SocialGO Owners

SocialGO are excited to announce the launch of the SocialGO Affiliate Program, an easy way to earn money from your network based on a simple referral basis. For each person who signs up for a paid SocialGO network through your site, you will earn 50% from the first paid month and 5% for every month thereafter. Yes, it really is this simple - there literally is no limit as to how much money you can earn from this!

All you have to do to start making money is cut and paste some HTML advertising code to a prominent location in your network, or even your own website, and as soon as people start clicking on your ad and creating a network, you'll start to make money! To see how to do this, read this tutorial

To register for the program, head over to http://affiliate.socialgo.com and enter your details. You will then receive an email with your user name and password; simply log in, copy the banner code, and paste it into your website - you are now ready to race! If you have any queries in regards to the program, please write us at support@socialgo.com.

This is an amazing and direct opportunity to earn money from your site, so be sure to take advantage and get signed-up today!

The SocialGO Affiliate Program is great, really simple way of you to easily make some extra money, by referring new customers to SocialGO. If they become a paying Premium customer of SocialGO, you get 50% of their initial sign-up payment, and then 5% of their monthly subscription - for the life of their network!

Here's how to get started...

1. Head to http://affiliate.socialgo.com and hit the 'Sign Up' button 

2. Fill in the sign-up form, (making sure you get your PayPal e-mail correct, and using your own name if you don't have a company name).

3. You'll receive an e-mail confirming your username, and giving you a password. Head back to http://affiliate.socialgo.com and click the 'Log-in' button, and enter your details.

4. Once you're logged in, you'll see your SocialGO Affiliate Control Panel

 5. To get the ad code to place on your website, hit the 'Banners and Links' button in the left hand sidebar.

6.  Select the ad you'd like to appear on your network, and click the 'Get banner code' button beneath.

 

 

 

SocialGO is pleased to announce the release of the much-anticipated Widget Store.

Watch the following demonstration video (6 mins)

 

The team has been busy developing the new SocialGO Widget Store which is now available in your network admin center. The Store allows you to browse and add a variety of free and paid widgets to Premium SocialGO networks. Each widget adds additional native functionality instantly like video chat, games, visitor maps and more!

Because widgets are integrated at the platform level, rather than through Open-Social, they become true “white-label” features of a site. Their integrated nature improves the user experiance to bring value and uniqueness to each site compared with typical external widget offerings which look disjointed and out of place and typically inconsistant with a network's overall look and feel.

Check out WidgetLaboratory, our first official third-party widget supplier for more info on their existing and upcoming widgets.

The Widget Store works with SocialGO’s advanced Layout Manager, which we launched last month. The Layout Manager allows you to drag and drop any element of your network and now allows you to place and configure your selected widgets.

The Widget Store will continue to increase the range of modules that can be dragged into your network and is the latest step in creating a flexible, rich platform for building social websites in minutes.

Every widget is different, ranging from the professional to the silly, but all always designed to increase the engagement of your network. The widget store will be playing a central role in the future development of SocialGO as the widgets grow and improve and you guys give us feedback on what widgets you would like to be developed.

We would also like to invite you to an online workshop this Thursday, 14th May, where we will introduce the Widget Store. Please visit the 'Workshops' tab on the SocialGO Owners' Network to learn more and answer any questions you may have.

SocialGO Launches Layout Manager

SocialGO would like to announce the launch of the 'Layout Manager', giving anyone and everyone developer-like customization opportunities without writing a single line of code!

 
 

SocialGO.com has now launched it's eagerly awaited 'Layout Manager'. This powerful new feature combines infinite customization possibilities with drag and drop simplicity. It also eliminates the need for any special programming skills, allowing virtually anyone to build an advanced and unique social network with no prior experience. 

SocialGO founder Alex Halliday said, “Social Networking has become a part of most people’s daily lives. This has created an ever-increasing interest in hosted solutions by groups who wish to operate their own dedicated network, rather than being part of one of the larger general networks.

Since every niche wants a unique look and feel, features and rules, our Layout Manager allows for infinite customization, without the need to hire an expensive developer or designer. This is a tremendous advantage over other hosted solutions, most of which simply provide a ‘one look fits all’ template, rather than delivering power and control into the hands of the network creator.”

How Layout Manager Works

The Layout Manager (see below) using simple "point & click" allows you to break every page in your site down into nine distinct "Zones" that can be moved, deleted, modified or added to. Each Zone can be broken down into one column, two column or three column and you can vary the width of each column. 

Each Zone can be broken down into one column, two column or three column and you can vary the width of each column.

Within each Zone, you can drag and drop various modules, including HTML, CSS, Javascript, I-Frame, Feature Elements, and 3rd Party Widgets.

Layout Manager allows you to create an unlimited number of additional custom pages within your SocialGO network site, plus unlimited sub-pages. Each of these pages can be set to varying degrees of visibility between the public, logged-in members, paid subscribers, or moderators. And finally every page and sub-page can be renamed and re-ordered as you wish.

 

Layout Manager is available on SocialGO Premium and Concierge Plans. 
You'll find the Layout Manager in your Admin Centre at http://my.socialgo.com by simply clicking on the 'Layout Manager' block. 

If you are on the SocialGO FREE or Starter Packages and would like to use the Layout Manager, simply go to your admin Centre at http://my.socialgo.com and click the 'Change My Plan' option, from where you'll be able to upgrade to the Premium Plan from just $24.99 per month.

Emptying your cache been be useful for removing old info that may be being stored by your browser and preventing your network from working properly.

• In Firefox, you can do this by going to Tools->Clear Private Data...
• Uncheck everything except for Cache

• In Internet Explorer, you can do this by going to Tools->Internet Options..
• Under 'Browsing History', choose 'Delete...', then uncheck everything except Temporary Internet Files

Then revist or refresh your web page.

Hey networkers!

We're currently compiling a list of tutorials to create to add to the 'Tutorials' section of the Owners' Network.

We love getting feedback from all our network owners, so would like to ask - "Is there something particular that you would like a tutorial for?"

Let us know if there's something you'd like help with, or if there's anything you think might be useful to have explained to other SocialGO network owners!

Thanks!!

1. Click on 'Add new blog' in the sidebar


2. Add your page content (i.e. your text which you can format, images using 'Add image' and create links), using the tools in the Tiny MCE

3. Click the 'HTML' button once you've added all your content


4. Copy and paste the contents of the pop up window - this is your HTML code
 
5. Paste this code in to the 'Edit Page Content' section of tab you wish to edit.



 6. Save your changes, and you will have updated your tab's content!