Content Settings for Parking Site
Contents are the heart of Dub parking sites.
They populate your domain with relevant pages, which
will drive engagement and traffic.
But a Dub parking site doesn't just
list contents, it also comes with a host of other features
which support contents to make it even more engaging for your
visitors. All of these things can be configured in
Site > Settings > Content in your parking site admin panel.
In this document, we will go through each of these settings
and explain what they are.
Content Voting
If you're familiar with content aggregation sites
(e.g. Reddit) then you will be familiar with content voting.
It's a feature where users can vote up or down on the content
depending on how much they like the content.
Voting is available only for
registered members
and you can allow either voting up or voting down.
If you allow voting, contents will be ordered with votes
considered. Members of your parking site can also view
their voted contents, which will be available via a menu item.
Content Liking
Liking or bookmarking is another way for your members to
show their engagement with your contents. Unlike voting, liking is
a way of your visitors to bookmark their favorite contents on your
site.
Manually approving discovered contents
Contents are usually discovered via either
RSS feeds or
keyword searches.
By default, they are displayed on your site automatically.
However, if you wish to control the quality of the contents
a bit more, you can manually approve these discovered
contents before they are displayed on your site.
If you set this option to
Yes
then you will need to go to the
content management in your admin panel
and approve the ones that you like.
Allowing members to submit
In addition to sourcing contents from RSS feeds
and keywords, Dub parking site
also gives you an option to actually submit posts.
Set this to
Yes
and you will see a
Submit
button on your site, which is available only for your
members.
You will also see a link called
Bookmarklet
on your site. This is a shortcut plugin which your members
can install in their browser. When they visit a page which they
want to share on your parking site, they can click this button
and a content will be pre-populated with its details, making things
easy to submit.
Allowing post submission also requires your approval by default.
You, as an admin, will receive an email when a new post has been
submitted by your member, at which point, you can review and
decide whether to approve or reject.
Though it requires a little bit more work, allowing your members
to submit posts is a great way to turn your domain into a
community where visitors of your domain become active rather than
passive. By submitting their own post and seeing how other people
engage with it, they will feel more ownership on your parking site
and return as an active member, helping your parking site to grow
over time.