Content Composer User Guide: Product Website: Support Information
Content Composer User Guide: Product Website: Support Information
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Product Website: www.contentcomposer.com Support Information: www.joltsupport.com Copyright 2004-2007 Jolt Marketing Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents ..............................................................................................2 Welcome! ..........................................................................................................1 Installing Content Composer ..............................................................................2 Content Composer What Can it Do? ............................................................... 3 Analyze Material for Keyword Density ................................................. 3 Create New Content from Templates................................................... 4 Save Articles in Ready-To-Publish Formats......................................... 4 Using Content Composer An Overview ........................................................... 5 The Opening Screen..........................................................................................6 The Menubar and Toolbar..................................................................................7 The Menu Bar ..................................................................................... 7 The Toolbar ........................................................................................ 8 The File and Keyword Component..11 The Content Composer Component ................................................................. 13 Cool Tools ....................................................................................................... 17 The Automatic Keywords Replacement.17 Insert Hard Break After Each Line ..................................................... 18 HTML Preview .................................................................................. 19 Spell Check....................................................................................... 19 Thesaurus......................................................................................... 19 Auto-Thesaurus Scanner .................................................................. 19 Repeat Last Replacement In Thesaurus............................................ 19 Compare Content.............................................................................. 19 Multiple Files Analyzer ...................................................................... 20 Article Usage Report ......................................................................... 21 Search For Content........................................................................... 21 Check For Plagairism........................................................................ 21 Google Adsense Checker ................................................................. 21 Help.................................................................................................. 22 Export Article .................................................................................... 23 Download Latest Update ................................................................... 23 Is that it?.......................................................................................................... 24
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Welcome!
Thank you for investing in Content Composer! You may not be aware of it, but youre about to take content generation to an entirely new level. No other program in existence compares to the feature rich components that youll find in Content Composer and I dont make that statement lightly. Why? Because like you, I once hunted down software that promised to do what only Content Composer does and in doing so, I wasted hundreds of dollars in pursuit of software that didnt even come close. The problem was that Content Composer didnt exist then. In fact, the only solution I had was to commission my development team to create it. This is what you have before you - a real solution that generates real results. Content Composer just isnt the same simple-minded fill me out script that you might have grown used to working with. Built from years of research and high-level language programming, this software appeases to the intelligent end-user to generate intelligent content content that will separate you from the amateurs online without question. The User Guide that you have before you was written to provide you with a thorough yet quick knowledge of how to start writing your content without any hassles and without having to stop what youre doing to ask for assistance. Its not that we are unwilling to help you will find that we offer some of the best, most responsive suport in the business. Our primary objective however, is that you begin generating professional, high quality and carefully optimized content immediately, to give you the edge over oyur competitors within the search engines. That philosophy is what this guide was built on. Whether you write your own content, outsource using ghostwriters, or use Public Domain or Private Label Rights (PLR) youll soon learn why Content Composer is the top choice among search engine experts and web content professionals today. I wish you the best of success with your web content!
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This is where Content Composer really shines! As you write, Content Composer constantly analyzes your content telling you how to improve or optimize your content for better results in the search engines. This not only makes your job easier as an author, it effectively makes the work that you publish consistent, professional with just the right amount of optimization. Whats even more exciting about working with Content Composer is that you can design templates (using the Content Transformer) and use them to generate unique content at any time. That means, you have the opportunity to write about a topic once, yet transform that article into multiple variations at the click of a button (while still maintaining the quality, reability and integrity of the content)!
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Help Menu Item Contents Download Latest Update Download Dictionary Add-ons Download CC Lite About Content Composer
Function Displays the help file youre viewing now. Updates Content Composer in the background. Downloads different language dictionaries. Downloads the "Lite" version of Content Composer. Describes development of Content Composer.
The Toolbar
The tool bar gives you fast access to the following most commonly used functions: Icon Function Starts a new article. Opens an existing article. Saves an open article. Prints an article. Cuts text to the clipboard. Copies text to the clipboard. Pastes text from the clipboard. Un-does the last action. Finds text in an open article. Replaces one keyword with another. Automatically captures copied text to the clipboard. Reformats lines to fit a specified character count. Shows an open article in a web browser window. Checks the spelling of the open article. Suggests alternative word usage. Replaces all words with an alternative selection. Scans and highlights words appropriate for synonym replacement. Analyzes similarity/difference between two articles Displays statistics of multiple articles. Displays statistics of multiple articles using the same Primary Keyword file. Opens and loads a convenient search engine. Checks open article against 3 search engines for similar content Displays (sample) Google Adsense ads based on your articles keyword optimization Displays the help file youre viewing now.
