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The article properties offered in the Sportal365 CMS serve as features designed to visually enrich the look of an article on your website and optimize it for search enginesWith small exceptions, the optimization of videos follows the same logic as that of articles and galleries.

On this page, you’ll learn the steps to optimizing articles videos with the content properties in the system.

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Optimizing

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a video

Follow the steps below to learn how to optimize the articles videos you createupload. Here’s how:

  1. From the main navigation, select ArticlesVideos.

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2. When the articles videos listing screens open, select the article video you want to optimize (e.g. “Man Utd: Odion Ighalo wants to extend loan and finish season”“Ronaldo Alves”).

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3. Next, when you open the article, video and go to the content properties in the right corner of your screen.

There are eight nine tabs with properties to optimize your article–Generalvideo–General, Content offer, Media, Tags, Related content, URLs, SEO, Lists, Custom data.

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titleGeneral tab

The General tab lets you select category(ies), author(s), status, distribution regions and channels, as well as additional properties for your articlevideo.

To optimize your article’s video’s General tab:

  1. Expand the General tab.

2. Select a main category from the Categories drop-down box.

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Remember that , selecting a main category is mandatory for creating an articlea video.

3. To add an additional category, select the Additional Categories box.

4. Next, open the Author box, and select the author you wish.

5. If you want to add a custom author, enter the author in the Custom Author box.

6. To set the status of your articlevideo, go to the Status box and select from the options Active/Inactive.

7. To select article video properties and type, go to Properties and Type and choose from the options.

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8. Lastly, if If you want to set a period for your article video to be active on your website, enter the desired dates in the Pubslihed From / Pubslihed Until boxes.

9. Select a region for distribution in the Distribution Regions box.

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10. Next, go to the Distribution Channels box and select a channel.

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11. Lastly, select comment policies for your post in the Comment policies box.

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For more information, see Content properties for specific content titles.

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titleMedia tab

The Media tab is where you upload your videos and main media image for your articlesthem. The Main main image is the image that will appear as header (or main media) of your articleserve the role of a thumbnail for your video when it's uploaded to your site.

To optimize your article’s video’s media:

  1. Expand the Media tab to select article media.

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  1. If you want to upload new main image

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  1. To upload already existing images in the system as main image(s), select Toggle already uploaded images.

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4. To change the main media of an article to a video or gallery, expand the Choose Main Media box and select from the options.

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Choose Main Media > Embed Video to upload a video to the CMS.

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Rember that to a video, you can add an embed or search the Dugout and Onnetwork.tv videos.

Refer to How to create a Video.

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Note that once you select an image as main media, you can crop it by selecting Crop image.

For more information, see Content properties for specific content titles.

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titleContent footer tab

The Content footer tab is the place where you select the origin of the images you use in your video.

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For more information, see Content properties for specific content titles.

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titleTags tab

Under the Tags tab, you can optimize an article a video with a tag you have created, as well as football connections suggested by the system.

To optimize your article video with tags:

  1. Expand the Tags tab.

2. In the Tags box, enter a tag(s) you have already created in the system.

3. To tag an article a video with a football connectionconnections, go to the Football Connections box and select the recognized entity suggestions you want to tag your article video with.

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Note that you can tag your article video with football connections either by adding all suggestions or only the once you desire.

Once you enter football connections, the system will suggest relevant past/upcoming matches to connect to your articlevideo.

4. To add relevant matches, select either the Upcoming matches or Past matches tabs. Then click on the + sign to select a match.

For more information, see Content properties for specific content titles.

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titleRelated content tab

The Related content tab is directly connected to the football connections you use in the Tags tab and lets you select and include additional reading/watching to your post.

You can either add suggested videos, galleries, and articles to your post or search yourself for related content.

To add related content to your post:

  1. Expand the Related content tab.

2. Under the Suggestions tab, select a content type you want to add as related content i.e. Articles, Videos, or Galleries.

3. Next, choose an article, video, or gallery and select the + sign to add it as related content.

4. If you want to manually find an article, video, or gallery to add, select the Search tab and enter the title of the content you are looking for.

For more information, see Content properties for specific content titles.

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titleURLs tab

By optimizing the URLs tab of an articlea video, you tell search engines whether to index your article video or not. This feature is especially helpful in cases such as advertising campaigns and duplicated content.

To optimize your article’s video’s URLs tab:

  1. Expand the URLs tab.

2. In the External URL box, paste the URL to an external source you want to send users to.

3. Next, expand the Type of redirect to select if you want your redirect to be permanent/temporary.

4. Lastly, if you want to avoid duplicating content, select the Canonical URL box and paste the preferred URL you want search engines to index.

For more details, see URLs in the Content properties for specific content titles.

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titleSEO tab

The SEO property will help optimize your article video so it is easily discovered easy to discover online.

To optimize your article’s video’s SEO tab:

  1. Expand the SEO tab.

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2. If you want to write an alternative title, enter it in the SEO Title box.

3. If you want the SEO title to match that of your category’s video’s main title, select Copy SEO title from main title.

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4. Next, enter a description in the SEO Description box.

5. To further describe your articlevideo, enter keywords in the SEO Keywords box.

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6. Use the Slug box to enter a custom slug or generate a slug from your article’s video’s SEO title.

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7. Lastly, if you want your article video to be indexed/followed by search engines, select Allow indexing and Allow following.

For more information, see Content properties for specific content titles.

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titleLists tab

Lists is a feature that lets creators add the video, article, video, or gallery they are working on to a list of video (articles (videos or galleries) grouped under certain criteria to appear in a specific position on your their website.

To add your article video to a list:

  1. Expand the Lists tab.

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  1. In the Select list box, select the list you want to add your

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After you select a list, list items will open. Note that if the list you want to add your article video to is empty, no items will display.

3. To add your article video to the list you’ve selected, go to Add current article video to list > +.

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4. When done, select Save List.

For more information, see Content properties for specific content titles.

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titleCustom data tab

To import any type of data in JASON format into your articlevideo, follow the steps:

  1. Expand the Custom data tab.

2. Paste valid JASON data in the box.

For more information, see Content properties for specific content titles.

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