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I do not know about how google treats links in signatures in forums but here at DaniWeb you walk a fine line with what you put in your signature. As for blog commenting, I use WordPress for the blogs for my customers and Wordpress allows you to review comments before …

I have a friend who, like many people, is under-employed and is looking for new possible revenue streams. He asked me about affiliate programs and as I do not know much about the different ones, does anyone know which ones seem to be worth the effort?

[QUOTE=chikulanikader;878278] * Easily and quickly one can change the marketing strategy, if leads are not generated within sometime. Don't worry money involved is safe. One doesn't need to invest money again; the search engine optimizer will take care of all marketing strategy and related things. He would employ various methods …

Another way to make money online is to look for freelance and crowdsource services that allow you to work remotely and provide your services over the net to clients around the world.

Twitters use during the attacks in India and the vote suppression in Iraq was essentially the creation of thousands of Paul Revere's. Personally, I think that is a great counter-balance to the use of twitter by people like Diddy and Ashton Kutcher!

[QUOTE=canadafred;1038795]OOOH boy. The more I read my own salivations, the more I hate it but now listen to this all anyway. This response is a little bit lengthy I know but I already lost an hour's writing tonight and I'm tired but I still wanted you to walk away from …

The way I look at it, the majority of things evolve in the majority of areas. E-mail will kill hard-copy mail was claimed and it did not. Postal mail and express services are evolving because there are some things that need to be sent as securely as possible. Internet-based news …

[QUOTE=seo_expert;120206]In any case if you want to submit you can visit following links. Google: [url]http://www.google.com/addurl.html[/url] MSN: [url]http://search.msn.co.in/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSDD2[/url] Yahoo: [url]https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.src=srch&.done=http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request[/url][/QUOTE] I have to go with SEO_expert in terms of simply submitting directly to the SE when the time comes.

I was at a recent event where one of the presenters, a representative of Avaya, stated that they are tracking Twitter for sales opportunities and have had a few wins. One in particular was a case where they were monitoring twitter for mentions of their name or competitors in tweets. …

Cast a wide net (blogging, micro-blogging, forums, PPC, Linkedin groups, Facebook, digg, delicious, etc) and make sure that when people get to your site that the content is so compelling and eye-opening that they are bookmarking you and telling everyone they can about your site.

[QUOTE=justlukeyou;1031691]I have read various blogs and forums which suggest that many site designers dont bother to use H1 tags however they can be useful in SEO purposes. I am planning to use them on {my site} although I am puzzled as to why they are not widely used.[/QUOTE] I am …

Nice catch. Thanks for sharing. This is the type of information we need more of on the forum as opposed to people hyping their service under the guise of offering advice and expertise.

[QUOTE=cscgal;1023462]Alexa only collects data on the top 100,000 sites. If you rank in 3+ million, they won't collect any data on you.[/QUOTE] Good to know. Now I can tell my clients to lighten up about Alexa Rank as they are not even close!

[QUOTE=francophile;795260]My experience with Wordpress Blogs* is that articles appear in Google in about 20 minutes. So a few links in the blog will get sites indexed fast! * wordpress blogs on your server - not on wordpress.com. Of course, could be the same for blogs on wordpress.com (??)[/QUOTE] Based on …

Privacy rights + vengeful coworkers + Government regulations = the reason why you need to be more careful what you put on facebook. Beyond my little equation, this woman will win back her coverage and whatever money she inevitably will sue for if she can prove that her doctor told …

[QUOTE=InsightsDigital;1013637]As internet marketers, we need to measure the stickiness value and engagmenet level of visitors to a site. Thus, many companies have used Google Analytics in the past few years since it is FREE. But there were other companies who preferred to still use paid tools like WebTrends, Omniture, and …

For both my personal and business related accounts I check whenever someone follows me and, like you, if they are legit they remain. If not they are blocked. The two types I see a lot of and block automatically are ones that offer investment advice and ones that are from …

My only experience with Skype was a friend who's son was in Italy and had his wallet (along with all of his travelers cheques and credit cards) stolen. The kid was able to use Skype throught the Hotel managers office and my friend was able to provide a credit card …

At the recent E3 Expo, both Microsoft and Nintendo announced plans to include the Facebook Connect app on their handheld game systems. Is there no escape from Facebook? And what will the reaction of parents be if, and it is more likely when, Facebook connect starts carrying advertising aimed at …

[QUOTE=jay 11;1029034]If you are going to submit to a directory, be sure to submit to the ones that have editorial integrity. In other words, does the directory reject spammy or low quality sites that do NOT meet their criteria for inclusion? Steer clear of the directories that link to anyone …

Excuse my ignorance but while your list is comprehensive I am not certain how these sites would be beneficial and how exactly one would use them. Can you provide some clarity?

