Forum: Growing an Online Community  Mar 8th, 2006 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 2,571 Re: How many forums is too many?
Depends on your niche and topic really, there are certain topics which warrant subdvision into specialist areas where as others require you to have everything in one place. Usually IT/Computer... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Feb 25th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,534 Re: Calendars
Since our community is a sports community we do use it to keep track of upcomming fixtures and events in the sport, apart from that its just the same old birthdays. |
| Forum: Website Reviews Feb 8th, 2006 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,477 |
| Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Feb 7th, 2006 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 5,207 Re: Buy traffic
Whats the point of such visitors, I have experimented with a few sites which claim to sell traffic but there has been no increased sales or increased registerations to suggest that the return on... |
| Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Feb 7th, 2006 |
| Replies: 14 Views: 4,683 Re: How much traffic?
Uniques dont really matter much when you are advertising its the page views that matter the most. There is no set figure either, depends on the niche, if you are a small site but only site in a niche... |
| Forum: Search Engine Optimization Feb 6th, 2006 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 3,269 Re: Getting out of the Sandbox
Google Sandbox is also a myth, google just doesnt encourage new sites so as your domain ages up you will automatically start to do well on google. |
| Forum: Search Engine Optimization Feb 6th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,554 Re: SEO mysteries
It takes around 6 months to about an year and a half for you to start doing well on good key words, just keep doing what you are doing and place empahsis on anchor text for back links, before you... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Feb 6th, 2006 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 3,171 Re: Email activation
Well we had email activation turned off went on well for quite a while then started getting spammers so turned it on, was ok for a couple of months then more spammers started joining so eventually we... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Jan 17th, 2006 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,787 Re: phpBB to vBulletin help
Thing is you wouldnt even need 90 percent of the modifications you have to install in phpbb because vBulletin is feature rich, besides installing new modifications in vB 3.5.x is a piece of cake as... |
| Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Jan 12th, 2006 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 1,924 Re: what marketing plans should i take up
Payback period is a tad higher with ads wether they be CPC or CPM because no matter how good a SEO expert you are it will take you around 6 to 12 months or so to get your website ranked well on good... |
| Forum: Search Engine Optimization Jan 12th, 2006 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 3,053 Re: Rel=Nofollow
In my opinion SEs dont even give much weight to links inside posts/signatures any more let alone ban a website because of them. |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Jan 12th, 2006 |
| Replies: 25 Views: 5,002 Re: No self-promotion in a webmaster forum
Dani you already know my outtake on this subject I am all for allowing links as long as they are not spam links the forum is for dicussion and wether dicussion is site specefic, general or general... |
| Forum: Search Engine Optimization Jan 12th, 2006 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,658 |
| Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Jan 12th, 2006 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 4,176 |
| Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Jan 12th, 2006 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 1,663 Re: How to diversify traffic
If people find your site usefull and exclusive to the subject they will naturally recomend it to their friends and the friends to their friends and so continues the endless chain reaction of word of... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Dec 17th, 2005 |
| Replies: 56 Views: 10,882 Re: Paying for posts
Never been a big fan of pay for posts idea. IMO its not healthy for over all growth of the forum/community. |
| Forum: Search Engine Optimization Nov 3rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 21 Views: 4,629 Re: Page Rank on Google?
Thats true and besides google and other major search engines no longer give any importance to meta tags its the on page keywords that count the most. |
| Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Nov 3rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 2,080 Re: Offline promotion
If your community is global then your options are pretty much restricted as it would be costly and time consuming for you to ship merchandise across the world thus Cafe Press is the best option but... |
| Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Nov 3rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 22 Views: 4,118 |
| Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Nov 3rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,709 Re: Multiple color schemes
I personally prefer different colours for different section like what happened with second redesign of the site, just gives each section (which Dani wants to advertise as seperate sites) a unique... |
| Forum: Search Engine Optimization Nov 3rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,315 Re: Which PR?
