I think it is very hard time to sell or buy links as google keep watch on these sites, best to sell ad space or join an ad network or affiliate program.

Cscgal, that's really good points, also from user perspective I will suggest to place more important ads on the right side of viewers and left side of the pages as usually viewers look through more...

On the merit of effectiveness you can minimize the numbers and organize it well. If you are going to show many ads the site will loss its importance.

If paypal support your country, go for paypal instead of wire transfer.

10K budget is required when the site is making at least 50K-60K revenues not from very beginning otherwise it would be just wastage. Most important thing is targeting, I would suggest to start with...

Yep, a community can start from 2-3 people, the most important part is your own involvement through thread participation and motivation to other members.

We also experience some time huge difference during the session, however google analytic result seems more accurate to me, idial approach to use both.

I think this may help you; http://blog.eukhost.com/2007/02/14/google-adword-optimization-for-successful-ad-campaign/

Affiliate marketing is one of the way to promote your product, you may also need experimental marketing targeting specific customers depend on your products. Also note the latest trend is key for...

Well, I think content is a modest motivator, you need to know the trick how to reach to specific Mass with some of quality content and by reaching to that point content will begin to generate itself...

Get listed in relevant directories and start using link of your site in your signature in forums, this will give your site some exposure before you think to market it into next level.

I doubt you will get targeted traffic, alternatively in my opinion adword geotargeting is much better for targeting specific niche and geographical region.

You may wish to read this;
likehttp://www.webpronews.com/ebusiness/seo/wpn-4-20040927GettingFlashSitesRankedinSearchEngines.html

Also digg has not its own content, a short description and number of comments does not make digg as good source for content.

Do you have tried your luck in dmoz & yahoo directories? Check out this thread in sitepoint forum; http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=450023

Sean, If the outbounds are relevant and of high quality, you may get some benifit, but I would suggest you should also try to get quality backlinks from relevant sites.

Wow! that's good list, I hope this will help him.

Another question comes how many people are searching for " Dog Training"?

Yep, the orginal electronics reviews you can find in blogs and relevant forums hence you can not discount blog & forums.

Have a look on available different payment processing companies and their price structure; http://www.litecommerce.com/payment_gateways.html

One link from trusted site such as .edu and or top high PR site is better than 100 links of useless site.

Interesting! I remember we have recently a discussion here on relevant topic about getting in "Google News". Its look good to see the news in "Google News" via your PR site. Well done! :)

I think you can also target medical college students, facebook.com could be a good platform to target college student.

60-90 characters including space within the length are often recommended in title tag hence you have good chance to add most important keywords that can bring best result.

I think you should have good unique newsworthy content to get in google news, check out these few guideline; ;) http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/003934.html

The persona of “popularity” of a social networking site can be achieved by recommendation and referring others and rest the technology do itself.

You can also try out myspace marketing, I find nice write up on this here; http://blog.eukhost.com/2006/12/08/myspace-marketing-myth-or-math/

I found if your news get in prnewswire & prweb, its has good chance to get in google news, also make sure to optimize your press release title.

Stymiee, I agree with that. This reminded me this quote, I don't know who said this;
"Everyone can be an artist. Some of us paint with words, others with musical
notes. Some do it with equations...

Also search engines are very fond of quality inbond links though it a flash site, I usually see few top flash sites that has tremendous traffic and rank well in most of the search engine.

I guess the Search engine just treat the hyphen like a space. For example if you buy marketing-strategy domain name instead of marketingstrategy, it would be more precise for SE to read it as...

That's good idea Cscgal but in my experience most of the people are not interested in feeling the survey format. However I think he can get some good help from the members if he start a seperate...

The title should contain most important and targeted keywords based on the search terms in short discriptive sentence help a lot.

Depend on what type of users you are going to focus, if you can be able to attract more and more users, you will find it easier to make it viral as users themselve make things viral and rest the...

I think promoting two forums at the same time might be little difficult to manage, I would suggest you to concentrate more on one of them at a time and start a blog of relevant subject that will help...

You could find relevant discussion on this forum; http://www.onlinemarketingtoday.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=0aa061fb2aee68319d4b184e3763f099

Always consider on quality rather than quantity, do start writing content for link and title your page such that it spread a story in no time.

Edit; double post

It seems everyone is selling there but no one is buying.

Check Seth Godin blog about Permission email marketing system, its worth to read.