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That's pretty decent. Depending upon the sections of my site and how many ads I show per page, I end up being in the 3% range. The link directory is crazy at 8%, but I think that's because it somehow sorta mimics the look of AdWords in the right sidebar on the google search results.

Eek!!

I don't think it's the fact that Alexa is selling text links that is unprofessional. I think it's the fact that Amazon.com, who literally pioneered ecommerce, is outsourcing their advertising sales to a company that, for the most part, is known for dealing with smaller-sized advertisers. AdBrite is not an advertising agency in that they aren't a site representation company (the definition of an "advertising agency") who solicits advertisements (which is the route most of the larger sites take, if they don't do it in house). Instead, they're a marketplace who acts like a combo buyer directory / ad management system for the seller.

What makes it unprofessional is that Amazon.com, who has all of these gigantic ecommerce resources available to them, doesn't bother to invest in a proprietary text ad management system for their own site ... but instead goes with one of the relatively newer and smaller and privately-owned (all relatively speaking, of course) players out there.

There's a difference between Kanoodle and AdBrite (unless I'm mistaken). Kanoodle is a full service network. AdBrite is only a marketplace.

Hi Bruce! Welcome to DaniWeb :)

I don't think pay per click affiliate programs are the best revenue makers either. I mean, obviously, selling a product or service and doing ecommerce is going to have the most direct ROI associated with it. ie you spend $X to get a visitor, you make $XX when that visitor buys. You just made $XX - X money. Essentially, it's pretty low risk.

Content based sites which rely on advertising revenues are a bit harder to discover their hidden ROI. You could spend $X to get visitors to your site, and you have no idea whether they're sticking around, for how long, whether they revisit often, or just made a one time visit. Advertising money you spend today might not be noticed until next week, for example, when they come back for their third or fourth visit and start to browse the site a little bit more.

For example, with an ecommerce site, you can use Google AdWords or something to pay for visitors definitely interested in what you're selling. With a forums site, you can use Google AdWords to pay for visitors interested in what your site is about - but it's completely hit or miss whether they're a forum junkie ;) I guess that's where really good ad copy comes in! .... But even with that, you have no idea whether their personality meshes well with your community. I think there are just many more factors that come into play as opposed to => Interested in …

Viral marketing ... basically when you invest a little bit of money in a big idea that catches on, and it just spreads and spreads, like a virus. An example is creating something so catchy that word of mouth just spreads like crazy about it, and you have to invest few advertising dollars into making it very popular.

Lots of content ... lots of unique articles ... lots of unique content on your site that people will want to NATURALLY link to - viral marketing at its best.

Do you mean just adding features to it? Most of vBulletin's features can be added to phpBB via mods. Check the official phpbb.com website and also check Patrick's site phpbbhacks.com - If you have some loose change hanging around, you could hire a developer to create unique features for you, as well.

Yeah, but I wouldn't risk it.

Very true, alpha, but was it worth it? Sometimes when you hire people, they don't really care about your community, they're just doing it to be paid. And many people can tell from their writing that they aren't passionate about it, and therefore it doesn't do as much as it otherwise would.

$160 for the full license, actually :)

I belive that it only goes up, if the user that gave it to you has a significant post count. Otherwise it just stays nuetral. Doesn't hurt you, but doesn't help.

No, it's possible for someone to give you a negative reputation, and for it to decrease. However, most of the people (with little rep themselves) have so little influence, and most of the regular members and mods (who do have enough rep power to make a difference) aren't going to bother giving negative rep points - they'll just report the post or ban the person.

There are a couple of webmaster forums that do revenue sharing with Google AdSense. For example, if you have a Google AdSense account (for your own website), you can plug your account number into your profile. Then, whenever someone views a thread, part of the time it will be the account number of the thread starter, part of the time it will be the account number of a random poster in the thread, and part of the time it will be the forum owner's account number ... hooked up to the Google AdSense seen on the thread.

Of course, this really only works with webmaster forums. Additionally, I'm pretty sure it violates Google's terms of service, but I'm not 100% on that.

Never heard of them - but there's no site specific talk permitted in this forum.

Yes it is...

I don't get it.

Thanks for the tip :) I'm actually going to go ahead and move this thread to the Tips 'n' Tweaks forum :)

I assume I need to do:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode NO

to get back into normal mode?

Is there a reason you don't want to do link exchanges?

Whale

Walk or run?

Repeat your keywords as many times as you can while still keeping every single word of your content completely geared towards the website visitor. Your content should always read completely naturally.

Internet

IE or FireFox? (sorry if this was asked already)

A pdf? A pdf is an Adobe Acrobat file? I'm confused.

programmingforums.com

Do you mean Kyle's site programmingforums.org ??

Hi!

I see 9/10 in IE.

My newsletter, you mean? The DaniWeb monthly digest gets sent the first Tuesday of each month (or rather, Tuesday right now) to members who have "Receive email from forum admins" specified in their profiles (which is default for new member registrations, but is always easy to disable).

The first thing that I noticed is that you said that your demographics target ages 15 to 24. From the perspective of advertisers, this target age group (teens and college students) don't have much money - and they're certainly not big budget spenders with lots of discretionary income. I think this is a big reason why you're not able to pull in higher CPM rates ... it's simply not worth it to many advertisers to spend a lot of money targeting this age bracket.