[QUOTE=smrty;982318]Wondering about social engineering and what tools work best for enabling viral marketing and growth on a site. Send to a friend social book marking ebooks videos affiliate programs Some war stories from some vets would be nice in terms of how you get your site to start growing exponencially. …

I would also say take a structural tip from the forums at DaniWeb and make the various sub-forum titles based on keywords that you are using to describe your site. This, in some case, encourage forum participants to use other variations of the sub-forum titles that are also keywords. For …

In a couple of threads I have suggested that people who are looking to build up site traffic was to write press releases and publish them on your website, followed by tweeting about the press releases with a link to the press release. Microsoft recommends this and I have used …

Not really certain if this is the proper forum for this but can anyone explain what URL Harvesting is? I am asking because while reviewing the google analytics/referring sites info for my company's website I saw referral traffic from a site called trafficfaker.com. Any insight would be welcome. Thank you.

I saw this question posted in one of my linkedin groups and thought it could be an interesting one for this forum. What would you say is the best social media outlet as a starting point for a small business to launch their social media strategy from? I would say …

I can attest to what Fred says in regards to content vs. backlinks. I have created sites for a number of my clients and I have written keyword-rich content with minimal links (meaning, links that matter not links for the sake of linking), I have had no problem ranking high …

I have never used the SEO toolbars for those engines but I will check them out. I know this is not an answer to your question but I wanted to thank you for the info.

This sound a little sneaky and definitely dark gray hat SEO. I defer to Canada Fred for the final word on this one as he seems to have a good handle on what is black hat.

As I type this I realize I could be starting a major argument in this forum but what the hell. For people who blog as part of their online community, what is the best (in your opinion) blog platform to use? For myself, I have set up blogs on Blogger …

I would suggest a simple test to determine if you can go with the same set of meta tags on each page or if you should change them up. Is the focus of each page fundamentally the same or does each have a specific focus. For example, if you are …

If you are asking about e-commerce in general, it depends on your business. You need to do a cost/benefit analysis to determine the potential. Also, depending on your business and what you are looking to sell, you might want to look at other businesses that are selling similar products/services and …

Can anyone recommend a good SEO plug-in for WordPress? I have tried a couple but I have had marginal results. Any advice would be appreciated.

[QUOTE=mackone;1048018]The important thing there is not to make your posts look spammy. Even it’s no-follow, traffic is the main concern here as to generate more leads, sales and revenue from any third party ads you attach there.[/QUOTE] I agree on not making your comments on blogs to spammy but your …

I know this sounds like I am just pissing and moaning but should we start a sub-forum in the Internet Marketing Forum for beginners and people who are new to these concepts? It seems to me a lot of the newbies on here come in and within their first 10 …

I think we need to start a sub-forum on SEO tricks for beginners and then post the same message about 50 times, that being 'there are no tricks (except Fred's card trick), there are no short cuts, there are no get-rich-quick schemes. There is only hard work, constant effort and …

We are searching for an existing "middle ware" software product that can take data from the Blackbaud Raiser's Edge program and bring that data into Microsoft Dynamics GP. The integration can be brought into the GP General Ledger module or possible the Receivables Management module. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Would it be possible for the moderators to mark this thread solved? At this point the original message was asked almost 18 months ago and I would say the thread has been solved. Keeping this post going is just clutter on the board.

I have been playing with SEO plug-ins for my Wordpress blogs but I am wondering if anyone has any experience with this and if they have an opinion of which is better, using the SEO plug-ins or do it by hand?

I view this the same way I view soliciting bloggers to talk up your products or services, tread lightly or you will end up looking like a fake.

In the case of one of my clients I had to go to youtube to post up video provided by the manufacturer of the main product they sell. My client's website is built with a CMS that is not very flexible in terms of multimedia and the owner does not …

I just read on Mashable that tr.im url shortner was shutting down and that by 1/1/2010 all of the tr.im urls will stop working. The post mentions that the creator of Delicious has made the case against shortened urls. Is this the beginning of the end for URL shortners or …

To emphasize one of the most important aspects that Fred mentioned...content, content, content!

Seems comprehensive and it would probably make a good guide for most people, especially people who are learning SEO and want to cut through to the main points.

I would never use this tool because I find it extremely annoying, especially on my personal account. A few weeks back I tweeted a link to a column that covered some loon who was buying up horrible plots of land in the belief that the world is becoming overcrowded and …

Sounds like a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing or reporting. So, it is a natural that government is involved.

[QUOTE=jay 11;1066040]Hey Mak - nice post! I agree with most of these but I'm not really sure about these...[/QUOTE] I have to a agree with Jay on #'s 7 & 15. Could you elaborate?

[QUOTE=xoox;1024160]For ebook sales, is it better to go through third party sellers like Clickbank or Lulu or do you sell it directly using Paypal. Paypal's recent report shows [URL="http://techcrunchies.com/transaction-volumes-on-paypal/"]78 million users[/URL] and I wonder if we should plainly go by numbers or lose commission to third party sellers?[/QUOTE] The question …

[QUOTE=InsightsDigital;1037863]The biggest difference between SEO and SEM is organic vs paid. SEO = Search Engine Optimization SEM = Search Engine Marketing SEO = you can enhance SERP results by tweeking chances on your website SEM = its all about paid marketings, PPC, banner ads, any paid drivers that help bring …

[QUOTE=InsightsDigital;914997]Twitter provides a great opportunity for backlinks. A great way to track these shorten urls is by using bit.ly since it provides you with traffic data.[/QUOTE] Definitely use bit.ly. Tinyurl is nice but no traffic data.