From your dashboard, go to “System Options” » “Blogging Settings” »”Reading”.

In this area, you will create options on how your visitors will view your site.

Front Page: The default setting is to show a list of your most recent posts.  There may be times when you’d prefer a single page or post be your main Blog Page.   You can select that page here.

Blog Pages: How many articles should be listed on a single page?  We recommend you don’t change this setting.

Syndication Feeds: How many recent posts should be shown in RSS Directories and other Feed Syndications?  Should they show the full article or just a portion of the article?  We recommend using the “Full Text” option and ALWAYS including an “author tag” within each post to protect your content.

The other settings should NOT be changed.

From your dashboard, go to “System Options” » “Blogging Options” » “Writing”.

In this area you will be setting up your various “writing” options.

In the first section you’ll decide:

1. The size of your “post box” (the box where you actually write your posts and blog pages)
2. Formatting options, converting emoticons and correcting invalidly nested coding
3. Your default “category” for your post articles
4. Your default “category” for links

All these options can remain as they are.

Post via Email:

On occasion you may be on the road or at a conference and while you have a quick second, you want to post something on your site.  The email option will allow you to do that.  You’ll need all the server information to input, and a “private” email address to use just for posting.

Update Services:

This area contains all the RSS Directories that the service will automatically notify whenever you hit the “publish” button.  (These are unlike the Social Bookmarking sites as you don’t need an account).

The list is already populated for you, but should you happen to delete it, you can just copy this list and paste it into that area:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://www.a2b.cc
http://api.feedster.com
http://api.my.yahoo.com
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://www.bitacoles.net
http://blogbot.dk
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com
http://www.blogpeople.net
http://www.blogroots.com
http://www.blogshares.com
http://www.blogsnow.com
http://blog.goo.ne.jp
http://bulkfeeds.net
http://coreblog.org
http://www.lasermemory.com
http://mod-pubsub.org
http://www.mod-pubsub.org
http://www.newsisfree.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com
http://ping.rootblog.com
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://www.popdex.com
http://rcs.datashed.net
http://rpc.weblogs.com
http://www.snipsnap.org
http://www.topicexchange.com
http://www.weblogues.com
xping.pubsub.com
xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

From your dashboard, “System Options” » “Your Site Settings” » “General Options”

This is where you’ll set your site’s profile.

Blog Title: Enter a keyword-rich site name. (This can be different than the actual site domain).

Tagline: Enter a keyword rich tag-line that will appeal to your Tribe.

Both the “Title” and “Tagline” are used in various directories and external websites, so having these be keyword relevant is extremely important to your success.

WordPress and Blog address (URL): This is automatically set for you as: http://yourdomain.com/blog. Do NOT change this setting as it will throw off your entire site. Themes will not work, articles will not be shown, AND you will not be able to log back into your dashboard.

E-mail Address: Enter the email for the website contact person.

Membership: You have the option of allowing people to “register” on your website, and require them to be registered prior to posting.  These settings are completely optional. If this is something you’d like to enforce, check the boxes, otherwise leave them blank. Just a note on this… by requiring registration to your site prior to posting anything, you may be turning off many visitors that would otherwise participate. Also, by checking on “Anyone can register”, you may notice random users showing up into your User list with no idea who they are.

UTC Time is: Here you will set your time zone to reflect where you are in the world.

The remaining settings are time and date display.  These are already set for you.

From your Dashboard, go to “System Options” » “Blogging Settings” » “Discussion”

This is where you will set up your discussion options for accepting comments within your blog. Most of these settings will remain unchanged, although this is completely up to your personal preference.

1. Usual Settings for An Article: This section determines the default settings for your blog posts. These can be changed on an individual post basis within the “Create” » “Write Post” section. The main box here we recommend you leave unchecked is the first one “Attempt to notify any weblogs…” This will slow down the system and doesn’t do much for you that the other aspects of the Quan$ite™ system doesn’t already do.
2. Email me Whenever: The email settings determine when you’d like to be notified. Do you want to know every time someone posts a comment? Do you want to be notified when a comment is being held for moderation? Determine those settings here.
3. Before A Comment Appears: Here you’ll determine when a comment will appear. Do you want to approve every comment that comes in? Do you want to require visitors to leave their name and email before they leave a comment? If a visitor has left a comment before, do they need your approval again?

