Bounce rates, max size, social buttons, monetisation & showcase.

[Karen White]

Hello TEC

LOVING Community Events which is super sharp on my site: http://www.veganeventhub.com Even if I do say so myself. 🙂

Just a few Qs.
External links NOT opening in new tabs is killing my website bounce rates. Honestly, surprised that this hasn’t been hard-coded in. Good visitor statistics are vital to gain sponsorships. I’m not keen on adding bespoke code that will need adjustment at every upgrade. Can I instead ‘hide URL fields’ from the Community Modules, so that people can only add their URL in the text description as a hyperlink opening in a new tab? Do I really need to go through hundreds of events to remove the URLs so my bounce rates improve?

Is is possible to add social share buttons to each event page, so visitors can share them?

Some of my community event submissions have descriptions over 200 words. I thought there was a limit? Or was this just for CSV uploads?

Ideas to monetise community events? The website is receiving interest from the media which means more traffic in the future and higher server costs etc. And you have the Aggregator coming out soon. Ticket sales don’t bring any income either? Appreciate your advice here.

You are welcome to add my site to your showcase. 🙂

Thanks
Karen

[Nico]

Hi there Karen,

Thanks for getting in touch with us! Stocked to hear Community Events is rocking your website 🙂

Let’s jump into your questions:

External links NOT opening in new tabs is killing my website bounce rates.

Most probably a snippet here can help to change the link target. Are you referring to the ‘Website URL’ field in the submission form?

Is is possible to add social share buttons to each event page, so visitors can share them?

Sure, take a look at this article → Adding social media sharing to events

Some of my community event submissions have descriptions over 200 words. I thought there was a limit? Or was this just for CSV uploads?

There’s no ‘200 words limit’ in the community form description field, and don’t think this is true for CSV imports. Is there are a place where you saw this?

You are welcome to add my site to your showcase.

Sweet, please use submit the site using this form → https://theeventscalendar.com/showcase-submission/

Please let me know about if my answers help out,
Best,
Nico

[Karen White]

Hey Nico

Many thanks for your response 🙂 Yes, I’m referring to the ‘Website URL’ field in the submission form, but also the Organzier Website field doesn’t open in a new tab. Basically, I don’t want ANY links to open in the same window. So all URLs added in the Community Events module need to open in new tabs please. The snippet would help I guess? How will this respond to your software upgrades?

Thanks for the links to social sharing info. and showcase listing. I’ll check these out.

Now how about the vital monetisation Q. Have you built anything into Events Calendar to help us monetise and fund our websites? It’s fantastic having loads of means to grow the number of events we have, but the server costs can easily reach £1k per month with some good traffic. (Shakes piggy bank to hear a few coins.) Er… anything in the works to deal with the problem of a site being ‘too large’!?

Thanks ever so…

Karen

[Nico]

Thanks for following up Karen!

Regarding the target of the links to the websites of the events, organizers and venues, you can use the snippet below to force them to open in a new window. You’ll need to paste the snippet in your theme’s (or child theme’s) functions.php file, this will make it safe for further plugin updates:

/* Tribe, force event, venue & organizer websites to open in a new window */
add_filter( 'tribe_get_event_website_link_target', function () { return '_blank'; } );
add_filter( 'tribe_get_venue_website_link_target', function () { return '_blank'; } );
add_filter( 'tribe_get_organizer_website_link_target', function () { return '_blank'; } );


Have you built anything into Events Calendar to help us monetise and fund our websites? It’s fantastic having loads of means to grow the number of events we have, but the server costs can easily reach £1k per month with some good traffic. (Shakes piggy bank to hear a few coins.) Er… anything in the works to deal with the problem of a site being ‘too large’!?

Community Tickets add-on enables you community members to add tickets to events. You’ll get a % (or a flat fee) of the tickets sales. Depending on the type of site you are running this might be a good way of making some money 🙂

Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with,
Best,
Nico

[Karen White]

Nico – you are a superstar.

With your advice we now have social share working on the veganeventhub.com community events and it’s looking great. We’ll use the code you’ve shared (thanks) and I didn’t realise you get a % of the ticket fee – so this is top news.

Thanks again
Karen

[Nico]

Super stocked to hear and thanks for the compliment 🙂 Best of luck with the site!

I’ll go ahead and close out this thread, but if you need help with anything else please don’t hesitate to create a new one and we will be happy to assist you.

Have a great week,
Nico

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