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Bloggers somewhat have the advantage of an RSS feed, which makes indexing a lot easier, and they can also sign up for those auto-PING sites. Forums, though, are a lot tougher to get indexed in my experience, although perhaps I just haven't used the right tools? I know that google …

NOTE: This is not my site, nor do I promote it. I want everyones opinion on it. I was surfing the net doing my daily SEO research when I came upon this website that guaranteed 1st placement on 40 major search engines, including Google. Not only that, they said it …

Looking for opinion and recommendations... My site is a PR 3, with about 90 backlinks (most of a good quality), a small amount of content is added per month. To improve I have been told that adding a blog to my site could help. Do you agree? And, if so, …

Ok google has been crawling my forum for days... but i just checked today and its still not coming up on google... I have meta tags, but im not sure they are in the right place. My website is a proboards forum... can anyone help me figure out y im …

How to increase page rank? please give any suggestions are forums helpful and if so then is page rank important in context to search engine optimization.thanks in advance.

One of the best ways to improve your Web site marketing is to analyze the existing traffic to your Web site. Until you understand who is coming and why, it'll be difficult to improve. There four ways to analyze Web site traffic: * Install a counter on your Web page …

ok i have just built a forum i think its been up and running alttle over a month now.. google is constantly crawling mysite... altho i havent actually found my site on there yet... but i would like to know where people are coming from so i can make sure …

Which is worse ... The fact that Google AdSense Referrals is showing ads for phone sex operators on an IT forum when targeting is set up to only fetch ads from the Computer category, or the fact that I actually made $9 when someone signed up?

I wrote in another thread about the tremendous success my forum has had because of Facebook.....has anyone used social Networks like Facebook or MySpace for promoting your forum?.....I did a little research, and apparently Facebook's Group platform is very limited, though....you can only mass email members of a group up …

Who besides me thinks that Google Analytics' downfall will be that it takes way to long to process and display data?

Hi, I am spending about €50 per day advertising on Google through selected websites. For this, we are getting about about 100 visits per day. Is this normal or should we be able to achieve much more. Also, our bounce rate is about 80%. Again, is this normal or should …

Hi everybody, until yesterday i had around 31,000 pages indexed by google . (i check it daily by site:[url]www.mysite.com)[/url]. today morning when i checked google is showing only 14000 pages. any idea guys? is it temporary or am i going to be in trouble? thnx....

I have adsense on various sites and noticed certain industries/areas pay the most. I ranked a couple sites well in a certain industry only to realize I was getting about 25 to 30 cents per click, where as some of my other sites I get $1-$2. In your experiences what …

I have been advised that there are tools that one can use to find your ranking on google. Has anyone here used such tools and could you recommend any?

Hi guys, I am using google adsense on my site, Me and my friend opened another good website, and want to have something else than google. What are other good advertizers like google ads. That are safe (will not have troubles with your account) and will pay you normally, and …

My friend and I just created a health forum with simple phpbb (we are no IT geniuses by any means)... and I've been reading all over the place about getting more traffic to your site/forum. We tried this before, but we just got spammed out of control. We want genuine …

Hi can any one tell me how can i submit my PRODUCT URL to Froogle & Shopzilla ? is there any free software for all this please Guide... Thanks

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hi there, i am new in daniweb, i would like to start or try something so called online business, i knw there are a lots of way to make money online, on will be advertising or blogging, but i do not know how to start, if someone could give me …

Typing link:site.com into Yahoo! shows me a huge amount of backlinks from a wide variety of domains. Typing link:site.com into Google shows me a very small selection of backlinks, most from just a handful of domains (no idea why). Now I know that Google backlinks spit out completely old data …

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Hi there is there any alternative ideas to increase traffic? thanks

I've signed up with adsense to display the image ads on my site.I don't want to show text ads as it drives some of my traffic away.Also it looks as bad webpage even though my content is good.Can i place adbrite image ads along with google image ads,i don't want …

I was about to embark upon a major myspace effort recently. The goal, of course: create a myspace page representing my business, then going out and networking in the community (getting friends whose pages link to my myspace page), and having the myspace page link to my website. In this …

I have done so many manual submissions but until now most of my links, especially those on seo directories still do not appear in google...

