DaniWeb IT Discussion Community - Promotion and Marketing Plans

Why my site is not indexed ?

omsoni — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:25:39 GMT

It has been 2 weeks since I launched my website. I have done everything by book, added a sitemap, registered the site with google, yahoo and bing. Put the title and description meta tag.

My site is still not indexed ..
Please advise what I can do so that google indexes it.
dealpigeon.com

Thanks

Are Inline Ads Goods?

rekomaster — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:23:16 GMT

Hi,
im new here, in plan to put inline ad's to several of my blog...
need to know, is Adbrite is the best choice for it?

Lee

Social Networking Traffic

keepbusy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:01:57 GMT

On my site I provide users the ability to share content on Social Networking Sites and I advertise this in the following order:

Facebook (14,364)
MySpace (100)
Twitter (69)
Digg (1,037)
StumbleUpon (6,102)
Reddit (48)
Delicious (6)

The numbers in parentheses are the amount of traffic I got from each site over the past 30 days. I get great traffic from Facebook, Stumbleupon, and Digg, but virtually nothing from the remaining. Is it worth ditching sites like myspace, twitter, reddit, and delicious, and advertising the rest more prominently?? What sites do you think are the most important to target?

Furthermore, although I do well with StumbleUpon, I feel the majority of their traffic is driven from their toolbar, so I'm not sure it's worth advertising it. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. For a better understanding you can visit my site by adding a ".net" after my username.

Thanks!

Setting revenue targets for a news website

loadedguns — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:13:42 GMT

Hello all,
I am planning to launch a local news website which will be updated atleast 5 times a day.
I am not sure @ estimating revenue at the end of one year.
Is it possible to tell how the Google Adsense revenue is related to no. of visits like 1$ per 1000 visits in a day?
I am taking Google Adsense as the bottomline and not considering affiliate marketing and directly sold banner ads.
Please share your experiences as they will help me immensely.

Thanking you in advance,
--
Loadedguns

How to get Twitter followers?

Angela12 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:54:59 GMT

How to get followers from twitter friend adders I mean which is the best way for doing that? Thanks for the help in advace

Good T-Shirt Printing Service?

Doctor Inferno — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:48:45 GMT

Hello,

Anybody has good recommendations for T-shirt printing services? I heard Big Cartel is quite good, Cafe Press on the other hand has very lousy printing quality.

I'm looking for good priced, quality and printing options. Does anyone have suggestions?

How i have got 1000's of people

webmastercook — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:28:57 GMT

Hey check this out...

I just found this site that shows you a way
of getting 1000's of new followers on twitter,
I just started using it myself and it's
starting to work already. :)

ViralFollowers
Thought it might interest you.

onlinehits

switching over marketing job

shubh09 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:40:22 GMT

What is the best way to evaluate ourselves in terms of salary and perks as a marketing professional when we go for new job in the same industry and in the same city?

investment for customer satisfaction or customer interaction

shubh09 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:27:57 GMT

What % of the business revenue should be allotted exclusively for the customer satisfaction or customer interaction after sales?

Free directory for articles submission

seo services — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:11:41 GMT

following are fast approval article directory
www austinchroniclestx com
www charlottechroniclesnc com
www bostonchroniclesma com
www baltimorechroniclesmd com

All are dofollow

How many backlinks are needed to promote a website?

seobaba — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:59:02 GMT

How many Number of backlinks we have to need to promote a website? If our website is new how much backlink we have to make in a day?

Looking for Live Chat Software

vixen76 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:49:41 GMT

Hi Does anyone know of any Live Chat affiliate programs that I could sign up to, what I mean is Live chat software and/or live chat service where they do the customer service, I’m looking to make a review website, as you guys are all "techie" people I thought you would know, iv found one website which is an ideal example its {snipped link} They seem to offer good commission rates, Be great if someone already has a big list of them, Thanks:)

Best regard,

Carrie

Need advice on what product to promote

edosauyi — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:10:43 GMT

I have a blog that i use for writing how to make money online articles, but the problem i have is that i want to join an affiliate program so that i can promote it with my blog but i dont know what product will have a good conversion rate.
can anybody advice me on what product to promote, please i mean the one you already have experience with.

Which online research methods do you use for your marketing plan?

InsightsDigital — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:53:01 GMT

Online research may have made it easier to recruit subjects and develop insights, but I do wonder which methods have worked best for you and your clients? Do you use surveys? Polls? or even rich banner ads with an integrated survey? What has been the CTR and success metrics?

News Story Hamleys loses site

GuyClapperton — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:34:35 GMT

It's almost reassuring to see a large company make basic mistakes like this - UK toy store Hamley's (one of our best-known retailers, a tourist destination in its own right so I'm told although personally I find it looks a little dated) forgot to renew its domain for a few days.

Inevitably it was infested with ads for a while.

I do wonder what these companies think they're doing. It must be almost a decade since the satire site B3ta registered introducingmonday.co.uk - a consultancy was rebranding as Monday, put a lot of serious corporate stuff on introducingmonday.com but forgot about the UK equivalent - and people are still being caught out.

