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Hi there, does anyone know what happened to google dance this year? it has been quite long time this year. My site have been up and down for almost every 2 weeks since April. I thought Google dance ( update servers ) only one or twice a year?. please advise, …

Hi everyone, I have a question about Yahoo. Any one has the same problem as mine below: Mon - Friday - My site on top 10 of most strongest phases in my competitive market but Sat and Sunday, half of those keywords drop down to 3, 4 even 5 page. …

hi please can you tell me whats best to use when hosting my website Unix or Windows 2003 both are on the own servers and hopefully the site will have a high flow of traffic please can you tell me whats the differnce and which is better and way thanks

Hi there, I heard about scenting my PPC titles & the content of the ads. Can someone tell me step-by-step how to do it? Thank you Michelle

Since yahoo is one of the most Popular Search Engine. So it can bring a high traffic to your site. To get listed in yahoo search you have to add your URL to Yahoo search. Yahoo has both paid and free submission option you may choose any one according to …

hello, my name is nagendra. I m working on a site name [URL="http://www.microcomm-group.com"]www.microcomm-group.com[/URL] . It deals in environmental, defence, marine, vehicle tracking system and i m not getting any idea about the relevent links for this site any one can help me plz.

Hi, i've just made a new forum but am stuck for ways to advertise it! I'm not prepared to spend money to advertise it as it may not be succesful and it would be a waste of money. Does anyone know any good, FREE, tips on advertising a forum? If …

Hi All, I have a virtual game site I am trying to improve its look, features and functions. Ideas about promotion and marketing would be great too.Your suggestion would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.:) Jane

Hello, I am a little lost and need some help I have looked high and low and it seems this is probably the only place that may have my answer... I am working on a business plan right now that involves a very large website that includes message boards and …

I have seen that pages inside gmail carry page rank. Does this imply that this page rank is fake? If it is genuine can it somehow be used to add to other site's PR?

Has anyone had any experience (either positive or negative) selling advertising space on eBay?

Hi all, does anyone know if it affects the way google ranks a page if most of the data in php pages is drawn from MySQL? For example - a simple [B]About Us[/B] page... One page in php with all body text drawn from MySQL, versus, one page in php …

When is it appropriate to hire an SEO vs doing it yourself?

YOU GOTTA LOVE THAT HEADLINE. :eek: Google will try to convince a judge on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit that challenges the heart of the company’s business: its methods for indexing and ranking Web pages. continued here ... [URL="http://gorillamarketing.blogspot.com/"]http://gorillamarketing.blogspot.com/[/URL]

Hi all, just seeing if anyone has a good list of the major SEs submitting urls Cheers :cheesy:

Hi, I would like to know if Google, Yahoo or MSN would consider the title of my website as spam. My title goes like "Contract Job Marketplace for Webmasters, Freelancers, Programmers, Translators, Custom Web Designers and more..." Am I using too many commas??? Please help...

I am feeling a little overwhelmed in all this SEO stuff. I recently used the W3C's validator on one of the pages on my site and found I had a lot of errors. Most of the errors are things like "there is no attribute "TOPMARGIN"." Apparently the W3C sees this …

Hello all. I am new here so I am not sure if I am posting in the right board but here I go anyways. I have a site, lets call it [url]www.xyz.com[/url]. Now I would like to add a blog to the site but want to put this blog on …

Hi guys, My site is being visited almost daily by yahoo,google and msn robots. Given that, is it still worth resubmitting other pages of my site? Cheers!

There is too much focus in the SEO community on the PageRank meter. This entry attempts to clarify some myths and misconceptions regarding the Google Tool Bar PageRank meter. We know PageRank is important. PageRank, also known as linkjuice, is a metric of the weight of a page's backlinks or …

Just a few days back my site ranked at 1st place in msn for the terms "pertusis disease". Now it is nowhere to be seen. I made some changes to the site by including 17 new sub-domains. Can this be a reason? Should I remove the sub-domains? Also how do …

Has anyone had any good response / revenue from the AdSense text link units?

Hi there, Well, I learned something new today :) I just recently started my affiliate program about a year ago, & since I don't have an experienced affiliate manager, I am learning slowly rather than quickly. Anyway, I just recently noticed that one of my affiliates had their domain pointing …

As GBuy is all set to launch within a few days, how many of you will shift to GBuy from Paypal. I will definately go for GBuy.

Hi all, Haven't had much response to my question that was tacked on to the "Payment Processor" thread, so thought I'd start a NEW thread to see if I can get any assistance. I'm helping set up a home-based business selling exclusively through a website, and the target market is …

Hello, Im gonna start a site, selling a e-product/e-service(example, advertising space) and i need to accept payments, specially credit card. I was thinking of Paypal(which i think accepts credit cards also) and/or 2CO , for now i was looking for something that didnt require a emerchant account or no high …

HI everyone I m running a muzic site featuring 95 hit tracks and 50Cent's latest album THe Massacre ...I m using google for a while.. It's a good things ...but i have some other members form india and sri lanka they having been asking me that is there any host …

YPN is supposedly only wanting to work with US traffic right now. Do they filter international traffic on their end, or is it the job of my ad server (which is geotargeting capable)? Do blank spots show up for non-US users?

