Dashboard Guide
The
Dashboard is where all the controls and settings for your account can be accessed and updated. A basic run down of all the Dashboard features would give you an idea of some of the features available on Kettik. So we request all new users to familiarize themselves with the Dashboard features and perform some basic tasks mentioned below (by a *) to properly setup their accounts.
1.Notifications
Here you can see your notifications from the last 7 days. You'll receive notifications for events such as someone commenting on your posts or giving them a star, new posts published by your favorite bloggers or your favorite journals being updated etc.
2.Account Settings*
A handy place manage your account settings. You can set up you homepage here, update your profile, manage your privacy settings, monitor your account and more.
3.1.Account Status
Here you can monitor your account activity progress (its fun to watch that activity bar grow) and update your email address/password etc. Also incase your account is not activated (we need to verify your email address when you sign up), you can request to reactive your account from here.
3.2.Profile
Here you'll find controls to update your name, your profile image and provide a small introduction about yourself which will then appear in the "Meet the Author" section of all your posts and photos.
3.3.Homepage
3.3.1.Choose your sub-domain
Ever user on Kettik gets their own mini website like 'username'.kettik.com. This mini website behaves exactly like the main Kettik site but it is dedicated to showing your content only. Even the drop down destination navigation bar at the top would show only the destinations from the content you created. How cool is that !!. It is a perfect way for you to showcase your content and for your fans to explore and enjoy your stories and photos.
To active this you need to choose your own user name, your user name can be anything as long as it is not already taken. Do choose your username carefully because once chosen, it cannot be changed.
3.3.2.Personalize your Home page
You can personalize your home page by choosing your preferred layout for your page and by uploading a custom logo (220x70px) and pick a title and a blurb for your page.
3.3.3.Setup your own Disqus commenting system
Kettik uses the Disqus commenting system by default. Disqus is one of the best commenting systems available today, it is feature packed and promotes more active discussions on your blog posts. We want to give you the option of running your own Disqus forum. Having your own Disqus forum gives you more control over the comments added to your posts, you can receive automatic email notifications, as a moderator for your posts and take your comments with you incase you decide to leave Kettik in the future.
3.4.Promote
You can promote your Facebook fan page and Twitter account by integrating them directly into your blog.
3.5.Privacy Settings
Manage your privacy and notification settings here. Here you can allow your readers to contact you using the contact form (your email is never exposed) and turn on/off email notifications for different types of events happening on your Blog.
3.Manage Posts and Photos
Here you can oversee and manage all the content you've created on Kettik. The different category of posts (stories, photos, journals, reviews etc) are organized separately. And as an added convenience we provide filters for you to filter your posts based on destination. If needed you can also create new content by using the links provided here.
4.Fans
Here you can see a list of all your fans and also the list people you are fan of. Being a fan of someone basically means that you are interested in following their posts and once you are a fan of someone you get a notification whenever they publish a new post.
5.Subscriptions
Here you can see and manage your subscriptions. There are two types of subscriptions currently available.
- A journal subscription, sends notifications whenever a new post is added to the journal.
- A comment thread subscription, sends notifications whenever new comment is added to the thread.
6.Setup Affiliates
One of the primary goals of Kettik was to empower our users to earn revenue from their content. We pulled out all the stops to maximize your avenues for generating a income through our platform. In this page you can provide us information about ur membership with these programs and we'll use that information to generate the ads and affiliate links on your content pages.
- Contextual Ad's from your content (Google Adsense)
- Sell prints and license your photos for download (Fotomoto)
- Affiliate Income from Book reviews (Amazon, Flipkart etc)
- Affiliate Income from Gear reviews (Amazon)
- Affiliate Income from Hotel Networks (Hotels Combined)
You can find more details about this revenue sharing program in our "
Monetize your Content" page.
