Whatever product or service we are selling, eventually we may come across a disgruntled customer that is not happy with what they have received. You may have done everything correctly and they may be in the wrong but we ...
I've entered a couple of different forum competitions recently and have ended up winning quite a few because of the fact that not many people bother to enter the competition. One was even cancelled because I was the only...
So I own a gaming platform/social network and I tend to post a lot of the latest gaming news and updates on the blog. I then tend to share these posts on my social media pages (for the site, not my personal accounts). Wh...
Affiliate marketing has always been something that I have been interested in. I am currently on a gap year so I have got a bit of time to spare so I thought why not jump into it now. For anyone that has some experience w...
A lot of forums have these added benefits that they offer when you donate to them and these benefits increase depending on the amount that your donation is. Do you think that this is an effective way to get donations and...
Trolls are all over the internet and unfortunately, there is very little that can be done to stop them unless they actually do something illegal. So how do you deal with it if a troll starts to post on your forum? The t...
When you start a website, blog or forum, you usually hire staff that are working voluntarily for the site. They make just like to work for your site or they may be thinking about the long term and may believe they may be...
I love how Google have continued their trend of having their different versions of Android named as our favourite sweets and biscuits. And now it is the turn of Oreo to have an Android version of its own. Android 8.0 is ...
I've come across a few blogs in the past that have content lockers. For those of you who do not know what this is, a content locker hides the content of a particular article until you either share it on social media or s...
When you own an e-commerce site, the way you accept payments is extremely important. What payment processors do you accept or do you accept straight transactions via banks? Or maybe you accept cash on delivery if your pr...
When you have a business online, you have to deal with reviews. Most of the time, if you operate correctly and treat your customers well then you will have many 5 star reviews on your site and it will be extremely benefi...
I know that there are a few sites and blogs out there that disable the right click of the mouse. This is to try and stop people stealing content from their sites, saving their images and seeing their page source (so as t...
I have noticed that a lot of people have recently been creating their very own general discussion forums. Now, general discussion forums are extremely oversaturated because of how many there are out there. Most of the ti...
I read a forum post recently about the idea of Green Hosting. For those of you who are wondering what this is, Green Hosting is internet hosting but one where green technologies are involved which help to reduce the envi...
I've always wondered this. Google Plus has never really been popular with anyone with people tending to prefer Facebook and Twitter whilst professionals tend to favour LinkedIn. Considering that Google is the largest sea...
It can get annoying sometimes when you own a forum because of all the bots and sometimes people spamming your site with useless content or advertisements. The bots used by spammers are getting a lot more intelligent and ...
Some sites allow users to view its content without having to register or login. This can be a good idea because it allows users to decide whether or not they want to be apart of a certain website, blog or forum based on ...
I've tried to find a developer for a plugin to be developed to join my forum and my website which will be on two different hosts. The forum will be powered by MyBB. I have had to give up and code my very own forum softwa...
There are several reasons why people create forums. The main two are: created because they want to own their very own forum and the other being that they want to make money from it. Have you ever created a forum solely w...
A lot of sites nowadays tend to have well-designed favicons because it makes your site look a lot more professional. I always find it difficult to design a proper, well-designed favicon because of how small they are. It'...
Many forums allow users to have their own signature to allow them to customise and personalise their posts a bit. Most people tend to have images of their favourite teams, shows or a favourite quote. But some users, most...
Quite a lot of large sites use affiliate programs to promote their own products and to increase sales whilst also rewarding the users that help you promote your products. If you own a small e-commerce site then should yo...
I rarely get newsletters from forums anymore especially compared to a few years ago and I was just wondering, does anyone write newsletters anymore for personal blogs, forums or websites? I know that the big websites usu...
Websites need a lot of advertising and marketing because it can sometimes be extremely difficult to gain users and views for it. But where can we advertise our websites? A lot of owners use social network pages to advert...
A lot of websites that I have come across have different email addresses for different purposes. For example, they may have a special email for press related queries ([email protected]) or a support email (support@Se...
When you run an e-commerce site, one of the most important things you have to ensure is keeping your customers happy. Because a happy customer will more than likely either recommend your store to friends or come back for...
Comments are amazing for an article writer because it shows that people are reading your content and enjoying the content that they read. It also encourages other readers to discuss the article when they see other commen...
A lot of sites have some creative and well-designed favicons but are they really important and do users take favicons into consideration when they first visit a website? Favicons are easy to setup on your site but the is...
I've been on the receiving end of several emails from a particular forum that tends to email users every week reminding them to visit the forum because they miss us. The problem is that I was a pretty active member over ...
I'm not sure if everyone is aware but you can actually get a SSL certificate for free from LetsEncrypt. The only downside is that you have to renew the certificate every 3 months but considering how much money it actuall...
Advertisements can help an owner make money from their websites, blogs or forums. But can actually putting advertisements on your site hurt revenue because people may find these advertisements annoying and leave your web...
I have noticed recently that there are quite a few forums out there that have free domains yet are extremely active. There are several forums on these free hosted and free domain that have posts in the hundreds of thousa...
I know that a lot of websites and forums tend to have competitions especially when they first start out to try and attract a lot of user activity. The problem is that with these contests, even though they may have large ...
I know that a lot of people tend to go on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter to rant about any bad experiences they have with any companies. I very rarely see any posts get a lot of attention if it is positive a...
There are some massive forum software out there at the moment: myBB, phpBB, XenForo and IPB. vBulletin seems to have died down and personally I doubt it will come back from this. But do you think there is space in the ma...
We all know that it is tough at the start to get people to visit your site, join it or even comment on different discussions. So we tend to advertise on different platforms to try and attract people to the site. But is a...
As many of you will now, there are probably millions if not billions of websites on the internet nowadays. As the number of people using the internet increases, so does the amount of people that want to make money online...
Sometimes forums can die off which can be sad for a lot of the previously active users and the forum staff. Sometimes, the owner just gives up and decides to either sell off the forum (if it is big enough) or just close ...
I've noticed that a lot of people have been starting there very own web hosting sites recently. But the problem is that the market is already saturated with so many sites that obviously competition is going to be extreme...
Businesses are increasing their social media presence in order to increase their exposure to customers. But which social networks are actually better for advertising? If you take the advertisements on Facebook then you c...