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... and the files inside those folders are displayed underneath. It works almost exactly like Windows Explorer. To open a file, double click it and it will display itself in the Content Composer Component to the right. Once the file is open, the next section of this component (Content Statistics) will display itself.
You can see which files are inside each folder by clicking the name of a folder up top. By default, the type of files that will be displayed are Content Composer files (files ending with a .ccf extension) but you can view other files inside of a folder by changing the filter option at the very bottom of this section.
Content Statistics. This section describes important information regarding the article that youve opened. Of course, if youre starting a new file, the text boxes will be blank and youll have an opportunity to fill them in with the information that you want to monitor.
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For example, you will need to supply things like your name, the title of your article, its meta description and keywords (for your website content), your Primary Keyword, and your Theme Keywords.
Click a blue page icon to enter each of your keywords or keyword phrases in a separate window, as in the example below. This makes it easier to enter in data in the event that you have a long list of keywords or keyword phrases.
As you can see, these windows present their own toolbars for you to easily open a keyword list that you already have, make adjustments, and even save! Of course, you can also use your basic editing cut, copy, and paste functions from the toolbar as well. The Keyword Synonyms area (not shown above) provides an easy way for you to add expert verbiage, search engine synonyms and alternate phrases right into your content with the click on a mouse. This gives you the flexibility to use a variety of targeted keywords and phrases to sprinkle within your article. The last thing you want to do is over use your primary keyword phrase within an article (known as keyword stuffing). Synoymns are a great way to stay on theme and on topic without excessive use of your primary keyword.
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Once youve filled in this information, click the green check icon so that Content Composer can begin to monitor the article that you develop and simultaneously count and/or adjust existing percentages of the keywords that you type. NOTE: Its extremely important that you save the information youve entered thus far especially if you need to forward your Primary and Theme Keywords to your ghostwriter. Content Composer is available in two versions: A limited-function Lite version, and the fully functional version that youre using now. By saving your keyword data, you can easily forward your keyword file(s) to a ghostwriter who uses the lite version of Content Composer. Ghostwriters who use the lite version of Content Composer can write your articles that include your preferred keywords, density, and word count in a file format (CCF) that you can effortlessly import into your fully functional version for advanced editing, comparisons, analyzations, transformations, exporting and reporting.
The Density figure that you see (in red) is based upon the number of times that your Primary Keyword is found in your article. In the example below, the density shows as 0% because we havent written an article yet. But this figure changes as you begin to type and include your Primary Keyword in your writing.
To monitor a specific keyword or keyword phrase, you can select one from the Primary Keywords drop-down box, or you can check a few Theme Keywords from the Theme Keywords box.
In this section of the Content Statistics, you can easily monitor the amount of times that your Primary Keyword (always displayed with blue type) appears within your article. Theme Keyword Density is also shown which is an important factor when producing web content today. You can also monitor other pertinent information such as how many words exist in your article, how many paragraphs youve written, and the number of Theme Keywords that youve
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written along with their individual densities. Content Composer also tracks and displays your Keyword Prominence (which is important when optimizing your content for the search engines) and provides suggestions if your Prominence is outside of the recommended range.
Advanced Analyzation. For more data, you can view the Advanced Analyzation section of the component to count every usage of your keywords and calculate their individual densities. In the example below, you can see the Primary Keyword (always displayed with red type) and the Theme Keyword (always displayed with green type).
You can adjust what to count, by selecting or de-selecting the kinds of keyword patterns that youd like to monitor underneath. Clicking the Refresh button will adjust the count number and percentages that are displayed up top.
Now of course, you certainly dont want Content Composer to count every single word that appears in your article. These might be words that are commonly used like, a, the, or we, and so on and so forth. So to prevent Content Composer from counting common words, you can edit its SkipWords.Ini file (located in the directory that you installed Content Composer) and add words that you want Content Composer to ignore.
