By Thaya Kareeson (http://zemanta.com)

Zemanta is an awesome plugin that helps you automatically find helpful links, photos, and other online sources that relate directly to the post you're writing. Once installed, you will see a new side-panel when you create or edit a post or page. Once you start typing in the body of your post, Zemanta will automatically scour the web looking for photos and other blog posts that cover similar items.

To use Zemanta, simply start writing a new blog post. Beneath the post, you will find a panel called "IN-TEXT LINKS". As you write, specific keywords will be listed in this panel. These keywords are links to websites that Zemanta found online. Clicking one of these keywords will automatically create a link to the website.

In the side-bar panel, Zemanta includes a panel of related images and a panel of related posts online that relate directly to the content you are producing. Clicking on one of the images Zemanta found will insert the image at the current cursor position.