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Is it okay to share my own blog as well? [url]http://fedtechmn.blogspot.com/[/url] We should definitely be on that list ;) Great compilation, Dans. Thanks!

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I'm trying to build a [quiz](http://www.fedtech.com/Cutting-Quiz) that takes the answers given and when you hit submit, it totals the number of items in each category and sends you to a specified page... It's basically perfect except one thing... it doesnt take you to a page when the totals are added …

[url]http://www.constantcontact.com/email-marketing/index.jsp[/url] There's a free 60 day trial to see if you like it. I've been using filemaker too, but i can see where you would want more.

Give the users plenty control to design their templates, code their profiles, etc.. there's nothing worse than being completely limited when trying to express urself. Also, it might be a good idea to reward high posters and commenters somehow... to promote more posting, it might take a while for it …

There are some great ideas above. A) Great idea for the facebook plugin. B) Great idea with blogging and explaining. C) Awesome idea about press releases (I totally agree with this one) It's important to cover all sources and make sure everyone knows about your site. You see it once …

An overwhelming response says that Facebook is better, but I beg to differ. In order to vocalize your promotion, you either have to pay for an ad or be friends/fan-ned by your audience. In the case of twitter, I feel people are more inclined to follow versus friend/fan on facebook. …

I feel like Facebook is more of a personal network. I only accept people who i am friends with, and only choose groups or become fans of pages that I'm very interested in. For this reason, I haven't seen Facebook become the tool that it's thought to be for businesses, …

Agreed. I find it super useful as well. There's a lot of fun things you can use it for and it's definitely not old. Lots of people are still joining and learning all about it. My favorite thing about twitter is that you are able to reach those people who …

It can help if you add tags/keywords to it when you first upload it, and also if you write a blurb or short description when you embed it onto your site, that will also increase saturation and content of your website. Otherwise just having the video there won't really do …

Yes, each target audience is going to have a different stream that they use. If your customers are indeed consumers (B2C) then effective means would be twitter, facebook, stumbleupon, digg, delicious) however if your customers are businesses (B2B) effective tools still include facebook and twitter, but now you have professional …

From a personal perspective, I see page rank coming from your actual rank in Google. Such as if you google your keywords, how do you come up? This adds up to lots of content, keyword saturation, backlinks, and basically the more you are seen as an authority in your industry, …

I'd have to agree, I haven't seen a whole lot of activity coming from blog directories. However I have done some backlink work on different related sites that involve topics I may discuss. I've also noticed that twitter is helpful because you get to give a subject and the link.

I totally agree with the posts above. Backlinks, article posts, and especially press releases. You need to saturate any relative site you can with your website. It also wouldn't hurt to add some content to your site... It won't take long and i think it would help you alot.

Well personally I would say that's a 25% reach, that's pretty good! I guess you just need to cater to that targeted audience and then figure out a way to reach the other 75% as well.

It depends what your target market is. If you're aiming to market to an older demographic (towards retirement) then newspaper is probably a good bet as usually a lot of older folks don't use the internet. However if you're not targeting that audience, or trying to gain local traffic (which …

I think their days have already come and gone. Social networks either come and stick and grow, or they appear and then disappear. I remember the hype on spoke, i made one and it sits untouched because it didnt seem to do much for me. I haven't tried Xing, i'm …

I've used quantcast before as well, but I didn't really care too much for it. I like analytics, but I really like webclicktracker.com, it gives you tons of information you can use for sales leads and such.

I would give the first option a try. It seems like you know your stuff with that and would have the experience you'd need. Good luck!

[url]http://www.bravenet.com[/url] A great site, I like it alot. Good luck!

I've found that keywords into your tweets helps significantly in people finding you. Usually if I dropped a note about doing 'waterjet cutting in minnesota', I would sometimes find followers from Minnesota or the industrial industry. It worked like a charm. Other times I post links to different portions of …

Addition to #2, When you add keywords into your URL address, it's better SEO if you use dashes in between words, as in "waterjet-cutting-minnesota" instead of waterjetcuttingminnesota, or waterjet_cutting_minnesota... Word to the wise!

