Advisor Blogs

We know the Keen blog has been a meaningful space for many Advisors—one that has held years of insights, reflections, and connections with customers. As part of our ongoing platform review, we’re thoughtfully evaluating the potential retirement of our 18+ year-old blog system. The underlying technology is obsolete, and we’re exploring modern publishing options that better support you going forward.

What to know right now:

We encourage you to archive or save any blog content you’d like to keep.
No final decisions have been made regarding timing.
Our goal is to minimize impact and avoid disrupting your business.

We recognize this may feel like the end of an era, and we want to approach it with care and transparency. We’re also very open to your feedback and ideas on the future of Advisor content on Keen. If you’d like to share thoughts, suggestions, or concerns, please write to community@keen.com with the subject line “Advisor Blogs.”
We’ll continue to share updates as plans take shape, and we truly appreciate your patience and partnership as we navigate this together.

Your Blog URL & Promotional URL

Anyone can view your blog by visiting your personal blog URL at:https://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogs/YourBlogName/default.aspx

Manage and Update Your Blog

You must be logged into your Keen account in order to access the tools and features available to manage your blog and create posts. Once signed in, go to your blog and find the "Common Task" section and click on "New Post" or "Control Panel". From the Control Panel, you'll have access to all the tools and features to manage and update your blog, including:

Common Tasks

New Posts
- This is the link you'll use to publish content and images on your blog.
- Create the title and body content of your posts with options for text editing and inserting images and links.
- To insert an image, click on the image icon in the header. Enter a URL where the image is hosted. If you don't have a URL, then you may use a photo-sharing company, like Flickr or Snapfish, to host your images. Note: when entering the URL of the image, make sure you right-click on the image to obtain the correct URL of that photo only and not the page URL.
Options Tab
- Categories: If you've created categories for your posts, then you may assign the post to one of your categories. Creating categories keeps your blog posts organized and helps readers find posts relevant to them (learn more).
- Post Date: This allows you to schedule a date and time to publish a post in the future.
Review Comments
- If you've configured your blog to accept comments from readers, this is where you can access all the feedback/comments from your readers.
- You'll have the ability to view, filter, group, delete, edit comments, and view trackbacks.

Manage Content

Posts
- This will be your main area to manage your published and unpublished posts. Posts will all be listed in chronological order by date, and you can filter them by date, category and publish status and view, edit, or delete them.
- Reports Overview: From this page you'll be able to monitor Views, Aggregate Views, Comments, Published date & time.
- Detailed report: If for example, you have 4 views, you can click on the number and you'll be directed to the Referrals report. Here you can view the tracking url, hits, and can set up a way to view the referring url by creating a trackback.
- Trackbacks are creating by clicking on the "create trackback" link and clicking "ok".
  - What's a trackback?
    According to Wikipedia: Trackbacks are used to facilitate communication between blogs; if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another blog, and both blogging tools support the TrackBack protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the other blog with a "TrackBack ping"; the receiving blog will typically display summaries of, and links to, all the commenting entries below the original entry. This allows for conversations spanning several blogs that readers can easily follow.
- Categories
  - If you plan to post on many different topics, then creating categories may help you organize your blog posts in a way that will help your readers find and read them most effectively.
  - Readers can subscribe to one category via RSS feeds, in addition to your whole blog.
  - An example of how categories could be used would be a relationship advisor who creates category topics for Single Women, Single Men, Married Couples, and Divorced.
- Comments
  - From here you'll have access to all the feedback/comments from your readers.
  - You have the ability to view and filter comments and, depending on your settings, you'll have options to delete and edit comments and view trackbacks.
  - You can configure your blog to allow comments from Keen users only, anonymous users or no comments. (learn more about settings for comments)

Settings: Tools and Features

Advanced Post Settings

These are settings that primarily affect the way in which users can interact and access your posts and related comments. By setting the options in the Override/Globals tab you can modify the default value of post-level settings.

Default Tab
- Allow Replies/Comments- This will default to "Yes" but you can click on "No" and SAVE your request. (learn more about the benefits of allowing comments)
- Comment Moderation: The default is set to publish comments immediately. You can choose to review comments, which means no comment will be published without your approval first.
Global Override Tab
- Allow Anonymous Users to Comment - This will default to "YES".
  - "Anonymous User" is defined as a user who is not signed into their Keen account or does not have a Keen account yet.
  - Comment Day Limits: The default is set to always allow comments. You can specify a date range for comments from the first post date.