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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, …

Hi: I run or help run a few web-sites dedicated to musicians John Barry, Matt Monro, Adam Faith & Ron Grainer. Naturally, like everybody else, I want them to appear near the top in searches. This is not a problem as far as MSN goes, as all four appear in …

Hi, I have an online shopping website in which I have setup google's Conversion tracking mechanism at two places, namely, Signup Confirmation and in the Payment page. In the Signup Confirmation page, I wish to track the number of signups occurring as a result of google adwords. While in the …

I was just snooping around my AdWords campaign and I noticed that you can now set separate bids for search and content pages. How long have I been missing out on this feature? Does anyone use it? I've been using automatic bidding for awhile.

Hi everyone When I start a new web site promotion project one of the first thing, of course, is an anlysis to determine the most searched for keyphrases that are relevant and industry specific to the web site. I do this using the traditional tools available from the search engines …

I am trying to develop content in my niche directory (Dallas Fort Worth and Texas links). What should I do to get foot traffic across my directory? I have a budget of $90 per month and an Adwords account. I can't seem to get people to drop a link in …

I create a new site recently. I found some sites providing targeted traffice service and search engine submission. Do these things work well? I purchased these kind of services on engineseeker.com. I didn't think they are good as they advertized. This site's service and customer support are poor and never …

How much would you spend for an ad on a website's page making 100 visits a day, which PR is about 4 or 5...? You pay on a monthly basis. The website belongs to the same category. I guess this is the right thread to post such question.

Do you recommend using the rel=nofollow tag on links that are member-submitted, such as from a blog or forum?

Hello DaniWeb Community, Can a site get out of the G Sandbox using RSS feeds to fuel the site with content? In other words, if a webmaster does not have the resources to write original content, can syndicated content do the trick? Any other feedback on getting out of the …

Many forum systems (vBulletin, for example) come with built-in calendars. Aside from keeping track of member birthdays, does anyone here use the calendar feature? What for? Is it widely used by members of your community?

Looking for suggestion on marketing a webmaster/freelancer auction site. << url snipped >> Thanks for the feedback. What I'm looking for is where and how should I market this site to get more freelancers and webmasters to join and post auctions and buy and trade things as well.

Does anyone have any experience with Righ Media? I heard they have a very intuitive interface which easily allows you to run other networks alongside them, without having to play tier merry-go-round. Something else that makes them unique is that they run off of a bidding system where advertisers bid …

Does anyone know when the next Google PR update is going to take place? It's been a long time since the last one, I've heard rumors about the IPO getting in the way, but does anyone have any insider news to share?

Hello Folks ! I need your opinions on a concept. Please do not fool around but honestly give your opinions because if your opinions seem all positive then I am thinking of running such a venture mentioned below. Also, please forward everyone you know (on the internet) to this post …

I am in a fix . One of my friends has been in the wildlife conservation field . He has made a site for himself and approached me for marketing plans for his website . The best I could tell him was to diversify content and get a referal program …

:mad: Over the past months I have been working on << url snipped >>. I have limited knowledge of SEO but have done my best. I have also slowly developed links to the page and maintained a pr of 5. However, I am still not ranking well for my main …

[b]Getting Your Site Submitted to Search Engines[/b] by Aaron Turpen of Aaronz WebWorkz Getting listed in search engines can be a lot of work. "Free" submission tools are worth about what you pay for them and, worse, can be detrimental to your efforts. Yet you don't have the time to …

Looking at my site statistics, I see that the trend is that visitors from the MSN search engine stay on the site twice as long as the average visitor from Google or Yahoo. Additionally, they are about 3X as likely to register. Therefore, it seems like my site really likes …

I am creating a [b]Web Search Engie[/b]. I am studying BE Computer Sciece. I want some tips in [b]ASP[/b] and [b]VB[/b]. Please help me. Please tell me some helpful site for me. And tell your advise to me. [b]My E-Mail :[/b] [i][email snipped][/i] [b]Clement Jeba Kumar[/b] India.

What is the ideal number of links to have per page? What is the maximum number of links on a particular page that Googlebot will spider?

