Tracking your referrals

To view the users you've referred to Taiwanderful, goto "My account" and select "View users you have referred".

How does this work?

What we have done is setup a system so the ad revenue can be shared between all active members of this site.

This site displays advertisements to support hosting and maintenance costs. We use Google AdSense to automatically serve relevant ads for the content on the page. Google pays AdSense publishers on a per click basis. If a user has an AdSense account, they have the ability to credit their account with the ads served on information that they contribute or participate in.

If you still don't have a Google Adsense account - Signing up for a Google Adsense account requires that you have a blog or a website. If you wish to setup a Google Adsense account but still don't have a website, you may refer to your community blog on the Taiwanderful site.

If you have any questions about it, please post it in the forums (and get revenues for it :) ).

How to setup the Taiwanderful Adsense revenue sharing

From the left navigation menu, go to My account -> Edit, then click on "Revenue sharing information" and enter your Google ID,which is something like "pub-9999999999999", and click Submit. Make sure that you enter the Google ID correct or your ads will not show up.

Tracking Taiwanderful revenue

To track the revenue received from Taiwanderful use Google Adsense URL channels pointing to www.taiwanderful.net .

What are the conditions?

• You must have an AdSense account through Google. If you don't already have a Google Adsense account -
• When Taiwanderful brings up information you contributed to the site, your AdSense client ID will be used for 100% of the ads displayed.

   

Why are you doing this?

A community site like Taiwanderful is nothing without the users, so we thought we'd like to reward users who contribute quality information to the community.

Add your blog posts to existing guides

A site member asked :

I would like to share them with the site, but I'm not sure what the right way to it is.

• Should I upload them or should I link to my blog?
• Should I post them in a blog entry on Taiwanderful? I noticed that Taiwanderful has book pages that can be edited and revised by users, but I prefer that the content would stay static and only editable by myself. Is that possible?

Yes. It is possible.

Your blog posts on Taiwanderful are your own, and you're the only one who can edit those. Taiwanderful has a neat feature that allows adding you blog posts into an already existing guide by following those steps :

• Write a blog post, submit it.
• When viewing your post you'll notice a tab called "outline", choose "outline".
• Select the parent for your content among all existing guide content. If you want it to appear at the end select weight 10, if you want it to appear at the start - select -10.

 

In your own blog, you can link to who ever you feel like, including your own blog, as long as it follows the site guidelines.

How to add pictures to the content

Every registered user can upload photos and link to them on the guide.

The way this is done is through the WYSIWYG rich-text editor. Open the content you want to add a picture to and press on the "Insert/Edit image" button :

To add a new picture, or choose from a picture you uploaded earlier, choose "Browse":

In "Browse" mode you can choose one of the previously uploaded images or upload a new one through "Upload File". Please note that photos are downscaled to 500x500 and that quota is enforced.

 

 

 

Taiwanderful Blogging

What is a blog?

Taiwanderful's blogs allows all registered users to maintain a personal weblog on site. Blogs are easily- and frequently-updated websites usually written in an informal and conversational style. They are ordered reverse-chronologically (that is, the most recent entry is at the top) and have archives of past entries. Each individual entry has a permanent—that is to say, stable—URL linking directly to that item.

Blogs have comments for each entry so that readers can participate in the discussion, and they usually have RSS feed to be syndicated elsewhere or read in an desktop aggregator. Each entry usually contains one idea, with a link to the source of the original item being discussed. Blogs in Taiwanderful can be written about any subject related to Taiwan, from daily personal life to technology to politics to knitting to sports to a company's products.

 

 

You can

• read your blog via your user profile at my account.
• write a blog post at create content >> personal blog entry.

 

 

Features

Blog it: Users with blogs will see a "blog it" link in the form of a linked image i.e. when viewing posts in the news. When the blog it option is selected, the user is taken to the blog entry form, with the title, a link to the item, and a link to the source already entered in the text input field, ready for the user to add explanation.

User Blog RSS syndication: each user blog has its own RSS feed, allowing other sites to syndicate their content or allowing readers to read the individual blog in an aggregator. To find the RSS feed for a user, view their personal blog (in their personal information, which you can get to by clicking on their username, select view recent blog entries). Then look for the XML icon at the bottom of their blog page.

 

Taiwanderful onsite messaging

Registered users can use the onsite messaging system.

 

To set the messaging preferences go to "My account", select the "Edit" tab and scroll down to the "Private message settings" where you may set the notifications for your incoming messages.

"My inbox" from the left menu is where you can send and receive site messages, and a "Write to author" shortcut is available on every content.