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jeffhoard jeffhoard
 
M$11.35 August 04, 2009 08:22 AM

Mahalo News Network: August 4th Headlines

Take note of this helpful page that shows how you can update your Mahalo Topic page, one of the options is to add a news update.

How to Update? Mahalo Topic Pages guide note sections consist of two main paragraphs. The first paragraph is always a short description of the topic. The second paragraph is always the latest news story related to your topic. Your guide note should look a little like this...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33749589@N07/3740883170/

Update your Mahalo page by writing a news paragraph (don't forget to add a citation) In this thread we ask that you promote your news update by linking to your Mahalo page and explaining the update you made.

Here we can discuss the news and give pointers on how to improve Topic pages.
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brian san brian san
 
 August 04, 2009 12:01 PM
I have updated my page on Bill Clinton to include a paragraph on his visit to North Korea to negotiate the release of two American TV journalists sentenced to 12 years in prison for illegally entering the country.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-clinton-korea4-2009aug0...

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brian san brian san
 
August 04, 2009 12:11 PM
I have also cleaned up a page on Orly Taitz who has been in the news for her "birther movement" efforts..

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lesliec lesliec
 
August 04, 2009 02:24 PM
Great job on the Clinton update. I made three tiny changes in your paragraph. Can you tell what they are?

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brian san brian san
 
August 04, 2009 02:36 PM
Sorry for the delay. You recently let me know directly what you updated so it's a bit too easy to see the changes! Thank you for the updates.

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brian san brian san
 
August 04, 2009 11:01 PM
Thanks!
I have updated the paragraph to include the fact that the journalists have now been freed. Looks like Clinton is the one who did a great job!

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mithrandir mithrandir
 
August 04, 2009 09:10 AM
Nice!
I've given it a try for my new Avatar movie page. I realize the page itself is not really up to scratch, still lots of work to be done. However, this is a page that will hopefully become way more popular in the future, when the film is about to be published.

The page is this one: avatar, and the news item is the upcoming Avatar Day, which will show footage in IMAX theaters for free, whihc should be of interest to all who want to know more about the movie.

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lesliec lesliec
 
August 04, 2009 02:32 PM
Looks good! Do you realize you have two related sections on your page?

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mithrandir mithrandir
 
August 04, 2009 02:47 PM
You mean the trailer and the poster? Indeed, but I don't know how to combine both in one 'featured' section. I guess that should be possible too.

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jeffhoard jeffhoard
 
August 04, 2009 06:57 PM
Two "related sections"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33749589@N07/3788980579/

Just "X" out one of them.

I also think the film summery would be better a text section in the "Guide Note" as oppose to the "link section"

However, the news update is perfect! Great job

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hillo hillo
 
August 04, 2009 12:16 PM
Nice tips here @jeffhoard, thanks.

I recently added news about the increased prize money for 2009.

I'll be updating the US Open Tennis page regularly as the tournament approaches this month and then daily during the event. Lots of great athletes and tennis action including Roger Federer, Serena Williams and many others on both the mens' and womens' ATP tour, check it out...!

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Youtube


Tags: management, tennis, open, page, us

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lesliec lesliec
 
August 04, 2009 02:42 PM
Very nice! I sent you a DM with a couple pointers on it for you!

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hillo hillo
 
August 04, 2009 03:44 PM
Got it, all set in about 10 minutes...thanks!

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wook wook
 
August 04, 2009 12:19 PM
I have a question regarding SEO optimization for breaking news. I'm definitely a noob regarding SEO but I was kind of under the impression that keywords should be higher up in the page, thus for breaking news, we'd want to put terms regarding the latest news first. Am I totally off on this?

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brian san brian san
 
August 04, 2009 02:08 PM
Mahalo wants to keep a certain standard continuity to all of the pages. And that means keeping the breaking news to the second paragraph.

I think that makes sense. I don't think the placement of breaking news keywords in the second instead of first paragraph is really going to outweigh the usefulness of having a uniform format for all pages on Mahalo.

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hillo hillo
 
August 04, 2009 03:45 PM
hi @wook, excellent word, 'noob'...I like it, formal definition not required...

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jeffhoard jeffhoard
 
August 04, 2009 07:08 PM
Good question, the two paragraphs combined is usually under 300 words, so as far as I know the keywords in both paragraphs should count. Updating the news section on your page regularly should give you better rank.

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cp24 cp24
 
August 05, 2009 04:11 AM
I just picked up a new topic page: NBA Schedule as it was released today.
http://www.mahalo.com/nba-schedule

When I picked up the NBA Schedule page, it looks like it hasn't been updated for a while. There are still also more work to be done.

Recently, I also updated Lamar Odom page.
http://www.mahalo.com/lamar-odom

The announcement of Odom's contract re-sign was last week but the breakdown of his salary and details of his contract has just been announced.

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