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I just read this article a moment ago about a Christian Couple giving each other full access to their login information. [url]http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i4K9oYt7cM-jdwRCVMU9TgajMsygD9AHAMUG1[/url] So what do you think? I personally dont agree with it. Why? Well, I believe there should still be a level of privacy in a relationship.

I recommend social bookmarking in terms of promoting your sites. This is free, easy and effective like I did on Michael Cheney's site which is called Delta Squadron. Now Delta Squadron has so many back links now. :-)

As we all know, social media is mentioned by almost every single internet marketer out there. Saying that, have you used social media to promote a product. Has it helped or was it a learning experience? What do you think? Please do share your case stories.

There was a very interesting article about Craiglist and how it has more traffic than Monster, CareerBuilder, Yahoo's HotJobs combined. Thus, despite Craigslist now having stricter posting policies, it still seems like a good place to help grow your online community, or not? What do you think?

Hi there, I have a social networking website and I have put some graphic comments and text links on myspace in my friends comment sections but they are not appearing as backlinks whenever i have looked for them and I just wanted to know why? I also created a facebook …

Hi everyone, I just what everyone on here thought about buying genuine website traffic to direct more traffic to your website. Does this work? And does anyone know any genuine companies that provide genuine traffic for UK websites? My website is a social networking website. Many thanks.

Hai, I developed a website and I using iframe to add a page ( called inner.php) in the main page (index.php) . Everything working fine. But now the problem is when we searched the site in google then 2 results will came. First one leads to my home page ie …

Google recently announced something called Sidewiki. What this does is creates an overlay on any website/url allowing commenting and ratings that, since it is generated by the browser and not the website owner, means that if someone puts up something really bad or questionable about your site you can do …

Here is the link to the Mashable report. [url]http://mashable.com/2009/09/23/twitter-worm-dms/[/url]

Seo Degree in College or University level? If you know any in the world please do share..

Google Ad Sense is when a web site owner opens an account with Google to place advertisement on their web site. When a person clicks this advertisement, the web site owner gets an average commission of .45 cents. A web site that gets a lot of traffic, they can easily …

Hi I have seen so many ads for marketing plan consultants and templates. Have you used such services . And most of all, was it successful in helping your business get its idea across for investors and funding?

Hey I started this thread hoping that others may add in helpful free resources of websites that help websites. I got the idea from the free directory thread and thought that we could expand on that. I would also encourage people to post SEO tips since that is part of …

I saw a recent study that found that online media (social networks considered a part of this) is considered less credible than TV, newspapers and radio. On a scale of 1 to 10 they ranked as follows: [LIST] [*]TV - 6.5 [*]Daily newspaper - 6.3 [*]Radio - 6.3 [*]Online - …

I just read an interesting article about Microsoft getting involved in Social Media monitoring with a tool that is in proof-of-concept stage right now called LookingGlass. LookingGlass is designed, according to the piece I read, to allow companies to monitor, analyze and participate in social media content and conversations. The …

I found this really interesting post through one of my Linkedin groups. [url]http://nmc.itdevworks.com/?p=802[/url] The blog post is extremely well thought out and the main thrust is that from the SMM point of view it is not about the conversation but about the value proposition that is communicated during the conversation. …

[url]http://www.seotrafficspider.com/adwords-suspended.html[/url] In the link above is a report that over the last few days, numerous AdWords accounts have been suspended. The owners of the accounts received only an e-mail telling them that their accounts were suspended and that their ads will not appear in Google searches. Most of the people …

Hello... I want to ask you a question. How do I build a new online community for my 1 month old website... Do I need to advertise it on adwords. I have build a website promoting Linux and hoping that the website will have its own online community, but the …

Hello. I want to ask about penalty associated to google. For the first month, my website has been in the first page at google search engine when people type keyword "linux malaysia" but now my website is not in the list anymore. My website contain many duplicate contents / articles …

I am testing out Google Checkout and have a question. First I'll tell you what I am trying to do. My site is a digital service. Users will be able to purchase 'projects'. They will have options to buy 1, 5, 10, 25 &50 projects at a time. Each has …

This is probably one of the oddest SEO questions ever but here we go; My site is showing up fine on the keywords I want but it is also showing up top on keywords that I don't want it to show up on. Is there any way to get Google …

Another day, another [URL="http://www.gmail.com"]Gmail[/URL] outage - well, that's the way it can start to seem. [URL="http://www.twitter.com"]Twitter[/URL] was all a-quiver with how the system was down; people didn't know what to do about it and one wag put a note up saying the human species can last six days without water …

A worldwide leader in the consumer electronics industry wanted to launch an innovative line of computers and accessories, but as a late entrant, faced the challenge of breaking into a crowded and competitive market. MarketStar worked with the client to promote the client’s products by educating retail sales associates. Today, …

Mashable is reporting that in 2 weeks Google Wave will be released. Much has been said about this new Google offering. Is anyone planning to get involved right away or will it be a case of cautiously testing the waters? Also, for anyone who has been keeping track of Google …

In an attempt to build support for a bill that would roll back a ban on Internet gambling enacted when Republicans led Congress, the online gambling industry is running online ads noting that legal online gambling could raise $48 billion for the deficit-plagued U.S. government. "At a time when the …

It is old news that Kanye West, pinhead par excellance, has yet again made a jackass of himself trying to be provocative. Kanye, just a bit of advice, drunk and disorderly is not provocative. He has already started the apology tour of late night TV and morning talk shows but …

Was wondering what was everyone's adsense click-through rate. One of my websites has about 1% click-through rate. Is that good? Or do you achieve better click-through rates?