It is the PR of your own page that matters, PR is channeled through links to your site. PR of the backlink is important in the sense that it effects the PR of your page, higher the PR of pages which... |
| Forum: Search Engine Optimization Nov 2nd, 2005 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,638 Re: Graphic Links
You will not loose any PR from a link as a graphic as I said its still a link and PR will be channelled through it, the only difference is that the advantage of anchor text you get will be gone and... |
| Forum: Search Engine Optimization Nov 1st, 2005 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,638 Re: Graphic Links
Ok I researched a little and I was wrong about alt attribute, Graphic links do pass on PR like any other link but unfortunately you do not get the benefits of the anchor text which basically is the... |
| Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Nov 1st, 2005 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 2,080 Offline promotion
How many people here actually use offline promotion? If you do, what sorts of things? The standard of wearing tshirts, hats, etc. with your brand/URL on it is standard, but do any of you get... |
| Forum: Relevant Link Exchanges Nov 1st, 2005 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 3,979 Re: PR7 Link Directory
Too bad my site aint IT related website otherwise this would have been an ideal opportunity. |
| Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Nov 1st, 2005 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 3,513 Re: Does buying targeted traffics really work?
Alot of these sites generate fake users but that doesnt meant legit ones are not out there but honestly they have never really worked for me. Did the traffic convert into sales or leads? nope not a... |
| Forum: Existing Scripts Nov 1st, 2005 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 8,032 |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Nov 1st, 2005 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 11,970 Re: best ways to advertise a forum
Get friends to join up to help you kick start with posting and activity. Apart from that concentrate on adding new content, optimizing your site for search engines. Here are a few ideas to get a few... |
| Forum: Search Engine Optimization Nov 1st, 2005 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,638 Re: Graphic Links
Doesnt the "alt" attribute compensate for the fact that anchor text is missing I could be wrong though. Another thing graphic links usually bring in more actual visitors as compared to text ones. In... |
| Forum: Domains and DNS Nov 1st, 2005 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 2,268 Re: help please
You are supposed to have 2 name servers in your case they would be something like
ns1.bluehost.com and ns2.bluehost.com It takes around 24 to 36 hours for the DNS to propogate all over the internet.... |
| Forum: Existing Scripts Nov 1st, 2005 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 2,981 Re: Content Management System CMS
Daniweb is not really a CMS it is just bits of forum extracted on the homepage, tutorial are forum threads presented in a different way. If you are creative enough you can easily create a very handy... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Nov 1st, 2005 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,700 |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community May 24th, 2005 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 6,190 Re: Changing Phpbb forum template
Images at the top are changed by editing the overall_header.tpl where as the background and other colours are changed by changing the CSS files, you will find both the files in the templates... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community May 13th, 2005 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,941 Re: Which program is "easier"
Well phpbb is basic and is well suited for beginners if you are serious about your community and wish to keep it for long run then go with VB or IPB whichever suites your needs. |
| Forum: Search Engine Optimization May 10th, 2005 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,766 Re: Doorway Pages
I read somewhere that Search engines penalise you for doorway pages as what alot of webmasters do is create a doorway page with alot of keywords they wish to target its one of the underhand tactics... |
| Forum: Search Engine Optimization May 4th, 2005 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 1,661 Re: pr rankig
You can be on page one with a low PR rank but it would more often then not mean that the keyword is not searched alot. |
| Forum: Search Engine Optimization Apr 25th, 2005 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 3,734 |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Apr 25th, 2005 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 2,279 Re: Same old people starting new threads.
Thanks for the replies. Dani you hit the mark, the problem is that new members feel alienated and dont think they can fit into the community, because as I said we have some members who live and... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Apr 24th, 2005 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 2,279 Same old people starting new threads.
March was an incredible month for us, we have 44,000 posts in the month of March which is great. Anyways around 1542 new topics were created but the problem is 90 percent of the new topics created... |
| Forum: Community Introductions Apr 21st, 2005 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,666 |
