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Creating and Using Link Lists in Copilot
Creating and Using Link Lists in Copilot
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Written by Vijay Krishna Mallik
Updated over a week ago

What is a link list?

Link Lists in Copilot allow editorial teams to add custom units that help readers discover relevant content to the bottom of an article. With this new process, they are easy to keep centrally administer and curate link lists across multiple articles, thereby saving time and increasing efficiency.

Link lists allow for custom, curated text, an unlimited amount of items, and can be updated and reused as much as you'd like.

Benefits of this new workflow:

  • Will not count towards the article's word count.

  • Allow for altering them in one place and having the changes be reflected everywhere that list lives.

  • Allow for easily adding best-performing content into lists.

    Example link list on Vanity Fair:

Creating a Link List and Adding it to Content

1) Create a Curated List

Create a new Curated List from the Create Section of the navigation. When in your new Curated List, select Link List as your "Curation Type".

Fill in the following information:

  • Headline (title of your link list that will be visible on site)

  • Dek (optional text)

  • Image (optional icon for your link list)

  • Body (optional footer)

2) Set Link List Items

To set items in your link list, type out the contextual copy, hyperlink your desired text, and select the Internal Link option.

When selected, you will be taken to the asset finder modal where you can search and select the piece of content you wish to link to. You are able to add as many items as you want to your link list and can reorder them easily by dragging the text boxes into place.

This internal linking tool allows for deduplication, meaning an article will not include a link list item that links to itself. If you hyperlink as usual, you will not have this benefit.

3) Publish Link List

When you are all done setting up your list, add a slug (this won't be found anywhere by users but is still necessary) and publish as you would any curated list.

Once published, you will be able to associate the link list to a piece of content.

4) Adding a Link List to Content

Enter an article, then scroll down to the "Related Content" section of the form. There you will find a 'Link List' option that will take you to the asset finder modal where you can search for Curated Searches.

5) Updating a Link List

The beauty of this feature is that you are able to re-use and update old link lists whenever you'd like. To do so, simply find the curated list link list you want to update and swap out any items, then publish your changes. Once updated, all content with that link list attached will receive the most up-to-date link list.

Other Things to Notes

  • Link lists can only be displayed on articles.

  • If a piece of content that is included in your link list has that link list attached, it will not appear on itself.

  • The words within the link list do not count towards the content's word count.

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