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Hi, I have read through some of the promoting ideas given in this forum. Most of the ideas are great. I have tried some and will try the others soon. My forum is about car, performance cars to be specific. My partner and I manage to acquire 600+ users in …

Hi all, What is a Google API Key? Thanks Michelle

We have a new member here to our community, and he goes by the name VCLKhelp. He works for ValueClick, the well known affiliate network which owns Commission Junction in addition to other properties. And he's here to help in this forum should anyone want to get assistance related to …

Does PR transfer with a 301 redirect?

I have an automatic link directory where webmasters can submit their sites and swap links instantaneously. What types of features could I add to encourage its use and growth?

Hi, We have released a New control panel on Linux, I would like to know what are the marketing channels ..

Everybody knows that running a forum is easy and hard. The easy part is installing the software and seeing it work in your browser. Your database is small and it slowly grows during time as you setup your boards' categories and forums. Have more members and when they start to …

<rant> Does it bother everyone else as much as it irritates me that AdSense reporting stats are delayed by 2+ days when selecting specific channels? End rant.

We << url snipped >> were on the 1st page on Google for terms email marketing and bulk email. ( and have been there for 5 years ) Now we are gone! - Not sure why this would have happened. Does anyone know how we can contact them to get …

So what is your Page rank both of main pages and internal pages? All my internal pages have a PR of 2 and the main index has a PR of 4 not bad for a site which is only 5 months old.

I am sure this issue has been posted many times before and apologise if it has. I am interested to know if anyone has any tips on getting more members to join a forum. I own a pet forum that has only been up around a month hence only 55 …

Many forums face [i]spamvertising [/i]tactics from other forums and communities, looking to steal members. Do you think it is a good idea to ban links to other BBs and communities in threads and site reviews? Or will it just alienate visitors?

Hello fellow staff (and visitors), I am Floris, male, 28 years old, come from the Netherlands and live together with my wife Martine and our cat Knuffel in an apartment. Just wanted to say hello and see who else is staff here and who the (regular) visitors are. Hope everybody …

Planning on building a community, be it in the form of a forum or web chat or blog, and planning on being big? Do you invest in shared hosting until you can't hold it any longer, or do you invest in big hardware which should be able to handle the …

Does your community, blog, web site uses announcements (either globally or per section) and for what cause? Do you limit it to a day, week or month, months or year(s), or are they there always? When do you consider to make an announcement, and not just a blog entry or …

Hi, this is my first post.. :) i'd like to ask about the script that allows google ads to be showed within posts as it is applied here in the forums. i'm using invision board 2.0.0 btw.. thanks in advance

Are associate programs a good way to start off making revenue instead of advertising? I am planning to use the Amazon associates sytem and i was wondering if i am heading in the right direction:)

I'm new at web hosting. I have been trying to buy some banner ads to help generate traffic. I would like to target the pet industry. I tried extrememarketingprogram.com. I think I was scammed. They set up a mirror page and told me I would receive 10,000 hits. Their log …

Hello, For those that have sold their own website(s), how did you determine the value of the website? Contents and traffic should be a huge factor in determining the value but I do not know how to set a price.

[b]Google Inc. today announced the availability of Google Video, a new service that enables users to search the content of television programs from leading TV content providers including PBS, the NBA, Fox News, and C-SPAN, among others.[/b] [img]http://img200.exs.cx/img200/5493/gvideo1da.png[/img] The engine dubbed "Google Video" allows users to search across text from …

Hello, I am going to build a forum, possibly with vBulletin - how much software knowledge is required? Can a newbie do this? Great forum, by the way. Thanks.

Hi All, First post and would appreciate any help. I want to start a forum at work. The IT department have quoted an unreal price. Can someone please tell me in idiot terms what I would need and an approximate cost to get it running. For instance, I understand it …

What are some tips to increase AdSense CTR? So far, I'm trying to integrate the ads into the content, and I know that the box ads perform the best. What else can I do?

[b][color=#ff0000]This Review is Not an Affiliate Endorsement.[/color][/b] We do not make a single cent by linking you to this product. But we request you to inform Aaron about who sent you. This allows the commission that we would have received by sending you to that site using an affiliate link …

Hi. I use Win2k PHP 4.3.1 MySql 4.1.9 [B]Trying to install phpBB 2.0.11[/B] My phpBB files are in C:\BB There I added the directory ..\BB\forum PROBLEM: I can't get past the html "start install" page. On that page - In Admin Configuration section: [B]a)[/B] Where it asks for ADMIN info; …

I just noticed that Google has gone back and readjusted all of their reports and figures for the month of February. A few dollars and cents were added to each day of my AdWords account. Along the same lines, I earned a few more dollars and cents via my AdSense …

Google has a new program going ... [url="http://www.google.com/referral/"]http://www.google.com/referral/[/url] It's an affiliate program in which they pay $20 CPA for anyone you refer to AdSense / AdWords. Unfortunately, it's currently - of course! - in beta, which means it's by invitation only. Has anyone been one of the privileged few to …

