I have a lot going on outside of my communities, but that’s no excuse to not move my communities forward in 2012. My first goal is to get more organized. I need to a better system for making it through each of my communities each and every day. I should be able to contribute to…
Category Archives: Administration
Time to get back to my communities
One of the nice things about running established online communities is that you can take a break and things generally run just fine. I have spent a lot of time on my sports photography, but the primary sports seasons are over so back to managing my communities. My first task will be ensuring everything is…
Keeping Up To Date and Secure
One important aspect of running an online community is safety. Keeping your software up to date is one of the best way to ensure your community stays safe. Today I updated CommunityAdministrator.com with the latest WordPress software. I also needed to update the theme and 5 plugins. There are times when an update is simply a…
Should you start an online community?
Running an online community can be rewarding and profitable, but it can also be expensive and frustrating. Do you have what it takes to run an online community? What is your goal? To have fun, be an industry leader, make money, or promote your product are a few good reasons to run an online community….
Godaddy Promo Code
I just renewed 5 .com domains with the promo code gdz1112a and it worked perfectly.
Using Quantcast
I am starting to add external tracking to all of my sites. I want all of my advertisers (or potential advertisers) to see my website statistics. I use AWstats, PiWik, and Google Analytics to track all of traffic. This works great internally but does not help our advertisers see out true stats. Many sites simply…
Average Bounce Rate
I have been looking at my bounce rate lately and wondering if I should be looking to improve it. So one of my questions became what is the average bounce rate. I found that there is no good answer. Each site varies greatly. Looking at your bounce rate against your competitors might be the best…
Statistics Software and Application
If you want to run a successful online community you need to have some statistics. How are people finding your site. What do they do when they get there. What pages do they stop looking at you site on. What browsers are they using. These are all questions you need to answer. They help to…
GoDaddy Coupon Codes for 2011
Around the first of each month I try to renew all of the domains that expire that month. Today was the day to take care of January 2011 expiring domains. I use GoDaddy as my registrar. They are normally pretty good on price and I have never had an issue with them. I will always…
Online Community Demographics
One of the tough things to managed is all of your stats and other data when you manage several communities. I am receiving statistics from Google Analytics, Quantcast, Adify, AWStats, OpenX, OpenX OnRamp, Chitika, Google Adsense, Google Adwords, and Google Webmaster Tools. There are probably a few more sources that I am not thinking of….
