Glossary builder

Byword’s glossary builder allows you to quickly and easily put together glossaries, growing your site’s topical authority and traffic in the process.

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How do I use it?

Head to the glossary builder page, and choose which mode you’d like to use.

Regardless of which mode you choose, you should eventually end up with a screen that looks like this, with your terms listed out.

Once you’ve reached this stage, there are several actions which you can choose to take:

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Delete a term

To delete a term from the list, simply click on it.

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Delete all terms

To delete all of your terms, and start again, click on the ‘Restart’ button.

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Copy all terms

If you’d like to copy your terms, perhaps to export them to another app, click ‘Copy’.

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Add a term

To add a single term at a time, enter it into the input box, and click ‘Add Term’.

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Bulk add terms

If you’d like to add multiple terms at once, click on ‘Bulk Add’.

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Suggest new terms

If you’d like Byword to suggest new terms, based on what you’ve already added, click ‘Auto-Expand’.

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Generating your glossary articles

Once you’ve finished editing your glossary terms, you can head to the bottom of the page and customize some of your project-level settings:

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Glossary topic

This is a brief description of your glossary topic, to give Byword context when it’s writing your articles. This helps Byword to disambiguate between possible contexts. For example, a glossary on ‘current’ with the topic ‘electricity’ would lead to a different article to what you’d get with the topic ‘rivers’.

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Glossary name

This is a purely cosmetic field, and determines how your project will appear inside of Byword - just name it something that makes sense to you!

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Title structure

This determines the titles of your articles, to keep them consistent. It must contain the string {term} (this is where Byword inserts the term into). Byword generally recommends a title structure such as {term}: Gardening Explained or {term}: Guide to Gardening (where you can swap ‘Gardening’ for your own glossary topic).

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Glossary focus

This is an optional field which allows you to provide more instruction or tailoring to Byword. The focus should begin with ‘focus on… ’

Good examples of how to write a focus are:

• focus on how these concepts apply to UK law (for a glossary about law)

• focus on showing recipes which use these ingredients (for a glossary on italian cooking)

Once you’ve sorted your settings, you’re ready to hit Generate!

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