I'm a self-employed individual and I manage to renew my domains because the registrars send automatic reminders. I have to ask myself, how easy do the registration companies have to make this stuff..?

promo a flash site

readygame — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:04:03 GMT

Hi,
I just build a flash game site, {removed link}
I'd like to promo the site and drive some traffics, anyone has any idea of where can I start with?
I've been looked for sites for link exchange, but got no luck, is there any place you guys know for quick response.

Thanks

advertise and promote my rental properties

shubh09 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:57:59 GMT

What is the scope for investment in rental apartments in Mauritius, as the recession seems over, so I expect the boost in tourism? Can someone suggest me the effective ways to advertise and promote my rental properties designed and furnished for tourists ?

effective ways to reach the needy students

shubh09 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:52:39 GMT

I am planning to start mail based Math assignment help services for the students up to 6-8th grade. I can’t start in big way by developing a site and paying for SEO. What would the be the effective ways to reach the needy students apart from extensive SEO?

Avoiding Dodgy marketing!

zorgworgy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:49:53 GMT

How do I avoid being conned when putting money up for PPC or paid banners etc.? I have used Google adwords..and find them expensive. I have placed small banner ads on a number of sites..but they don't always match my content. I nearly signed up for AdBrite ...but heard they are a con ! (don't know if this is true ? anyone ? )

Our site is a tricky one to promote because it is hard to explain to customers without showing them! We find once they understand our software they like it

There is a site we have used to find sites to advertise on ..but the sites it has on its books are mainly to do with website design , photoshop , etc. etc. (buysellads.com)
Does anyone know of any other similiar ad broker type sites?
best Rs
Z

What would you do with 1k?

elwiny — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:30:38 GMT

hi there, what would you do if you only have USD$1000 to promote your internet business? :)

Just wondering on your out take on offering prizes as a way to lure users?

matthewl — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:01:31 GMT

I have a colleague that wants to enable the chances to win a prize for completing a task on one of our sites. I was wondering what is you views and thoughts about offering prizes from a marketing stand point and your point of view from a user stand point? Like from the sites you have encountered in the past that offer the chance to win a prize.

Viral Marketing: the new marketing technique/strategy?

kirksmith888 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:10:06 GMT

I'm a newbie to this forum and I came across this blog which talks about affiliatebusinessandstrategies wordpress viral marketing for affiliates?

question, how does viral marketing work? is this the newest marketing technique/strategy?

How to sell designed template

hno — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:55:33 GMT

HI
I have designed a few tamplate and now I want to sell them.How can I do that?

Thanks

How to improve traffic on site?

akbarali — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:58:54 GMT

I am working on site salttradeindia.com and wanted to know how to improve traffic on site. please review my site and give suggestion............!

Blogs

jedivid — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:33:14 GMT

HI World me again you will be sick of me soon I guess.

A few quick questions?
Is bloggin easy to do?
Which are the best site?
Will this drive traffic to my site?

Hope that someone can answer these question as the net seems to be difficult and has no real useful information that can be use be so one with limit knowlegde.

Jedivid

Backlinking

jedivid — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:30:06 GMT

HI all, its me again.

Anyway I am new and I was wondering if any of you out there in the IT world, can tell me in simple terms what is back linking and what is the best method of doing this.

I am lloking to promote several site and get traffic.

Any ideas!!!!!

Increasing traffic

jedivid — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:24:22 GMT

Hello All at Daniweb. I am new to this so looking for some help or just information.

I currently own lots of site but I am looking at three to start with.
I have a PR3 and A PR4 both good sites, but the question is how do I drive more traffic to the sites?

I have 1:1 traffic exchange and I am currenlty doing SEO work. Which i know both take time. Both sites a based on funny, prank and sexy videos.

Can any of you Jedi master help.

Building a Data Modeling White Paper

ENetArch — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:59:51 GMT

Hello All,

I'm building a White Paper for Data Modeling on several problem statements (listed below). I am looking for individuals that would like to contribute either directly or with the development of the paper.

The problem statements are:
1) Compare and contrast standard table based modeling with object oriented modeling techniques. What effects do these techniques have on application performance and growth over time?

2) What methodologies exist to map the object model into the data model such that the data model can be viewed without the need for a data diagram?

3) What factors should be considered when mapping object models into data models?

E,

Join Papatoto.com and earn daily income!

medha — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:49:08 GMT

Join papatoto.com and start making some quick and easy money online!
Just publish your articles for free and start earning..you need not be a professional writer for this..
so start using papatoto from now!!

Great webcast on Dynamic Infrastructure from IBM on Oct 20

vaishali4u — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:45:59 GMT

There’s a great webcast available that talks about how dynamic infrastructure can help you respond to today’s business demands. It focuses on three key topics: service management, systems for a smarter planet and information infrastructure.

URL: http://tinyurl.com/diOct20webcast

Looks like the webcast is scheduled for October 20

chance to win mac book from google

nandux8 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:31:25 GMT

If you are tired of the plain-Jane look that Google so proudly sports and would prefer something with the pizzazz of Bing, here’s your chance to make it happen. A new contest has just kicked off that asks you to redesign the world’s most popular search engine, with the winner getting to walk away with a brand new MacBook Air.