Well, I figured you bunch could help me out. So I made a sports forum after getting banned from another one, for some silly reason. I am wondering how I can get my forum out there. I am currently in college, and HAVE no money to spend on advertising. I …

How much time it takes for a new born online forum to get decent amount of participants and traffic sensitive?

I am trying to expand my site to a e-commerce site, but are having problems making code work. I need a resource that can take the difficulty of had writing code and that is user friendly. Anyone have any ideas. Also, if it is free that it is great, but …

I received an email from a forum inviting me to join. I watched that forum go from 10 members to over 200 in one day due to those emails. I was wondering, is it SPAM if I sent out ONE email to a large list of people inviting them to …

Hi all, I'm finally signing up for Ad Sense & I'm kind of confused by the 2 options.... Select AdSense for content if you want to run ads targeted to the content of your site. [url="https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=9879"] [/url] Select AdSense for search to provide web and (optionally) site search to your …

I've got IPB on my site mysite.com when peolple type in they see the forum in the first page is thre a way to get IPB listed on google? or i need an front page? if a do how do I put on a front page with out delete the …

Hi, Fairly new here. I dont get to much time to view all posts and my question is prob already here somewhere. i only just started my site << url snipped >> almost 3 weeks ago.i only have 25 pages so far.i used a meta tag analyser to see how …

hi will ppc click work for me i am trying to get some good traffic for my new dating website but don't wanna to pay loads for ppc for keywords like uk dating online dating etc has any one got any ideas how i can do this for cheaper

My site has a PR of 0 since it is a new site. I have tried some PageRank predictors that are offered by many websites. I keep getting up with different results, anywhere from a PR 0 to a PR 5. I wonder if these PR predictors are usefull tools …

I'm looking for some PPC seach engine that delivers targeted traffic , please let me know because at the moment i'm using [URL="http://www.crawlingthenet.com"]www.crawlingthenet.com[/URL] and its not bad but i want to know if there is eomething better ! :confused:

I am currently looking for editors so that quality sites are added into my directory. I am working on my directory alone. I dont believe on the concept of volunteering just like dmoz. where i have to start? how do i hire them? where am i supposed to look? please …

I have a directory and i strongly believe that if properly developed could become the future dmoz. Some people call us "ranked dmoz". We already received about 800 listings within 30 days and we accepted only 250 sites, because of strict guidelines. we always wanted to build this directory of …

I am trying to start my own online store, using the dropshipping. I know noone will disclose who they use. I have been scammed 3 times so far and all the ones I do find that sound good I am scared to use because everyone says drop shippers do not …

Currently I'm using a few forums and the DMOZ open directory for finding new contacts for buying one-way links. What I'd like to know is, are there any good (legal and honest) tools or websites/directories that will assist me in finding people trying to monetize from their website's ad space? …

I was just wondering what ad placements work the best for everyone. For me, a left sidebar skyscraper ad used to perform the best, but I'm running a right sky at the moment. A leaderboard beneath the first post of forum threads also did very well.

I finished posting it as a post on my blog but I could not find this topic being covered in here so here we go (apologies if I used the wrong keywords and could not find it). I dunno if you read this [url=http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/06/letter-from-eric-schmidt-ceo.html]open letter from Eric Schmidt[/url], the CEO …

Hi all, I'm still new to daniweb and i think this is a great forum for info so good job daniweb 4 that....I'm thinking about adding a forum to my site so my visitors can discuss matters about affiliate programs and so on...whats a good place to get a forum …

Would it be an opt-in type of newsletter, or just something that you would mass-send to all 80k members?

What day of the week has worked out best to send newsletters or digets to your members? Right now I have them set to go out on the first Monday of every month. However, I'm wondering if Monday is not the best day because people are in the whole "back …

I was discussing with NBF how I want to raise participation rates here on DaniWeb, and she pointed me to the following blog entry that she found: [URL="http://www.martinibuster.net/2006/06/growing-forum-participation.html"]http://www.martinibuster.net/2006/06/growing-forum-participation.html[/URL] She said it reminded her of me. So ... what do you guys think? Valid points or just BS?

Anyone knows anything about Morethantraffic.com ve me some heads up. I signed up as an affiliate with them, but their service kinda sound too good to be true.

Hello. I am running some sites, from which one is a new forum for women. It's a sort of a general chat for women only. We discuss about everything in our lives: home, career, relationships ... My question now: how and where do you think I could promote it? The …