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The area accessible under the Content Editor tab displays the actual article that youre working on. But the area accessible under the Content Transformer Template tab displays four vital functions to facilitate your usage of the Content Composer templates. 1. Copy Content To Template. This section will take the information (article) displayed under the Content Editor tab and copy it to the Content Transformer Template window. This is a quick and easy way to create a new template based on content that you already have or that youve been working on in the Content Editor. Transformer Setup. This section of the Content Transformer Template allows you to create multiple variations of the same content so that Content Composer can randomly select one of those variations, and insert it where your fields are (that is, when youre ready to export your content). Using fields (letters between two percent signs, like %HEADER%, %BODY%, and %FOOTER% for example), Content Composer will insert information that you provide in the Content Transformer Setup to write new content for you. There's also a Content Title Template field, which will insert a new title for you when you export your documents. This feature gives your documents an additional fresh appeal. In fact, when you use the Batch Export feature, Content Composer will pull a title and use it in the articles themselves. Using %Up_% at the beginning on your Content Title Template field capitalize the first letter of each word in the title. For example: using %Up_%THEMEKWDS%% = Forest using %THEMEKWDS% = forest You can enter in as many variations of your content as you wish, however in order for Content Composer to randomly select just one, each entry must be on its own line and separated by two pound signs: ## Use the "##%NOTHING%##" field within the paragraph variations (left side) to tell Content Composer to NOT include a paragraph during the transformation (often referred to as article spining) process or to ignore adding a paragraph. This will help make your content variations more unique and vary the word and paragraph length of your content. While you're inside the Content Transformer Template window, you can easily create a custom field by simply highlighting a word, right-clicking that word, and then selecting "Create Custom Field and Variations" from the pop-up window. (Click the Auto Create Custom Field and Variations button for easier access to this function). This operation will automatically create a merge field for you - a field that you can freely modify.
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Or if you like, you can create your own custom fields by hand. In this case, you'll simply add a "[/V]" before each synonym (variation) of the words you want Content Composer to randomly select from. You can also insert the [/V] symbol from the "Merge Fields List." When you highlight a collection of word variations and click the Auto Create Custom Field and Variations button, Content Composer will prompt you for a name so that you can easily recognize and recall the set of variations you just created. Where will you find this reference? Well right next to the Content Transformer Template window is a convenient list of all the fields available for the template you're working on. To use a field in this Merge Fields List, simple place your cursor at the place where the field should appear, and then double-click the field name from inside the list. Content Composer will insert the field right where you want it within your template. Easy! Remember that each field is case sensitive and it must be encased by two percent signs. If you want to get a little fancy with your content, you can add a [/hb] symbol in your text to indicate a hard break, or a [/c] symbol to insert a comma. These symbols arent necessary when youre editing your text in the Content Editor window. But they are required when youre editing text that will serve as field values. Content Composer will automatically convert commas and hard breaks in a block of text should they appear in a selection that will use the Create Custom Field and Variations function. The only time that commas are appropriate in field values is when theyre used to separate the items that you want Content Composer to randomly select!
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You should also note the handy functions at the bottom of the Content Transformer Template window itself. These functions make editing your template even easier. You can cut, copy, paste, spell check and use the thesaurus right from the template window. And if the text within the window begins to look a little convoluted, you can check the Auto Line Wrap function to see all the text within the borders of the window. 3. Transform (Single). This function will generate a new article based on the data that you supplied earlier as field values, and then present the new article in the Content Editor Window. 4. Transform (Batch). This time saver allows you to export multiple variations of your article. You simply need to: a. select a folder to store your batch of articles b. give these articles a prefix name (a name that will begin each file) c. tell Content Composer how many articles that you want to generate d. select the format in which you want these articles to appear (as a CCF file, TXT file, or HTM/HTML file), and then e. hit Transform! Be sure to tell Content Composer to Include the Title as the first line within each file by selecting its check box (if you want).
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The end result will be any number of articles that you specified. When you open each one of these files, what youll see is your original content. However each of the files will display different information based on the data that you supplied earlier as field values. Content Composer uses a random "engine" to generate article variations within the transformer, therefore, sometimes it will generate identical articles. Click the Red "X" to remove any identical articles that are produced by the batch transformer.
Remember, you can safely experiment with the procedures in this chapter by making a copy of the sample.ccf file and then trying the suggestions with your copied file. Please make sure that youve mastered the instructions thus far before attempting the skills below!
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Cool Tools
Earlier, you were introduced to some of the functions available from Content Composers tool bar and menu bar. This section will expand on a few of them so that you can start to understand why there just isnt anything else that compares to Content Composer, and how they make your content creation ridiculously easy.
