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Does anyone know about the legalities of storing credit card information to use later? Specifically, we want to start accepting political donations but our Click and Pledge account is not set up yet. Can we create a database to store the credit cards and amounts and then, acting as the …
Facebook is now being blamed for up to 1 in 5 divorces, according to an analysis performed on an online database of divorce documents. The website, called [URL="http://www.divorce-online.co.uk/"]Divorce-Online[/URL], had Facebook mentioned 989 times out of 5,000 documents, [URL="http://www.journalism.co.uk/66/articles/536960.php"]according to[/URL] Mark Keenan, managing director of the site. The most common reason …
Hewlett-Packard is scrambling to respond to an issue brought up by a Dec. 10 YouTube video demonstrating that the facial tracking software used in some of its laptops doesn't recognize black people. HP responded to the issue yesterday [URL="http://www.thenextbench.com/t5/Voodoo-Blog/Customer-Feedback-is-Important-to-Us/ba-p/51351"]in its blog[/URL], and it's starting to go viral today. In the …
An increasing number of cities in the United States and Canada are releasing data to developers to use in applications. While regions have released geographic information system (GIS) data for some time, such data required complicated software to use. Cities are now releasing all kinds of data, some of them …
I have so may excel tables and I just want to make life easier organizing them. Thus, I have heard of Marin software. Have you heard of other software that can help? If you have used them, what was your experiences?
Even last year, I used to perform a manual qualitative approach to "listening" to my consumers. Now there are other tools that perform this task automatically and so many are popping up like Radian6 and BuzzMetrics to name a few. So my question is "Is it really important for you …
Here's a switch. Instead of newspapers trying to protect the identities of the people posting to their websites, the newspaper is the one outing them. As [URL="http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/post-a-vulgar-comment-while-youre-at-work-lose-your-job/"]described[/URL] by editor Kurt Greenbaum of the [I]St. Louis Post-Dispatch[/I], someone posted a vulgar word in the paper's online commenting system, and re-posted it …
For those of you outside of the Long Island, NY area, you may have missed a good one. It seems that the latest teen music sensation, Justin Bieber (who's fame is based on viral youtube videos of himself singing songs by Usher and Ne-Yo, which led to a twitter campaign …
Rupert Murdoch is not a stupid man, his business empire is evidence of that. For anyone to become a media mogul requires smarts, but those smarts seem to be deserting Murdoch as he continues to play the fool and deny that old monetisation methods do not work for the new …
Facebook uses pokes to adjust their algorithms. Thus, the more you poke your friend, the more news you get on your friend. So my question for you is "Do you poke?" [URL]http://www forbes.com/2009/10/26/twitter-facebook-costs-markets-faces-guidelines.html?partner=faces_newsletter[/URL] These pokes actually have a financial cost involved. Interesting.
Just wondered about what you all do? I am constantly updating our website in my job on a daily basis. * Updating new products * Removing obselete products * Updating pages for SEO I have the Sitemap.xml file configured for Google through the Webmaster Tools, the URLLIST.TXT file for Yahoo, …
Here's a recent rant from search journalist, Danny Sullivan, regarding link spam. This is a good read for anyone involved with SEO. [INDENT]"[I]...the core problem is that the web has people who think nothing of vandalizing other web sites. That’s what link spamming is. You’re not adding value to a …
Either on Facebook or on Second Life, one can spend alot of money by buying virtual gifts and necessity. Whenever I want to send a birthday wish to a Facebook friend, the option of gifts come up but these "gifts" cost real money. I also know I used to spend …
I have a client who is hot to start using AdSense to get some more revenue and he said that he heard that AdSense participation can provide an SEO boost. While I told my client that he should not expect a great deal of revenue I had never heard about …
[URL="http://popacular.com/gigatweet/"]GigaTweet[/URL] has been counting the total number of messages posted to Twitter in real time, and the rolling count is almost hypnotic. Overnight the 5 billionth Tweet was posted. So what was it? Perhaps someone [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28479/53/"]speaking out[/URL] against corporates trying to gag freedom of the press again? Nope. Maybe another …
It looks like Twitter Lists have arrived - Hallelujah! I just signed in to my account and got the following: [QUOTE]"New! Lists. A great way to organize the people you follow and discover new and interesting accounts. (BETA) Lists are timelines you build yourself, consisting of friends, family, co-workers, sports …
I would like to say this is a joke but it is not. Read the link and learn about how you can earn $10,000, if chosen, to blog from inside a branded bathroom (yes, a branded bathroom) in Times Square on behalf of Charmin. In my time in marketing I …
I found this on a blog and it really is interesting to see. The blogger developed a flash counter that tallys the amount of activity of various social media types starting with the moment you start looking at it (i.e., number of blog posts, number of tweets, number of new …
Mashable is reporting that Facebook's COO, Sheryl Sandberg, revealed that Facebook is averaging 45 million status updates from 30 million unique visitors per day. So in the last few weeks, along with this info plus the 5 billionth tweet through Twitter and Linkedin going over the 50 million mark in …
I love Twitter, and post a lot of links to security related stories via my [URL="http://twitter.com/happygeek"]@happygeek[/URL] account. But now I am getting a little worried that I might suffer the same fate as a well known, and highly respected security expert. Mikko Hypponen is a familiar face around the security …
I just read a Comscore report stating that the click through rates for display ads have gone down throughout the years. Hence, if this revenue stream is being diminished, will this push companies to start charging members for membership? I remember this was done in the early 2000s and those …
With the exception of Digg, all the major social networking sites had more women than men. I wonder why? Why do you think so? Personally, I know I have been on social networking sites since 1992 via Usenet and IRC. Yes, you might not have heard of these two, but …
Hello, I like thank you for reading my post. This is something new that I learned from major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN. I saw some websites that have ONLY one long page but they got indexed on the first page for some specific keywords. What they did …
I have always thought that having multiple domains point to one site could hurt your rankings. I was just curious if there are any "special practices" to follow when doing this to make sure you do not get penalized by Google for duplicate content? Is my belief no longer relevant?
