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...

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.

Depends on what type of a site you want to develop, your expertese and the type of budget you have.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

In my opinion SEs dont even give much weight to links inside posts/signatures any more let alone ban a website because of them.

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...

There is a PR update expected at the end of this month though.

6 again an inflated number because of the fact that it is a forum and the CMS itself is also built around the forum.

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...

Never been a big fan of pay for posts idea. IMO its not healthy for over all growth of the forum/community.

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.

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...

I belive that is because members with 0 posts are not displayed in the memberlist.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Too bad my site aint IT related website otherwise this would have been an ideal opportunity.

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...

Are you using a CMS? if yes then most CMS will come up with a poll module.

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...

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...

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....

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...

Well there are countless services like this one out there, every other webmaster forum which is dedicated its focus on community management has such a programme.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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There you go :) enjoy

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...

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...

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