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[QUOTE=whiz]If forums are not money makers, what kinds are? Because some say blogs are the best when it comes to this. Are there any other?[/QUOTE] If you just want to build sites that will make tons of money from Google ads, then you need to build sex/relationship sites (not porn), …

[QUOTE=cscgal]I'm pretty sure it violates Google's terms of service, but I'm not 100% on that.[/QUOTE] I'm about to implement this on one of my forums. I'm looking at Google's terms and I cannot find anything that would prohibit this. Can you explain how it violates the TOS? I don't want …

[QUOTE=Antonbomb22]and no one provide gaiaonline since technically it isnt phpbb anymore...[/QUOTE]I know I'm responding to an old post, but since the thread as a whole is still getting replies, it seems fine to mention this. Although Gaia Online has indeed modified the heck out of phpBB, they share their changes. …

Go to [url]www.phpbb.com[/url] and download the phpBB forum software. Unzip the downloaded file, and upload the contents to your Web server. Then pull up the installer page in your Web browser, and follow the install instructions. In very short time, you'll have a forum on your site. Another option is …

Yeah, I agree with Dani. On my site, I run a query on the database every month or two, to get a list of all the members who have not even activated their accounts. I send them a reminder email with the link to activate their account. If a month …

[code=sql]DELETE FROM table1 USING table1, table1 AS vtable WHERE (table1.ID > vtable.ID) AND (table1.field_name=vtable.field_name)[/code] You may need to have lots of ANDs at the end, if you want lots of fields to be the same. If you just want to delete records that have ONE field the same, then my …

[QUOTE=Cain]Yar's revenge Atari 2600/Collecovision[/QUOTE] Mmm. Cain goes way back. Nice. I loved playing Yar's Revenge. My list of favorite games: Kaboom! on Atari 2600 - they encouraged gamers to take a photo of their TV if they got a high enough score, and I did, and they sent me something …

Hmm. I know of three phpBB mods that will turn your forum into a blog-like thing. There is phpbb_fetch_all, phpBB Blog, and another one you can find in the phpBB mod support forums. I don't remember the name of it. Anyway, phpBB Blog is something I wrote. There are lots …

SMF (Simple Machines Forum) is another free one. My thinking is like this: If you're poor, or if you are a free software zealot (I am -- I want the ability to freely modify & use without restriction), then you should use phpBB. It's low-end, but you can apply mods …

[QUOTE=cscgal]Has anyone ever tried one of those pay for posts services targeted towards forum owners?[/QUOTE] On December 19th I purchased 100 posts from both Forum Elves & Forum Launch. Days went by with no further activity. Finally, on December 31st, I saw a batch of registrations and lots of posting …

[QUOTE=whiz]How high is the risk of being penalized? Glad I only started submitting on 10'ish directories.. So articles are a no-no now?[/QUOTE] I'm not sure "penalized" is the right word. Perhaps "ignored" is better. Google doesn't want duplicate content in its index, so it tries to figure out which site …

[QUOTE=cscgal]I'm a strong advocate that a website can never [B]truly[/B] be self sufficient. Comments?[/QUOTE] I guess it depends on how you define truly. If you mean, the owner/admin dies, and yet somehow 3 years later the forum is still humming along, then, yeah, no forum is that self-sustaining. However, I've …

It wouldn't be spam if you could partner with a site that is already established in your market. I've done that with email newsletters -- I find a site for writers, find out how much it costs to sponsor their newsletter, and then they mention my site when their next …

I just sent out my second newsletter, over the weekend. Poor response. :( My first newsletter went out on a Sunday and got a great response, but maybe that was just the newness of it. I'll definitely try for a midweek, mid-afternoon newsletter next time around. -Tony

[QUOTE=cscgal]DaniWeb is the only one I post on regularly nowadays, although I probably surf at least 50+ a day.[/QUOTE] I see you on The Admin Zone every now & then. :) I'm a member of TAZ, Daniweb, Sitepoint, v7, Digital Point, webmaster-talk, Ozzu, talk-freelance, phpbb.com, and maybe 30 more. Oh, …

[QUOTE=dojo]I cannot afford paying for promotion, so the hints should be for "free advertising".[/QUOTE] You can't even afford $10 for Google Adwords? Without some kind of boost at the beginning, you're going to grow VERY slowly. I guess if I had absolutely zero dollars, my best way to promote would …

