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I'm confused that whether getting backlinks from banned sites will automatically ban your site by search engines.Then how to find that which one is banned by search engines.

Hey everyone, Membership website is $1.50/mo and the membership includes: games and challenges with real cash prizes ranging from $5 - $100. I have 3 lousy members. Ive dumped $300 into facebook ads, $100 into myspace ads, $300 into google ads, adgitize ads, projectwonderful ads, $10/mo on blogcatalog, and I …

What are the basic skill sets necessary for a person to handle SEO initiatives for a corporate website? I am curious because one of my clients is looking to hire someone in a permanent role. Currently I am handling their SEO intiatives and they feel that as I am the …

With all the changes constantly going on, I would not be surprised that in a few years from now or even months, it will be common place to go to a major search engine and see a little icon next to the search signaling me if its positive, negative, or …

I've a blog & I want to know which keywords of my blog have good SERP ranking.Is there any site or software which is offering this service ?

Hi I have redirected my old website ygdensons.com with new one yamunadensons.com using htaccess. But now both site are having same meta tags, title and description. Ofcourse now ygdensons.com is redirected to new website. My question is Will it be consider as duplication of meta tags and content and Thereby …

I recently came across a Wall Street Journal piece about branded online communities (link below) and the author talked about how while Lego was looking to come out with a new line of products they tapped into an online community for people who are Lego enthusiasts set up by people …

What if there is a social media bill of rights? What will it say? Let's do some crowdsourcing now. What would you include? See this: [url]http://www.digitalconsumer.org/bill.html[/url] My recommendations are: 1. Do not start unnecessary flame wars. 2. Always be nice and giving What else would you add?

No longer are the days when people would photo copy a note or a page of a copy. People now a days say "email it to me" or post it on FB. Thus, the other day, I was taking a commuter train from the burbs to NYC and noticed lots …

Okay, Folks, we all know that writing online has disrupted the writing styles that our grammar school teachers have taught us. All I know it not to type in caps since it is yelling. Other than that - almost anything goes. So what do you think about this? I thought …

As people on this board may know, I have drank the Apple Kool-aid though I dont have an IPhone yet... Anyway, I just upgraded to Snow Leopard OS and I dont see any difference whatsoever. Not even online or offline. Saying that, I do wonder if it will enhance my …

I just read this on a blog about RainDrop - [url]http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Mozilla_s_Raindrop_Wants_to_Solve_Your_Communication_Woes[/url] It is not a widget but a script and it is still in baby mode. So guess what, you will encounter bugs. I personally like Firefox - it rocks! But anyway, I do like how Firefox is taking this …

With technology and actually with anything else, adoption of the new item or technology takes times and lots of effort. With the adoption of social media at fast speed, I truly believe that now the laggards are embracing it. You are seeing older generations on Facebook. One important fact is …

I have a dating site and I wish to increase the conversion ratio and gain a much larger membership. I am new to this so wonering how this is done. I know there is lots of compertion but site is at 800,000 so I have done a lot to get …

Smartphones have increased the ways people are connected. Thus, it is very easy to integrate Facebook, TweetDeck, and other applications to your phones. I have FB on my blackberry but I dont follow tweets. I used to but not anymore since I was getting tweets all day on my cell …

Twitter, Inc., has shut down 33 fake Twitter accounts created by Republicans using the names of Democratic state representatives, but fake websites using the Democrats' names are still up. The story was [URL="http://current.com/177fi4c"]reported[/URL] in the Hartford [I]Advocate[/I], an alternative newsweekly. State Republican Chairman Chris Healy told the paper that it …

Hello. You can laways start something new, for example become a publisher for "pay per click" affiliate, and you can always get some extra cash every month. Is it would be nice to gest extra check every month ? Please see complete info how and where to start on my …

A recent study shows that more and more people are now looking to search with long tail keywords. This has probably to do with lots of less relevant links making it to the top of competitive keywords thanks to SEO. Keywords with 8+ words have had a 6% growth while …

Please tell what is meant by website structure optimization and what are the steps I need to take to ensure that website structure is optimized Thanks

I am attending college at Colorado Technical University Online and I am in my Phase 3 of my assignment. I have been asked the following questions for this assignment: Part 1) As a store owner, what are some reason's that I would want to offer discounts? What would be the …

I read on the Forrester Blog that it found in its recent survey that: [LIST] [*]Young singles and couples are the most connected. [*]Young families are heavy tech users, especially for shared experiences. [*]Older families are straddling different worlds. [*]Older singles and couples use technology more surgically. [/LIST] This is …

Nielsen found that 18% of online visitors (at least from their sample) use social media as a discovery tool aka as research tool. I know I do it. It is a way to find "hidden gems". [url]http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/social-media-the-next-great-gateway-for-content-discovery/[/url] So what do you think? I am very big into finding so much …

