In this post, Jack Gamble from Babeled talks about ad placement and the risk of overdoing it. Are you responsible for a website that has so many ads that it looks like Dale Earnhardt Jr. should be driving it in circles at high speed with a strange aversion to right turns? That is because your advertisements are [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Does Y […]

A guest post from Glen ViperChill. I’ve read a lot of blogging success stories in my four-year blogging history. Sadly, they’ve always been about other people, rather than me. And, when I do see them, although they are real, I get a sense that the owner didn’t have to work as hard as I have. I [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. 3 Less […]

Today’s post by Rob McPhillips of Stress Management and Beyond. If you knew that your blog was vulnerable to hacking or some similar security breach, would you take the time to secure it? I ask, because I want to warn you about a greater, yet almost unknown threat to your blog’s growth and success. That threat is stress [...]Post from: Blog Tips […]

An online community manager means different things to different people and different organisations. In this article, I outline what an online community manager should be doing, and what kind of personality they should have.

At some stage, you will need to warn or ban members of your online community. Sometimes this can be hard to do - especially if you are banning popular or highly active members. Stay strong and be sensible, and your community will survive.

If you launched your community too soon, you might be better off closing it down and trying again. If activity and member engagement is poor, consider making membership more exclusive. Closed online communities are attractive online communities.