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When youve finished dragging, press the Insert Hard Break After Each Line icon and Content Composer will insert a hard break (carriage return) after each line of text as if you have pressed the [Enter] key while typing. At the bottom of the screen, youll see the exact number of characters per line thats created as you drag the windows border. This number will change as you move the border to a position or character size that you like.
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HTML Preview
By clicking this button, or selecting it from the Tools menu, you can see what your article in the Content Editor window would look like as an HTML page. You may use HTML tags within the text of your article to design your web page and preview it through the use of your own default webbrowsing program. Tip: You can even use your HTML formatted pages within the Content Transformer to create dozens of unique, content-rich webpages in no time!
Spell Check
The spell check function that comes with Content Composer works just like any other powerful spell checking program found in your favorite word processor. Just like in Microsoft Word (and some other word processing software), Content Composer will underlined incorrectly spelled works in red so that you can quickly find them and correct them!
Thesaurus
Content Composers thesaurus is really handy because not only does it function like most others, it goes one step further and allows you to either randomly or sequentially replace words that are already in your article! To do this, right click a word that you would like to replace with another, select the Thesaurus option, pick a replacement, and then click the Replace button. Next, select Content Composers other tool bar button...
Auto-Thesaurus Scanner
Talk about a time saver! Using the Auto-Thesaurus Scanner from either the Toolbar or the Tool menu, you can quickly locate replaceable words within a displayed article. This eliminates the need to scour through your documents and find these words by hand. Content Composer will do this for you by scanning your writing, and then highlighting each and every replaceable word in green. To replace a highlighted word with its synonym, simply click the word once and then make a selection from Content Composer's internal thesaurus. When finished using this feature, click the Auto-Thesaurus Scanner icon on the toolbar to remove the green color.
Compare Content
This button is another content analysis tool that allows you to load two separate articles/content into one window and view how different or similar they are. This is really important to avoid two articles being too similar (which might cause a duplicate content problem for you in the search
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engines). We recommend that your content be at least 30% different (if not more) before uploading or submitting variations of the same article online. From this screen, you can find out how similar or different your articles are in reference to: Text Length Word Count Keyword Count Unique Keywords The Same Keywords This information is particularly helpful to know when youre trying to create unique content.
In addition to comparing articles by keyword, you can also compare articles by phrases. Words in red indicate content that is the same. Phrase comparison is the preferred option of comparison, since its a known fact that this is the same way the search engines analyze web pages.
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When you open many files with the Multiple Files Analyzer, Content Composer will open them in a spreadsheet so that you can quickly view the basic differences among the files that you selected. To change the order in which files are displayed, click on a column header to sort them. Files in the Multiple Files Analyzer are sorted ascending or descending by the criteria determined in the column header's name.
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browser and load up the ContentRover search engine a free tool you can use to research anything!
Adsense Ad Checker
Click this button if you are curious as to how well your article is optimized and what kind of Google Adsense ads your article will display within your webpage. Content Composer will display a test ad. The ads won't generate revenue for anyone, but you can still click the links in the ad to see what type of websites are being advertised in the ad.
Help
Clicking this button will display the help file that youre reading now.
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Export Article
Selecting Export Article Unformatted tool (offered from the File menu), will export your articles as a plain text file, while selecting Export Article Formatted will save your article with the #Title field, #Description field, and #Keywords field included, like in the example below.
This feature is valuable for those who need to generate HTML pages (with other software) based on the values of these fields.
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Is that it?
Even though Content Composer is by far the best and most powerful content editor and publishing system available, its important that you realize its merely a tool that simply wont work unless you use it - and use it well! Its not unlike purchasing the fastest sports car in town all that raw horsepower and fancy buttons wont do you any good unless you drive it. So, now that youve taken the time to read this in-depth User Guide, why not put your bootstraps on and start generating some great, well optimized content? You have at your hands every tool imaginable to create unique, quality content to get you more traffic and better rankings in the search engines. Wishing you great success with your articles and web contnet!
Jason Potash Do you have a question? Need some help? Visit our support site at www.joltsupport.com P.S. In addition to this User Guide, dont forget to check out the workbooks, videos, and other training materials that are part of Content Composer. The software by itself is only half of the equation. Once you truly understand why you are using Content Composer a certain way, things will become much more clear, and you will be more successful with your content as a result.
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