The contest is being organised by search collator/aggregator WebMynd, which specialises in customizing your Google search options to include better results. Ramping up their ambitions, the company has now launched the RedesignGoogle contest with a post on their official blog:

“ RedesignGoogle lets you completely customize the look of Google Search by installing user-submitted designs from an online gallery. A stripped-down version of the WebMynd add-on applies your installed stylesheet whenever you’re on a Google search results page. (You can enable WebMynd’s other features if you like, but they’re turned off by default.) Currently, RedesignGoogle is available for Firefox, and we’ll be releasing versions of the add-on for other browsers soon.

"If you’re a designer, this is your chance to revamp the most widely used service on the web. Anything that can be manipulating using CSS can be changed with RedesignGoogle. We offer a Web-based CSS editor for creating and previewing your designs, but you’re free to use your preferred tools — just paste your stylesheet into the editor when you’re ready to apply it to your own searches and publish it to the gallery.”

Entries are allowed till the 1st of November and will be judged by a panel of experts from WebMynd and other graphics designers, including Paul Graham.

More details about the contest will be announced shortly, but till then, take a look at a few examples of what’s possible:

Website:http://redesigngoogle.com/

How To Sell

paperkool — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:32:39 GMT

Written By paperkool aka Glen Jon

Every exchange requires a transfer of thought. Every transfer of thought is a sell. Babies out of the womb, sell ideas with emotion. If a baby is hungry, what does it do? The baby cries wah wah. The crying alerts mother to the baby’s needs. The baby sold that concept to mother. Understand if the baby cries and the mother does nothing, that’s not a sale.

My writing is essentially in reply to what I saw in a forum. A lady wrote. “I want to work at home, but I don’t want to do sales.” I tried to explain to the lady, in my reply that every exchange you may do is, in effect sales, to one degree or another. You may not think of it in such a manner however, it’s selling. When you apply for a job that you may consider a non sales job, in reality you’re selling your resume or application. No matter what job you may have, it requires you to perform at a level of proficiency that convinces your boss to give you a check on pay day. You must “perform.” Your performance is selling the idea you are qualified. You are selling constantly on a daily basis, weather you know it or not.

Talking to people is selling. Even a Jail Warden sells ideas. Some one may say ”shut up.” No matter how rude the thought is, it should be transferred at a level of coherent understanding. A dog growls at you. You know that means one thing. That growl transferred a thought. That’s what selling is. Selling is merely transferring a thought so the recipient understands it and responds in an acceptable manner. When the dog growls at you and you stand there and do nothing, that’s not a sale. The dog growls and you run.

That’s a sale. The dog convinced you. Selling can be basic or it can be refined. The beauty of selling on the internet is that you can let a pre-recorded message do the work for you. Videos and articles do the selling job. A person will purchase what ever by submitting a check or credit card on line. There is no need to knock on doors or invite people to your living room. You really don’t have to talk to anyone in person, if you don’t want to. Let technology work for you.

How to download online movies,streaming movies

lucychen — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:24:30 GMT

Now there are many movies and videos to watch online. For instance, Netflix provides streaming movies on its official website. Netflix customers can instantly watch the rented movies before receiving DVDs by mail. Cinemanow and Movieflix are popular online movie sites.

Streaming Video Recorder is a professional aplication to free download online movie, download streaming movie at will. This Streaming Video Recorder works with a sensitive sniffer to detect any streaming movies which are playing, analyze the real URL and then download online movie through this URL.

1. Download and install Streaming Video Recorder. The interface will be shown as:
http://www.download-streaming-video..../interface.jpg

2. Settings. Before downloading Disney Video, please do some settings first. By clicking on setting button which is shown as
http://www.download-streaming-video....ing-button.jpgon the top right of the
program window, you may set output folder, recording, video capture, user interface and net work:
http://www.download-streaming-video....ng-general.jpg

3. Visit online movie sites. Find the movie you want to download and play. This program will detect the movie automatically
and it will start the downloading once video was detected. Whenever you are downloading a video, it will be displayed right
there on the program:
http://www.download-streaming-video....g%20list-n.jpg

Once a movie has been finished downloading, it will still be displayed in this list. If you right click on it you can do a
few things: play it with Wondershare player or with an extra player, convert, or browse, according to your specific need.
http://www.download-streaming-video....ight-click.jpg
Streaming Video Recorder download

http://download.download-streaming-video.com/streaming-video-recorder_full403.exe

would like to move blog to blogger.com but dont know how to do it

JohnAvo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:43:32 GMT

Hey

I have a blog in liferay cms and now would like to move it to blogger.com but dont know how to do it. Is there easy way to do via RSS import or is there any service which can help to do this? Please help

What free and paid press release distribution site would you recommend?

JohnAvo — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:16:18 GMT

What free and paid press release distribution site would you recommend? Which one is good for SEO and allow links (free or at reasonable price)?

Study…. While you work full time

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Need some directory sites lists for internet marketing…

uniquesofts — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:30:00 GMT

I am webmaster of uniquesofts, we provide outsourcing your task to one who is not on your shore or the buyer of the service is located in some other country then the provider of the service. And wide range of internet marketing and search engine optimization to promote the websites. Also we offer cheap web design services in India and all over the world. Mostly I was submitting more directory site. Now I have not directory list. Give some directory sites………….

