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Hi guys, I have questions and want to clarify these before creating an e-commerce website. Are statements below correct? 1. I need to buy SSL certificate to provide HTTPS pages in my website. 2. I need to contact my local bank to enable me providing online payment things for users. …

I spoke with a friend of mine today who complained on how she thought Bing interrupted her user experience while being on Yahoo. She consulted me since I am considered the tech guru. Thus, I wonder if you have heard similar complaints. What are your thoughts?

For the bloggers on this network, do you welcome PR and corporations outreaching you for publicizing their products or services? Or are you offended? I just read this article that inspired me to write this post: [url]http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007248[/url]

I just read about this startup that helps users create their own digital business card.[url]http://dooid.com/home/index.php[/url] So what do you think? Would you use such service? I personally think that my signature is enough.

Just how sick do you have to be to upload hundreds of porn videos, disguised as videos suitable for kids, to the most popular of video sharing sites? And how sick do you have to be to do so under the impression it is either funny or somehow exposing a …

In the age of online transparency, building trust with your consumers is very important in building your online community. Thus, building trust may take time and effort. I would like to know how others on this site have build trust online? [url]http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2009/08/17/building-trust-online/[/url]

[I]I'm special, so special. I got to have some of your attention, give it to me! ~Pretenders, Brass in Pocket [/I] Ah the games companies play trying so hard to get our attention. For the last 6 weeks or so Microsoft has done a fine job of turning the media …

Though PPC reports can be obtained in document format, you can also receive in csv format for data extrapolation. So if you do data analysis on your PPC results, which Excel plug-ins or data visualization tool do you use to make sense of this data?

I know a common tactic for internet marketers is to submit links to Digg. Now that Digg has incorporated a NoFollow on links on profiles to prevent spams. [url]http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/090902-180759[/url] Do you think this will affect how marketers use Digg?

Many content heavy sites have a poll on their home page. Have you filled out such polls? If so, what do you think of this as a tactic Also, how much credence to you put on the results of these online polls?

The concept of friends on Facebook is a blurry concept. There are Facebook profiles with thousands of friends while there are others who only have a handful or so. So what if you have a business client or a colleague and you receive a Facebook invite. What is your policy …

Is there such a thing as "online clout"? What do you think of those "twelebrities" or super facebook fans with thousands of friends or who can forget Tila Tequila whose claim to fame was having excessive numbers of friends. I read a post on Seth Godin's blog about online clout …

There are many social media monitoring tools that discover the brand influencers on the blogosphere. Many brands use this to identify these influencers and invite them to either review thier product, their services, or invite them to an event so they can review it. Thus, I found this very interesting …

I know many of us have created our websites in WordPress. From a SEO perspective, it is a great tool. But of course, with every service or product, there is always a new and better competitor. So as Im reading a blog, I read about squarespace. It seems affordable, so …

At certain events, I am introduced as the social media or insights maven. Thus, I often find myself in situations where I have to explain: "What is Twitter?". As I was on youtube, I found this cool video which could help me and help you explain what is Twitter in …

Almost every single internet marketing related magazine and conference touts social media. Thus, I wonder about measuring success on social media. Most of the information I read on this topic is very qualitative. At least this article tires to quantify it in some way... [url]http://searchenginewatch.com/3634843[/url] So how to explain social …

I saw this interesting post on ClickZ which states only a quarter of women stated that social media influenced purchases. So for us marketers, we may have to restrategize on how we use social media to push our businesses. This finding also illustrates the need to optimize current social media …

I just want to post my frustration and sheer contempt for the new AdWords interface. It's making it very difficult for me to get anything accomplished quickly, and is the reason I am still at the office right now. So, without further ado, dare I say ... GRR.

Does the advertisement placing in local newspaper classified really effective in generating business leads? I think utility of the classifieds is limited only to small informative advt. like placements, marriage etc. What do you think?

Dear Members: As social media is cementing itself as a permanent and constant fixture in our digital lives, people we meet in our offline world can easily also translate to digital connections. Thus, what do you do when your boss wants to be your Facebook friend? I personally believe in …

The Center for Media Research, in a brief released earlier this week, reported that a study by Ethos Business Law found that 51% of senior US executives (marketing, management and HR) fear social media could be bad for employee productivity while 49% say that social media could damage company reputation. …

It had to happen sooner or later. I do believe that such tactics do blur the line of what is public worthy and not. I do think that if it does help small counties connect with their constituencies, then great. But I do wonder if in a way, it can …

Hi I know a friend of mine whose Facebook account was hijacked. Now I read this: [url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/04/facebook_friend_in_peril_scam/[/url] Its scary. It does not matter if you limit who can view your profile or not.