I'm already in the ODP and I get a good amount of traffic from Google. I'm also in Yahoo! search. However, I'm not currently listed in the Yahoo! directory. Is it worth it to pay the annual $300 fee to be listed? How much traffic will it get me? Is …

I used to use ValueClick, but I was incredibly disappointed by their low quality of advertisers. (Nearly as bad as FastClick's) In addition, all ads were run-of-network (untargeted) and mostly CPC, so there was very little revenue generated. Recovering from the holiday season and a bit strapped for cash, I …

hello....i putiing my take on this new genre of online social networks....ie. the photosharing blog networks that seem to be popping up everywhere [URL=http://www.flickr.com]flickr[/URL] [URL=http://www.fotolog.net]fotolog[/URL] and my absolute favorite [URL=http://www.fotoamigo.com]fotoamigo[/URL] these new generation of hobbie driven social sites seem to be the new community rage, ...but will it last....It seems …

This is a question to those who have AdSense and use the Google search on there site: why do you have the google search box leave your website when you click submit (aka it goes to [url]http://www.google.com/custom?q=[/url]....)? Google has some APIs which allows you to query there servers and display …

A few days ago, Google released the new look for AdSense public service ads. I just noticed today, however, that every single page is suddenly ONLY showing these?? No more content ads on any page of the site out of no where? Can anyone confirm?

Is it worth paying to SEO? Do they really make changes or really bring difference? I am thinking whether to pay or not! give me your suggestion! I am Sandra.

I apologize if there is a forum topic on here that explains how to get more hits through the search engines on google. But what i'm wondering is how do i get my website to pop up when someone searches for a few keywords? Am i understanding correctly that i …

I own << url snipped to comply with forum policy >> and was wondering, for a spider to go deep inside my forum other then just the homepage, is their something I need to do to my settings. I have a pr2 for homepage already but that's it. My other …

I just installed a new phpbb golf forum. The install was straight out of the box. What steps should I follow next to get the board SEOed (search engine optimized) and ready for public consumption. Are there any SEO hacks you could recommend or a step by step guide on …

My main site has been active for 3-1/2 years, but we've grown considerably in the past year and it's time for to refresh things. At the stroke of midnight, New Year's Eve on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean (the first time zone to pass into 2005), we're kicking off …

I know that ValueClick bought Commission Junction awhile ago. But what is the relationship between CJ, BeFree, and BFAST? It looks as if CJ has tried to unite them but meanwhile the CJ homepage still has separate logins for CJ and BFAST.

I am currently deciding between the ValueClick and Burst!Media banner networks. Fastclick is out because it seems they don't accept forums right now. Has anyone been successful with either of these two? Which one do you recommend?

Let me keep this short and sweet. Upload alot of high quality content to your site, and other sites will link to you automatically. If you offer information that is useful to a particular audience or a subject area, other related sites have interest in letting their visitors know about …

Ok, I'm sorry if this sounds dumb. I'm a newbie. :o I have a couple questions. First, I am just about to start a online community. I am very money-tied though, so I can't do to much. I'm going to have to go with the free boards. I was thinking …

I have always left the default vBulletin emails that my forum sends out. (i.e. to activate a new account, inform a user of a new private message, etc.) However, I finally took the time to customize each e-mail - and I can't believe how much it's helped! The vBulletin forum …

lets say i have a site about horse racing. i wouldnt want to use the word horse as a keyword as there are tons of horse related issues that have nothing to do with horse racing. same applies to the word racing. how do i address this matter?

I've been looking at the google directory and it appears to be drawn directly from the DMOZ one. I have managed to get one of my sites listed in dmoz, but how frequently is google's version updated? the category I got listed in has 7 items in dmoz, but 4 …

A strange thing happened after the page rank updation. Most of the sites only had the page ranks of internal pages updated, the homepages did not show any alteration in their ranks. Any others who experienced similar things? and any idea why?

I am the webmaster of [url]www.nibbleguru.com[/url], since last 3 days my traffic is 25-30% of my original traffic. a sudden decline of 70% is what is worrying me. what could be the reasons for it? my PR seems same as before. i am not doing any SEO etc on my …

Google updated backlinks finally! Here are the current data centers that have been updated thus far. Here are the current updated data centers so far: 216.239.39.99 216.239.37.104 216.239.37.147 216.239.37.99 66.102.11.99 64.233.161.99 64.233.161.104 64.233.161.105 64.233.161.147 Our site only jumped up by about 100 links. Not as well as I was hoping! …

There is so much hype about PR and google SEO - but how does one go about getting up those SERPS for the other engines such as Overture and MSN? Google might be the biggest alone, but I'm sure that it can't defeat by far all of the others put …

Hi there I have been toying with the idea to run a competition to attract new members to my forum. Seems like a shame to have a shiney new forum sitting there with no one on it after all :) So the idea (borrowed from one I saw on another …

Hi, Do search engines have preference for domain name extensions. For example using a .com, .biz or a country extension such as .co.za. Any comments or views about the relevance or lack of it on domain name extensions and the success of search engine indexing would be appreciated. Thank you.