Blogging question

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I have a question about blogging. I’m thinking of adding a custom feature to my website, where when you write a blog post, you can also place a link to the post from a page that’s mentioned in the blog post. Here’s a sample website that has it:
https://www.eralandmark.com/big-sky/

If I write a blog post about new construction in a specific city, I want to place a link to that blog post from the new construction page and from the city page.

Do you think this is an important feature to have? Does it improve website’s SEO?

What are your thoughts?

TIA

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So, your pages have the “Related Blog Posts” section linking to related blog posts, and you currently have to manually pull together those blog post URLs to put there, and you want the system to auto-create this widget instead, by finding all the blog posts that include a link to the current page?
I’m sure we’d all agree it’s good for SEO to have those relevant links on your pages. Making it automated is simply a time-saver. As a feature it would only benefit the people with a lot of blog posts of course.

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Great input @GerryT, thanks for jumping in.

To add to it, @RUSSELLVOLK, what I typically do for blogs is link back to the community hub page you’re writing about, in the first section; ideally the first sentence if its contextually related.

Say I write a blog about a specific amenity in the area, the easiest way to link to it FROM the community page is to write an FAQ on the community page, and link back to the blog, again, within the first sentence, if possible.

That way you’re linking TO and FROM the community page. All that’s left is to add FAQ schema to the community page and make sure that question is included - in short, it helps with getting cited by LLMs and AI overviews.

Regarding an automated system, it’s definitely possible - it’s our dynamic tagging system. Your AM can tell you more about it. For starters though, having the back and forth linking at the top of the page would be an extremely beneficial place to start.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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Thank you for your input. I’m not looking to automate the process. I just want to be able to place a link to a blog post from a specific page. But I don’t want it to be just a link. I want the image and everything. Just like on the sample page I posted in my original comment. Is there a way to do this without a custom project?

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What site / version are you on? What’s your URL?

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Here’s my new website in dev: https://russellvolk.rewtemplates.com/

My blog is currently pretty empty, but my goal is to start blogging regularly.

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I put the snippet you need on your homepage - check it out! :slight_smile:

It’s just called #featured-blog-posts# and it’s built in, no custom work required

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Thanks Morgan. Yeah, I saw this one before, but it pulls all blog posts. I love the format though. Is there a way to display only specific blog posts in the same format, so I can place it on the interior pages with relevant posts? For example, I have a page called “55+ and Active Adult Homes”. If I write a blog post about 55+ communities, I’d like to be able to place a link to that blog post on the 55+ and Active Adult Homes page. Is there a way to do this using the same format?

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I don’t think so (@FernandoOrtiz ?) < is there a way to pull just specific tags or categories?

But you could just steal the code from the main one - and then use AI to generate the code specific to more drilled down versions

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Hey Morgan! This is actually trickier than it looks. #featured-blog-posts# is a module snippet driven by internal code logic, not just static HTML. AI could easily generate the visual HTML structure, but it won’t be able to handle the dynamic tag and category filtering without writing custom backend code.