I just read on a blog about how Drew Carey started a bid $25k to buy his username on Twitter. Drew is willing to go up to 100k!!! So what about the non-celebrities out there. Would you buy your name on Twitter if someone else already has this? What do …
Being on social media, I have noticed there are certain "twitter celebrities" or even Myspace celebrities like Tila Tequila. Thus, I wonder what makes someone into an online celebrity, does it matter, and does it help you from a professional standpoint? Perhaps I am already a celebrity here on DaniWeb? …
SEO Techniques are a set of specific tasks that would be performed by a Search Engine Optimization Company, when employed by a Client who desires high search engine positions to attract targeted traffic, with the intention of increasing their conversion rates and brand awareness. Effective Website Optimization should enable the …
According to a new Gartner survey, despite companies driving down overall IT budgets this year things are looking good for global software spending in 2010. Well, I say good, but perhaps I should say a teensy weensy little bit better than this year. Gartner reckons that organisations surveyed indicated that …
Whats The Best Way To Do Online Marketing On Myspace? I have friend blaster, which allows me to send a bunch of messages and friend requests at the same time, but what are a few other ways i can market on myspace?
Congratulations on creating a large database driven site! It is beautiful and very useful, now if only you could figure out how to get people to find your site. Time for search engine optimization! SEO is how to make your website easy for the search engines to crawl and convince …
[B][COLOR="Red"]Please don't forget to add me some reputation if this thread was helpful for you.[/COLOR][/B] [color=red][b]BREAKING NEWS:[/b][/color] [b]"Meta tag abusers face 20 years in prison under US law".[/b] The US has passed legislation which controls what website operators are allowed to put in their site meta tags. The law bans …
Hello all, This is not a question regarding the specifics of how you manage to make a primary income, but for those of you who do make an income from adsense,advertising on your websites etc. (whether it's a 6 figure income, or enough for you to get by/live comfortably) I …
i have my own website (in sig of course). but the biggest thing that is driving me round the bloody bend is my forum. i have tried my upmost to get members.Postings etc can i !!!. can i hell as like i just dont know what to do its so …
What are you thoughts on SMF as a forum solution as compared to phpBB? I've been seriously thinking about converting my forum from phpBB to SMF. Is it worth it? I've tried it in a local environ. It's very, very powerful and customizable, but the admin interface is very unwieldy. …
Could some one explain what pay per click is and what it would take or what does it take to get involved in it?? Thanks alot!
A lot of people will think that google uses meta tags [code] <meta name="description" content="this is kool 'eh"> [/code] Google willl actually search the page for keywords it self then decide how to list them. Now you are probably wondering how does google decide who is at the top and …
When looking for an information-based forum where you could learn, would you rather belong to a close-knit community or a professional corporate site? For example, we all want to feel welcome in a forum. But there is a more family-oriented feel (such as this forum) or the more corporate feel …
Greetings DaniWeb community. For those interested in SEO/SES that could not make it to SearchEngineWatch.com's conference in New York last week, here is a mini-recap of the latest SEO advice and stats from Danny Sullivan, Editor for SearchEngineWatch.com, and moderator of the Search Engine Strategies conference: Quotes: 1. "While you …
I work for a large SEO company. There are a few things you should look for and a few things you should avoid when you're looking to hire a company to do "seo" for you. 1) Never pay more than $6,000 for optimization of 20 keywords for 12 months. That's …
Been thinking about this a lot lately — where's the actual line between "let the automation keep nurturing this lead" and "this needs a human now"? The pattern I keep seeing with small businesses: Leads sit in an automated sequence way longer than they should, so by the time someone …
Hi everyone, I’m currently working in SEO and content strategy, managing SEO projects, content planning, keyword research, technical SEO, link-building strategies, and organic growth. I’m now exploring the possibility of moving to Canada for work and would really appreciate some advice from people who are already working in Canada’s digital …
Hi everyone, I'm helping a cleaning service business that’s been running for 4 years in the USA, and we’re looking to boost its online presence. We’ve tried some basic strategies like Google My Business and social media, but I feel there’s more we can do through digital marketing to really …
Hi everyone, I've been thinking about content freshness and how much it affects search visibility over time. For websites that publish educational or technical content, do you regularly update older articles, or do you focus mainly on creating new ones? Some things I'm curious about are: How often do you …
How many articles need to publish before started seeing steady organic traffic? Did content quality, niche or topical authority make the biggest difference?
SEO remains one of the most valuable digital marketing skills. What resources, tools, or training methods would you recommend for someone starting SEO from scratch in 2026? I'm interested in learning keyword research, on-page SEO, and link-building strategies.
Hi Everyone, When you're just starting your journey into website building, The very first decisions you'll face is whether to use a free domain or invest in a cheap paid one. At first glance, the free option feels like an obvious win—why spend money when you don’t have to? But …
Hello, I believe that submitting articles to Ezine and other popular article directories is a good way to increase traffic. I like to know how often should I do that? 1. Once a week 2. Twice a week 3. 7 times a week Of course, I am talking about fresh …
SEO has been asked again and again and again as I know. I just wanted to bit thrown into the BEST direction (inparticular google then yahoo, etc) of what is the best coding techniques to allow your website to contain the best SEO it can. Like Ive read many articles, …
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