For more information visit us: http://www.uniquesofts.com/

Wt's that mean's in marketing??

sara9111 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:51:20 GMT

Hi everybody;

Social responsibility, Wt that mean's in marketing??
I Know the real mean, but like wt , I want some company example or some thing mean that??
thank u very much :)

Converting PowerPoint presentation to video.

JohnAvo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:16:12 GMT

Hi, I have powerpoint slides I would like to post on youtube. Do you know efficient way to covert ppt to video files?

Add Website URL to sharing bookmark button

arshadshaikh — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:05:06 GMT

Can I add my url for example: http://www.example.com to addthis social bookmarking button or any other bookmarking button providing services. If I can do this, then how can I do this?

PPT Sites

JohnAvo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:26:00 GMT

Please advice best ppt distribution sites

How should I market a new piece of software?

ENetArch — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:08:14 GMT

I have a new product, called Ladder. Ladder is an information management tool that allows application developers to focus on building Web pages that capture data and present it to end users. Web applications built on Ladder can be extended without changing the existing object model of the application, or affecting existing data. New web applications can add their object model to the tree when and where needed, allowing new applications to capture and present additional detail over time. Data is classified using the same classic Object Model technology used by OOP languages. Thus application developers need to spend less time concerning themselves with data architecture issues, and focus more time on application development issues in the business logic and presentation layers.

Thus far I've been searching for various groups that could use Ladder, and post release announcements. I though was wondering if there were other ideas that other have found successful, interesting, or different that would help in this effort.

Look forward to your comments and suggestions.

Best Blog Services

Arsham3 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:56:12 GMT

Hi, I would like to know which are the best free blog services in terms of SEO? I mean which will get crawled quickly and also will get better position on search engines.

How to Bring More Traffic on Website

umairraja52 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:59:28 GMT

I have a website, i want to know that "How to bring more traffic on website".

Which are the most effective Marketing Strategies to promote my website to bring more traffic.

How I can automate tasks in twitter - e.g. send direct message to new followers, auto

Arsham3 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:22:56 GMT

How I can automate tasks in twitter - e.g. send direct message to new followers, autoreply etc.

E-zines

Arsham3 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:58:52 GMT

I would like to know a good directory of self-publishing e-zines. Any help in this regard will be appreciated.

Thanks!

PR distribution sites

Arsham3 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:52:37 GMT

Hi, I would like to know a good list of PR distribution sites. Any help in this regard will be appreciated.

Thanks!

Google Adsense Account

ranvijay21 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:49:18 GMT

It is known to every one that the best way to earn money online is Google Adsense.If you are having a website or blog you can easily monetize it with google ads and earn per valid clicks.But now a days it has been seen that most of the people are disappointed due to continuous rejection of applications from Google Adsense Team.

The most common reason they prefer to disclose is.
1.Unacceptable site content
2.Site underconstrucion
3.Page type
4.6 month old

This is mostly happening with Indian applicants. But now you can come out of this delima with the help of ours.For information about services kindly visit Google Adsense account

Link Building - a pain in BUTT

moin123 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:39:26 GMT

I want link building to be easy than what i regularly do.

Is there any way for link exchange from good PR sites??

quick response appreciated!!

News Story Google's latest mail outage

GuyClapperton — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:59:40 GMT

Another day, another Gmail outage - well, that's the way it can start to seem. Twitter was all a-quiver with how the system was down; people didn't know what to do about it and one wag put a note up saying the human species can last six days without water but only about eight minutes without Gmail.

OK, I was on a train and assumed the iPhone was playing up, briefly. I now know better. But I'm still not angry with Gmail. I'm just not.

Let's take an objective view of this. I pay for my Gmail but that's only because it's tied in with Google Apps. I can have it for nothing if I choose. I can also have Twitter for nothing, Google Docs and all sorts of stuff.

And guess what. Occasionally - and I do mean occasionally, it just feels like forever when you're going through it - the system falls over. I've seen Twitter failing, I've had difficulty sending Gmail messages out and receiving them for an hour or so at a time, but mostly it works perfectly. I am genuinely a happy customer because I pay peanuts, and that's only because I choose to, and for over 99 per cent of the time, I think, I get a good service.

Very few people seem to be making this point. We're all conditioned to expect professional-grade service for next to no money whatsoever. Maybe it's just me, but if anyone can explain how this excellence is supposed to be sustained over time or why we imagine we have the right to complain, just let me know.

What do you include in your Marketing Report?

InsightsDigital — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:13:13 GMT

Let say you are creating your first marketing report, what do you include? I recommend adding or focusing on KPI. What do you think?

Get More Advertising Free

paperkool — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:57:09 GMT

This article was written by me paperkool aka Glen Jon

People are always asking “how do I get more traffic.” That’s the usual question. It’s not magic, although it may appear to be so. Keep in mind the diversity of topics on the world wide web. Search engines pick up on things relevant to what people search for. The engines look for “keywords” and “keyword phrasing.” These are the words that are typed in the search engine when people look for things. The basic concept of getting on organic results is simple yet tedious.

