Blog Engage Updates to Social Web CMS

Some of the biggest news in a long time Blog Engage is officially running live with the latest stable release of Social Web CMS. I upgraded the website 48 hours ago and so far I haven’t seen any issues. Lets cross our fingers and hope things remain positive regarding this change.

Blog Engage Profile Images

As always I try to promote our Blog Engage Profile Images and Badges. Nothing spreads better than word of mouth so the profile images work out well for building our community stronger.

Blog Engage Link Directory

I’m not sure if you had the chance to add your link but we have a very nice and quality Blog Link Directory you should be submitting to. Like I said I only allow for quality websites which makes Google consider all the sites added of great quality.

Blog Engage Blog Forum

Over the passed 2 years of being open I can say the forums have never been more active. With, Jessi, Sarah and myself leading the helms for moderation we keep the forum spam free and very active with new threads and discussions.

Blog Engage Link Love Program

The Link Love Program has worked out pretty well. With members adding the profile images they have been accepted into our link love page. The page is organized by Page Rank which also ads another cool element to it all.

Blog Engage Comment Subscription

Late last night I added a comment subscription to our main website. This allows you to subscribed to submissions you comment on or stories you submit. The benefit of this is to keep updated if anyone replies to comment you make. You will be updated via e-mail allowing you to communicate in a timely manner with other members.

Good day everyone! I have a few things I would like to discuss with you regarding the blogengage main site. I have recently added an images upload module which will allow you too add an image with your blog article submissions. This would be a great way to promote yourself and gather that little bit more attention we all so desire to our blog sites.. Being creative and unique will help generate the most traffic in the long run. Trust me people always click links when an image makes them focus or pay more attention to an article. Read this article but pretend whojaybe is referring to images when submitting to social networking websites instead of having an avatar.

Our first weekly Top Engaged member was awarded their prize last Thursday and a big congratulations goes out to them. It seems I made a mistake to when the week ends on the main site so we might be changing the day the winner is awarded. Keep visiting the blog for more updates regarding that.

Adding comments on the main site doesn’t appear to be working. I have placed a support request with the pligg community and I hope we can fix this ASAP. For the time being lets take advantage of this and Engage with other bloggers at their blog even more then before.

You may have noticed I lowered the amount of votes needed to hit the published pages! It’s currently at 5 and this will increase when the site picks up some and members start voting more often!

Due to the Weekly, Monthly and Yearly competition we can no longer offer free spots on the featured blog spot when first visiting blog engage. this wouldn’t be fair to a members trying to win the competition and never getting featured! So for the time being you will continue to see blog posts from our blog engage blog there! Keep in mind when voting for the blog engage blog we will not be counted in the Weekly Monthly or Yearly Top Engaged competition.

Top members images links will be removed form the header on the main site but still left in the sidebar! This is for slow loading reasons and it’s too much work to do manually! I’m sorry but I just don’t have the time to make it fair!

The forums are doing great! We are starting to have many conversations inside them and they continue to grow daily! We offer forums signature links and personalized blogging areas to update members on activities, contest and any other news you may have regarding your blogs.

Lets continue to work hard at making Blog Engage an awesome community and like I mentioned the comments issue is at my top priority! I’m sorry for the inconvenience this may be causing anyone who wished to comment on a submission but remember this is a great opportunity to go and reply on their blogs!

Thanks,

Brian B