Open A Social Network

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Super Affiliate Hero

Hi there,

Thanks for stopping by my blog. I have been so busy with all my online sites that I have not posted much on this blog and removed a lot of outdated stuff but felt I need to share this info because I know there are a lot of people who want to “Open A Social Network”.

In late 2010 I started my own social network and have over 1500 members and have not spent any money on advertising. I use pure SEO techniques I learned and my site ranks on first page of the search engines for just about everything. I own a niche social dating network. You can open a social networking site for just about anything, from hobby’s, fan sites, adult xxx sites, sites for people who are suffering from a certain disease and the categories are endless.

I started my Social Network for less than $200 complete including software, license, template, hosting ect. I am currently using Boonex Dophin Free Social Networking Community Software to power mine. The software is free but it comes with Boonex branding, to remove the branding and make the site your own you need to purchase a license for $99. Until recently Boonex would charge $99 a year for a license but as of 2012 they are offering a lifetime license for $99 so you save $99 a year going forward if you get dolphin now.

I must tell you that you need to use a boonex dolphin host for the software to work correctly as 90% of issues are host related so you want the right host. Only a handful of hosts are recommended to run this social networking software. Hosting is cheap, anywhere from $4 a month to $7 a month, I recommend getting a nightly backup plan also for your social networking community because I have used mine more than once. It is only about $35 a year on average to get a daily backup of your account done by your host. I strongly advise you to purchase a nightly backup.

A list of hosts that I have used before are listed below, they all offer dolphin support and hosting and TMD even offers many free Dophin templates you can use for your site. I bought mine from a third party vendor for cheap for my site. My community is on TMD hosting and has been since it went live. Arvixe offers Dolphin hosting and I have used them before for other hosting needs and found them to be very good and not to big that you can get good support from them and often the same person will handle the entire ticket, TMD is like that too. Also these host have one click and install dolphin software so you don’t have to install it yourself. I spent 4 years trying to install Dolphin myself and failed every time. Finally I really wanted to make this dream of owning my own social network a reality and found that TMD that has one click install. All dolphin hosts offer one click install which is really sweet.

I don’t update the versions of Dolphin myself because I know I will screw it up. I use a good guy who does this for me for $50 and it upgrades perfectly each time. Paying $50 vs destroying my community as I try to update it is well worth the price. If you contact me through this site I will tell you who I use for my Dolphin upgrade. Finding a good Dolphin updater is important as you will want to update several times a year. I waited 1 year before I upgraded so I had to pay for 3 upgrade to be perform by my upgrade guy. Its easy just to get them done one at a time as they happen than to wait.

Here are the links to all the I just wrote about below. I set them to open in a new window in case you want to compare all the stuff. I am actually slowly putting a website together to discuss everything I learned from sharing my tricks to keep most of the spammers off your site ect. I get 28% spammers joining so you see it does require work to recognize them and ban them.  I am hoping to have that site launched within 6 months but for the meantime this info will get you started.

I did not know anything about promoting online and got ripped off trying different stuff I bought online. Finally I discover WA and all that changed. Within 6 months I was mastering seo, article writing, blogging, you name it. Since Google updates change the ranking of sites especially recently if you use any info you find online and use it to promote your site you may get banned by Google or end up with a page that is 30 pages back in the results. It is important to be 100% updated on what is happening and WA is the answer, thousands of people from around the world a members there and I have been a member since August 14, 2009 because I don’t need any other sources, they supply me with free web hosting for my promotional sites,keyword and Google match tools and so much more. I highly recommend WA to you because it can mean the difference between having a site that ranks high on the search engines of one that no one ever finds. You can create thousands of promotion pages but if you don’t know what search engines like then how would you know how to feed them? If you know what Google likes to eat then you will create a busy and growing online social network. WA is only $47 a month and is a steal at that rate, there are outdated sites online that cost over $149 a month and none compare to what you get at WA. Even if you were a plumber you could grow your business into a big business just using WA marketing techniques, it works with literally any type of biz especially creating an online type biz or community.

I only list companies I have had a positive experience and used  below.

All the links below are set to open in a new window so you can compare.

    Open a Social Network
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