If you don’t grow, adapt, and change you will not be able to run a successful online community. That’s not to say you should forget about your core goals, values, and members, but you still need to keep up. Sometimes that includes simply apply security updates. Other times it might require a complete site rebuild….
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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…
Getting more blog comments
There are many types of online communities, but all of them need some sort of interaction between you and members of your community. Brand new online communities have a difficult time getting new discussions going. Who wants to talk to themselves? A blog or forum without any comments will not entice people to post their…
Increasing Traffic Through Google Images Search
I have Google’s image search a million times. Okay maybe not that much, but I use it a fair amount. I have never really thought about taking advantage of Google’s image search to benefit my own sites, but today the light went on. Actually it was a slow site that caught my attention. One of…
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…
Do Something Everyday
Setting up an online community is not easy work. Not only do you need to setup whatever software packages you want to use. Then you need to add content and customize the site you your needs. Then you need to get people to come. A online community is not really that if you are the…
