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It looks like at last there is a Google PR update ... the first in I don't know how many months. DaniWeb went from a 5 to a 6 ... a decent change. I was still hoping for a PR7 though, but oh well :( I'll take what I can …

What's the best way of finding someone to help the admin with forum descriptions and posting content without paying? I have a site that generates a lot of hits but lurkers are not joining. I gave guests permission to comment, view pictures, and reply to topics without requiring registration but …

I am running a pretty new site and I have two moderation groups: Editorial Staff (for my content forums) General Staff (for my other forums) The person I chose for the General Staff has not logged in for over a month now. I am caught in a difficult position. Do …

I am in the process of researching how to create an effective online demo to incorporate into our Web site. Does anyone have any advice/tips as how to create an effective video demo of our product (which is industry specific Web sites, we are an ASP) Thanks in advance for …

Hi! I am looking for free (or expensive <$50) ways to promote my site, maybe it is INEXPENSIVE software or any free resources... If anybody knows about, tell me please in this great forum... HOW TO PROMOTE SITE REALLY WITH LITTLE FINANCEs??? (<60$)

I thought I understood the difference but when I read a post here that discussed vBindex I am not sure I see how it differs from what I would call a cms. Thanks.

When you're not logged in here at daniweb, you see a message that shows the total number of members, the number of people online now and the number of members online in the past 24 hours. I like it a lot, and I'm also using vBulletin. How did you do …

How do you create custom pages like [url]http://www.daniweb.com/mediakit/[/url] that appear to be integrated with vBulletin? I'm fairly new to vBulletin and am currently migrating one of my websites from ASP to PHP. I can see some advantages to the integration, but I'm not sure how you accomplished it.

Just that question. What are the pros and cons of implementing a no-advertising policy (i.e. while posting) in new communities which are looking for more members? Do you think initially people should be allowed to advertise their sites/products or is this a bad thing? Let me know what you all …

To those of you out there with successful sites, inquiring minds want to know. Was there any one thing that spiked your growth? Was it being slashdotted? Being blogged? Or was it a combination of things that happened over a short period of time. Or just steady growth over time?

Hey people i am developing a portal for my college can anyone Guide me about wat to do and where can i get info on this topic?????????

I have been noticing lately a lot of new members will register on the site, and then PM me with their questions instead of even attempting to post on the forums. Has anyone here had any experience with prohibiting the use of private messaging until a member has reached some …

Does anyone here have any experience using any asp forum software? I've never had the chance, and I was just wondering if you guys have any advice about what works well for future reference. Thanks a bunch!

What exactly is 'CPanel Control Panel'? Does it help me setup a PhpBB forum? If not, what does the hosting package need to come with so I can easily install a PhpBB forum? Also, does anyone know how to make it so when you go to [url]Www.MyWebsite.Com[/url] it goes right …

I'm starting a forum for the first time, I think a off-topic one would be the best/funniest. What name should I pick? If you don't like either, can you give me a general idea of a good name.

Hi, I have been reading through this forum and decided to register and seek the advice of you guys as most seem very experianced in running and maintaining communities. Originally I was a moderator for a site called gamer.tv which provided online games, reviews and had its own tv channel. …

I'm throwing a $100 contest for refering members. January, 1st, 2005 is when the contest ends. Whoever did the best, will then get $100 via pay-pal. Do you guys think that's to hefty? Or, perfect? (They got to be sencable members too, no 0-1 post members)

I was looking over the other topics about making your site name work and I started to wonder if the name that I want for my future comic is a good idea. It is sorta long winded but is the exact name of the comic and isnt all that confuseable …

I have a great idea for a discussion forum and havnt a clue how to set it up. Could some of the more senior members help me or direct me to somewhere on here that can? Thanks

i'm trying to decide what my ranking system will be and am not sure what post-intervals to use. i've noticed that popular forums have larger intervals. should i wait to see how popular the site will be before i set the ranks?

Hi all, I was just told by a SEO that if I want to partner up with another company where they recommend my product/services & I refer them & they aren't my competition (clearly LOL) & their biz is opposite to what I do, yet they complement my company, (let's …

Hi Everyone! I just want a little bit more info about Yahoo's new spider Slurp. Thank you!

Hi, A few questions. Answers on some will be great too.:p 1. How can one reach a higher CTR using Google AdWords? (I would love to read comments on AdWords from experienced users) 2. What can cause a steep drop of link popularity in Google in only one month? 3. …

What are some good ways to get members to be more active? I know that contests can be good incentives. Any other ideas?