I am posting this thread because I am getting tired of seeing htreads being started called stuff like "is phpbb free" or "Which is better IPB or Vbulletin". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So basically what I would like to do is build up a thread of lots of information about each forum. If …

yesturday,i signed up with widgetbucks(the link is in my sig).So far just for one ad i have 50 impressions and 14 clicks which is a good ratio i think.I emailed there support and am told updates on earning take up to 72 hours to update.Ive heard they have only been …

Hey guys. I've been working on improving my ranking by increasing my backlinks considerably. I noticed that a high-ranking competitor of mine has tons of backlinks through blogs. The problem is that the blogs that write about my competitor's website are pretty ugly/generic and tend to post the same information. …

How google adsense differ between invalid and valid click? There some tips to increase our text ads click?

Hello Everyone, My name is Howie, and I'm a 24 y/o college student. I have been reading this forum for about a few weeks now, and some of the awesome insight that some members have brought to the table here, has been invaluable. Early this December, I decided to embark …

[b]SEO[/b] is an acronym for [b]"search engine optimization".[/b] It is the process of analyzing your potential design and problems for search engines indexing and positioning. In other words, making your web site and its content attractive, relevant and visible to search engines and web searchers. There is nothing worse than …

Hi, To get top rankings in the top search engines and traffic from the search engines site should be optimized for those search engines. Now a days there are many companies which are providing these services. I know about one IT Company. How can these IT companies help in increasing …

Hi all...I'm looking for a very specific eCommerce solution, and I was wondering if anyone knew what application or system might be able to do this. I currently use the 1ShoppingCart system (which I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with), and so far, I've been told, that there …

Hello guys, I have started a technology based website called technody and i would like to share my website to intrested bloggers, bloggers would be given 50% of adsense View for their content. interested bloggers post their email id to this thread. content types include, blogs, polls and forums. regards, …

What is a good way to pull forum lurkers out of hiding and turn them into posting members?

Sorry if I am in the wrong place but I used my search engine to find out about THEIR techniques and up came you. Then I had to register to use the service. I realize I can set up different accounts for people who use my network or pay to …

I was wondering if anyone could help me out with suggestions to build a community of college students?

For those of you with some of the largest forums (or other large online communities out there), what are the biggest challenges that you face? How have those challenges changed since you started out? For me, the biggest challenge when we were small was recruiting new members, and now that …

Hi Everyone, I am new to the forum, but what what I have seen so far it looks good. My wife and I launched our website in January, and since then I have been learning SEO , trying to promote the site without spending too much money. I can't believe …

Hi there, I hope I'm in the right place (apologies for the intrusion if I'm not). I work for a company that has a few basic products to sell, we have no working website at the moment and we only deal with trade customers. What we are looking to do …

Please evaluate my SERP. My blog is just a month old. It's about SEO so I am focusing much on seo-related keyword. Today, I tried to check google and I found out that some of my pages/posts are ranked faster than the keywords that I am targeting. I understand that …

Well, a site that I look after has always ranked EXTREMELY well for the keywords that I target, but as of the past few days it seems that the page's search ranking has taken a severe hit - something that I have never experienced before in my couple years of …

Hello everyone, I have just set up my very own virtual pet site which is similar to NeoPets. I have purchased the script which is mainly PHP but that does not have any support from the person who sold it. I was wondering how I would go about finding PHP …

Hi, I recently aquired a website of adult products and I have not the slightest clue on how to promote it. Can anyone help?

I am in the process of developing a website that is a large, specific type video database combined with a functional social network. Sites offering similar content in different media format average 78,000 pages per day, 29000 visits per day, and 16,000 unique hosts per day. My site is innovative …

Google is popular due to it's search engine but these days it is going to be something more than a search engine . There are loads of utilities provided by google . For me it is not a search engine only now because i am seeking other services and i …

Hi I was wondering , I am using dew-newphplinks for a fitness site that I have for my links page, do you think that is a bad idea or a good idea. there are lots of catagories that are off topic will that hurt my site in any way with …

Hi there I have noted that for the same keyword my website is positioned in yahoo and google with a huge difference.... example some key is n1 in yahoo and not even listed in the top 100 in google or viceversa. How can that be?

Hi, I've recently migrated my forum from YaBB to vBulletin and would like to implement a 301 redirect (if it's not too late), in order to preserve PR (it was PR4). Old URL: [url]http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl[/url] New URL: [url]http://www.mysite.com/forum/[/url] Can anyone help me with what exactly to put into the .htaccess file? …

Does placing links to related sites improve rankings? As google says that their motive is to provide better information to people, I think they give weightage to links to related sites as well. For example many pages in wikipedia have links to .gov or .edu sites like say 20 links …