NOTE: The name and email requirement here is not the same as user registration. While this function may actually turn people away from commenting or leaving fictitious information, by having this option set, you’re allowing the “Comment Relish” portion of the Quan$ite™ system to work for you.
NOTE: Comment moderation is automatically disabled right now due to the use of Spam Karma 2. Spam Karma 2 (SK2) is used for filtering 99% of potential comment spam from your blog.

From your Dashboard, go to “System Options” » “Marketing Settings” » “Sociable settings”

Don’t let these sociable icons be confused with the Social Bookmark Robot or the RSS Subscription Icons. The sociable icons are actually used by your visitors to “bookmark” a particular article on their favorite Social Bookmarking site.

Selecting your Sociable settings

First you’ll need to decide which icons you’d like to provide to your visitors. There are so many options available it is difficult to say which ones are best. Some are very niche specific, whereas some are more general. The top 5 that we recommend are “del.icio.us”, “digg”, “furl”, “netscape”, “MyYahooWeb”. I tend to pick the Sociable Icons that I have signed up for in my Social Bookmarking Robot also.

To select or unselect an icon, simply click on it. You can change they order they appear in by clicking-and-dragging to move the icons around.

Sociable icon heading

Next you can change the “heading” for your sociable icons. The default is “Share and Enjoy:” but you can change that to whatever you wish.

Positioning of the Sociable icons

Lastly, you’ll determine where these sociable icons show up. You can have them show up in any of the areas listed. Simply “check” or “uncheck” your selections.

From your dashboard, go to “System” » “Quansite SBM-Client”.

The sooner you have this section set up, the quicker you’ll start to see some traffic. This is a KEY feature that puts the power in your site. Once you have this set up, every time you hit “publish” in the “Create” » “Write Post” section, you are sending your content to highly ranked sites. The more you add content and hit “publish”, the more your content is sent out to the bookmarking sites and the more inbound backlinks you have to help boost your Search Engine Ranking.

There are two options for the built-in Auto Social Bookmarking Robot…

Option 1: the easy way (recommended)

1. Ignore all settings toward the top of the page for now. (We’ll cover these settings below.)
2. Scroll down to the heading “Account Structure Options.”
3. Click the radio button to the right that says “Use Power Bookmarking Account (auto-set-up).”
4. Select one of the general categories listed.
5. Click the “Save Settings” button at the bottom of the page.

That’s it! You’re all set! From now on when you hit the publish button your blog posts will be automatically bookmarked for you at over a dozen popular social bookmarking sites.

How does the “easy option” work?

When you select your general category in step 4 above you are automatically added to a niche-specific account at the active social bookmarking sites. We open, setup and manage all these accounts for you. Your posts area bookmarked along-side other Quan$ite members in the same niche. Our system is setup to have a maximum of 25 members in any master account.

Benefits of the “easy option”

By selecting you’re not only saving an hour of your time for EACH post manually doing this work. You’ll automatically get three other very important benefits:

• There is no need for you to go to each of the social bookmarking sites and create a personal account for yourself. One click of the radio button takes care of it all for you!
• Since this option adds you to a managed master account with other Quan$ite members, you are NOT in violation of any social bookmark sites TOS (Terms of Service.) Most Social bookmark sites prohibit using an account to bookmark exclusively your own content.
• The managed master account with a niche focus makes it more likely that human visitors will actually find the pages bookmarked in the account a useful resource. This is because the content is from two dozen different sites. This means a much higher likelihood that actual human visitors will visit your site in addition to the search engine spiders following bookmark links.

Option 2: the hard way

OK, so why would we even offer a “hard way”?

Some members are willing to take the time to go to each of the active social bookmarking sites and set up their own personal accounts.They are willing to risk violating the TOS of the social bookmarking sites in order to have exclusively their own posts show in an account.

We must reinforce strongly that violating the TOS of the social bookmarking sites will very likely get you banned from particular sites. Plus, you are sure to turn off human visitors wo come across your bookmarking accounts because you will be positioned as purely self-promotional.

If you’d like to still go with the personal account option, here’s what you need to do:

First and foremost, sign up for all the Social Bookmarking Sites that you can that we have included in the system. You’ll find all the current sites active in the system in the drop-down menu under the heading “Bookmarking accounts.”

Other Auto-Social Bookmarking Settings

Next we’ll take a look at the other settings within the Social Bookmarking Robot.

