Blogging these days is not a hard thing to do and just about anyone can have great success. But to make things even a bit more easily, Yahoo has come out with some great shortcuts to improve any blog. If you are just starting out or have been blogging for a while now, take advantage of these and see the benefits. Learn the Benefits of Automatic Detection One of the greatest tools available with Yahoo is their automatic detection. This tool works as you are writing your blogs and detects important information to add links and shortcuts to it. For example, let's say you are blogging about a certain office building in your town. The automatic detection will post a shortcut with the direction and a map of the building. Another benefit of this is that Yahoo will put as many links and shortcuts as they can think of in your blog. This doesn't mean to that you have to keep all of them if you don't want to. Just keep the ones that you feel would mean the most to your readers or that could help them the most. But don't get rid of too many links because these can be great assets to your readers. You could also adjust how the shortcuts are displayed in your blog. There are so many different options that you can pick exactly how things are displayed according to the look and feel of you page. Enhance Your Blog with Flickr Images While you are writing your blog, Yahoo will start to look for frequent words or phrases in your blog and then find images that match those terms. These images come from Flickr, which are good, quality images to enhance the look of your page. Images are always a simple way to attract the eye and lure the reader in. A benefit of using Flickr images is that you will never have to worry about attributing a photo or the copyright. Yahoo takes care of all the legal business. You can just choose which images you want to keep. You can also resize them and reposition them to fit your page. Yahoo can find you more images or less, you can decide what works best for your blog.



There Are Many Shortcuts with Benefits There are many other shortcuts available with Yahoo and their automatic detection that can be very beneficial to your blog. There are even shortcuts with auto quotes, financial and stock information and different product information. Depending on your content, there are many options for shortcuts. Maybe you want to include an address or mention someplace in your blog. Yahoo can attach a map and even give directions to your readers. Or say you are blogging about a certain current event. Yahoo will attach a shortcut with related news articles and videos about it. You can even add a search to give your readers the option to explore other avenues. Whatever you choose to use, Yahoo has a shortcut to make it more achievable.