Digital Marketing Forum

Hello, My forum didn't require a code verification and thus by a script or a software, someone made automated registrations for hundreds of fake usernames and emails. The common point in these users are their IP adress and birthdays. How can I mass delete those users? I use VBulletin 3.07 …

Hey everybody! I too am creating my own community right now, and trying to figure out if I'm "in-line" when it comes to its membership ratio. For every 1000 unique visitors, I'm getting about 5 people to become members, so about .5%.....What does everybody think should be considered the norm?? …

Hi, I am using the matatage for search engine optimization and i am also entering keywords and descriptions but any of the search engine will not showing my page when i am typing such a keyword. so is there any otherway for SEO means ranking the page or we have …

hi, I am looking for an E_commerce project and do not have any ideas what to build and call it does anyone have any ideas???

I found [URL=http://www.wrongplanet.net/blog/?p=31]someone coming from gtools.corp.google.com in my referrer log...[/URL]: [QUOTE]I found an odd url in my referrers list. Upon googling the term “gtools.corp.google.com

I have just installed a hack that won't let people post messages under a set number of characters. That makes my people stop posting one liners. Love it. Did you install such things?

It's been said time and time again that one of the best ways to promote your website is to post in other forums and link to your site in your signature. Many other people, myself included, frequently visit various webmaster forums out there (such as this one) and ask for …

What do ya all think of Microsoft's newest search engine?

Does anyone know anything about Google's payment system, which will operate as a PayPal alternative of some sort?

For those of you out there who purchase text links for SEO ... Which works better for you? Sitewides or homepage / section specific links? For me, I've always had much better experience with sitewide links on relevant sites that generate a lot of traffic and have lots of pages …

Has anyone had any luck with the AdSense Affiliate Program where you refer other publishers to AdSense and earn commission? Just about all publishers nowadays have heard of AdSense already, so I'm not sure how much potential it has.

Do you think it's alright to have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to self-promotion, spam, or even the posting of any and all links - in a webmaster-oriented community (ie WebmasterWorld, DaniWeb)? On one hand, it seems good to have a black and white policy - and on …

I have discussion forum where we talk about crashing computer games, possible fixes and other problems. i receive tremendous amount of visitors yet nobody coming forward to participate, reply and help others in the forum. This site had already been for about a year still i havent noticed any single …

As community owners and administrators, we often have the least opportunity to actually sit back and enjoy our own communities. When we post, it's either to deal with some behind-the-scenes administrative issue, or for some other reason such as welcoming new members, getting postrate up, or the alltime favorite, keeping …

Hi, how would I increase web traffic effectively? I don't really want to pay for web traffic because my I'm doing my website just for fun.

hello, im planning to add a chatroom or web instant messenger to a website im building, to allow users to chat with each other in real time. i was thinking to buy a script like [url]www.123flashchat.com[/url], but their price is (ridiculousy) toohigh. so instead im thinking about programming one myself. …

When using a third party ad server, do you use the IFRAME or JavaScript method? Usually the JS method is more robust and offers more features, but it can slow down page rendering times. Currently struggling with this battle right now.

I need to set up a CC system that would rebill a set amount when the account balance becomes low. Here's an example: A client pre-pays $500 for leads. He starts getting leads. When the account is drawn down to $50 - his CC is re-charged $500 similar to the …

are there any merchant accounts out there as simple to use as Yahoo's? I'm becoming more and more of a fan of Yahoo's services. I've been using them for a year or so now. It's funny, because at first I was not to excited about yahoo.... but the more I …

Hi guys, This forum is very interesting and I couldn't wait to post something, so please forgive me if this has been asked before! I decided to build my own forum instead of using one of the prepackaged units such as phpbb or vbulletin. I've tinkered with phpbb and even …

I am running a referral program to draw more visitors but the program hasn't drawn much traffic at all. Any suggestion on running an effective referral program? Thanks all.

I have a directory where the directory is ODP style and at present i am thinking of using a scoring system for all the submission links into my directory. All sites in my directory will be manually reviewed for quality, content, free of any spam. What are the most important …

I believe there are sites out there where you can sell bits of your site off to potential advertisers, like banner or skyscraper space you might have for example. Does anyone know what those sites are called or any examples? Thanks

I have already started the war on an admins forum and on my community, want a heated discussion here too :) Nope, am not trolling, just want a serious debate :) I see many forums add news in their content. RSS, article bots or just the admin copying news from …

After an extended search in the forum, I haven't find anything good about this topic, so I thought to start one. Well everybody knows that a contest can bring lots of traffic and conversions to a web site, especially for forums. The thing that I would like to discuss, is …

Hey guys I need to send out a mailshot to my 10,000 members and my host has freaked out on me because of server overload. My question is do you guys know of a trusted service that will do this for me, of course paid. Thanks in advance JohnT

Hello everybody, I was wondering what could be the difference between buying a link for example from << link broker >> "35$ each" or buying each month +- 240 one way links to your site for "24,99$ total" << url snipped >> What is the catch?? Many thanks! Kind regards …

I'm trying to gain better positioning in my Adwords Campaign. So far the only way i know of to gain better positioning is to fine tune my keywords and increase my bid amount. I don't like increasing my bid amount because although it improves my position, it creates more risk. …

I noticed today that Google has a Google Mars now. I wonder if all this innovation is really just a form of viral marketing.