1. Manual Tag Options This is the appearance of the tags you enter in Blog Posts or Blog Pages. The “Start Marker” refers to the “heading” of your tags and the “separator” refers to how your tags are separated.There is also the option to convert your tags to “Technorati” tags. What this will do is turn your tags into a link to Technorati. We don’t recommend this option as that will push more visitors away from your site.
2. Pre-Set Tag Options In this section you’ll notice a large text box. This is where you would enter any tags that “globally” reflect your site. The checkbox to “randomly use these pre-set tags” should be checked if your tag box contains more than 10 tags. The system will randomly choose tags from this box to include with your article posts.Below that is, again, the option to convert to Technorati tags (which we don’t recommend) and then the number of tags to include.
3. Other Posting Options This section refers to the “robot” portion and bookmarking the accounts you’ve signed up for. The first option is the number of sites to “randomly” post to. If you post 3 times a week, leave this option unselected. If you tend to post daily, you may want to select this option and have the system post to only 5 or 6 of your accounts (the accounts will be chosen by the system at random). For “Email Submission” reports, checking this option will send you an email notification on what sites your articles were submitted to and the status of that post.Last but not least, is the “bookmark future posts” option. Select this option. If you’re going on vacation and have post dated a few articles to keep your site up to date, this option will post those articles when they actually publish to your site.

From your dashboard, go to “System Options” » “Your Site Settings” » “Google Analytics”

Why use Google Analytics?

You want to see who is coming to your site, and you want to know how they found you. You also want to know the keywords they used to find your site and what page they entered your site from.

While you can access some of this information in your CPanel (i.e. http://YOURDOMAIN.com/cpanel, click the Web/FTP Stats button), we highly recommend Google Analytics (https://www.google.com/analytics) for more detailed reporting.

Integrating Google Analytics with your Quan$ite Hub Site

It’s really a quick & painless process.

1. First you’ll need a Google account. If you have a gmail account, you already have a Google account. If you use Google Adwords, you already have a Google Account. If you use Google AdSense, again, you already have a Google Account.If you do not, go to Google’s home page, and in the top right corner you’ll find a link that says “Sign In”. Follow that link, then click on “Create an Account.” Follow the instructions provided.
2. Go to the Google Analytics site (https://www.google.com/analytics) to create an Analytics profile. You’ll need to provide your URL, your contact information, etc. Once this is complete, you will receive a tracking code from Google. This code is unique for the URL that you provided. It will not work with any other site.
3. Go to your Quan$ite™ domain, log into your dashboard, go to “System Options” » “Your Site Settings” » “Google Analytics” — remove the current code in the text box, and paste in your new Analytics code.
4. Once you click on “Update Options” you can direct Google Analytics to confirm the tracking code. This should only take moments, although it may take up to 24 hours to view any reports.

That’s it! Your advanced tracking is now integrated with your Quan$ite Hub Site. Every blog post, blog page and Marketing PRO page you create will automatically have the necessary Google analytics codes added for you!

You’ll have all the information you need to monitor, adjust and improve your traffic, responsiveness and sales on your Hub Site.

From your dashboard, go to “System Options” » “Blogging Settings” » “Article Series Options”.

What’s the In-Series option for?

The In-Series Option is a provided as a way to keep articles within a “series” together.

Let’s say you started writing an article, and instead of the short 4 or 5 paragraphs you intended, the information you’re putting together is in fact more like 20 paragraphs. The information is all relevant and useful, but it’s just too long for one post.

So, we make it a series. We break those 20 paragraphs into 4 or 5 different articles and post them individually.

What this will do is not only add more consistent content to your site, but your visitors will want to come back to read the next part of the series, and the next part. And maybe instead of checking back every day for the next in the series to be posted, they’re going to sign up in your opt-in box so they get notified by email that the next article in the series is ready for them.

The In-Series option makes it easy for your visitors to get to the other articles in the series quickly and easily, This increases satisfaction of your Tribe. It also boosts SEO (Search Engine Optimization.)

How to use the In-Series feature

We’ve covered the basics of setting up a series in Creating a Post/Article. Now we’ll cover the actual settings for the In-Series Option.

Only the first four settings should be changed.

1. Show links in single view. What this meansis if the visitor has accessed an In Series article at it’s full URL (i.e. yourdomain.com/blog/in-series-article-title/) that the links for previous and next articles in the series will show.
2. Show links in Multi-Views. If a visitor is reading your articles from the home page, or from a category listing, the links for the previous and next articles in the series will show.
3. Previous link text. This is where you’ll define what the “Previous link” should say. Remember this will be included for ALL the different series, so it should not be series specific.
4. Next link text. Same as above, except for the “next” article in the series.

As with all your headlines, your article series titles should both make sense to your visitors AND include keywords relevant to your Tribe and the actual article series.