Our Hometown News

By Our-Hometown.com

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April 03, 2023 Article Export for Reverse Publishing
https://youtu.be/XDgB53BEo2w Reverse publishing at the basic level is the process of creating and managing all of your content directly on your website, including articles, blogs, galleries, advertising, e-editions and so forth. Any of this content can then be exported as needed for use in a page layout application, such as Adobe InDesign. This method uses common XML to structure and tag your content simplifying the import process. From your website’s dashboard look for Reverse Publishing in the menu list on the left. As you hover your mouse a submenu will appear, then click on Reverse Publishing. Here is where your...
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Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need. We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.
OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive
https://our-hometown.com
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber
Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]
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March 30, 2023 Customize your sharing icons with AddToAny
Our-Hometown's WordPress Publishing Platform uses the AddToAny plugin to add social sharing functionality to all Articles, Pages, Events and other Custom Post Types (when enabled). Each piece of content will feature a series of sharing icons that allow a reader to quickly share the content on their favorite social media networks, or via SMS and Email. The AddToAny icons are enabled on our websites by default, so you've likely seen these icons when browsing through your online content: While these icons are pretty straight forward and certainly serve their purpose adequately, you may not be aware that you can customize...
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Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need. We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.
OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive
https://our-hometown.com
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber
Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]
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March 22, 2023 Using your website to supplement your print edition
When speaking with news publishers about the value of offering a digital alternative to the printed newspaper, we're often asked how the website can add value to their product. Sure, there are the obvious advantages on the newspaper's end, such as new streams of revenue from digital subscriptions and online advertisements, but publishers want to know what advantages readers can expect. The key is using your website to supplement your print edition rather than simply acting as a clone of the newspaper. If readers can find the same identical content in both places, there is little benefit to paying extra...
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Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need. We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.
OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive
https://our-hometown.com
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber
Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]
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March 08, 2023 How ChatGPT aims to improve search engines & SEO
Our special LIVE WEBINAR on SEO For Newspapers is just one week away, and because the presentation will focus heavily on new AI language models like ChatGPT, we thought we would try something different this week. In an effort to demonstrate the true power and potential of the tool, we've asked ChatGPT itself to explain the impact its abilities will have on search engines and search engine optimization. Please enjoy the blog post below generated entirely by ChatGPT! Our-Hometown, Inc: Can you explain, from your own perspective, how ChatGPT aims to change the future of Search Engines and Search Engine...
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Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need. We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.
OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive
https://our-hometown.com
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber
Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]
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March 01, 2023 AI Technologies and SEO for News Publishers - Webinar Replay
https://youtu.be/XHUewyYGijA Our recent webinar focused on Search Engine Optimization for news publishers and highlighted various techniques for optimizing your website's structure and content in order to improve visibility and ranking on popular search engines. We also cover several new topics since last year's webinar, including helpful content and spam updates from Google, as well as a look at AI-generated content and how it may effect search results. Video Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:13 - Agenda 00:01:53 - Google's Helpful Content Updates 00:03:21 - Machine Learning (HCU) 00:05:42 - Clues in Google's Announcement 00:08:51 - Our-Hometown's Related Stories Feature 00:11:15 -...
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Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need. We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.
OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive
https://our-hometown.com
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber
Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]
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February 27, 2023 Display Ad Reverse Publishing with a Run Sheet
Copy Ad File Path Each user will need to set the local path to the folder that holds the Ad image files on your local computer. Instructions for finding and copying the path of your ad PDFs for each platform are below: Save Ad Path Into Your Profile Once you have the file path copied, log into your personal WordPress account (shared accounts will not work).From the WordPress admin dashboard, click on "Edit Profile" at the top right of the page. Scroll down toward the bottom of the Profile page and paste the ad file path into "Local Ad files...
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourhometownwebpublishing/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourhometowninc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/
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Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need. We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.
OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive
https://our-hometown.com
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber
Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]
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February 23, 2023 SEO Features on the Our-Hometown Web Platform
The Our-Hometown web platform utilizes the All in One SEO plug-in to provide a convenient interface to manage many aspects of the search engine optimization for your website. https://youtu.be/4x6_A7TIPAk All in One SEO Setup All in One SEO provides a convenient wizard to guide you through the initial setup process, prompting for information about your website, including metadata, contact information, social links, and search appearance. All in One SEO Dashboard Step-by-Step: All in One SEO Setup Wizard The following is a walkthrough of the setup process utilizing the wizard. All in One SEO Quicklinks This set of links from the...
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/
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Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need. We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.
OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive
https://our-hometown.com
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber
Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]
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February 22, 2023 SEO for Newspapers LIVE WEBINAR set for March 17th
Our-Hometown is excited to announce that our friend and industry expert Michael Cottam will be joining us on March 17th, 2023 to host a LIVE WEBINAR on SEO For Newspapers! The presentation will focus on Search Engine Optimization for news publishers and will highlight various techniques for optimizing your website's structure and content in order to improve visibility and ranking on popular search engines. Michael will also cover several new topics since last year's webinar, including helpful content and spam updates from Google, as well as a look at AI-generated content and how it may effect search results. For newspaper...
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Let us know your thoughts about this episode by reaching out on Social Media!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourhometowninc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourhometownwebpublishing/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourhometowninc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/
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Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need. We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.
OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive
https://our-hometown.com
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber
Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]
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February 17, 2023 From Imagination to Pagination
https://youtu.be/UxvqlGGSHQM Below we provide an overview of article creation on your website, managing images, ads, and reverse publishing content to Adobe InDesign. Video Guide 00:21 - Article Creation — Overview 01:24 - Common Block Types and Panels 06:43 - Advanced Layouts 08:10 - Media Library and NextGEN Galleries 12:23 - Reverse Publishing — Articles 17:07 - Reverse Publishing — Display Ads 18:37 - Reverse Publishing — Classifieds Article Creation Advanced Layout Media Management Reverse Publishing
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/
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Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need. We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.
OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive
https://our-hometown.com
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber
Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]
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February 09, 2023 The Secret to Growing Papers: Give the readers what they want
The following guest column was contributed by our friend and industry expert, Kevin Slimp! Don't miss Kevin's LIVE webinar on "Advanced Skills in Photoshop" next Thursday, February 16th at 3PM EST. It is available to Our-Hometown customers free as part of the Kevin Slimp Webinar Series! Earlier this month, I traveled about an hour from my home to conduct focus groups for a weekly newspaper in Tennessee. Focus groups come in all sizes and shapes. This particular focus group was a little different than most. The paper had gathered 15 seniors – the minimum age requirement was 60 – to...
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/
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Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need. We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.
OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive
https://our-hometown.com
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber
Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]
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FAQs about Our Hometown News:

How many episodes does Our Hometown News have?

The podcast currently has 380 episodes available.