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 | My site has well over 300 forums and subforums so the idea of making an entry for each one is no good... Wouldn't it be easier just to give the forums numeric ids and use modrewrite to redirect based upon that information so you didn't have to keep updating htaccess?  |
| | Tracking an offline campaign is very, very hard to do. I've seen people employee all types of tricks but mostly it comes down to special urls and people simply don't always use those. The most effective way to track a campaign is by using a discount or bonus code that …  |
| | You can find a few scripts at [url]www.hotscripts.com[/url] or you could work with a core package like vbulletin ([url]www.vbulletin.com[/url]) and add/modify it to suit your exact needs. |
 | For the most part, nothing compares to Adsense in terms of ad variety, ctr and click rates. With that said you may want to try SearchFeed's service or Kanoodle's BrightAds. Brightads is very similar to adsense (but based off of Kanoodle's network which has less advertisers and lower rates for … |
| | I say more is better! For ScubaBoard I use only a small amount of ppc advertising and not all the time but our most effective campaigns are always from less than major terms with low bids. Obviously a lower min bid is better for this and I prefer the speed …  |
| | Here are a few choices for ppc management programs. mROI from [url]www.moderninsider.com/mroi/[/url] new to the market, perl based, free. AdWatcher from [url]www.adwatcher.com[/url] hosted service, nice system, $20/month. ROI Tracking pro from [url]www.roi-tracking-pro.com[/url] great graphs, php based, $29+ license fee |
 | Are you actually using BidVertiser? If so, can you comment on the pay-per-click rates and ad variety? I've tried a few alternative contextual programs but found them to have a poor advertisers selection and thus poor rates. |
| | Although my forums have mostly been built up by search engine listings and word of mouth I still believe paid promotion is an important piece of the puzzel, espcially for a new forum in the current market. Nearly every major forum niche has dozens of competing sites and growing requires … |
 | If you allow bickering and fighting you will soon find that that's all you have. People who do not wish to engage in that sort of activity are generally driven away, decreasing community size and leaving you with the extremists. In some cases this can work to bring in more … |
| | Re: Fraud Protection Regardless of what solution you find nothing, and I do mean nothing, beats scanning your orders yourself. Since every store has different customers the flags that software tools may put on orders don't always related to your actual situtation, or at least not entirely. It's great to see people implementing … |
| | [URL=http://www.vbulletin.com]vBulletin[/URL] is a professional grade forum program as explained on their website (see [url]http://www.vbulletin.com/features.php)[/url]. vBulletin powers many of the largest forums including this site (Daniweb) but it is not the only forum program. There are other paid solutions such as [URL=http://www.infopop.com/]infopop's eve[/URL] and[URL=http://www.invisionboard.com/]invision board[/URL] along with free solutions like [URL=http://www.phpbb.com]phpbb[/URL]. … |
| | As Corey Bryant said, fraud is more an issue of being greedy then of being tricky. If you keep your eye out for simple things like fast shipping, mismatched avs or cvv codes, billing and shipping addresses that differ or ip addresses that trace to a country different than the … |
| | You've posted this message on pretty much every webmaster forum out there but in all that time have you considered contacting PayPal support for assistance? Paypal has numerous account verrification features and guessing which one you have yet to go through is about impossible. Log in to your account, look … |
| | 1gig of space vs unlimited... even if every email you get is 100k you'd have to save a whole lot of spam to fill up that inbox. |
| | You can purchase an SSL certificate with many companies. For the most part they all work on the same number of browsers, the difference tends to be with any warranty or protection they give you, along with what icons or verification seals you are allowed to use. I generally use … |
| | Lots of questions, so lots of answers... [quote] Is there a rule of thumb as to what you can charge for banner ads based upon the traffic?[/quote] Ask your friend how much he charges for woodworking and you will get the same sort of response this question brings here. Every … |
| | Re: Fetchall for VB? 1. Jelsoft has thousands of customers -- it's more likely that an open source project would close or cease development (lead developer has a kid, they get sick of supporting the program, etc...). vBulletin on the other hand is staffed by numerous support personal and paid developers; any business can … |
 | As Dani said, allowing spam is a huge no-no. Allowing self promotion in a limited way is the way forums work and should not be limited because a site may or may not compete with yours. If someone wants to come in and post a pertinent link along with content …  |
| | Call me blind but I can not, for the life of me, find the "mark all threads read" link with the current daniweb style (restated: it's on the homepage but not any subpage). I tend to use this feature if I plan to be active on a forum over the … |
| | In vbulletin changing emails is very simple, just pull up the phrase manager and change the drop down to "Email Body", this will pull up all of the email phrases. The main ones to change are activateaccount, welcomemail, sendtofriend, birthday. You can also search for these phrases by selecting search … |
| | In order to do a backwards "downgrade" (even if there are more features, going back is still a downgrade) requires you to compare the database structure. Find the fields that 2.0.11 has and compare them against the fields for 1.7. With any luck the differances are simply "extra" fields like … |
| | Some time yesterday I tried to access a password protected folder of a website (htaccess) and it never loaded up. A day later and about 10 different websites and I seem to have a real problem... any time I try and access a site with htaccess password protection the promt … |
| | Re: free $300 iPods It is indeed possible to get a free ipod through this sytem, you will of course need to generate 5 referrals to friends and you will obviously get put on a lot of mailing lists. If these costs are worth it (i.e. possibly having friends spend some money they didn't … |
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