Web analytics only provide insights for your own site but what if you want to know what your competitors are doing. Comscore or Nielsen only helps for sites which attract large about of traffic, over 50k monthly visitors. So which tools do you use to gather insights on the traffic …

i my self check my adsense earnings every 30 minutes. i think i will lose my mind soon.what about you , i heard that there are morons check their cents every 5 minutes.:icon_eek:

Is it true that only the backlinks was the most effective factor that calculates the pagerank of a page?

Hi, My site is SNIP and want to top on major search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Msn).What I do? How much time it will display on google. What is the major work on Search Engine optimization. Thanks

On Mashable they are reporting (link below) that Facebook and Nielsen, the market research and tv ratings people, are announcing a jointly produced, business-oriented social media community called Brand Lift. There are few details but it sounds like Facebook is responding to a need while trying to increase their reach. …

What is your social media ettiquette? My rules is that I use LinkedIn for business and professional colleagues. I only accept invites from people I either met in person and/or I have interacted with. Facebook for friends and professional associates so I can keep up with relevant news feed. Twitter …

Though Bing may not necessarily out beat Google, it is now a preferred search engine for image search and verticals. [url]http://www.bing.com/visualsearch[/url] So what do you think? Would you use images for your online communities and optimize it to increase traffic to your site?

Calling it the spoken version of a Tweet, Jahah has release the beta version of Jahah@CALL which allows to people to engage in a two minute phone call through twitter. There are some basic requirements, the big one being that both the caller and the recipient must be members of …

I remember listening to a few business owners sometime ago about using Skype to provide long distance customer service for clients. Though I never used it, I advised against it due to my research on Skype. So if you used Skype for business purposes, I would like to know your …

A popular social media tactic for small businesses is to establish and build a corporate presence on LinkedIn. Has this helped your business? Did you get any new leads? What do you think?

Though I am not a big Twelebrity nor Twitter user, early on, I have recognized the value of retweeting, especially if it is for a good purpose, like retweeting someone's resume or a public event. So how have you used retweeting? Do you do it or if you dont, why …

Almost every user on this board has an alias that is unique and descriptive. But also, many users create multiple alias to fit in different environment. So my questions for the members here are: 1. What does your name/alias mean? 2. What else would you like to share? 3. Does …

Hi Im composing a paid search campaign report and never done one before. What would you recommend me to do it on? Powerpoint or Excel? or even Word? Please advice. Thanks!

I will be offering three types of advertising on my site: banner, a text listing and PPC (such as Yahoo and Google). I need help in locating a software that I can use to keep track of PPC's. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[B][I]**PLEASE HELP ME OUT**[/I][/B] I was wondering if anyone knew of any good websites that offer Design & Marketing Services for the web?

I was searching the internet for highest paying affiliate programs on the net and I found this one [url]http://www.equan.biz/idevaffiliate//idevaffiliate.php?id=100[/url] once there read the page and click the “Affiliate Program” button and sign up. They pay you $100 just for signing up and $180 per customer that buys. The deal speaks …

We have a website, viz., [url]www.plussizebeauties.com[/url]. I have a few issues with this. 1. We have developed a php website (Shopping Cart). Now, we have changed over to a Zen Cart Shopping Site. We have changed the categories and sub categories also in the processHel. The issue is google has …

We all know most business users use Excel to track sales and metrics. Thus, which tricks on Excel do you use that you strongly recommend for others to use? Please do share.

Growing an online community and/or visitors to your website does require monitoring metrics and optimizing the website to increase engagement and conversion rates. So what recommendations to you have to decrease bounce rates?

Hi folks, There is a popular myth about duplicate content, and that is that Google penalizes sites for having duplicate content. Greg Grothaus of the Search Quality Team of Google cleard that Google itself is not penalizing you for it. Google recognizes that most duplicate content is not created to …

Hello Good people,am not so sure if this should go here,i am student who is interested in developing a search engine that indexes pages from my country.I have been doing my research on Algorithm to use for sometime now and i have found HITS and PageRank as the best out …

what is organic search engine optimization & how we can do it. Is it like link building

Hello Forum Friends: I like to thank you for reading my post. I have this question that relates to how often we should change on the homepage. I read on this forum that we need to make some changes on the homepage so that SEO can index our homepage as …