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Easy way to drive traffic to your site

HI all

I wanted to share a simple tip that generated 7600 unique visitors and 34,000 page views in one day.

First you will need to make sure the facebook like button is activated on your site.

Next create a contest. For instance we did a photo contes

Add Cafepress Store to Your Ning Without Using Ning App

If you're not too fond of the Cafepress Ning app but would like to add a cafepress widget to your site, here is how to effectively do that.  You can get the Cafepress widget here.  You will not be able to add it successfully to a page or note without

Ning and Facebook...????

Hii all NC's ...

My members are always asking me WHY WE SHOULD WE VISIT YOUR SITE? WHAT IS DIFFERENT BETWEEN FACEBOOK AND YOUR SITE..??

When I thought about this I was little bit confuse...

Can you tell what are the top 5 feature on NING which make

Flag New Inbox Messages

Hi all,

Just a quick tip to get a more prominent New Message icon on your account tab like below

Just add and modify the following CSS:

External Links Donkey Punch

Ok, earlier today I showed you how to make all of your external links open in a new window using Jquery.  I did this to see how many of you are interested in where your traffic goes.  Now I am going to show you something that you are going to LOVE.  

How-to Launch all external links in a new window with jQuery

Wanna know how to make all external links on your Ning open in a new window, everytime?  We'll here's how you do just that.

Add this to your custom Code box (if you're Ning Plus or Ning Pro)

<script type="text/javascript">
 jQuery(document).ready

How to Give Your Ning a Really Fake Voice

 This is the link you're looking for: BalaBolka

I am using this embed code:

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.odeo.com/flash/audio_player_standard_gray.swf" width="400" height="52" allowScriptAccess="always" wmo

A VERY GOOD WAY TO LET NEW FRIENDS KNOW THAT FRIENDSHIP HAS BEEN ACCEPTED

AS OF RIGHT NOW WHEN YOUR FRIENDSHIP HAS BEEN ACCEPTED THERE IS NO WAY OF TELLING THAT IT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED..UNLESS THEY LEAVE YOU A COMMENT,BUT MOST NEW MEMBERS DONT KNOW THAT WHEN ADDING A FRIEND THAT THEY WONT GET NOTIFIED OF FRIENDSHIP BEING ACCE

A very awesome way to greet you members

Hello creators here a great way to greet new arriving members..first of all this tip is not mine,i give full credit to jen from jensocial.com..so first you need to grab her code "add a simple text box to profile pages"...https://creators.ning.com/foru

Create a More Exciting "Featured" Email With Language Editor

This is a quick tip for those of you who are focusing on member engagement.   When you feature a particular piece of content such as a photos, discussion, video or blog post, the member who posted it receives an email with the following subject line:

How-To Move Entire Leaderboard to Home Page Hack

Just for fun, I tried something out on my test network today which may be of interest to some NCs out there.  Did you know that you could move your entire Leaderboards page to your home page?   Its pretty simple actually....think of it as many text a

SECRET TO SUCCESS

This is just something that has a big impact on me, I just want to share it with you all.

How to Create Search Feeds in Bing with a Simple Hack

There are many reasons for why you might like to create a search feed for your network.  For example, inside groups you have a RSS module which you might like to keep updated on a particular topic.  I've been doing this for years using the RSS feed

Where to Get Google +1 Buttons

I know I know..everyone is talking about how Google's +1 is a facebook "Like" killer.   Ahhh...but do you know where to get these buttons for your Ning?   I'll Show you....

First you should go here to enable the + experiment from Google Labs.

Yo

Styling Groups with New Design Studio with CSS and a Swift Hack

I really should keep this a secret, but this just may be interesting enough to piledrive me right into the Superstar category, so I'll share it (hint hint)...I am going to show you how to add a new background to groups when using the new design studi

How-to Control Number of Member Profiles on Member Page Using CSS

There are several reasons for the want to customize the number of profiles which are displayed per page on the Members Page of your ning network.  For example, if you have only One column of members (image#3), visitors to your site who are interested

Organize your groups by categories using LOCATION

If the location field of your network's groups is not of importance, you can use this workaround to get clean listings of groups, only  groups, no comments, in up to 10 categories. In our case, location-related groups already have the physical locati

How To Add Your Chrome Web App to the Web Store

Last week I showed you how to create a Google Chrome Web App for your Ning Network here:https://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/howto-create-a-google-chrome#As promised, here are the instructions for how to submit your web app to the Google Chrome Web

How to Nicely Suggest a Switch from IE to Your Members

If you're like me, you like to educate your members on the ways of the modern world.

According to recent data from Net Applications, one-third of all Internet users in China still rely on Internet Explorer 6 to go online while in South Korea, I

How-to Create A Google Chrome Web App for Your Ning

In the past, i showed you how to create a desktop extension for your Ning network using chrome, but that was just too easy.  Now I am going to show you a trick that takes only a few minutes and in the end you'll have a Google Chrome Web App of your N