Happy Holidays & Happy New Year!

Posted on December 17, 2018 by admin

We hope your holiday season and new year is full of happiness.

Post your wishes for the new year on Shout Out Universe, website/app built on UltimateWB software.

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New website builder software upgrade for all UltimateWB versions!

Posted on August 30, 2018 by admin

We have recently released upgrades for all Ultimate Web Builder software versions.

UltimateWB Full, Lite, Essentials+, PromoU, and Promo 5.4 have updates to the Batch Upload Tool, the mail function, and the top page header/right side contact section (template header format).

UltimateWB Full and Lite 5.4 have updates to the Photos App slideshow/gallery & CSS code (styling/formatting) , Mailers App, and the Docs App.

Check out the newest versions on our online demos: www.ultimatewb.com/demolinks (available under the “Resources” tab).

Check out the list of what’s new on the What’s New page under the “Features” tab.

We welcome your feedback!

 

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Ultimate Web Builder Full 5.3 upgrade for built-in social networking apps

Posted on August 19, 2018 by admin

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We have recently released an upgrade to UltimateWB Full, for the built-in social apps.

UltimateWB Full 5.3 has an upgrade to the Timeline App – you can add hide/unhide links to posts.  Check out an example of it in action on the social networking website Shout Out Universe: www.shoutoutuniverse.com .

Another upgrade in this new version is to the Members Search tool.  You can now choose to allow members to opt out of searchable fields, and/or the members search tool.  Set the defaults for each.  There is also an added option to show just friends per the search performed in the Members Search tool.

Check out the newest version on the demos: www.ultimatewb.com/demolinks (available under the “Resources” tab).

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Software Upgrade for All Ultimate Web Builder Versions Released!

Posted on July 22, 2018 by admin

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We have recently released the UltimateWB 5.2 upgrade for all our software versions – Ultimate Web Builder Full, Lite, Essentials+, PromoU and Promo.  Check out what’s new on the What’s New page under the Features tab.

If you like to upload your website photos or documents using the built-in Batch Upload tool, this upgrade is for you!  We have upgraded this tool in all 5 Ultimate Web Builder versions.  Besides necessary coding upgrades, we have added some new features to it too!

  • Modify file names directly in tool
  • Modify photo ordering in tool (besides option to change order in photos admin panel)
  • View photos uploaded in file or thumbnail format

The UltimateWB Full 5.2 upgrade also includes more easy customization options for coderes through the built-in Ad(d)s app.  Easily add your own coding to these new points:

  • After post unliked function
  • After comment liked function
  • After comment unliked function
  • After comment reply notify function
  • After subscribed comment notify function
  • After friend request notify function

You can check out the newest Ultimate Web Builder software for all versions on our Demo (under the Resources tab).  We welcome your feedback!

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Why you need a sitemap for your website search engine ranking & SEO

Posted on May 6, 2018 by admin

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A sitemap is just like how it sounds – it’s a roadmap for search engines that lead them to your webpages. It’s a list of your website’s individual page urls,in an XML file, so that Google and other search engines can crawl and index – and rank – your site’s pages more easily.  There’s a good reason to make a sitemap for your website!  If you want a high search engine ranking to direct traffic to your website from user internet searches, it can be a very important part in your website’s SEO (search engine optimization),

Besides the page url, sitemaps can provide important and useful metadata, i.e. information about each webpage, such as when the page was last updated.  If a page has been updated, you want the new page to be crawled again.  So, having a sitemap also makes it easier for search engines to know when to recrawl your webpages.