It's a bit difficult giving you a concise answer as to what key words to use, because I don't know exactly what your site is about however, do this. Construct a list of keywords relative to your market. Write blurbs or articles. Target and submit them to "hot" social book marking sites (digg.com twitter etc) and the rest will be automatic. The big engines will pick up on your keywords and organic results will appear.

Key words are powerful magnets. This is a key statement. If a viewer is looking for information on Farming Mushrooms they will not type in Tangerines. They’ll type in “Mushrooms” or “Farming Mushrooms. Titles are powerful magnets also. When you write a blurb or article with the title “Mushrooms, you get categorized in the mushroom category. The search engines will put you there and according to how many other sites are in that category, you will be listed. Try to make your title what a person is submitting in a search. This will make your magnetic hook up easier.

Here’s the trick. High traffic social book marking sites give you the boost. This is where the so called magic comes in. Big search engines take for granite basically, the validity of what ever titles are listed on these site. The search engines grab titles listed on social book marking sites with in minutes. That’s write. Contrary to what most people think, with in minutes, you can have high listing on Top search engines. It sounds crazy but it’s true. It actually blew my mind. I got listed on a particular keyword phrase with in sixty seconds from submission.

Your listing will be proportionate to how much competition you have. You can be a big fish in a small pond, when you select keywords with little or moderate competition. A bunch of them will result in a lot of traffic. This is powerful stuff . Some companies hire people to sit there and submit targeted blurbs all day long. Imagine all of that will amount to crazy mad “targeted traffic.”

SEO what is more?!

surnameb — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:46:26 GMT

Read this if You want, it can help!
For the approaches to win the respect of Google.
SEO, SEO and once more SEO?

Lets all build a freelancing list of websites & affiliate programs

silentjoe — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:20:48 GMT

I was searching the internet for highest paying affiliate programs on the net and I found this one http://www.equan.biz/idevaffiliate//...ate.php?id=100 once there read the page and click the “Affiliate Program” button and sign up. They pay you $100 just for signing up and $180 per customer that buys. The deal speaks for itself. The website had a 95% increase in traffic last month and growing.
But what I really want to know apart from the shameless plug above, does anyone know of any better affiliate programs which pay out the same if not more commission, but “Recurring” The one above is recurring yearly, but I’m also looking for monthly recurring affiliate programs, Does anyone have a website they know of which lists all the recurring affiliate programs. I’m really looking for non porn related affiliate programs, and ones that actually pay you. Affiliate programs in the IT Recruitment, freelancing, outsourcing type of business is ideal. Yeah I know it could be a needle in a haystack , but my website is ideal for that, I dare plug my own website in case I get blocked, but the above link is the type of website I’m looking for because I can advertise it to my business clients who pay fortunes for PPC marketing, yet banner advertising on up and coming websites I believe is far more profitable for the clients that I advertise to, because you get more targeted traffic , well with banners once the price has been set and paid then its regardless how much traffic that site brings. Looking at the cost per click ratio on a banner such as above compared to PPC, is much cheaper, if my business was geared to the opposite to what I’m selling, then I’d go for it myself.
I’m sure that website above will take over getafreelancer, one day, i just love the fact that anyone like you and me can post jobs for free and bid for freelancing work for free, something getafreelancer isn’t doing, the whole free concept is going to catch on extremely fast, that’s why being an affiliate to their banner add sales will work for me in my field. However its worth considering if even you are a freelancer like myself, I’ve had a couple of programming jobs from that website too, The first one didn’t pay out much, but thankfully the second one did. I guess its persistence and it’s a great way of networking with business clients. Actually while im here, if anyone not only knows good affiliate programs which pay good money but also know of other freelancing sites like getafreelancer and Equan.biz. I think if between us we found a comprehensive list of these sites and ideally free ones like equan that would be great, it would help us all network and prosper
Anyway I’m glad I’ve found this forum, it’s good to see likeminded people here, Thanks
Joe

Genuine website traffic for uk website

GordonUK — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:14:30 GMT

Hi everyone,

I just what everyone on here thought about buying genuine website traffic to direct more traffic to your website. Does this work? And does anyone know any genuine companies that provide genuine traffic for UK websites?

My website is a social networking website.

Many thanks.

What's all the hype??

ThexWizard — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:03:15 GMT

I keep hearing so much about the social bookmarking program from URL SNIPPED .. and I was wondering if anyone here has ever tried it? Everwhere I look on the internet I hear people praising this program as if it was gods gift to marketers...It's almost like a weird cult of personality, reminds me of obama mania before he got elected. I'm about to start working on driving traffic to my new blog and I'm thinking about giving the program a go because of all the great things I hear about it and it's supposed unmatched effectiveness.. Can anyone out there verify these claims from first hand experience or dispell them as hype ALSO from first hand experience?? Thanks

Franchise Lead Generation

MArun25039 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:23:07 GMT

I'm looking to generate leads for Franchises. Does anyone know of any affiliate networks or portals geared towards Franchising that take affiliate traffic?

