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When it comes to building a long-term and profitable website, you need software that can provide the solutions that will allow you to build, manage, and grow your very own online social networking community without having to spend thousands of dollars to hire programmers. Doing this all on your own, even with hiring programmers to perform research, building everything from scratch can take months, even years, to launch.

Do you know what Social Networking features are the most important for any membership site? Features that allow community members with similar interests to connect and grow, and those features that keep members engaged and coming back.

What are these features?

• Full Feature Forums
• Tags
• Site & User Blogs
• Friends
• Who’s Online
• Private Messaging
• Member Directory
• Member Profiles

What these features do for you and your members especially in discussion forums, is build your community. They also provide places for personal coaching, communication and information like FAQ’s, creating unlimited public, private and read-only forums, fast search and sort functions, eMail replies and member messaging. Tags are content keywords that identify and classify web content. Using tags allows members to search and add to the content in the forums, blogs, and other feature functions.

Allowing members to know when other members are online increases the communication among members. Blogs improve search engine rankings and create syndicated content that keeps your membership and guests coming back. Blogs provide an invaluable way for members to participate in the community and allows them to showcase themselves and create a network with other members.

Allowing members to customize profiles and their member spaces, makes your site not only more fun, but it engages your members and makes them want to return more often. The more features that you provide, the more members are able to make their profile their own, and are able to share with other members. Allow your members the ability to share information with others within the community. Make sure your membership software is capable of providing the latest social networking features.

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