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google domination get hundreds even thousands pages ranked number 1

this is going to be my most complete seo post yet

1st things 1st, an intro to the seo software i will be using and recommending.

The 1st thing your going to want to do is find out where your ranking now and what pages you need to work on to improve

Tip: Search Function Like Creators Using Google Custom Search

Ever wanted to use the same search functionality that Ning use here on Creators? ie. to have your Ning search bar use Google's Custom Search Engine?

OK, here goes.

This assumes that you have a Google CSE already set up and have the ID required (bol

Stop "Featuring" your members: Put them "In the Spotlight" NO coding!!

Stop featuring your members, they don't deserve it.  They deserve more, put them "In the Spotlight"!  And no coding anywhere needed.  Here's how:

First, I'd suggest going to your members profile page and clicking their photo, and save this to a file

Customer Service: Time To “Go Work”

Today I’m going to share part of a video interview with Wine Library TV's Gary Vaynerchuk. Now for those of you who do not know, this guy is considered a thought leader in social media marketing. He’s also known for having a “telling it like it is” a

Automate with style your event calendars css

These codes will automatically cross out past days, put a border around the future days,  color the present day and highlight the event days,
you can change the color lightblue to any color you would prefer.

the top piece of code on both sets of cod

Trick: show only 2 featured videos with clear thumbnails.

Hi NCs,

This trick is specially for those who are running their video based networking sites. As you know there are small featured video thumbnails in video section of every network. So this trick will actually hide those small featured video thumbn

Have original content? Want more traffic? Try this neat free widget!

I'm pretty stoked. I just came across this free service from ZergNet. I think it's going to work out between us.

Here's what happens: ZergNet crawls your site for original blog posts/articles, and offers them to visitors of other, related sites that

Who knew an online community could help catch a thief?

I run a community built around the art fair business with around 7500 members. Artists network around information about the business, share their stories, show reviews, etc.

Recently an artist posted about a buyer at an art fair who bounced a large

[TIP] Customize the text box on user profiles (Overwrite user profile css too)

Hi,

I answered a question on creators which inspired me to post this small tip on how to Customize textbox on user profiles (Overwrite user own css code too)

Requirements:

1.Basic knowledge of Javascript or jQuery(Javascript Library)

2.Interme

time for a tune up? make your site faster

we all love adding new features, adding tips and tricks from other creators, tinkering around with code and constantly improving our sites..

but

te more you add the slower it gets.. bogging down  as you css and custom code gets extensive, as you add

Change Group Layout - Remove Sign-in Box, Change Column & Module Orientation

Have you wanted to change the orientation of the standard NING group lay out?  Take a look at my group layout - if you like it, add this code to change yours.  You may want to try it in your test network first, and make subtle changes for your own ta

Tip: Personalize your forum module.

Hi all NCs,

This time, I'm gonna show you a small tip but could be effective. 

There is a continue link  at the bottom of every forum. That continue link is so boring and doesn't look good. That's why I wanted to customize it.

You may want to subs

"TIP" "style_GC_whole_network.css" Update Version 5.4

This stylesheet will add styles and animation fx throughout your whole network blogs, forums, groups, latest activity, comments and a whole lot more.  :-)

I put it into a stylesheet because of the amount of code it takes to do this.  So it's really

"TIP" Dock your Ning music player for members convenience update V1.2

This code will dock your music player to the right side of your Main page. if you want to use it for your whole network just remove this part of the code ( .xg_widget_main_index_index ) out of both codes

it's working perfectly for me in Windows XP t

Make your Site's Homepage "Stranger-Friendly"

Until a week or so ago, the idea of making my website "stranger-friendly" was something I didn't know to be possible. I mean, how could someone with a basic understanding of CSS and HTML make what members see different from what non-members see? Than

Facilitate Member Content Creation with the + Tab

I have two features on my network that encourage content creation and make it easy for myself -- and members -- to get started.

The first is the "+" tab. This tab is displayed only for logged-in members, and the sub-tab "Add a Page" is displayed

Paneling

This week I want to talk about designing main pages using “paneling”. I don’t know where I saw the term or if I made it up, lol! However, it fits. What I’m talking about is the use of text boxes as the primary focus of your site rather than the conve

Redirect first time users to a splash page

My first tip, hope no one has suggested this before,

Create a html splash page, upload using your file manager, then add the code in your custom code  box.

Check out mine - http://www.swapbbm.com/splash

<script type="text/javascript">

<!--
function r

buttonize the reply link

just a simple tip to make forum reply links look more buttony (if thats a word haha)

add to your css

.toggle a {
  box-shadow: 4px 6px 14px inset;
  cursor: pointer;
  max-width: 178px;
  width: auto;
  padding: 0 3px;
  border-radius:6px;
}
.toggle

Use Infographics to Increase Engagement

I've been working a lot lately with testing out different types of infographic engines in order to create visually appealing chucks of information to increase engagement.  The one I like the most so far is Smore.  This week, I built two different inf