Networking opportunities through IBDG strategy meetings

IT_George — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:45:29 GMT

A warning to other companies who are considering taking part in any strategy/ networking meetings organised by IBDG:

Our firm signed up for IBDG’s IT Directors Strategy Meeting, scheduled for February 2010, under the impression that we were dealing with a well respected and professional company and thus wanted to take advantage of the networking opportunity that the meetings on offer would provide. We were dismayed however with the immediate bombardment by the sales team once we had shown initial signs of interest in the proposed meeting. After constant pressure and unscrupulous sales tactics we were forcefully encouraged to sign a contract and provided with a very small timeframe in which to do so. When our firm decided a full seven months prior to the proposed meeting that we were unable to attend due to financial constraints, IBDG used the very same aggressive approach in order to ensure we paid for that which we were in no position to attend.

IBDG demanded to be paid an extortionate ‘cancellation fee’ knowing full well that not only could our firm ill-afford them as a ‘special payment schedule’ had been initially implemented by IBDG on our behalf, but also that IBDG had over seven months to fill any places that may have been vacant as a result of our firm’s withdrawal from the meeting.

This is bad business practice at its very worst.

I would be extremely wary in conducting any business with the firm after such a dreadful experience with them.

Increase web traffic with inbound marketing

ryan6563 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:56 GMT

The classic marketing model was outbound oriented and generally consisting of an inside sales force calling on prospects and customers, telemarketing, tradeshows, seminars, trade publication advertising and publicity and broadcast advertising.

Over the past few years, electronic marketing has become an essential part of the marketing mix. Marketing efforts for even the most traditional companies is shape shifting into an inbound marketing model consisting of search engine optimization, pay-per-click ads, blogging, social media and targeted landing pages.

As electronic marketing increases in sophistication, more can be done to attract prospects with less money in more creative ways. Here are just five inbound marketing techniques geared toward increasing your web traffic and revenue:

1. Search engine optimization (SEO)
2. Pay-Per-Click (PPC)
3. Blogging
4. Social Media
5. Targeted Landing Pages

Let me know your views on this article.

Regards,
Ryan

Sales and Marketing: New Face of Web Analytics

ryan6563 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:54:09 GMT

To say that Web Analytics is hot is an understatement. Web analytics has, of course, been around almost since the beginning of the move to e-commerce and companies launching their first static websites. And though many software companies flocked to the marketplace, they probably moved too quickly. Organizations were not ready to leverage the vast amounts of information pouring out of their web applications. Many of these vendors did not survive more than a few years.

But the pursuit of web analytics has turned out to be more than tracking the number of visits, and the marketplace has seen a huge variety of open source technologies to help with the challenge of analyzing behavior on the web.

Ryan

Using Social Media To Promote a Product

InsightsDigital — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:41:17 GMT

As we all know, social media is mentioned by almost every single internet marketer out there. Saying that, have you used social media to promote a product. Has it helped or was it a learning experience? What do you think? Please do share your case stories.

hub page

jusvie — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:49:17 GMT

What's a hub page? What's the importance of hub page?

Google Ad Sense Message Boards Fraud

newo2020 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:03:37 GMT

Google Ad Sense is when a web site owner opens an account with Google to place advertisement on their web site. When a person clicks this advertisement, the web site owner gets an average commission of .45 cents. A web site that gets a lot of traffic, they can easily make $150,000 per month.

There are message boards claiming to be informing the public about scams being done by companies or individuals. These web sites have individuals working for them for the sole purpose of targeting companies or individuals in order to generate traffic to the web site. This method is artificially generating traffic to the web site, this is FRAUD as outlined by Google. The higher the traffic, the higher the percentage of individuals that will click onto the Google advertisements.

Additionally, Individuals post copy right information about a company on these types of web sites; this is against the policy of the Google Ad Sense program.

If you believe that you are being targeted by individuals on a particular web site; simply click the Ads by Google in the bottom right hand corner of the advertisement on the web site. You will be taken to a Google page, click onto: Report a policy violation regarding the site or ads you just saw

File a report and the Google Fraud Department will investigate

News Story Twitter advertising may be possible

GuyClapperton — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:40:01 GMT

Twitter founder Biz Stone has confirmed that the network might take advertising at some stage. More specifically he's refused to say it won't. The company has just revised its terms and conditions and as part of the overhaul Mr. Stone has said on a blog that he's keeping the door open to advertising. So he's not saying no, he's not saying yes.

This is an entirely sensible view to take since neither he nor anyone else can predict the direction a company will take at only two years old. Markets change, conditions change so of course he's keeping an open mind.

The Twitter community doesn't seem all that pleased.

This is going to be a bigger issue. Twitter and the rest of the social networking world has built itself a substantial problem. Everyone, by now, expects these things to be available without charge and mostly advert free. And I'm here to tell you, people, it isn't going to happen. Initial investments in these various start-ups were made way before the financial climate turned septic but even then it's massively unlikely that these businesses were set up without any thought of ever turning into profit.

It's going to look odd, in history, when we turn around and reflect that in a few very short years we all had free Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, YouTube, mail from Google and goodness knows what else. It's going to look even odder that we took it for granted. Sometime over the next few years we're going to have to decide in what way it's going to be acceptable to pay for it all; it'll be interesting to watch the resistant users in these communities as the financial realities start to bite.