Welp since they undid the past recent update - the moment has come! Google has updated their backlinks. Our site jumped up by about 110 links:) Data centers that are showing the changes so far include the following: 216.239.57.105 216.239.57.104 216.239.57.99 216.239.57.98 Hope everyone made out ok :)

Have we all just gotten to a point where we are abandoning the idea of google PR? Isn't that what google wants of us? They knew they were in hot water when they went public and the foundation of their company - PR - was owned by Standford U. and …

Hi all, I hope this is the right forum for this question. What are the rules again on registering? What are the max amount of characters one should have in a domain name, should it be one long string of words or is it better for the SEs to use …

Could a CMS be modded to work something like classmates.com? I think it would work well for a single school but do you think it could be used for several schools...each school with its own photo gallery and its own forum? Thanks.

Please help me. I'm completely stumped. As of yesterday, AdWords just completely stopped working for me. Ads just completely stopped showing up. It is as if my campaign is paused, but it isn't. The campaign shows up as active. I have a pretty large budget. The ads are set to …

Hi all, I own a vbulletin forum, from what i hear the archive that comes withvbulletin isn't great when it comes to SEO. What i have done is created a second archive for my forum that follows SEO procedures. I could have created the whole thing dynamically but i decided …

What are people looking for in a portal/community/cms site???

a tip, dont use the traffic gnerators on ebay, e.g. 25,000 unique visitors ect. They are rubbish, set up by new businesses trying to get on the market. Adwords is brilliant, however, they have a system known as 'slowing' which pulls it down and stats aint in real time.

Hi anyone, Can you please explain to me what PR5 means. Thanks Michelle

I need some good suggestions to get more visitors & new members to my forums (<<url snipped to comply with forum policy>>). I will be advertising it on similar websites soon. I started a untargeted campaign with targetvisitors.info, but that hasn't helped too much yet.. What else can I do? …

read in the forum a Q about link swapper url: [url]www.linkswapper.com[/url]. my view is that it is a very cool tool for anyone who wants to echange links. saves a lot of time and effort and is completly Free, what more would you want. have been using it for a …

Hi everybody, im new to this forum, and to web design in general. i recently built a website and it has been online for about a month now. my site has a terrible rank in google and thats probably because i didnt have a clue about SEO until a few …

Hi ! every body I am new for this group and may I ask some body help me how to send email with Image and text together not attachment. If someone give me an idea for this please. I try so maney time to send image and text togather, but …

Also check out [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread13623.html[/url] as I am trying to figure out the best way to manage ALL my adds with Phpadsnew I am trying to compile a list of places that I can get ad space from, pls post all the you use and even the ones you have used …

In an earlier post I stated that I did not wish to recieve PM's regarding questions of what company I work for. Here is a snippet of what I recieved for sticking to my guns and NOT giving out my company name. *shrug* Take it for what you will but …

i was told by my teacher, there is no such thing as a stupid question, only a stupid person. lol dun know why i said that, but i just did. what is the deal with all this link stuff. this PR7 and things the link. what does it all mean, …

New business in town: [b][i]<< url edited out to comply with forum policies >>[/i][/b] Not sure where to turn anymore, I'm by no means a web designer & think I've messed up somewhere. I keep looking at my web hits & the best I've done since we opened is about …

Is there a need to enable the forum archive on vBulletin forums? I am using mod_rewrite to rewrite all of the threads to have .html extensions anyways, so I am worried about duplicate content.

i have started validating the pages on my site (i know i should have done this first, but give me a break, its my first website.. :lol: ) im using [url]http://validator.w3.org/[/url] to do the validating and i have 2 issues i need help with. ok, this is what the begining …

I have been hearing talk that we've finally been seeing a google PR update. Some sites have actually seen their PR go up. Unfortunately not DaniWeb :( In addition, some pages that I deleted off of here ages and ages ago, and removed all references to, still have a PR5. …

TechTalk currently receives about 2,500 hits per day (this includes both members as well as guests). In addition, we receive about 8 new member sign-ups per day. About 25 unique registered members visit per day. Are these results low for a forum of this type? Suppose each registered member visits …

Here's a question to all those forum administrators out there. How do you choose your moderators? The most common way is to pick out the exceptional members of your forum and ask them if they would like to moderate. This is great because your new mod is already very interested …

I notice this site has a huge guests to members ratio most other forums I visit have a 2 to 1 ratio at the most but at the moment this site has 107 guests and 4 members:confused: Just curious.

I'm using phpbb for my whole website [url]http://www.SetAFocus.com[/url] ... using "phpbb fetch all" to integrate them into pages and make it magazine-like. Am I trying too hard that it messes up the flow of the website and turning off visitors from registering? There are times I'd want to make it …

Hi...I'm new to the forum and interested in starting my own discussion board. I have no knowledge of programming whatsoever, and my computer knowledge is limited to Microsoft Office and surfing the 'Net. My goal is to build a community, and maybe even some ad revenue on the side. Can …

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