News

We’ve received frequent requests from customers on how to promote their site and if we could help. We didn’t have the resources at the time to undertake website promotion - until now.

I am happy to announce that our newest service for Search Engine Promotion/Optimization has launched. We’ve started off slow with a few clients, and the initial results have been extremely positive. We’ll be putting up case studies in the future to showcase the success. In the meantime, the results we’ve achieved for our own site speak to our abilities. We rank in the top 10 search results for all of our targeted keywords, and many of those rank in the top 3.

We’re excited to offer this new service to our customers. From our experience, the cost of search engine promotion and optimization is orders of magnitude less than you would be spending on advertising campaigns through Google Adwords, banner ads, or other pay-per-click services. We’re confident that we can improve your ranks in the search engine, and drive more traffic to your website.

For more information, please check out our consulting page.

Making your site interactive is very important in keeping your members busy and coming back. It also helps greatly in converting non-paying members to paying members. webDate 4.0 will have a new Polls feature which will allow you as the administrator to create new polls for your site.

The Polls feature will allow you to create an unlimited number of polls, and easily see the results on the frontend. Simply add a new question, and up to 10 answers for the polls. You can enable/disable polls on the fly, and restrict voting to registered members or all visitors including guests. Poll results will be visible to your members on the frontend of the software.

One of the most commonly asked questions about webNetwork that we receive is “how can I contact all of my members to make an announcement?”. We haven’t had a great answer to that question, until now.

webNetwork 2.0 will feature a Newsletter feature which will allow you to email large groups of members. You can email all members at once, or to specific profile types. For example, if you want to encourage musicians to upload new music and sell their songs through our webStore software, you can select “Musician profiles” and easily send out a quick mailing. The newsletter feature supports HTML emails, and you can optionally export the entire list of members to a tab delimited file which allows for easy importing into other applications.

One of the most important surrounding emerging social networking sites today is privacy. Members want to be able to make sure their data is kept protected from strangers, and control what content unknown browsers see.

For this reason, we are excited to announce that we will be releasing a new privacy feature in the upcoming webNetwork 2.0. This will allow your members to configure various aspects of their content and set specific privacy settings for each. Let’s take a quick look at what the new feature has to offer.

As you can see, there are four areas where privacy settings can be configured.

Personal Information - This allows your members to hide their name, address, etc and only display it to friends.

Additional Information - This includes sections such as their education, employment information, and pretty much anything else that’s filled out during the profile creation process besides the Personal Info.

My Content - Control if the public can see your blog posts, photos, videos, etc.

My Profile - Make your profile available to the public or friends only.

We’re really excited about this feature, and hope you are too. Let us know what you think and leave a comment!

The social networking industry has changed drastically in the last year, and to follow some of the newest trends, we are going to be releasing a new version of webNetwork very soon. Thanks to all who have submitted their suggestions, we could not have done this without you!

One of the biggest problems our customers seem to be facing is starting their social networking site and getting members to join. To help you in the process, we’re releasing a new feature which allows your members to automatically invite everyone from their email address book. This is going to be compatible with the major email providers: Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, and GMail. Your members will be able to invite their friends to join your site with the click of button. All they need to do is enter their email address and password for the email provider, and webNetwork will retrieve their entire address book. After that, your members can send an invite to everyone in their address book, or select specific people. This should be a big help in getting a jump start to building you member base, and we hope you like the feature!

We have been actively working on a new version of our webDate dating software, with all of the features coming from customer requests. We’re really excited to be nearly completed and in the final testing phases, and hope that you’ll love the new features! Thanks to everyone that submitted their suggestions.

Now, for the first big change in the software: search engine friendly URLs. We’ve had a lot of customers asking to add this feature to help search engines crawl their sites easier, and index all of the pages including user profiles. Search engines normally have trouble crawling dynamic pages. Normally, in webDate, a URL would look something like: index.php?page=search. Search engines see this as a dynamic page, and ignore parts of the URL. As a result, they do not do a deep crawl of the site. With the search engine friendly URLs feature, the software will rewrite the URLs to look something like: index/page/search instead. This looks like a static URL, and is crawled by search engines much easier.

Getting ranked in search results is tough, but the more content that is indexed the better your chances or ranking higher in the most popular search engines. This is a great feature to help you do that, and we hope you like it!

We’re excited to announce the release of webJobs v2.0! We’ve been listening to your requests since the last release and nearly every feature we implemented was requested by an existing customer. A full list of features and bug fixes can be found below. For upgrade instruction refer to the Upgrading section of the documentation. You can download the upgrade files from the customers area.

New Features

• Fresh new template
• Cover letters can now be uploaded in PDF and Microsoft Word formats in addition to text
• Added the ability to create your own custom pages from the administrative area
• Job posts and resume views can now be purchased in one order
• It is now possible to charge job seekers to post resumes (optional)
• Added the ability to create job seeker/employer accounts from the administrative area
• Ability to choose site-wide job search sorting order from the administrative area
• Added a Contact Us page with a contact form
• System health added to the administrative area to track any system changes that could have an impact on the operation of your site

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug in add jobs from the admin area which would sometimes redirect you to the home page
• Fixed job agent bug where users would sometimes be incorrectly e-mailed of new available jobs
• Admin wasn’t getting e-mails notifying him/her that a new job was posted

Some employers want to purchase both job postings and resume views in one order. In previous versions of webJobs it was only possible to purchase either job postings or resume views, but not both at the same time. With our new billing combinations feature you can create billing items in the administrative area that are a hybrid of both job postings and resume views.

These new billing items will then show up on the employer’s home page for purchase.

Previous versions of webJobs allowed job seekers to upload resumes in text format only. This required job seekers who wrote up their cover letters in Microsoft Word to copy and paste the content and reformat it for webJobs. In webJobs v2.0 it’s now possible to upload a cover letter in Word or PDF format, just like resumes.

The Contact Us link in previous versions of webJobs simply linked to the administrator’s e-mail. Unfortunately, spammers constantly spider web sites for new e-mails and this increased the amount of spam some clients received. We added a contact form in webJobs v2.0 to help reduce some of the spam you get.