Press release submission service

jb1ker — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:44:15 GMT

Does anyone know some good press release submissions services, like e.g. Squidoo? Thanks.

web promotion help

johny321 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:31:10 GMT

what is lead generation. Lead generation is commonly use for web promotion. can any body tell me about it. How we can do it .

Design & Marketing

Creativity — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:48:38 GMT

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I was wondering if anyone knew of any good websites that offer Design & Marketing Services for the web?

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Arieljinky — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:42:20 GMT

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Promotion of prodcut by video marketing

bluebelt — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:24:14 GMT

I recently encountered a product called Article Video Robot which claims to convert any article in videos and then submit it to major video sites like youtube,google video etc.I tried it for 1 month and believe me it is really worth.My good portion of traffic belongs to video search engine and google is a major part of that.It has inbuilt sound which read text and contain background music.It really thrilled me and I will convert all my article to video to get one more medium of promotion.

Please share how you promote your article or product by video marketing?

Incorporating Social Media in Customer Acquisition

InsightsDigital — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:04:24 GMT

I saw this interesting post on ClickZ which states only a quarter of women stated that social media influenced purchases. So for us marketers, we may have to restrategize on how we use social media to push our businesses. This finding also illustrates the need to optimize current social media strategize to help push business. So what do you think?

Making Your Brand a MegaBrand

InsightsDigital — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:08:42 GMT

I read on a Nielsen blog about how certain brands may have name recognition but are not megabrands while others are.
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insigh...egabrand_equal
So I wonder how can we marketers make our brands into a megabrand?

How about google adwords news

host1plus — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:58:46 GMT

Hello, everybody

maybe anyone heard news about google adwrods that now we can advertise yourself in other networks but our ads will be showned on google adwords (if advertising company met google requirements)

Maybe someone tried it already?
What opinions?

What other think about it

Online Panel Research - Do you used them to develop insights for your marketing plan?

InsightsDigital — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:15:58 GMT

In order to develop insights for its market research section of the marketing plan, some companies use panel or internet research surveys. I actually have developed a few myself. So if you do it in-house or use an outside vendor, what do you think now after reading this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/te.../05nocera.html
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Have you used Free Coupon as a way to promote your site/brand?

InsightsDigital — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:42:05 GMT

I just saw this site on a review blog and I thought people on this site will appreciate this site: http://www.gotofreestuff.com/

What does it take to succeed?

fieldsimc — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:00:39 GMT

I've tried just about everything I can think of. But I just can't get the sales I want. I've re-designed my site, got good rankings on the search engines, offered freebies, included a tell-a-friend form, told as many people as I can about my website, have extremely friendly customer service, and still nothing. I've gotten to the point now that I don't have any money for advertising, so what's a guy to do? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

What does ROI mean to you?

InsightsDigital — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:18:40 GMT

Of course, we all know that ROI means Return on Investment. Though, in today's technology world, ROI for a website or online community is beyond money. It is about engagement, word of mouth, and conversion. So what do you think?

Do you use Cookies on your site?

InsightsDigital — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:27:03 GMT

I think it is commonplace for most sites to use cookies. But FireFox users do know and aware of limiting cookies on their computers. So if your site have cookies, which issues have you noticed? What lessons have you learned?

How to Blog all the way to the bank!

tblac864 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:44:20 GMT

There are two ways of making money blogging, one more profitable than the other. These are the two possibilities: you either get paid for allowing other business owners to advertise on your site or you can include the blog in one of the many affiliate programs you’ll promoting. You can use your blog as part of an affiliate program, which involves promoting the products or services of a specific business. You can increase the profitability of the ads on your blog by taking advertising into consideration when you design you site. One thing I notice about some blogs is that the fonts and colors used for the ads should be only slightly different from the rest of the page, without standing out. why? Because the more visible you make them, the more likely it is that they'll annoy the user, and the entire purpose of your blog is to get people to spend QUALITY TIME on the page. See ya’ll next week! Holla

an interesting, simple way to promote your site

tiger86 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:00:30 GMT

Hey, I was surfing the internet last night and stumbled upon http://www.addictinggames.com I noticed that you can submit your own flash games to the site for people to play. What I found very interesting is that the game I played had a link to the site who created it. I think this is a very interesting and creative way to promote your Website. I wouldn't use this technique if your Website isn't related to games in some fashion.

Beach Advertising To Drive Online Traffic

InsightsDigital — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:25:25 GMT

I betcha that many on this board have experience this:
You are on the beach soaking up the sun. You look towards the horizon. You see a plane/helicopter with an air banner advertising - it is usually for a big wannabe blockbuster or adult services place. But I wonder if anyone on this board used such tactics to drive online traffic and that such tactic was part of your advertising strategy.

Drive Traffic To Your Site

paperkool — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:09:55 GMT

I'm Glen Jon the author of the following and thought I'd post this article, all though it has been published many times before on other sites.

There is no easy way out. If you don't want to spend any money online advertising, your alternative is to spend time with free ads. Either you spend money or spend time. I find it better when I don't have to spend money. Some folk think that spending money is better, however what happens to most folk who spend money is pathetic. They usually never make a profit. I regret to say this, but it is the stark internet truth of today. Of course there are the skilled few that out smart "the world of pay per click and news paper ads." The bare fact remains that the vast majority of people spending money on advertising usually go in a hole online.