It is being reported on Mashable that 11 million facebook users are playing Farmville on a daily basis. As we all look for ways to grow our communities and keep them engaged, this is interesting. Who would offer a game on their community if it meant more people engaged and …

Pcbtalk is the online home of PCB News and the most reliable source of information for the printed circuit board( pcb) industry. And i am creating the thread to ask some guides on how to decrease the bounce rate % and increase the site traffic. I did try some ways …

As you try to grow your online community, it is good to know who are connected online and who may be your best target audience. I read on a blog with these interesting stats: [LIST] [*]singles and couples are the most connected. [*]Young families are heavy tech users, especially for …

As you know, there are a few semantic web search engines out there. Do you use them? If so, what do you think? Do you optimize your your web sites for these search engines like: opencalais.com and wolframalpha.com

Hey i want to start my own business at Ebay but as i am from Pakistan and paypal is not available in Pakistan so is there any alternative of paypal through which i can easily do my business at ebay and are there any more sucessful auction sites?

I've tried just about everything I can think of. But I just can't get the sales I want. I've re-designed my site, got good rankings on the search engines, offered freebies, included a tell-a-friend form, told as many people as I can about my website, have extremely friendly customer service, …

i stumbled upon this random ppc ad site and wasn't sure if anyone has had any luck or experience with them? Copaclick [url]http://www.copaclick.com/[/url] gunna give it a shot, just figured id check for community feedback before jumpin it -Tim

assume My website name is mobileseach.com When i enter the mobilesearch.com in google , it does not give my website name in the search list. So for that to happen some one suggested to use keywords specific to my website like mobile search or something like that . How to …

Hello Forum Friends: I created about 2 articles to post on my blog for my dating sites. The article blog is located at a sub folder (ex: domain.com/articles/). On each article, I created a few links to link to my homepage for some keywords. My question is: Should I link …

yes my question is plain, ...is future of seo is bright or like ...other things which lose there value with time.

Hello frds, am not so good in english but i want to become a seo now am doing link building ,please give me your views can i become a good seo without good communication skills ?

Hello, I just registered and would have read many of the posts and think they are very informative. I have a websites and wondering if anyone could help me out in increasing sales (by better SEO, obviously). Any advice is greatly appreciated. Any recommendations on getting guaranteed placement companies that …

Like global audience, i want to target local audiences via local search engines. Could anyone please suggest me, how can i do that?

I just read an article on Ad Age about how Nielsen have confirmed what we all knew, that advertising spent went down in 2009. It also reflect that advertising spend was affected not only online, but on traditional form of advertising as well. [url]http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=138852[/url] So have you personally have seen …

In order to develop insights for its market research section of the marketing plan, some companies use panel or internet research surveys. I actually have developed a few myself. So if you do it in-house or use an outside vendor, what do you think now after reading this: [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/technology/companies/05nocera.html[/url] ?

I would like to know how do you incorporate consumer insights in your marketing strategy and plan? Do you incorporate data from Comscore and Nielsen and then use these metrics to convert into actionable insights? Why plan if consumers may not be interested in the product or services?

I am new to ppc management, is there any stategy that anyone can share with me that works consistantly to get new clients in? Heck I'll even take ideas of stategies that dont always work consistantly.

First off, this is not really my first post. I forgot my username/password so I just re-registered. I'm happy to be here....again! I have a month old site (vBulletin with WordPress as the front page) geared towards the town I live in. I have Google AdSense integrated into my vb …

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The other day I had a conversation with my colleague, strategic planner, about social media and digital advertising as a push or pull marketing. I think that the terms are now very fuzzy and getting blurred, especially with social media. Why? Well, I believe the platform allows for both a …

We all know that google doesn't like to index dynamic pages. However, I just checked up on the latest daniweb.com pages indexed by google, and guess what I found? Google has indexed just about every member's profile page, but not the forum threads! The member profile pages contain less original …

Hi Though I am a frequent poster, I just noticed the tag option on this site. So I wonder, what effect does tagging do with the posts here versus the posts that are not tagged?

I am trying to create an authority site on a topic ranking for multiple keywords. Are there any special on-site tips to doing this? For example, if you have a page targeting a single keyword would it help to have 10 other posts using variations/similar words and have all 10 …

Many advertisers use DART data to monitor metrics for their PPC campaign. I looked at one report recently and it could be confusing for a first timer. So what advice do you have for someone who has never reviewed such data before?

"If you build it, they will come" Great line from a great movie but too many people apply the same logic to corporate websites (on of my clients is one of them). If your community growth become stagnant or worse, reversed, is it possible that you have allowed yourself to …

I just found this very interesting article on Mashable - [url]http://mashable.com/2009/08/30/analyze-twitter-content/[/url] I actually like TweetPsych but I do wonder what would be the business implication for knowing sentiment and psychographics on individual users rather than an aggregate of all the followers for a particular account. Would it really help create …