Member Messaging Now Available
It’s now possible to send a message to any of your Qhub friends – simply go the profile page of the person you want to contact and click on the ‘Send Message’ button in the top right corner of their profile:
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Ian
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James
Friendly Urls and More Webmaster Tools (RSS, ATOM and Canonical)
We were asked the question “Can you edit the way the question URL’s display for SEO purposes? Or is this in the plans at all?“, and today we have released this functionality. This is on by default in new Qhubs, but so as not to affect any SEO work already in place we have not turned it on for existing Qhubs.
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rizwan
this works fine on website but xml sitemap still shows old urls?
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admin
We update sitemaps twice a day, but will provision a much speedier update for Qhubs which change their Url formatting.
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John
Webmaster Tools Now Available
The more search engine savvy Qhub owners among you will have been frustrated at the lack of a tools for verification and sitemap submission. Well, now you can do this in the Webmaster Tools page (accessible from your Settings Page).
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adymat
I have verified my site in Google and Bing for webmaster verification except Yahoo for, I have failed to get it verified there for no understandable reason by me despite repeated attempt for that. Possible reason given by yahoo is that possibly my site is blocking yahoo slurp to visit your site.
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Justin
I keep getting, 403 forbidden, if i am redirect via DNS, are there other instructions?
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John
Adymat, your yahoo verification file contents is incorrect. It should just contain the number that they specify; you have a bunch of html tags in there too. Just paste the number into the file contents field, and you should be fine.
Justin, where are you seeing the 403 response? Is one of the search engine tools reporting that?
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Justin
This happens when i visit my URL answer.brighterblooms.com/sitemap.xml and answer.brighterblooms.com/googlexxxxxxxxxx.html
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John
Sorry Justin, that’s fixed now!
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Justin
Thanks John.
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adymat
Thanks! It’s OK. I have tried every possible thing, but I can’t get it talk. I am leaving it currently in a state advised by you.
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DigitalArsonist
As an alternative you could always verify your qhub with meta-tags you can insert in the header.
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Vashok
I will check it .
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Ashwin
Speed of Trust Through Q & A: How to Attract Profitable Customers By Pushing Buttons
Sustainable businesses are a reality because of trust, goods are purchased and services are consumed because of trust, literally every relationship – be it commercial or personal is based on trust and yet, we don’t see businesses taking it seriously enough to make it a part of their business strategy, not doing so is leaving money on table.
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John
Choose Your Qhub Language
From the very start of Qhub.com we’ve had people creating Qhubs with contributions in a wide variety of languages – Spanish and Chinese especially. To make these Qhubs even easier to use, you can now have your Qhub in your language of choice.-
vashok
Great work . I hope that Qhub provides us a translate interface with every admin panel.SO that every admin can customize the fields as to his wish.
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vashok
By the way who translated it to ” Hindi” .Just curious to know .I am ready top join as hindi translator and telugu(South Indian language ) .
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Ian
New Feature: Badges are Live!
From today all Qhub members will be able to earn badges for their contributions to their hub. Qhub owners and admins will also be able to join in the fun. -
Ashwin S
7 Ways You Can Use Q & A To Attract More Customers
Businesses have an insatiable thirst to gulp down as many customers as possible to help them remain afloat. The ability to attract and retain customers is proving to be more expensive than ever while customers are growing increasingly choosy and are beginning to let go of affiliations with any one particular brand. This depleting brand loyalty is a cause to fear. Among many ways you have at your disposal to attract and retain more customers, you now have the power of Trust based marketing using your Q & A site. Here’s how you can use it to attract more customers:
Win your customers with knowledge
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Charlotte
Great new feature on Qhub – enable ‘Guest posts’
As of today, all Qhub owners can allow people to contributions to their sites as a ‘Guest’. It’s an added extra that has been developed especially for you and is still completely free!
How?
Log into your Qhub (the one you created) and go to your ‘Settings’ link in the top right hand corner and choose ‘Qhub Privacy Settings‘.
Select the check box to ‘Allow Guest Contributions‘. (More …)
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Simon
How do you enable this for api question feedback?
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John
Simon, at present you have to supply user credentials when posting contributions through the API.
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Ashwin S
7 Things Not To Do With Online Q & A
In a previous post, I advocated numerous ways on how a Q & A section on your website benefits your business. According to a Reuters report[1] published a year ago, about three-quarters of small businesses did not take to social media yet — some 86% percent of small businesses in the United States alone.
Good news is that, according to the same report, about 42% of small businesses in U.S have used social media to generate leads, develop communities and make sales. Roughly 38% of those who do use social marketing have no idea how to do it and are still “trying to learn”. Learning is good, but making mistakes can be expensive. Here are some 7 Things not to do with your online Q&A site:
Don’t treat customers like sheep that need to be herded, because they are not
Some of the administrators of forums, communities, Q & A sites and other social media hubs tend to take on a “holier-than-thou” attitude and generally be tough to please. When you are moderating a Q & A site or having someone do it for you, make sure that the administrators or moderators of the forum are pleasant, lively and enthusiastic folks. Treating customers like little school children, getting irritated for some seemingly innocent questions customers ask, etc., are signs of patronizing your customers and this must be totally avoided on your online Q & A program. (More …) -
Charlotte
Qhub’s got some great new features
Qhub is growing rapidly and that’s thanks to all of you. To ensure that you and your users get the best experiences possible, we have introduced 3 great new features on every Qhub:
Comments
With the new ‘comments‘ function, anyone that asks a question can comment on answers received and those that answer can comment on their own answers. A useful tool to enable conversations between the asker and the answerer. Why not give it a try. If you like someones answer, let them know! It’s easy to do. (More …)
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Chris Bennett 12:02 am on July 8, 2010 Permalink
Awesome! Thanks