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10K budget is required when the site is making at least 50K-60K revenues not from very beginning otherwise it would be just wastage. Most important thing is targeting, I would suggest to start with targeting “singles” (both sex) from your niche categories. ;)

Add few fresh and good contents, good articles, offer referral program, contests to attract the members.

Reciprocal link with similar in theme to your site can bring good results just avoid spam sites.

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Make sure your news must be "News", its also important to check the press release site should have good reader base and should get large views otherwise it will be wastage of your time and efforts.

Getting hosting from the same registrar where you've registered your domain name is always a mess. Secondly I would suggest one should register domain name independently for your good control on it rather than registering it through your host provider.

Forums are good for generating targeted traffic and strengthen your online presence and it also help to build backlinks but it all depends upon the PR of particular pages where you post, generally the internal pages have very low PR or even few have "0" PR, hence obviously thats not …

Depend upon search engine, both MSN and yahoo has greater tolerance of keyword density as compared with google. In fact google relies on "Term weight" and others on "glasgow weight" it further depends upon particular search engine alogthrim and computing process.

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I find oscommerce is flexible and easy to customize, if you have any problem you can get it sorted out from their knowledge based support, and their developer's community.

Joomla has old devloper team of Mambo and currently most Mambo mods work on Joomla. I dont think there is big difference between both, however developers says joomla code is more clearer than mambo.

You should get listed in Dmoz and yahoo and also try to get as many links from the higher PR low number of outbound links pages for getting good PR.

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60-90 characters including space within the length are often recommended in title tag hence you have good chance to add most important keywords that can bring best result.

We also experience some time huge difference during the session, however google analytic result seems more accurate to me, idial approach to use both.

It seems everyone is selling there but no one is buying.

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I think promoting two forums at the same time might be little difficult to manage, I would suggest you to concentrate more on one of them at a time and start a blog of relevant subject that will help you to increase traffic to your forum as well.

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Well, I think content is a modest motivator, you need to know the trick how to reach to specific Mass with some of quality content and by reaching to that point content will begin to generate itself and so on it will increase new members. Apart this forum looks also …

Adword is good way to get targeted traffic almost you can instantly use it to start making sales as well as to test your site and make sure you're converting.

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I have also seen few people just get a new name to bad mouth a company or just leave a post promoting a company and disappear. It really trouble onself to see such thread.

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That's good idea Cscgal but in my experience most of the people are not interested in feeling the survey format. However I think he can get some good help from the members if he start a seperate thread on his own forum.

I would suggest to get atleast 50 to 75K views of your site before starting advertising it.

It depends upon your interest in particular area, level of competence and skills either you want to make a career or start your own business.

Sound nice, it will help to ppl who start their business with very low budget.

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It can be made SE friendly, ;) it will take some modification of the basic cart.

I think it is very hard time to sell or buy links as google keep watch on these sites, best to sell ad space or join an ad network or affiliate program.

On the merit of effectiveness you can minimize the numbers and organize it well. If you are going to show many ads the site will loss its importance.

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Affiliate marketing is one of the way to promote your product, you may also need experimental marketing targeting specific customers depend on your products. Also note the latest trend is key for such products.

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I doubt you will get targeted traffic, alternatively in my opinion adword geotargeting is much better for targeting specific niche and geographical region.

Yep, a community can start from 2-3 people, the most important part is your own involvement through thread participation and motivation to other members.

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Get listed in relevant directories and start using link of your site in your signature in forums, this will give your site some exposure before you think to market it into next level.

Yep, the orginal electronics reviews you can find in blogs and relevant forums hence you can not discount blog & forums.

Depend on what type of users you are going to focus, if you can be able to attract more and more users, you will find it easier to make it viral as users themselve make things viral and rest the technology do itself.

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Also digg has not its own content, a short description and number of comments does not make digg as good source for content.

Always consider on quality rather than quantity, do start writing content for link and title your page such that it spread a story in no time.

I think you can also target medical college students, facebook.com could be a good platform to target college student.

Interesting! I remember we have recently a discussion here on relevant topic about getting in "Google News". Its look good to see the news in "Google News" via your PR site. Well done! :)