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This is a general questions regarding building a website with user generated content. A new website will start with no content, then visitors to the site will not want to visit it again because there is no content for them to view.
For example, a review site like Yelp has no reviews will not have return visitors! How do you solve this?
You need to offer some reason to be there besides the reviews or whatever user-generated content you're trying to integrate into the site. Yelp is a site that searches for restaurants and lists them by type and location, that is the main service which it provides. Offer the user-generated content as a secondary reason to come, then when the user-generated content starts to come in, slowly incorporate it more and more until it becomes the core of the site.
People will only visit your site if they get something out of it, even if it is something as simple as displaying their input in an interesting way.
Your question is off topic I think on every site on the network right now, but for what it's worth, the approach this very site (and the Q&A network that came out of it) took was that of a closed beta - accessible only to a select circle of people - that would seed the site with content.
See e.g. Area 51: Asking the First Questions
The Stack Overflow blog has many references to avoiding building "Ghost Towns". They're not the only voice on the subject, but they have obviously been very successful with this approach.
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I'm a little confused on how I should be tracking user engagement on a website. Specifically one that is made with WordPress.
So far I've looked into Google analytics and that seems to be a viable option. But I haven't found a clear answer to if I am able to track the activity of a specific user.
The goal is to be able to reward users for spending time on the site and interacting with it. All current users have account.
Is it possible to track a specific user's activity on a site using Google analytics?
Also, it seems that there may be a way to do this manually without google analytics. However I do not have much experience with building websites.I suspect it involves a lot of PHP which I am unfamiliar with.
Thank you!
The first place you should look is https://wordpress.org/plugins/ There are plugins for Google Analytics, stats, tracking, etc.
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Ahoy,
I would like to create a simple commercial web application that would analyze traffic on the fan page. Is it acceptable to generate a list of the most active users along with their first and last name? Of course, this data would come from the Facebook Graph.
I have already read the Facebook Platform Policies and I'm still not sure :(
Best,
BA
Here in Portugal I've seen a lot of big registered marks doing that, but usually they do retrieve "names" of people through an application that someone explicits that allows those data to be used in the future.
According to Facebook Rules, once users insert their data in their platform, it can be used by the system, and once you are using the system... you could be using the data?
It is a kind of a controversial discussion.
In the part of Facebook I think you can get a Yes. In the part of really be legal to do that, you should ask a lawyer about your country laws.
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My app is built in a fashion similar to Facebook in that it uses a form of pagelets which are generated asynchronously and then sent to the page and injected via javascipt.
This means that I have to set to pages title via javascript also. My small understanding of SEO lads me to believe that the tag is extremely important and defines not only what google displays as the title in search results but it will also play a huge part in defining your rankings.
Therefore, my question is:
Does google read, process and taking into account dynamically inserted title tags?
Thanks
It does, if you use the hashbang (#!) to show that it's scrape-able AND you generate the data for Googl to scrape properly, such as with a headless browser, see more:
https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/
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I've been noticing these links, faces and extra info on certain Google searches, and I would like to know how I could implement them to my site as well. I don't really know how that is even called, so sorry if I've put the wrong tags for this.
Also a side question: the photos look professional, but I have no camera, so instead of a photo, I would put a logo - would that be overstepping?
Here is the Google article on how to add your face to website search results: Author information in search results
You can add the following code:
Google
Example:
Google
Alternatively, you can also do the following:
Check that you have a email address (for example, levy#wired.com) on the same domain as your content (wired.com).
Make sure that each article or post you publish on that domain has a clear byline identifying you as the author (for example, "By Steven Levy" or "Author: Steven Levy").
Visit the Authorship page and submit your email address to Google. No matter how many articles or posts you publish on this domain, you only need to do this process once. Your email will appear in the Contributor to section of your Google+ profile. If you want to keep your email private, change the visibility of your link.
To see what author data Google can extract from your page, use the rich snippets testing tool.
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Can anyone recommend an open source Image Gallery for our website. No doubt going to be PHP/Python/Ruby based with a MySQL backend if necessary. It is for a Sailing Club so I am looking for something where certain members can create a new Folder for each day out and all other members can then upload their pictures from that day.
At the moment I have got phpBB working as the message forum on this site. Actually not quite complete as I am still trying to incorporate that into one of our existing pages rather that have the forum in its own full new page.
I haven't used this in a long long time, but it used to be somewhat decent* back in the days:
http://gallery.menalto.com/
* That is as decent as PHP apps get. IIRC it had required some unsafe PHP settings on the webserver, but they fixed that in later versions. $SearchEngine is your friend for that.