How do you get rid of all those one post wonders? They come, post once, and leave. Or, better yet, they register and just don't post at all? I have already customized the welcome email sent out to new members. I am thinking about sending new members a PM upon …

What types of advertising does everyone run on their forum? How many ads is too many? Do you just stick with AdSense and YPN or do you do graphical campaigns? Anyone with IntelliTXT? What is user response like? What is considered going too far? Most importantly, at what point do …

I have 400,000 pages of content-light pages. That's because many have an image, and a very short description that is legally regulated. I want to add unique keyword-rich content to all the pages on the left sidebar. However, I don't want to handwrite 400,000 pages of unique content. I've thought …

Since some of us are forum admins ourselves, I thought we could have a nice chat about this too: what did our last banned member do to get shown the door?

I just installed the latest version of the Google toolbar for IE. The autocomplete search feature is pretty cool. Any other opinions?

I've always heard all these great success stories about YPN and how the revenue potential is more than double AdSense. The concensus has been that you get fewer clicks but the CPC and eCPM is much higher in the end. However, after trying it out for myself, I'm horribly disappointed. …

Isn't that cool? Talk about free marketing. :cool:

We have a forum entitled "Advertising Sales and Affiliate Programs" where people are meant to discuss the pros and cons of selling ad space, how to go about doing so, review various affiliate programs and agencies, etc. However, many people mistake this as a forum to post that they are …

I can use my Apache server logs to figure out how many pulls there were of my RSS feed each day ... and therefore can track usage trends. But this just isn't enough for me. Is there ANY way that I can figure out whether my feeds are being pulled …

I have a plea for advice from admins of large, successful forums. I'm in a bind. I run a few forums, and finally created a successful one. But last week, one of the moderators posted some material that was copyrighted by someone else, and I took the material down. Apparently, …

Does anyone have any contest ideas that would help to strengthen a community but are not very time consuming to oversee / maintain and will work well with a big board? I don't want it to be where members submit entrees because then I would have to manually examine every …

Scenario, You want to opitmise a site for 10 keywords say. You choose 2/3 keywords per page and optimise accordingly and therefore have your 'on-page- factors covered. When addressing the 'off-page' factors ie: links, what is the best way to include those 10 keywords into your linking campaign? I know …

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I've got suckered in to a scam, I wont mention the names of companys right now. but, I can say this. I received a E-mail from Amsterdam, netherlands stating I won $350,000. I received many E-mails from them and fake Certificates. they wanted $920.00 wired to them so I did. …

Why do you think this happens? The conversion rate increases the more time you spend on search. For example the first 1k you spend in search might yield a 1% conversion rate, yet the next 2k might yield a 3 or 4%. Without any refinement of the campaign. Is that …

I am contemplating renaming the directory /techtalkforums/ to just /forums/ but I am very concerned with SEO. Of course, I would do a 301 redirect for everything in the directory. However, how guaranteed is that alone? Will the google toolbar PR eventually carry over and how long does it take …

Does anyone know about this Big Daddy Google update? Supposedly they are doing a lot of removing duplicate pages, so we shall see ... I *think* the IP for the datacenter is at [url="http://216.239.51.104/"][color=#800080]http://216.239.51.104/[/color][/url]

Hi all, I have a WD I'm dealing with in Germany & I have to find a way to pay her from here. I don't want to have to send cash thru the mail & I won't use Pay Pal (theives), moneybookers (never return my e-mails promptly, answer my the …

It looks like we went through a Google toolbar PR update yesterday. How did you guys fare? I can't complain. Homepage stayed PR7 and all top level forums and categories went to PR6. Unfortunately, my link directory went down from my second PR7 to PR6 as well.

hi all, I would like to discuss ways of generating traffic. Right now i am much busy and am facing a deadline on a project. But within this next week i will be focusing a lot of energy on this topic. If anyone has some tips that they would be …

I signed up for Overture after they offered me a $100 credit last week. Today, I sent them this letter: [quote]To Whom It May Concern, Please cancel my Overture search account. I signed up just a few days ago looking forward to the recent improvements and competition with Google AdWords, …