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According to your experience, how do you search and attract private advertisers to your forums?? I don't won't to depend on 3rd parties like adsense which pay pennies and take the largest share of money. Any tips will be helpful :)

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After reading in the Web Design forum here, I found that there are a variety of dating site scripts on the market. This is great, because now I can write much less code... hopefully. Have you used one? What was that experience like? Could you help me pick the best …

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If anyone would help me....I am working on a website that has 4 links off the original, if there is anyone who knows where I can go, who I can see...or anything it would be appriaciated

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I am trying to add a email sign-up module to my bulletin board. The email is powered by Windows Live (they are kind enough to give me the proper codes to add it). But I don't know which file it is suppose to be added to so that it appears …

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Hello I have just started looking at stats for my site. Some of the stats worried me. For example:- 70% people leave the site within 0-30 seconds Only 10% of traffic comes from search engines (and only a small amount of these come from searches other than the name of …

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Bloggers somewhat have the advantage of an RSS feed, which makes indexing a lot easier, and they can also sign up for those auto-PING sites. Forums, though, are a lot tougher to get indexed in my experience, although perhaps I just haven't used the right tools? I know that google …

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I am setting up a new dating site via a company called << url snipped >> it's basic but does everything i need except a private message service. i want to bolt on a seemless messaging service that has inbox outbox create delete save i am not a programmer or …

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I wrote in another thread about the tremendous success my forum has had because of Facebook.....has anyone used social Networks like Facebook or MySpace for promoting your forum?.....I did a little research, and apparently Facebook's Group platform is very limited, though....you can only mass email members of a group up …

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My friend and I just created a health forum with simple phpbb (we are no IT geniuses by any means)... and I've been reading all over the place about getting more traffic to your site/forum. We tried this before, but we just got spammed out of control. We want genuine …

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I am posting this thread because I am getting tired of seeing htreads being started called stuff like "is phpbb free" or "Which is better IPB or Vbulletin". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So basically what I would like to do is build up a thread of lots of information about each forum. If …

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Hello Everyone, My name is Howie, and I'm a 24 y/o college student. I have been reading this forum for about a few weeks now, and some of the awesome insight that some members have brought to the table here, has been invaluable. Early this December, I decided to embark …

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What is a good way to pull forum lurkers out of hiding and turn them into posting members?

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dear all, I have this project in my mind to kick off a website for a minority that I am part of. The aim is to create a community website where member could meet up, get to know each other and create new bonds within minority group. Unfortunately, usually widespread …

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I was wondering if anyone could help me out with suggestions to build a community of college students?

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For those of you with some of the largest forums (or other large online communities out there), what are the biggest challenges that you face? How have those challenges changed since you started out? For me, the biggest challenge when we were small was recruiting new members, and now that …

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Hello everyone, I have just set up my very own virtual pet site which is similar to NeoPets. I have purchased the script which is mainly PHP but that does not have any support from the person who sold it. I was wondering how I would go about finding PHP …

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What do you guys think of JavaScript-heavy forums such as DaniWeb? Would you rather spend time on a forum with a very unique skin and all the bells and whistles, or something very simplistic and standard that's quick loading and far less confusing?

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I just got my forum fixed from being bombarded by spammers - three days spam free, but now my forum has been hacked! This is on my forum titles: HACKED BY DEADMASTER AND ÝSTANBULLS Has anyone ever seen this? You can still see it, just happened this morning and I …

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i was wondering if there s any free host that will let me have... here`s an example lets say i have a site called hi.122mb.com or freewebs/~hi is tere a host (free) that will let me have just hi.com note: hi.com was just an example there is there no hi.com …

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...but i need help if the site i`m working so hard on will be deleated if at least 9 people don`t sign up total plz help << plug snipped >> plz i only have 10 hours

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I've been running my forum for over a year now and its still not as active as I would like. I'm putting a lot of effort into the forum (which is fine since its my hobby). But its hard to feel like I'm getting somewhere. I think what my forum …

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I need to know how much advertising revenue I could be getting or should be getting compared with what I am getting. I run a vBulletin-only forum website and get 8,000 to 10,000 unique viewers per day, a little over 100,000 page views per day and as a vBulletin forum …

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possible? I am starting up a wedding forum. I want to have a place where brides can log in and basically talk about their wedding day prep and planning. Kinda like a blog but a little different I guess. Basically I want a forum area to be like a blog. …

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Hi, I've started a new podcasting project, and it seems to be going pretty well (50-60 listeners have tuned in to Episode 1 to date), but I'm not sure how to maintain the interest. I mean, despite all these listeners, the forums are still very bear with very few registered …

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Where the hell do these people get lists of all the forums on the Internet? I mean seriously, I have been learning and working very hard on my latest project and people keep going to my site to register and then just add a link to their home page. They …

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Hey, I built a phpBB forum for a friend of mine, and it's actually prospering quite well! But a couple weeks ago, he started getting messages in the admin email box basically that were forwarded to him because they couldn't reach their original destination. Some bot or something has been …

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Hey everyone, I am new to the this forum and recently started my own. I am having a very hard time getting users and those that do get on, dont stay because there isnt much traffic. Now I have seen a lot of people trying to prevent or block bots …

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We all had our share: people who are not being respectful to the staff and reply with 'nasty' words. Do you warn? Do you ban?

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my website is about C/C++ << url snipped to comply with forum policy >> how can i get more forums members... i joined some programming groups but could not get much forum members. Any one advise me Saqib

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i have a forum that is all to do with gaming but i have no idea how to drive the traffic to my site. i tried paid advertising but all the members that joined never posted or returned to my site after that i stopped the paid advertising and looked …

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