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Scribbller aka Nauman from Islamabad, Pakistan. I started using net way back in 1997 when my dad went to United States and we needed a channel of communication. Well since than I have been administrating/moderating/designing/programming various sites…
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 | I would suggest learn a very basic language like Basic or Pascal to get into groove of programming to start of with then move to more complex languages like C and C++, one can easily learn any language on internet. I learnt html, java, php and sql all from different … |
 | Get friends to join up to help you kick start with posting and activity. Apart from that concentrate on adding new content, optimizing your site for search engines. Here are a few ideas to get a few members to start of with. 1. Post on sites which have subject similar …  |
| | Format a local time/date according to locale settings |
| | Fair enough Dani but not alot of people do that now, most of them go straight to google and type sony and it takes them to sony's site, atleast thats what I do. In todays world you will be mighty lucky to find a .com domain which exactly matches your …  |
 | Re: Link building Well I would suggest exclusive content like articles and latest development say for example in the world of SEO, that is the best way to make sure other sites link to you, interesting articles are discussed all over. As far as link exchange programmes are concerned I have never really … |
 | [QUOTE=Arizona Web]yup, seems they do. Mambo is quite a nice and robust CMS, but it is a bit more than I need. I may just have to write my own :\[/QUOTE] Well mambo is open source you can take out things which you dont want and develop mosules which you …  |
| | It really surprises me these days that there are number of websites there are popping up that are just forums with 0% actual content contributed by the webmaster. Setting up a forum is easy, even a small kid can do that by just reading the documentation provided by a free … |
 | [QUOTE=cscgal]From what I've been hearing for a very long time, Google actually gives penalties for duplicate keywords.[/QUOTE] Thats true and besides google and other major search engines no longer give any importance to meta tags its the on page keywords that count the most. |
| | [QUOTE=pulsetoday.com]:) Well... now there is a version available at invision's official site which has encrypted code and will let you have 1000 threads / 5000 posts! but I would NOT recommend it! Instead I would suggest that you use phpBB [phpbb.de is a prehacked version] or vB [if you can … |
| | [B]Intro[/B] The tutorial is all about getting your site listed on top in Search Engines i.e Search Engine Optimization. First thing you need to do is find the keywords you want to optimize for. [B]How to find it[/B] ok no probs there is great tool by [URL="http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/"]Overture [/URL]but i will … |
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| | I hope its done soon, I have carried out an extensive PR campaign and hopefully it will give me some results now. Lets just wait and see. |
| | Re: Buy traffic Whats the point of such visitors, I have experimented with a few sites which claim to sell traffic but there has been no increased sales or increased registerations to suggest that the return on investment was good, I honestly would never recomend a traffic reseller because in my opinion it … |
 | Well you have a nice skin, in my experience of running forums no one will come and just start posting, add content and exclusive content would be great it gives members something to talk about. |
| | Well the trick is to create a site on a subject you take good interest in and are willing to spend some time and money on it. There is no point making a site on a subject just because the idea is popular among people but you have no interest …  |
| | Hello Kevin welcome to Daniweb hope you have a good time around here :) |
| | Technically speaking no forum software is hundred percent secure, new exploits are always discovered by hackers and are exploited quite alot before the developers fix it. I dont agree with csgal on one thing when she says VB code is difficult for hackers to obtain because pirated copies of VB …  |
| | Well alot of sites have JS menues, but what alot of them do is have text links at the bottom of the page on the footer which serve the purpose of having text links. Well there are two ways really you either want to cut and past the code or … |
| | Uniques dont really matter much when you are advertising its the page views that matter the most. There is no set figure either, depends on the niche, if you are a small site but only site in a niche then you can get good advertisers very quickly. |
| | [QUOTE=Optimist]Hello, I am heavily involved in website optimization,and would like to know if anyone could put me in the right direction of where to find unbranded website promotion tools for my website ie: Link pop checker,search engine submitter,keyword density analyzer etc. I would greatly appreciate any input Sincerely, William Reeves … |
| | Its all wrapper and css nothing else, try [url]http://invisionfree.com/forums/ifskinzone/[/url] for free invisonfree skins they are fairly easy to install and manipulate. |
| | [QUOTE=DanceInstructor]I would use [url="https://www.google.com/adsense/ws-overview"]Google Adsense for Search[/url]. It has a site search feature.[/QUOTE] I was also going to suggest that as it not only gives you search facility but you can even earn revenue with that. |
| | Re: Which Country? Well I live in Islamabad, Pakistan :) cant say wether I love or hate it but it is quite comfortable.  |
| | Re: Backlinks? Well other sites linking back to your sites is back links in very simple terms, seo book and avi explained it very well. The aim is to have back links from sites with high page rank and sites which are somewhat related to the content of your site. The advantage …  |
| | [QUOTE=J_Search]cscgal, Sorry for the slightly off-topic post, but I didn't want to create a new thread. The question is regarding the number of DaniWeb members. Within your Statistics window you have a link for Members: which has the number 53,199. The link, as you know, takes you directly to the …  |