1. Backlinks from industry-related sites 2. SEO (keywords, content) 3. Twitter and other social media 4. Forum and Blog posting of solutions 5. CPC

I just registered my Dreamweaver software and put it onto my computer. Problem is, I have an existing website that a company used to manage for me with their own copy of Dreamweaver. Follow me so far? What I want to do, is just switch it to my control now. …

Not sure i understand what you mean, where are you placing the ads?

Alexa is a difficult engine to go through because it's primarily based out of dmoz.org which is also incredibly hard to get through, mostly because it's all human-based and it takes up to 3 months (or so) just to review sites before they're added. Not to mention if you submit …

I think it's great you're looking to improve. Personally, I think that as a leader you just need to be authoritative and strong willed. Which obviously you are, it's great to see effort coming from your part and it will inspire those around you. As far as seeing examples of …

Might wanna repost in programming...

First thing, content. Saturate your content with keywords that people would search for to obtain your information. The more content with keywords that you have on your webpage, the more credit that google gives to you as long as it's not redundant. Secondly, use meta tags and title tags. These …

I've also had some success with twitter... mostly i friend those within my industry and/or related interests and then post links that i've developed that might be of interest to them... Overall, i don't have a whole lot of traffic coming from twitter (maybe 20 visits a week) but do …

Personally I use google analytics along with webclicktracker, semrush.com, seochat.com, sitepronews.com, digitalpoint.com, premierdirectory.org... Those have worked very well for me. I'm curious to see what others use and have found useful as well.

It depends on your industry really, but for instance our average page time is 2:05 but that is the manufacturing industry. Hope this helps!

We use another software as well but ten times is a lot of difference to show in the two. Do you have two GA codes on your site? Sometimes that can throw off data. Otherwise it depends on whatever else you are using for tracking software, maybe it's reading extra …

Obviously more is more... some good article submission places include: 1888pressrelease.com, hotfrog.com, pr9.net, ferret.com, ezinearticles.com, pr-usa.net That should be enough to get you started. The more articles you have, the more credible and the more saturation you will have linking back to your site. I'd aim to write maybe 5 …

Basically google is your best friend, if you google your industry and add directory on the end, its your best bet. You will get some leads as to places where you can add your site. These will be beneficial because its your industry and applicable to your business thus trustworthy …

Internet is becoming the best route to go. I just read a report off Globalspec that said 46% of people use 6+ hours worth of internet at work each week. Also, it said that there have been rapid declines in magazine ads, direct mail, and trade shows (this may just …

What are some of the gray areas? I'm just curious.

Pivot tables via excel would be my best guess.

I've been considering purchasing other related domain names in my industry that people might visit then redirect them to our primary website. Would this be a good idea or would it backfire? I haven't heard too much about it so i'm wondering how it would pan out.

Have you tried google analytics? I think they've been amazing. Otherwise there is [url]www.blogpulse.com[/url], i'm not sure how good it is, but its worth a shot.

I don't think a google toolbar would slow down your connection that much, since it's not really doing too much. It sounds more like general connection issues, are you using wireless? I'm not a whiz on computers, but normally google's toolbar doesn't affect the speed at which you surf the …

I need to change my graphic into an SVG file ("vector format") for a project I need printed. How can I do this without buying super expensive software? I've read it's possible to script it, but I have no idea where to even start. Any help is appreciated :) Thanks!!

Search engines do that quarterly it seems, they clean out old links and cache. It likely just happened due to the changing year and everything re-updated again. I'd suggest updating your pages and adding more content, changing some content, or adding some photos to make them appear more active than …

I've never used it, nor have i seen anyone use it. Most of the time i just copy and paste, i haven't seen too much usage of the trackback yet. Maybe it'll be the next craze...

The link being a picture link, do you mean that it's linking to a photo or that you click the photo and it's linked up to another page? If the photo is incredibly large or high-resolution, it will take much longer than if you just resize it to make it …

To add to that, the more you pay for a click, the higher up you will appear in the search engines (namely, google, yahoo, and msn live). Pay per click ranges per industry i believe, i'm in the manufacturing industry and ours run from $1 per click to $15 per …

I ping my podcasts to update them quicker, but I was under the impression that you only ping rss or xml feeds. I can't see it making that big of a difference for a blog.