But, do you really need a sitemap?  …Like using the road signs to get around, or a road map or asking directions.    According to Google:

If your site’s pages are properly linked, our web crawlers can usually discover most of your site. Even so, a sitemap can improve the crawling of your site, particularly if your site meets one of the following criteria:

  • Your site is really large. As a result, it’s more likely Google web crawlers might overlook crawling some of your new or recently updated pages.
  • Your site has a large archive of content pages that are isolated or well not linked to each other. If you site pages do not naturally reference each other, you can list them in a sitemap to ensure that Google does not overlook some of your pages.
  • Your site is new and has few external links to it. Googlebot and other web crawlers crawl the web by following links from one page to another. As a result, Google might not discover your pages if no other sites link to them.
  • Your site uses rich media content, is shown in Google News, or uses other sitemaps-compatible annotations. Google can take additional information from sitemaps into account for search, where appropriate.
    (via Google: Learn about sitemaps)

While there’s no guarantee that Google or other search engines will crawl and index all your listed webpages, usually your website will benefit from having a sitemap, so why not?

Creating and maintaining a sitemap is easy with Ultimate Web Builder Full and Ultimate Web Builder Lite software – with the built-in sitemap generator!  You just choose which types of pages (content, listings, photos, videos, classifieds, etc.) you want included in your website sitemap, and whether to include each page’s modified date, and the generator does the job for you.  You can choose to run the sitemap generator manually, or have it automatically run for you – and automatically update your sitemap –  by setting up the “cron job”, or automatic script, for it on your web hosting control panel.  Again, no coding required for this either – just copy/paste a line for the setup.  Easy peasy!

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Sitemap Generator, Settings

Cron Jobs (Automatic Scripts), web hosting control panel, cPanel

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Related: How To Easily & Automatically Create An RSS Feed For Your Website

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Craigslist is not free anymore – you have to pay to post gigs and resumes too

Posted on March 16, 2018 by admin

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Update June 2018: Craigslist doubles its fees, increasing the $5 fee to post in the USA to $10 in popular cities like New York and San Francisco.

Did you post your Craigslist gig or resume before their March 15 updates?  If so, you might not have noticed their fee changes yet.  Craigslist is no longer known as the nice free website you can post free classifieds or resumes/services offered on, while wondering how they make their money since there are no ads (until they made the change to charge for the jobs categories).  Nope, now they are charging the little guys too, not just the companies with open full-time/part-time positions to post.  Each post in the gigs or resume/services offered sections in the US and selected CA areas will be charged too.  Sucks, but there can be a silver lining for some.

So, each poster on craigslist in the US has paid a fee.  We know from dating sites that this does not mean less spam or fake posts, or even scams.  But, so far it is looking to mean less posts on Craigslist.  Comparing the number of posts from just 1 day of their rule change, there are lots more posts on March 14 than March 15.  So if you’re looking for a job, it can mean less posts to read through.

And if you are into making websites, it could mean an opening for you to make the next big Craigslist classifieds directory and/or listings directory that is free, and even stays free perhaps.

You can opt to make your website 100% free and earn profits through advertising.  A good example of this is the largest totally free dating site/app Friends Match Me – built on UltimateWB!

You can opt to make posting on your website free, and charge for special add-ons, like highlighting the ad, featuring the ad, or allowing photos/videos to be added for a small fee.  Good examples of websites that utilize this business model are:

Gym Chat Classifieds: www.gymchat.com/classifieds

Gym Chat Listings Directory: www.gymchat.com/listings

Get Print Quotes: www.getprintquotes.com

Carelister classifieds & directory for care jobs: www.carelister.com

Yes, all these websites are built on UltimateWB!

It’s a good time to get started on creating your own free classifieds or directory website!  And UltimateWB makes it super easy with our built-in classifieds app and built-in listings directory app.  No experience necessary.

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UltimateWB 4.9 software upgrade for all website builder versions

Posted on January 22, 2018 by admin

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You can check out the newest UltimateWB software versions on our online Demos available under the Resources tab on our website  at ultimatewb.com.

The UltimateWB 4.9 software upgrade is for all 5 of our website builder versions: Promo, PromoU, Lite, Essentials+, and Full.  The updates include:

SEO Update: All Versions

CSS Styles Update: All Versions

Facebook Social Meta Tags Update: Full Version

If you are hosting with UltimateWB, email us if you would like your account upgraded for you to the newest website builder version.   You can also download the newest updates from your UltimateWB account Downloads section.

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