SunBlogNuke - DotNetNuke Blog Module

Today I would like to share some tricks about integrating jQuery timeago plugin into DotNetNuke(DNN) and your blog, especially for the Ultimate blog module SunBlogNuke. With timeago plugin, you can customize the featured widget module with more fuzzy timestamps.

Here I would like to share how to fix the culture issue for DNN and our blog module [SunBlogNuke]. Hope it can helps someone who has the same issue. What is the Culture issue? When there is only one language in your DNN website, like the initial installation, the culture and language dropdown list may be blank. All right, let’s go ahead the topic.

As Twitter is getting more and more traffic worldwide retweeting becomes the most powerful factor in the Twittersphere Here this post will focus on how to add retweet button into your DNN blog especially our blogging platform SunBlogNuke which helps your readers easily tweet your posts and generate valuable traffic to your blog

As Ryan Caldwell said in the comments of "Why Bloggers Need SEO":

SEO is to blogging like editing is to writing a book. You can’t write a good book without editing. You can’t write a good blog without SEO. Editing sharpens the focus of a book. SEO sharpens the focus of a blog. Editing happens both as a separate act and as an “in the process” act. SEO can be done both in the act of blogging (choosing a good headline), and separately (off-site linkage, etc.)

we share the same point and our DNN blog module [SunBlogNuke] also apply the exact principle.

SunBlogNuke, straight out of the box, comes ready to embrace search engines. Its features and functions guide a search engine through the posts, pages, and categories to help the search engine crawl your site and gather the information it needs to include your site within its database. SunBlogNuke comes with several built in search optimization tools. If you had ignored them, I would like to show you them as follows:

1. The ability to create apparently static URLs called permalinks.

   There exist a filed called [Post Slug] in SunBlogNuke. With it our blog platform will create apparently static URLs called permalinks with this post title. Please get the more information about Post Slug from the previous post 5 Killer Features will be Available on SunBlogNuke.

2. Place the title of the post in the page title tag.

   There are a number of things to keep in mind when it comes to titles. Google pays particular attention to titles - so make sure you get them right. Fortunately SunBlogNuke have automatically done it for you. Not only it places the title of the post in the page title tag, but also it includes a flexible option that postfix the page titles with blog name. For example, my post title is "Search Engine Optimization for DNN Blog Module” and our blog name "SunBlogNuke Team Blog", when you visit the post the page title will formatted as "Search Engine Optimization for DNN Blog Module - SunBlogNuke Team Blog". Yes, you can turn it off if you think that it will more SEO without the blog name. Indeed there is a point that if you’re just looking from an SEO perspective don’t include your blog name in the title tags of single posts. This dilutes your keywords. Of course if you’re looking more at branding including your blog’s name in the title tags might be worth doing. You can get more SEO tips about blog title from this post 10 Tips to Awesome, Eye-Jerking Post Titles.

3. Auto Generate Meta Description

   You should know that it is essential to include the META Description tag on all your web pages for better search engine indexing. But out dilemma is, how do we populate the “content” section of the META description dynamically based on what content we’re viewing?  Simple — we use a combination of conditional tags and a custom loop to pull either the page title (if we’re on the homepage) or the description (if we’re in a single post). With that our blog platform will create such unique description tags for each post page. Usually, most bloggers don’t take advantage of the use of the “optional description” section of their Write Post panel. But if you want to exercise even more control over what gets displayed on the search engine results page(SERP) for content, then you need to be filling this section out.  If it’s blank, your post description will just be the first 150 (that is the max length for Meta Description) characters in your post.

4. Meta keywords support

   The SunBlogNuke also support Meta keywords with a combination of page key words and all tags of each post. But recently Google Confirms Meta Keywords Tag Not used for Rankings, you just ignore it and let it there now.

Though SunBlogNuke comes with several built-in features for SEO, please keep in mind that “Content is King”. The quality of the posts you write is the single most important factor when it comes to Search Optimization on a Blog. Quality content that helps people will quite often draw a reader to want to share what they’ve written - of course they do this by passing on the link to your post and often they’ll do it in a way that helps your search rankings (on their own blog for example).

Additional resources about DNN SEO:

DNN SEO Quickstart Guide

DNN SEO Case Study Part 2

Here I will share you how to integrate twitter with DNN website or DNN blog module, like our SunBlogNuke module. It will help bridge the gap between blog posts and IM. It's also a great way to keep people informed quickly and easily.

While our DNN Blog Module are used by more and more clients, we are trying to provide more documents and support information in the Official Website. So if you are finding how to get started with SunBlogNuke for your DNN blog, here you go. Let's take a step-by-step tour through your setup process and learn about how all the different functions work and how to create a new blog on your own.

1. If you want to know that how to set up SunBlogNuke, please get the more information from this post [The ultimate content workflow platform :: SunBlogNuke].
2. If you want to know that how to writing a post in SunBlogNuke, please visit the post [Basic Usage of the SunBlog Module].
3. If you want to know that how to integrate SunBlogNuke with third-party services or other client tools via the MetaWeblog API, please get it from here.
4. Don’t just limit yourself when you are applying our dnn blog module, please visit the tutorial for more tricks and tips 10 Awesome Tips and Tricks to Improve Your DNN Blog.

Actually you can find more blog help documentation on our Team Blog. Here you will find tutorials, documentation, tips and tricks and much more, for example, the latest building or release.

Good luck and happy writing.

The SunBlog team

Before our website for SunBlog(Nuke) launched, our team blog have been hosted by the link http://www.dnnsun.com/Community/sunblog.aspx. Right now we have completed the transformation process and it will be hosted by the official SunBlogNuke website.  So here you will find tutorials, documentation, tips and tricks and much more later.

Good luck and happy writing.

The SunBlog team

If you see this entry it means that SunBlogNuke is running well and the settings are configured correctly.

Setup

1) Basic usage of the SunBlog module
2) How to write your post of SunBlog with Window Live Writer?

Assign Contributors

The SunBlogNuke supports multiple authors for the same blog, so if you are a blog owner, you can assign contributors permission to any existing user which will can manage the blog with you together. The contributors will own the related permissions, i.e post entry, create category etc.

On the web

You can find SunBlogNuke on the official website. Here you will find tutorials, documentation, tips and tricks and much more.

Good luck and happy writing.

The SunBlogNuke team