I have been known to find Answers.com as a result of a Google search but it's rare that I'd go there directly. Didn't even know about Yahoo! Answers TBH.

Have you noticed that email auto-signatures now include social media info but no longer include physical mailing addresses? Times are changing :)

Someone who can understand my product or service and be creative enough to come up with unique ways to spread buzz about it and make it viral ... and then actually execute those ideas with positive...

I think that the concepts behind social media (forums, message boards, etc) have been in existance for a very long time. It's just recently (with Facebook and Twitter) that the concepts of website...

I love how you followed their instructions not to talk about it since it's not officially out yet :)

What do you mean the site is at 800,000? 800,000 what??

Are you getting the traffic but it's just not converting as well as you would expect it to? If that's the case, put yourself in the shoes of...

Check out this article on the official Google Blog:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/rt-google-tweets-and-updates-and-search.html

Tweets within search results because Twitter is doing...

Yes ... and I have only been at it for two weeks. Give me a month and see if I'm still tweeting every three hours day and night.

And from a company perspective: They hopped onto the social media...

Just like any new fad ... I came, I saw, it entertained me for a little while, I got bored, I left.

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Came up with it when I was in college pursuing my B.S. in Comp Sci. It's also my car's license plate. Actually ... it STARTED as my car's license plate. I later needed...

As someone who runs a site that gets the majority of its traffic to interioir pages from the search engines, I have discovered that site usability, navigation, and clear calls to action are perhaps...

The confusion as to what to use for what is one of the main reasons why I've been so late getting into the social media game. The various choices became too overwhelming that I eventually just gave...

I *just* started getting into Twitter and I've definitely noticed that retweeting can be very helpful for a publication like DaniWeb when people retweet and retweet news stories.

Someone posted in our feedback forum about the new nag window we now use here and I ended up divulging some statistics. However, I didn't want that thread to not get the attention of other community...

Your best bet is to post in our Existing Scripts forum (within Web Dev) asking if there are any particular CMS solutions out there that fit your bill. Specify whether you are looking for a Windows...

Viral marketing on the web can be free or very low cost ... Twitter about your site, tell your Facebook friends about it, etc. It's a good start to helping you build backlinks (incoming links to your...

I don't think the answer is as easy as saying "People will never participate in an empty forum" because if that was the case, NO forum would have ever become popular. The trick is to find those...

I couldn't have said it better myself.

What is pinging your blog? Isn't that for trackbacks or something?

You are aware this is an Internet marketing community, right? :)

We do :)

Member subscriptions by offering an advertisement-free version of the website. It doesn't bring in much money, but it makes the members feel good about themselves by giving them special benefits...

Not sure what you mean?

As forum owners, we all have this problem. Basically, give them a reason to post. Post a lot yourself ... show them that there is someone to talk to who is always available. Anytime they post, reply...

If we all knew the easy answer to this question, we'd all be billionaires :)

Oh, wait ... I do know the answer ... An awesome, unique idea and good, interesting content that people will want to...

Start with the basics and then add rules as they become necessary as the community grows. Once you have a moderation team put together, ask for their input. It makes them feel good that they have a...

Well colleges start late August/early September which is actually why our traffic goes up in Sept ... All those freshmen taking intro to programming courses!

Since my last post in this thread, I've created a Facebook account and I actually use it much more than LinkedIn now for business purposes. I've joined a couple of Internet marketing groups which use...

I mean with respect to speed and also searches tend to be super literal ... I've had the literal problem with Sphinx as well (i.e. it doesn't automatically do searches including/excluding...

I was just wondering how those of you with large communities handle site searches? With very large forums, even MySQL fulltext isn't good enough, nevermind the search feature built into software like...

Hi,

Firstly, I received your PM and want to apologize for taking over a month to reply. September was a very crazy month for me.

That being said, I think I'm a bit confused as to what it is...

It depends on how entertaining it was. That's like asking, "Would you listen to my radio show daily or weekly?" Well ... it depends how interesting you were to listen to!

So just how entertaining...

Check out the "Existing Scripts" forum in the Web Development category for discussions on various content management systems, social networking systems, forum systems, etc.

There are a lot of things to do wrong and a lot of things to do right. The most important IMO is to not do what everyone else is doing. Nowadays there are just a handful of popular forum systems out...

The short answer is that online communities are engaging ... Visitors enjoy the instant communication with people from around the world who share their interests along with the instant gratification...

I don't think it matters which forum software you use as long as you have a strong community behind it. Regardless of whether we use vBulletin or InvisionBoard, if the content is awesome, the users...

Traffic always goes way down for us on weekends, but it's been super low these past few days. Is this a holiday weekend or something, or just a crash after a really good September?

Are you talking about DaniWeb??

I've heard very mixed opinions about hiring paid posters. Often times, the posts are very low quality and spammy, so you have to be careful if you go that route and choose a company from a personal...

Online communities have many benefits ... they're interactive websites which means that visitors can have a different experience every time they come back, there's frequently updated content (which...