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Tips for Senior Staff on Using the Promotions Control Panel

First step: Click on the toggle button at the top of the promotion page. That will show you how many items are already promoted for each category and how long they have been up. If there are already 8 H2 headlines, you know, that if you're going to promote anything to H2, you will have to un-promote some. Do that by clicking on the blue X. I found 11 H2 headlines this morning. Three were not visible. We don't want that. I tend to un-promote articles that have been up more time, preferably over 20 hours. Sometimes you have to be more aggressive though. Try to leave senior staff and our top writer items up longer.

After you've cleared spaces in the different headline slots, do your promoting. Keep H4 in mind, especially if there are images. Also consider articles with images for H1 headlining. And consider grabbing images from flickr to add to H1 articles.

Keep in mind that most trusted authors articles are usually automatically promoted to H3. But usually, so many are on the site that some won't be displayed. Manually promoted H3s get priority. If you see an H3 article that you want to be sure is visible, manually promote it to H3.