an image from your computer or select one already in your media library by double-clicking on it

   • Give your cover image an Alt Text description (this should be a clear, factual description of the image for visually impaired ones visiting the page or to show in place of the image if it fails to load sometime)

   • Give your blog post a short and concise description

     

   • Write a short description of the post that will show in google searches

     

     
     

6. The blog editor should open to a sample layout that you can use and replace with your own content, or you can delete the text to create your own layout. Click anywhere to start typing.

   • Highlight portions of text and use the settings along the top to edit things like the font type, weight, size, etc.

     

   • You can also use the settings along the top to change things like text alignment and add bullet points or numbered lists

     

   • Use the 3 dots to change things on the text like text color or text highlight color (the hovering labels are a little confusing, so please see the image below)

     

   • You can also use the 3 dots to insert a hyperlink, image, video, audio, etc

     

   • You can edit the blog title at the top of the editor page
     

7. At any point, you can Save your blog post as a draft or click on Continue when you’re ready to publish the blog to your website

   

   
   

8. Once you click Continue, you can fill in some final details on your blog post:

   • Edit the SEO details if you want

   • Edit the URL slug (what will your blog post show up as in the browser search bar)

   • Select a category (or create a new one and then select that one)

   • Select an author (or create a new one and then select that one)

   • Set the blog as a draft, publish it immediately, or schedule it to publish on a specific date

   • (Canonical Link and keywords are not required fields, but you can add them if you wish. A canonical link is used by Google for ranking and indexing when multiple pages contain the same content on your website. Since you likely won’t have the same blog post using multiple URLs, this is not necessary to add.
     Keywords can be added to improve the chances of your blog post showing up in Google search results when people search for those words. Although it sounds foolproof, choosing effective keywords is a lot more complicated than you may realize, and it’s not as effective as it used to be.

     

     
     

If you are on the Pro or Influencer plan, you’re all done! If you’re on the Starter plan, you’ll have to add your blog to your website. Please see this tutorial for more instructions on how to do that.