I have been asked to make a feasibility report on a site which is a clone of about.com My client aims for 5000$ a month . I am tired of telling him that he's expecting the impossible ,but he fails to understand . Being a very valuable client of mine …

I have an Extreme Sports website [url]www.magxzine.com[/url] that has been up for a few months. I have done almost no promotion on the site but I am begining to attract a few visitors ~150 uniques per day. Average pages are about 2.5 per visitor. I am considering adding a forum …

would it be smarter to optimize the same keywords in your content for each webpage on your site or to optimize different keywords for each page? i am thinking that optimizing the same keywords in my content for each page would increase the amount of pages i have on the …

Okay, now you're a forum junkie - you just LOVE forums. But you're not going to spend your life posting to every forum in existence. So what is the threshold level? What determines a forum worth your time from one that isn't? I guess what I'm asking is when you …

What types of community building activities are out there to strengthen an online community ... contests, live chat, get togethers, etc?

I'm reading USA Today and this guy Mark Hughes has come out with a new book about how to promote your company and generate buzz? According to the article: "Half.com was sold in 2000 to eBay in a deal valued at more than $300 million." Here's my question ..... Would …

I noticed something very strange this past week. I was giving AdSense a fairly decent number of 336x20 impressions and was getting a decent CPM. Yesterday, I decided to give them 728x90s as well, and the same number of 336x280s as always. My 728s got a decent CTR, but the …

Hi there, I need help to figure out Google AdWords. A company set it up for me & I find it very complex. How do I lower my bids? My major competition just went out of biz & there's no need for me to bid that high anymore. Any help …

Hi Dani, I noticed you're using VibrantMedia contextual links on the forums. How are the results so far? How would you compare it to AdSense?

I currently run a fully modified phpBB forum and I like it. I do have lots of errors though and its starting to annoy me. Im thinking of switching to vBulletin but I need to know some stuff first. How easy to install is it? Is it as easy or …

Hi, I've recently started a forum for glamour models in the UK and was wondering if anybody knows of a forum or website dedicated to recruiting forum moderators? I've searched around a bit and so far have had no luck. The forum is the initial start of the business and …

Please give me your views on the pros and cons of having a karma/reputation system in a board. Does it promote activity and encourage good posting and gives due recognition to good posters or is it a counterproductive move? What about the pitfalls? How does one prevent abuse? And finally …

Hi, I have a new automotive website that I have created but I feel my forum is not helping out too much with traffic genration I need some tips on getting more vistors to actually register and post topics. I feel my topics may be a little too broad for …

How many of us have forums as a part time (or even full time) business ... and how many of us are in it not to monetize at all, but simply to expand our knowledge and meet other people with an interest in our topic of choice?

Can it be successful to buy established forums? In most cases, after the management transfer, do most moderators stay on? How does the community react? Design changes? Forum management changes?

I found this link, it was useful to me when I tried putting up a message board -> << URL Snipped to comply with Daniweb Policy >>

Hey there, I wondered upon this site through a advertising link on the php forum and thought it was a great site with interesting tips and hints. I was wondering if you could help me though - my php forums were hacked therefore I had to delete all of my …

I see that the vBulletin has the possibility of Sub-Categories.. By question is: [b]Does phpBB have this option, or not?[/b] And if not, WHY!?

I have new contents to add and update a current site. As of now, everything is under www.example.com/1stdirectory/content.html. Since there are so much information, I think it is best to create new .html pages and organize it, rather than adding everything unto that one .html page. In order to make …

Hi everyone, I just received my very first chargeback & obviously I'm not happy. As we all know, fraud is everywhere. This particular customer is in the UK. What I need to do even though I have been avoiding it, is to sign up for a fraud protection service that …

Right now, the great majority of my traffic is from Google. However, I've been trying really hard to diversify. What are some techniques that might help me break away from a heavy dependance on search engines for nearly all of my traffic? I know word of mouth is a biggy, …

Does Black Friday have a web-based cousin? How are advertising sales in December for everyone?

[url]http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bigdaddy-on-the-move/[/url] Matt is saying this isn't really an update but a datacenter change .. whatever that means. Unfortunatelly, it seems my site is still sandboxed with no link:backs on Google so I don't notice much of a difference.

Has anyone ever dealth with << bulk traffic service >>? Is it any good for targeted visitors to a website.

How much percent of your daily revenue do you spend on CPC programs? My forum/article site started growing in size/revenue and I decided it would be best to spend a high portion of my income (50-80%) on google CPC, MSN Adcenter, and Overture. Will this investment pay off? It feels …

Check the bottom of the left column on [URL SNIPPED] (my home page) and tell me if you think that the section called SERVICES is a good idea to get more keywords on my pages. Thanks.

Has anyone had any success importing newsgroup posts into their forum?