Keep in mind that many AdWords advertisers (the advertisers who appear on your AdSense) are products and services for sale. You may have better luck selling inventory yourself to content sites who make money selling advertising (such as DaniWeb) where the site visitors don't have to shell out big bucks.

Does the file have global execute privileges?

Yeah, seriously :-/

Plastic - synthetic is always better.

"Lie-nix" or "Lyn-nix"?

The official php documentation at php.net :)

would using a keyword only link rather than a company name link work better?

Changing the anchor text can affect the keywords you rank for, but won't affect your PR at all. If you're already #1 for your desired keyword, don't fix it if it ain't broke.

I need to do a test for a couple of days before I'll know one way or another. Traffic was really skewed today because of Memorial Day weekend.

The php.net documentation is awesome.

PHP because it made a cool thing like DaniWeb.

I don't think so :) There are no hidden secrets or tricks. Anyone can read up about it and with a good amount of time, SEO yourself. It's really a matter of the price you put on your time and whether it's worth it to make the time investment learning and doing. Essentially, SEO is an ongoing effort, so it's not something you can just spend a weekend reading up on, applying the techniques you learned, and then forget about. You really do need to do at least a constant bit of reading to keep up with the latest trends as well as a lot of time applying the techniques you learn. To reiterate, it's a time factor above all else.

How on earth do you manage that, I find it hard enough checking all the threads I have subscribed to here at daniweb alone! :)

Remember, I browse with the intentions of keeping up with the latest industry trends in Internet marketing as well as getting ideas for DaniWeb based on design and new features implemented at various other forums. It's rare that I'll actually follow a thread or surf other Q&A forums.

For awhile now I've been running a 468x15 AdSense link unit after the first post in threads and the performance was surprisingly good for being so unobtrusive. Since I removed AdSense from the leaderboard and skyscraper in favor of more typical banner campaigns, I'm now experimenting with 468x60 AdSense after the first post, to keep AdSense on the page. If it performs just as well, I'll put the link unit back (no use having the larger sized ad if the smaller size does just as well). But if it performs much better, I'll keep it.

See, vBulletin support just keeps telling me it's definitely not their problem and that it's my server and to essentially figure it out myself. :( Which is why I need to know if it coincides with when I did a server upgrade or chaned any particular settings, which is why the date is so important.

What do you mean by "for awhile now" ... days, weeks, months?

Does this only happen with thread subscriptions? Or does it also happen with forum subscriptions, PM notifications, etc.? And it only happens some of the time??

Still have absolutely no clue what is causing this or even when it started. Please ... if you could all remember back to the specific time when you first noticed this, it would be an enormous help. But right now I have nothing to go on.

Make the last line of the script run the script :)

Oh, I'm sorry. I confused the answer to your question with the best way to get runaway processes.

Computer, I assume.

Thanks :) Guess I can mark this thread solved now, eh?

DMR, you can't count LinuxNewbie (the old name for JL) in your list. That's just double counting!

I'm a member of way too many forums to mention. DaniWeb is the only one I post on regularly nowadays, although I probably surf at least 50+ a day. Most are geared towards web development or forums for forum owners, where I'm constantly reading up on the best ways to grow online communities, monetize forums, hack the vBulletin forum system, see ideas other sites and forums have tried and been successful at, and so on, and so forth.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have configured the server to redirect all https:// requests to their http:// counterpart.

To post your question about IE in Windows98, I suspect you'd want to post in either our Windows 9x forum or Web Browsers forum. (The folks who hang out in the Microsoft Windows section would know better than me.)

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum99.html

Is it possible to have a particular 10.4 widget permanently docked on my desktop?

I currently use Zend Studio for Windows while I use XCode on my mac to do my php developing. However, it would be awesome if I could get Zend Studio's autocomplete and autosuggest featurs in XCode. Is there perhaps a PHP plugin for XCode that would let me do this? Are there even XCode plugins at all?

> It cuts of half the code when viewed in firefox? Anyone noticed that?
It's a Firefox bug, nothing I can do about it. Due to similar occurrences on very long threads in the MS Windows forum, I've concluded it's a bug related to when a particular container has maxed out its allowed memory. (Similar to how certain file systems have a maximum file size or a maximum number of files per directory, despite physical hdd space available.)

> Shouldn't his code be in the c++ forum anyway?
No. The forum is a place for questions and answers. Full working code should be in the code section. Articles explaining code should be in the tutorials section.

> Another thing, does anyone notice faint blue lines that appear in the code tags when viewed in firefox?
No? Can you screen shot it?

> why are the PM's limited to 10000 characters. I wish I could send attachments via PM. :sad:
DaniWeb is founded on the idea of a forum where questions and responses appear publically for others to search and find later. Private messaging is simply an added feature to encourage the community aspect of that site. Attachments are not allowed because I simply don't have the resources (servers and badwidth) necessary to store megs and ultimately gigs worth of binary files to be privately transferred between members with nothing gained for the site as a whole. That is what IM clients and email …