A Face for Your Race: Free Race Websites

Your Race Website is the face of your race. What makes a (free) RunSignup Race Website beneficial? It provides maximum visibility and centralized information on a platform that is flexible and mobile friendly. More information about creating and customizing your Race Website:…

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Registrant and Member Only- Custom Sections

We have added the ability to create custom sections that can only be seen by current registrants or existing club members. This is a great feature that will allow you to post information, event and club details that can only be accessed…

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Running Club Websites Released

We have released the same website capabilities for Clubs that we recently released for Races. All of the existing Clubs were automatically updated. The new design brings a number of benefits: We have also updated your Club Dashboard where you set everything up…

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Hiding Pages in your Race Website

ou can now hide pages in your race website from the Race Page -> Menu Order page on your race dashboard. This is useful if you had a store, but no longer have items to sell. It also allows you to work…

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Google Moves Mobile Sites to Front of the Line on Search

Google has added mobile readiness to their list of criteria for ranking websites for their search results. This means that mobile friendly sites will get better placement than equivalent sites that are just designed for desktops. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/technology/google-adds-mobile-friendliness-to-its-search-criteria.html Fortunately, RunSignup was the first…

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Google Search

We have recently added Rich Snippets to our Google feed of races, specifically the Microdata feed. This means when runners search for your race on Google and see the RunSignup entry, they will get a nicely formatted search result that includes information on your…

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SSL Security Issues Fixed

If you are a major geek, you know that the Heartbleed Bug was recently found and started to be exploited.  I am happy to report that we have implemented the fix as shown in this test. Please let website owners that you use know about this….

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New Editor

We have upgraded the editing that you can do on RunSignUp when you put up your own Custom Sections. One of the nicest things is that when you paste text in from Word or a PDF document, it strips off all the…

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Custom URL’s Extended

Custom URL’s allow you to specify your own web address without having to have your own website – like http://www.runsignup.com/MyRace. We now give you a way to go to specific pages beyond your custom URL.  This gives you a nice short address to…

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