Category Archives: Social Networking

Best time to post on Facebook and Twitter for most likes/comments/re-tweets?

If you want to maximize the reaction - likes, comments, retweets - on your posts on Facebook or Twitter, social media metric company Klout says based on their study the best time to post is late Tuesday and Wednesday morning. The research results:

Chart shows likelihood of response to posts on Facebook (top) and Twitter (bottom) throughout the week (click on chart to enlarge). (via NBC News: Hungry for Retweets and Facebook Likes? Study Shows Best Times to Post)... Continue reading

How to Prevent Forum Spam: Effective Ways to Protect Your Message Board

how to prevent forum spam and protect against bots

Spam is one of the less glamorous parts of running a forum.

When you're trying to build an active community, the last thing you want to spend your time doing is deleting posts advertising questionable websites, removing fake accounts, or cleaning up links that have nothing to do with the discussion.

And forum spam isn't just annoying for the administrator. A forum filled with spam can make legitimate members stop participating. If someone visits your message board and sees page

Posted in Social Networking | Tagged captcha, engagement, forum app, forum software, message boards, spam, spam free, spammy posts, user experience | Leave a comment

Which forum software is the best? phpBB vs vBulletin vs SMF vs UltimateWB

UltimateWB forums are built on the UltimateWB built-in Forum app.

Why Add a Forum to Your Website?

You may want a forum section on your website to be the highlight of what you offer to users - a place to chat and share. Or perhaps your website message boards are just one of the many features you want to offer to provide a rich social networking experience to your members and web visitors. Either way you will benefit greatly from using forum

Posted in Compare Website Builders, Social Networking | Tagged compare forum software, forum script, forum software, message boards, phpbb, smf, software comparison, vbulletin, vbulletin 5 connect | Leave a comment

Social Networking video tutorial added! Add members login, registration, profiles…

Posted on September 8, 2014 by UltimateWB Team

We have just added a new video tutorial, "How to Add Members Login/Registration forms & Profile pages". It is a good intro for those who want to create a social networking website, or just make their website more social and interactive, or have a members database - like for e-commerce or subscription websites. Topics Covered: -Create Members Login form, option to add to top header of all pages
-Create Members Registration form
-Create Edit Profile page
-Create Public Profile page
... Continue reading

Posted in Announcements, Social Networking | Tagged add login, add member login, login system, members, members app, members registration, registration form, social networking, social networking website, social networking website builder, video tutorial | Leave a comment

Why buying Facebook Likes is not a good idea – even directly from Facebook, critic explains

There are 2 ways to buy Facebook Likes for your Facebook page - (1) Buy thousands of Facebook Likes cheap the illegal way (against Facebook TOS) from "click farms", or (2) Buy direct from Facebook by paying Facebook to promote your Facebook page to get more Facebook Likes - the legal way. You might have heard that paying "click farms" to gain Facebook Likes is not good business practice because they are not real Facebook members who will actively engage... Continue reading

Posted in Social Media, Social Networking | Tagged buy facebook likes, Derek Mulle, facebook ads, facebook advertising, facebook critic, facebook likes, facebook page, facebook scam, promote facebook page, social marketing, social media | 1 Comment

How can I make a login system for a weebly website? Easy Solution. Kinda.

Sometimes our coders get questions from website owners using other website builders on how to add certain features to their website. One of the top requests is on how to add a registration/login form to their weebly website. The solution is simple. Switch website builders. You can't do it with weebly. And because weebly is a hosted website builder, you will also need to switch your web hosting to another company, and unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look

Posted in Compare Website Builders, Social Networking, Web Hosting | Tagged add features, add login, compare website builders, compare weebly, hosted website builder, login system, members, registration form, social networking website, social networking website builder, weebly, weebly limits, weebly review | Leave a comment

How to make your website more interactive, a.k.a. interesting!

Static and boring website vs interactive and engaging

Pure social networking websites, like Facebook/Twitter (X)/Instagram etc., are not the only type of interactive websites anymore. User interaction on a website can be very important to the popularity - and increased popularity - of a website. It's what can make your website stand out from the boring pure information websites. The top news websites, such as ABC News/NBC News, etc., have user interaction, and if you want traffic on your website, yours should too!

Here are 5 easy ways

Posted in Mailing List Application, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Media, Social Networking, Website Design | Tagged articles app, comments section, cross-browser compatibility, cross-platform compatibility, how to create interactive website, interactive website, mailing list app, member articles, seo, social login, social networking, website compatibility, website tips | Leave a comment

How to make it easier for website visitors to sign up as members on your website!

If something is easier, the general logic is that perhaps more people will do it. The harder something is, the more time it may take to do it, or the more complicated it is, you might lose some participants then. In social networking website development, we are talking about easy member sign up forms. The more members your website gets, the more interactive your website can be, and the more successful. So how to do it?

One easy solution to... Continue reading

Posted in Social Networking | Tagged connect with Facebook, easy registration, easy sign up, facebook app, Facebook Connect, facebook login, google app, google login, integrate facebook, integrate google, register forms, sign up forms, social networking | Leave a comment

How to increase your website traffic/sales with Social Media

If you watch ABC's reality tv show "Shark Tank", you have probably heard the phrase "Social Media" tossed around several times by the entrepreneurs pitching their awesome new website or product, or by Mark Cuban himself. Social media is a big way to gain organic traffic to your website, and possibly increase sales for a product you are selling on your website. In case you're not sure what they're all talking about, social media is referring to posting and interacting... Continue reading

Posted in Social Media, Social Networking | Tagged facebook like, increase traffic, organic traffic, social media, social networking, social share, viral video, youtube video | Leave a comment

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