| | Best method is to get fellow programmers whom you work with to join up, get a couple of good moderators. Provide good exclusive content give people a reason as to why they should join your forum rather than say daniweb or any other programming forums.  |
| | Well Ill ask the question which alot of people do, what makes your site different, Ask yourself why would anyone join your site rather than say gamespot or any of the otehr big guns out there. You need to find a niche in the market, game forum market is saturated, … |
| | I dont think you will find any programme which can be customized to such a deal ready made specially in open source you might want to look at [url]http://www.hotscripts.com[/url] and see if you can find a script which can be customized to suit you. I have done alot of research … |
| | [QUOTE=hockmasm]i am coding illiterate. is there a simple way add a voting poll form to my webpage? i am using a free one without ads, but want my own. i have cpanel.[/QUOTE] Are you using a CMS? if yes then most CMS will come up with a poll module. |
| | Re: Paying for posts Never been a big fan of pay for posts idea. IMO its not healthy for over all growth of the forum/community. |
| | Apparently the backlinks listed on google have updated. Still less useful than yahoo's, but you may get a hint from the number of backlinks reported still. I had a fairly huge jume around x2 :) |
| | 301 non www traffic to the www side of things, better SEO longterm. Why? You combine your page rank from two sites (domain.com and [url="http://www.domain.com/"]www.domain.com[/url]) into one, ultimatly will pass on more PR to your sub-pages, hence, better SEO. 301 redirect [QUOTE] [color=#000000][color=#007700]if([/color][color=#0000bb]$_SERVER[/color][color=#007700][[/color][color=#dd0000]'HTTP_HOST'[/color][color=#007700]]==[/color][color=#dd0000]'example.com'[/color][color=#007700]) { [/color][color=#0000bb]header[/color][color=#007700]([/color][color=#dd0000]"HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"[/color][color=#007700]); [/color][color=#0000bb]header[/color][color=#007700]([/color][color=#dd0000]"Location: http://www.example.com/"[/color][color=#007700]); … |
| | Welcome to Daniweb Benje, please visit our [url="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum25.html"]Internet Marketing[/url] forums you will find all the help you need there :) |
| | Re: Email activation Well we had email activation turned off went on well for quite a while then started getting spammers so turned it on, was ok for a couple of months then more spammers started joining so eventually we had to activate admin validation of new users which slows down the process … |
| | Well I dont earn any sort of money from my site so I wouldnt pay for advertisments either, besides my forum has grown up to 555 members in 5 months just with word of mouth advertising. |
| | [QUOTE=cscgal]How many forums is too many? Can you validate having 100+ forums if every one of them is at least getting a few posts per day?[/QUOTE]Depends on your niche and topic really, there are certain topics which warrant subdvision into specialist areas where as others require you to have everything … |
| | 6 again an inflated number because of the fact that it is a forum and the CMS itself is also built around the forum. |
| | I started using IPB when it was free and have continued to use it, bought a license for it when it went paid and havent looked back. I also use VB on another forum. I rate VB higher but will continue to use IPB on my own forum because of … |
| | Dani you already know my outtake on this subject I am all for allowing links as long as they are not spam links the forum is for dicussion and wether dicussion is site specefic, general or general discussion with reference to a particular site a good discussion is all that … |
| | Alot of these sites generate fake users but that doesnt meant legit ones are not out there but honestly they have never really worked for me. Did the traffic convert into sales or leads? nope not a single one. I have yet to find a traffic source, or hear about … |
| | Re: Rel=Nofollow In my opinion SEs dont even give much weight to links inside posts/signatures any more let alone ban a website because of them.  |
| | Google Sandbox is also a myth, google just doesnt encourage new sites so as your domain ages up you will automatically start to do well on google.  |
| | Re: Calendars Since our community is a sports community we do use it to keep track of upcomming fixtures and events in the sport, apart from that its just the same old birthdays. |
| | Re: SEO mysteries It takes around 6 months to about an year and a half for you to start doing well on good key words, just keep doing what you are doing and place empahsis on anchor text for back links, before you know it you would see yourself ranking well on good … |
| | Payback period is a tad higher with ads wether they be CPC or CPM because no matter how good a SEO expert you are it will take you around 6 to 12 months or so to get your website ranked well on good keywords for SERPS and that is where … |
| | Daniweb is not really a CMS it is just bits of forum extracted on the homepage, tutorial are forum threads presented in a different way. If you are creative enough you can easily create a very handy CMS out of Vbulletin and VBA CMPS using VB's template system and conditionals. |
 | Thing is you wouldnt even need 90 percent of the modifications you have to install in phpbb because vBulletin is feature rich, besides installing new modifications in vB 3.5.x is a piece of cake as you dont even need to edit the php files just simple hooks and plugins which … |
| | If people find your site usefull and exclusive to the subject they will naturally recomend it to their friends and the friends to their friends and so continues the endless chain reaction of word of mouth advertisment. Another very good tool for viral marketing is to have Daniweb merchandise and … |
| | There is a PR update expected at the end of this month though. |
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