The cost of everything now days is disproportionate to the actual average income. Why spend money on advertising only to break even or lose your shirt. Believe me it hurts when you lose your shirt. An actual 3% return is only reflected in 3% of who you reach. Setting up PPC (paid per click) ads only guarantees that someone will click and you have to pay. The people that click may or may not sign up for your list. The infamous 3% is merely a representation of people that actually got to read your sales material.

First you must get someone to click your PPC ad, then you must get someone to submit their email address, afterwards you must get the prospect to confirm. Then they may see your email that could get lost in a spam filter. Hence you have a scenario like sperm fertilizing an ovary. Only a very small percentage reach and make contact. Maybe not as difficult, but the picture is more like .001 percent of every click becomes a sale. Yeah that's right. don't let these so-called gurus fool you. No matter how intriguing you think your sales material is, today you can still lose your shirt on paid ads. This is why I promote free advertising.

Free advertising cost you nothing but time. You automatically make a profit upon any sale because of the fact that you spend no money.

The main thing you must control in free advertising is tracking. If you don't track, you have no way of knowing where to accentuate your effort. You don't want to waste time advertising something somewhere that bares no fruit. Tracking allows you to see exactly what is working and when it works. This way, you can "make the most of your time."

How do you translate Good Idea into your Marketing Plan?

InsightsDigital — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:24:22 GMT

I bet there were moments where no one else believed in your idea even though deep in your heart - you knew it was a great idea. So my question is - "How do you translate a good idea into a money making opportunity?"

Do You Incorporate Market Research in your Market Plan?

InsightsDigital — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:19:23 GMT

Do you listen to your consumers? How do you incorporate your market research? Do you use third party or first party? http://marketing.about.com/od/market...enresearch.htm
What do you think?

How long or short is your marketing plan?

InsightsDigital — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:15:43 GMT

I have heard stories from entrepreneurs who created their business plans on a napkin while others created a book like marketing plan. So how many pages were yours?

Which online resources do you use to create your marketing plan?

InsightsDigital — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:13:52 GMT

If you google search for marketing plan, you will find lots of resources for marketing plans. But the question is which one would you use? There could be lots of trash but also lots of treasure.

Have you hired a consultant to write your marketing plan?

InsightsDigital — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:04:04 GMT

Hi
I have seen so many ads for marketing plan consultants and templates. Have you used such services . And most of all, was it successful in helping your business get its idea across for investors and funding?

Listening to Your Consumers and Incorporating in your Market Plan

InsightsDigital — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:59:42 GMT

Look at what happened to Tropicana. The packaging was changed and then changed back to the old style since the loyal consumers did not like the packaging. Has this ever happened to your business and if so, what did your company do? Please do share your case studies/stories.

Insights Driven Marketing Plan

InsightsDigital — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:35:30 GMT

I would like to know how do you incorporate consumer insights in your marketing strategy and plan? Do you incorporate data from Comscore and Nielsen and then use these metrics to convert into actionable insights? Why plan if consumers may not be interested in the product or services?

Seo Degree in College or University level?

pakidesigner — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:23:26 GMT

Seo Degree in College or University level? If you know any in the world please do share..

Which Tools Do you Use To Map out Your Marketing Plan?

InsightsDigital — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:18:40 GMT

Hello

I have used a combination of Word, Excel, and Gliffy to map out marketing plans. What about you?

One of the most innovative application created

noble2388 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:48:19 GMT

I was browsing around the net and i found a really cool application of Intel. If you have watched the Intel Add on TV, Mr Ajay Bhat walks in proudly through the office being saluted for being the inventor of the USB.

The application is one where you can upload your photo in the place of Ajay Bhat and you land up in the add. So you wink, your picture appears on the frame and you end up doing a lot of other cool stuff.

Now, Imagine a technology so powerful, where Pierce Brosnan can be replaced with a Shahrukh Khan in the entire James Bond series. Cool, dont you think so.

Organic SEO or Blackhat?

opb2009 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:50:19 GMT

Both, I'm using these method for a year and in comparison. I can say that Blackhat brings me traffic that more that i expected.

Do you thinks guys Blackhat is better that Organic SEO?

Website Promotion help ?

opb2009 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:49:28 GMT

Can someone here telling me how to promote my website naturally?

I mean without paying method? Can anyone tell me how.

Thanks

Which Benchmarks Do You Use to Measure Your Promotion/Marketing Success?

InsightsDigital — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:27:01 GMT

Which metrics do you monitor to measure your promotion/marketing success? Which metrics do you really dont care about?

H2bid.com- Global Water as well as Wastewater Utility Bids and Tender

h2bid2009 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:22:14 GMT

www.H2bid.com We are the unique portal offering tenders, bids & construction contract opportunities of water and wastewater utility related sectors exclusively

Will an mp3 script bring much traffic?

ade92uk — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:01:08 GMT

Will using the mp3script from: http://x10media.com bring much traffic and what type of returns can i expect? Considering there are so many mp3 sites.

And what would make people start using another search engine instead of Google.