[QUOTE=whiz]I tried all the stuff I learned to increase link popularity -- web directories, link exchange, article directories, blogs... Are there anything more besides these? Also, will too many articles, link reciprocals, and exchanges hurt PR?[/QUOTE] Many sites have tens of thousands of articles/tutorials/etc. So no, I don't think you …

To answer the original question, yes, I would pay to advertise my Web sites. I currently do Google Adwords with a $10/day cap, and pay a max of 20¢ per click. I don't typically hit the $10 limit. Google usually sends about 30 people my way each weekday (almost nothing …

For one of my sites, 7.59 pages/visit. -Tony

I agree that vB has better goodies at the admin (control panel) level. I don't agree that phpBB is less secure. I know that may sound shocking, what with all the phpBB patches. But my experience has been that the easier it is to see the code, the more bugs …

Here's what I'm working toward for email. I'm creating a short email (just a few paragraphs) that contains links to the best topics, and mentions a couple of the newest site features. I'll send it out monthly. But here's the trick -- I'm planning to send it only to those …

I was always impressed by welcome PMs. However, I have to admit that it never made me post more. It just gave me a warm fuzzy feeling. One of the best ways (I think) to get rid of 1-post wonders is to remove their ability to link. Most are just …

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, …

I did a contest that required examining every response, but it didn't take much time on my part at all. Here's what I did: I wanted a new logo, and I offered $250 to the winner. Each entry needed to be added as a new topic, one image attached per …

[QUOTE=Creative writer]Well , my friend is sort of allergic to PPC campaigns ,since he couldnt do a good PPC campaign for his previous site and it cost him a fortune .[/QUOTE] If he's going to manage the PPC campaign himself, then he's smart to be allergic to it. However, if …

[QUOTE=cscgal]What types of community building activities are out there to strengthen an online community ... contests, live chat, get togethers, etc?[/QUOTE] You know, contests really worked for me. I should have mentioned that in the other topic you have on traffic-building. Anyway, I did a bounty -- $1 per magazine …

Yeah, she's cute, but her face has no mystery to it. However, I could watch her hips for a few hours. ;) -Tony

It's nice to have you with us. Welcome! -Tony

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[QUOTE=cscgal]To those of you who founded large websites, what stirred the most amount of growth in your site's history?[/QUOTE] My site is smaller than yours. I run a forum site with only about 2000 members. I also have a couple technology sites. Here are the things that caused a rise …

[QUOTE=n2ads]I offer a service to people that is kind of like a resume profile service. A person can pay a monthly, quarterly, or yearly fee to post a resume of their work on my site.[/QUOTE] If your service really is for posting resumes, I imagine that you'll get eaten alive …

Yikes, broad, I don't know if I would be posting more links after the admins removed the previous ones. But maybe they've given up on this thread. It's just begging for people to brag about (and link to) their own forums. Anyway, I've done a few forums recently. Here are …

Don't you need to have the Alexa browser bar installed for Alexa to know what sites you view? I think so. So, if Alexa saw lots of traffic and then none, wouldn't it be that someone with the Alexa bar was surfing your site, but then that person (or group …

[QUOTE=dj bill]I have since shut off the Google adwords since that was getting spendy, visitors are low and the 258 members have only about 10 members who are kinda active (including my 4 moderators)[/QUOTE] Well, I just posted a checklist of things to do to spark up a forum (in …

Technically, you get a product that has source code, and you can view it. However, it does not fall into the category of "open source" because you really don't have much freedom with it -- it has a restrictive license. Also, supposedly they have begun to "obfusicate" their code, so …

I work with a server admin. He created an account on MySQL and it works just fine. I created another account to access a different database, but it will not work. Can anyone tell me why? I've done "FLUSH PRIVILEGES" about a million times now. Here is the MySQL user …

Welcome. I'm new too. -Tony

[QUOTE=Mighty_Squid]I get people to the site but no one goes the extra mile of joining.[/quote]The numbers work against you, for a while. People see a forum with 25 members (or 100 members) and think, "bah, there is no one here." Later, when you have 5,000 members, people sign up more …

Nice to have you here. I'm new too, just making the rounds. :) -Tony

Hi. I'm new. I'm off to read & post. :cheesy: -Tony

[QUOTE=tehbacon]ok, lets say i have: $array = array(1, 2, 3); is there a php command function that i can use that will let me have teh first item in teh array become varible $year, teh second item $mnth, and teh last item be $date?[/QUOTE] [code]list($year, $mnth, $date) = $array;[/code] See …