In this digital age where tweeting and updating your Facebook page is such a common place behavior, one major concern for me is online reputation management. The information you put online can come back and bite you. Most people may not realize this. HR folks facebook potential employees and now …

Mashable is reporting that the top twitter trend to watch is some bloggers migrating to tweeting because they can get their point across in 140 characters or less. While I could see this among the bloggers who are more humor-based in their blogging I don't know that this is going …

I was reading an interesting blog on Social Media Today about Customer Service being supplied by or accessed through twitter. One of my clients brought the blog to my attention and is interested in the possibility of using twitter in the company's customer service efforts. To be honest, while I …

I have been asked by one of my clients to draft a social media use policy for employees. My client asked for there to be two sections, one for in office and one for out of office. I am curious to know if anyone has encountered corporate policies for social …

Here is the link to the story at All Things Digital [url]http://kara.allthingsd.com/20091021/exclusive-guess-who-else-is-coming-to-dinner-twitter-microsoft-bing-deal-confirmed-but-so-is-facebook-bing/[/url] Microsoft/Bing seems to have one-upped Google!

Check out this article on the official Google Blog: [url]http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/rt-google-tweets-and-updates-and-search.html[/url] Tweets within search results because Twitter is doing something that even Google can't do ... provide LIVE search results.

I read on a blog about how RSS may be out. I dont know about you but I actually subscribe to many blogs and I look forward to reading or at least glancing my Google Reader's headlines. Yes, I dont have time for all the feeds but I do scan …

We all come on this forum to ask questions and discuss possible solutions and strategies and occaisionally we will mention a success story related to those topics. But why don't we all post a win or an accomplishment so that we can all be inspired. I will kick this off. …

Is there an advantage to running your e-commerce site on a dedicated IP address? I have been told that if you want to do serious business online and have good Search Engine rankings, you need a dedicated IP and shared hosting is bad.

Once upon a time, Usenet newsgroups were the Twitter, Facebook and forums of the online world. All the early Internet community makers were there, and important announcements such as the arrival of Mosaic by Marc Andreesen broke there first. Then the inevitable happened, and Usenet slowly imploded. That could have …

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 …

Hi, I'm looking for a ad network that could provide me with a good amount of monthly income without necesarily having to worry about getting enough clicks going for the ads each month, so far I've found one ad network LinkExchange which since the advertisers pay by the month and …

Enterprise Search Marketing programs face a multitude of challenges. Lack of resources, lack of accurate metrics, difficulty getting site changes implemented for organic optimization and so forth. Many of these challenges are more on the organizational side of things than anything else. For those of you in this camp, here’s …

i have a website want to use pay per click in it!! how to do it??

Its known fact that Google has now got rid of Page rank option from web master tools. Due to this there is a lot of buzz on twitter about the credibility of page rank in the future ....Hence would love to have Your opinions please ...

Apparently, women are more than twice as likely to go online and vent when stressed than speak to their partners. That's according to the results of a recent survey which also suggests that when stressed many women go and blog instead of turning to alcohol or chocolate. The survey, conducted …

Are you allowed to market your website through craigslist? Do they prohibit referring people to URLs from their site?

Do you pay anything to any seo company to maintain your rankings or to get the rankings and does it really fulfill your goals?

I ahve a website which i want to promote on Search Engine, i have a question about it. Can Pay Per Click Advertising increase chance in high Search Engine Ranking. Waiting for experts response.

What is the difference between SEO and PPC? I understand what each means but dont they technically do the same things?

The 2008 presidential election featured a new emphasis on using the Internet, ranging from raising money to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story219553.html"]advertising[/URL] to getting support. It's still going on. Facebook, in particular, due to the ease in which people can set up affinity groups, is proving to be a new source of online activism, …

I am trying to get up on top of the searches for some very high competitions keywords. Could anybody give me any constructive criticism. This is my site [URL="http://www.sadreewebdesign.com"]seo tampa florida.[/URL]

I was to attend a recent event in NYC that was to be the introduction of a new online community in the US. The company, similar to DaniWeb, has been around for 10 years. Unlike DaniWeb, they charge their community members a yearly fee. Because of a sudden death in …

As we all know DaniWeb has a new look and feel and I like it. It also allows users to include tags on post and responses. From a SEO perspective, tagging helps content be crawled by engines. But how many of us actually tag content outside this site?

We all know that any lead helps with this economy. Online job boards are full of job seekers who are really looking. But I read on a site about how social media has helped job seekers find jobs. There are many job related twitter accounts and also other karma related …

In the last 2 days on Mashable it has been reported that new user and unique visitor growth has leveled out for both Facebook and Twitter (both are below 2% growth per month in the US over the last few months). Linkedin, however, is growing at close to 6% monthly …

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

I have a plan to add Info link to my website,please provide the details about this program.