This is a brief explanation on how to submit your story to blog engage social community. I explain the importance of unique content and walk you through the entire process. As stated if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to post a comment below and ask away. Thanks guys hope you like the series!

The Blog Engage Article Submission Process

After seeing the great work from our blog engage member Ilean I wanted to put something together that was official regarding blog engage. So I went out and bought a Microsoft Life Cam and managed to put together a nice introductory to our social community. So if you have the time let me know what you think and make sure to post a comment below.

The Official Blog Engage Introduction Video

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Brian

I posted a question inside the pro blogger forums this morning asking for help on how to make our community more active. How does a community that gets over 9000 unique visits per month and over 90,000 page views not have more activity. See when you get little or no reply from your blog readers you start asking yourself what you could be doing wrong. Perhaps if I write regarding different topics or come up with unique ideas it would generate more interest in the website.

This is the question I asked within the forums.

Hi everyone,

I own a community of bloggers and right now I’m looking for ideas and strategies to get the members more active and involved.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to get the members more active? I would be interested in community events, activities and other ideas to make our community more active.

I have a large community almost 500 – 1000 active bloggers and over 8000 members. But for some reason all I’m seeing is 600 hits a day…. I’m getting maybe 9000 unique hits a months and 90,000 page views. I think I should be able to triple this with the right suggestions.

How do I get the members excited, active and visiting the site more often?

Do you have any ideas for me?

Can I be doing things differently to attract more visitors and more community participation?

Perhaps I should be focusing more on the events in which I run here on the site and start putting more of them together. Either way I’m most interested in your idea’s and suggestions.

Be sure to check out our forum topic as well. (separate registration required)

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Brian

I want to send a big shout out to beautiful Ileane who has created a series of Blog Engage videos. She explains the benefits of blogengage, how to use the service, and what blogengage is meant to be. She discusses some of the features and advantages of using our community.

She took the time to put together these videos and I must say she did ana amazing job at it as well. She works hard for a living but still took the time from her personal life to do this for us all.

Please make sure to stop by her blog and post a comment.

You’re a sweet heart Ileane we love you for this!

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Brian

After a few days of fixing code and testing the website I can confirm (hopefully) the site is back up and running as it should on a normal day’s basis. I have some minor text and description fixes to complete but the functionality of our website is perfect.

The Captcha on comments and story submission is working which will help slow down the comments and story spam. As you know from being a member here at blogengage we aren’t subject to much spam anyways. None the less all improvements should be noted.

Guest Bloggers Wanted

Our guest blogging has been fun to say the least. I had to disapprove many articles as they were of extremely low quality. Unfortunately this comes with the territory. If you however feel you can add value to our social blog and community don’t hesitate to contact me to set up your contributor account. (more…)

I’ve been making some changes here on the website and have received some feedback on issues our members have been experiencing. I ask all our members that are active on a daily basis to report anything that isn’t working properly. Without reporting the issue it may never get fixed so if it’s bugging you and isn’t working please post a comment and let me know.

We are currently running the latest version of our software. I know we have some registration issues along with some submission issues but this should all be fixed as of now. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused our members. I’m not in good books with the developer of this software so every change I make I stand alone in fixing any bugs.

Most of the updates had to do with bug fixes from what I can tell and apparently they have added new Captcha functionality that doesn’t appear to work on the submit a story page. I’m not sure if this is a Pligg bug or if this is created and caused by Captcha themselves. It seems after trial and error that you can escape Captcha assuming you have the right letters. Meaning you can add more of the same letter and it will still approve your submissions. If the Captcha is “people places” you can still pass it by typing “peeooplllle “plllaccceesss”.

I’m still working on this but needless to say this only affects my in box as all submissions are still approved by me first. So in general this means you are still free of spam in our amazing spam free community.

I have also noticed an issue when trying to leave a comment. They are not being sent for approval nor are they actually saving in the database. I’m not sure if this is template related or if it’s pligg related but I am however looking into the issue so please take note.

So to restate if you have any issues on site please report them by posting a comment below.

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Brian

With so much confusion going around I thought I shoudl post about the rules and regulations when it comes to guest posting here on the blogengage blog. What I want our bloggers to remember is you’re guest posting and in order to be qualified you have to follow specific rules. I don’t have many but in order to qualify as mentioned you do have to follow them.

Rules and regulations

• You must be unique and detailed about your writings

• You cannot copy and paste old articles from your blog to our blog

• You must submit your guest post to the main social site as well

• You should add pictures to make it more interesting

• Three sentences is not a guest post

• This is not a place to advertise or promote

• You must add a twitter and blogengage profile link

• You must add an about the author section with a direct ink to your blog

• No affiliate links within the articles at all

• You must leave a signature line introducing yourself and your personal blog

• You must interact and reply to all comments made on your article

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If you haven’t noticed I’ve made some slight changes around the community. I like to keep things fresh and clean so I make cosmetic changes. First as you must have noticed we got a new blogengage banner image. Kevin Tan from Internet Marketing Entrepreneur made in exchange for a one year PR4 link back to his website and a PR3 blog roll link on my personal blog seomkt.

About Blog Engage – I even had time to update the about blogengage page which shows much of our functionality in one convenient location. This shows and explains some pretty cool stuff I would definitely be checking it out. (more…)