Description
Arena is the best live blogging platform for real-time events.
Automate content generation and distribution, leveraging social media to cover sports, breaking news, or any event, 24/7. With our plugin, your Live Blog can be fully automated or moderated by an editor or community manager.
Additionally, you can combine content generated by your team with user-generated content from social media.
Boost user engagement and time spent on your site by providing users relevant content they will want to consume and share.
The Arena Live Blog platform and WordPress plugin provide critical features such as:
- Real-time Live Blogging
- SEO Ranking Improvement
- Integration with the Arena Live Chat to increase user engagement
- Integration with Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, and other platforms
- Connection with your AdSense account to increase revenue
- Real-time audience analytics
- User-generated content curated from social media
- Automatic or moderated sports play-by-play
- Layout customization according to your brand and design style guide
- Sports calendar integration
- Cross-posting to social media
- In-feed comments inside the Blog
- Mobile Optimized
- Unlimited number of editors to manage your live events
- Reactions, sharing options, and threaded comments available on each post
- Interactive polls to keep your audience entertained and understand their views
- Sound alerts to notify your users of new posts
Live Blog is an impactful, authentic, and real-time engagement solution. It transforms your marketing strategy by making your content more interactive while increasing revenue and customer retention.
Arena Live Blog – Support
Here you can access our Help Center with additional guidance on setting up and making the best use of the Arena Live Blog.
Website
Visit our official website for more information: https://arena.im
Contact US
For more information, access dashboard.arena.im and talk to us on the Live Chat. We will get back to you within hours.
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Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events
FAQ-e
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What is a Live Blog?
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A Live Blog is basically a personalized news feed that can be integrated into any website, providing rolling coverage of an event in real-time.
Live blogging allows you to post regular updates to your blog as an event occurs, rather than writing about it just afterward.
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How can I install the Arena Plugin?
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1 – Search for the Arena plugin in the WordPress store, click on “Install Now,” and then “Activate.”
2 – You will see a message to set up your account. If you prefer, you can access the plugin settings.
3 – Log in with your Arena.im account.
4 – Select the site you want to show the events.
Then click on New Post in your WordPress.
There are two most used editors:
– Gutenberg (latest update);
– Classic EditorClick here to check a visual step by step on how to set up the Arena WordPress Plugin.
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How can I create a Live Blog on WordPress?
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Click here to learn how to create a Live Blog using the Arena WordPress Plugin, or check out this article to learn how to create a Live Blog from scratch.
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Do I need any advanced technical skills or professional support services to create a Live Blog?
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All of the Arena products are designed to be simple and easy, allowing anyone to configure their own Live Blogs, Live Chats, and Content Walls.
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How can Live Blog improve my content strategy?
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Live blogs optimize a lot of the editorial work while offering seamless content consumption experience to the final audience.
Live Blog encourages readers to interact more with your content and spend more time on your webpage. This increase in interactivity can ultimately boost your organic traffic results.
From a branding perspective, live blogs allow companies to position themselves as subject-matter experts, which is valuable for brands that deal with massive audiences and target a specific market niche.
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What happens if I reach my page views limit?
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Don’t worry! We won’t interrupt your service without notice. For all plans, we will send emails letting you know when you reach the limit.
If you are in the Basic and Professional plan, you can enable the Auto Upgrade option to automatically upgrade to the next plan and prevent the service from stopping.
If you’re in the Business plan and go over 100,000 page views, you will be charged $0.005 per page view.
You can also reach out to our support team to discuss different plans.
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How does Arena Liveblog improve my SEO?
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For each post on your Liveblog coverage, we add all the relevant schema.org properties. Google tends to favor those articles with live blogs while the event is happening because they have fresher information.
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Pricing Plans
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Start for FREE or find the right plan for your website. The Arena Live Blog is free for up to 5,000 page views a month.
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Contributors & Developers
“Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Interested in development?
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Changelog
0.3.0
Feature to update post date according to liveblog last update date
0.2.9
Minor adjustments
0.2.8
Minor adjustments
0.2.7
Minor adjustments
0.2.6
Minor adjustments
0.2.5
Minor adjustments
0.2.4
Improve SEO tags
0.2.3
Minor adjustments
0.2.2
Minor adjustments
0.2.1
Minor adjustments
0.2.0
Add gutenberg support
0.1.7
Minor adjustments
0.1.6
Update i18n
0.1.5
Minor adjustments
0.1.4
Add account configuration
0.1.3
Minor adjustments
0.1.2
Add width and height configuration on iframe and amp.
0.1.1
Minor adjustments
0.1.0
Add width and height configuration on iframe embed.
0.0.9
Minor adjustments
0.0.8
Update description
0.0.7
Minor adjustments
0.0.6
Minor adjustments to Arena API integration.
0.0.5
Arena WordPress plugin released.