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Hello everyone, Currently my website is not getting much traffic, or registrations on the community. Its been around for about a year and half, has 283 members (none of which post hardly), probably around 200 threads, and 800 posts. I now have a new idea for a website, related to …

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How do you get search engines to show your blogs? Is pinging enough? Do we also have to use meta keywords with blogs just as we should with websites?

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I am trying to encourage members to donate by purchasing a member sponsorship for $5/month. It entitles the member to a bunch of nifty features IMO such as access to a behind the scenes forum and a sponsor badge. It seems that the tried and true method to get donations …

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Hi Everyone, Just so you know where i am, I am a decent site builder but i need some help in the following areas as I have not had much experience here. I wish to add a user review option to my ecommerce site. So that members can post opinions …

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I recently launched a pet webspot...pet owners create their pets a site that can be used for multiple purposes..anything from cyber friends to finding another your pet a mate.. although I have advertised the website in pet pages it seems as if my results are sub-par.... anyone care to lend …

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I have recently started a forum and was wondering what the best way to drive traffic to it is. I have seen many "pay to post" companies out there, but I am worried that all that will accomplish is filling my board with meaningless clutter. I have not started a …

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What mods for phpbb are the best and most necessary to a new forum and to growing membership? I'm especially interested in forum shops and related items.

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Please posting links pharmacy to pharmacy, medicine and health white catalogues and directories.

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What are you thoughts on SMF as a forum solution as compared to phpBB? I've been seriously thinking about converting my forum from phpBB to SMF. Is it worth it? I've tried it in a local environ. It's very, very powerful and customizable, but the admin interface is very unwieldy. …

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Hey, I created a web application based on a Browser Game (Travian) and it's been growing ever since I opened it to public 2 months ago. I already have some 400 users and I'm getting the webpage translated into the different languages available for the game. The application is basicaly …

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A friend of mine wants a blog site that allow posts on the whole page. I mean, without categorizing by month/year. Is there any?

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Do you allow your member profiles to be guest accessible? Why or why not? Do you allow member contact info (email, IM) to be publically displayed and potentially picked up by spiders?

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hi just opened one medical forum site so need your suggestions so what i'll be doing is go to yahoo msn groups myspace groups and joining medical groups so i get some members .as this is medical forums so people are here not for money so top poster paid posting …

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I am starting to run out of ideas and was hoping i might be able to get some advice on marketing my site/forum but i will give you a quick run-down on what i have done to promote and a little background of the site.. AYW was started 2 years …

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What is an average / target open rate for an HTML-based monthly newsletter? I am measuring open rate based on the number of hits a particular image within the newsletter gets. However, more and more email clients nowadays are disabling emails until the user clicks a link - and how …

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I've discovered a great lightweight forum solution for one of my new projects: it's called usebb and it's available here: [url]http://www.usebb.net/[/url] It's really so easy to theme and template and provides a minimalist yet logical approach to forums so most of the extra features are cut out. The administration interface …

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Hi, I am a newbie here, I used to be a programmer in my previous career. been out of touch for a long time. so I need some help. I have this need to create a website (to sell my services, of course) which will allow a sub group to …

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One of the things is that it reduces the "branding" of your community. When people look at the community the first thing they notice is the visual aspect and appeal of the site. Only then do they observe content. I've seen dozens of communities that use multiple visual themes selectable …

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in my cpanel i have counter called "add to favorite" , and i can't understand how does this counter work , cause after someone bookmark a website or added to my favorites does the browser sends data to the site telling it that it has been bookmarked or added to …

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Hi all. I have made this forum last week The only people who have joined are my friends. What do I need to do to get loads of people on there? Many thanks.

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The topic view on this site is really impressive. I was wondering, how do you do it? I use an IPB2.1.7 forum about Charity and want to do something similar where it looks like bubbles.

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really , I am starting a new community forum , right now it is growing slowly and i am getting bored :confused: and I was curious , how did a website like daniweb started , how long did it take them to reach this good rank , what ways of …

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After Dani shows me how she has reduced the steps to register here on DaniWeb I had to have it too :mrgreen: So I set out looking at the vBulletin code to do 2 things: 1) Remove the requirement to accept the rules to be able to register 2) Simplify …

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Hello, I was just wondering is it better to only allow users who register to see the forum? Or allow all users registered or not to see the forums?

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Has anyone ever tried one of those pay for posts services targeted towards forum owners?

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Guys, I've recently installed forum in one of my new website (launched just couple of months ago), however I dont have any idea how to launch forum, as currently i dont have any post or users. Can anyone advice on how to launch my forum and get tons of post …

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Hi, Is there any way to import data from MS Access in MYSql, so that I can add new members in groups in IPB-- this is solely a discussion forum for a digital media network targeted for college and high school students in the area. This is kind of a …

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VBulletin has the admin setting in its Control Panel to insert emails of moderators to get instant notification of new posts. I would LOVE my users to be able to SELECT which moderator gets a notification email. [B]SWITCHBOARD FORUM adds selectable specialist moderators for instant notification. User selectable list when …

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Hello again. You might remember I posted a question on this forum recently asking if anyone knew of good Perl based forum software. Well, I decided to write my own forum script for my website to find out how such a thing is done. While I was wading through hundreds …

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