... Online Marketing Discussion

• social networking.. where to next

interesting interview with Zuckerman of facebook http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/10/60minutes/main3697442.shtml?source=mostpop_story the...

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• Google Ad Manager - anyone used it

I was wondering if anyone has used Google Ad Manager and how they have found it? I've applied to the programme but it says I may not get accepted and that it may take several weeks. I was thinking of using OpenX, but tried Openads before and found tham a bit user unfriendly. Maybe there are other ad management programmes out there that people know of?

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• Banner Rates

Does anyone know of anywhere that publishs going rates for banner ads? I'm being quoted rather high rates for a site, yet they claim that their rates are "normal"

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• Got Effective Article Submission Tips

So I have been submitting my articles to the major article directories, I think I have a pretty good tactic, but I still haven't seen any traffic from it. Is article submission the way to go, or have you guys found something else out to generate traffic?

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• Yahoo Directory VS 8k Directory Submissions

I've been having a serious dilemma trying to figure out how to spend my advertising budget. Like most people I haven't got a large budget so I am trying to figure out where to spend it to get the biggest impact. I found this company that will submit my website to 8,000 directories for $250, I tried it with 1,450 Directories on another website, but I am not getting a lot of traffic. Should I just spend the $299 to get this new website into the Yahoo Directory. What's your experience?

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• Looking to Buy a Website

I've been looking to purchase a website for some time now, I just can't find a good "website for sale" directory that lists both the income and traffic of the sites for sale. Has anybody else found a good website for sale directory?

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• Hittail Anyone Used it before

I was just wondering if anyone has used this tool before? _HitTail - Long Tail Keyword Marketing Tool - SEO, SEM, PPC, Blogs (http://www.hittail.com/)_ Or heard anything about it. It makes sense, but I wonder how useful the tool itself really is, over say an Analytics package which shows you long tail terms anyway? In my experience though, long tail terms and optimising for them from an SEO perspective often gives a lower return on investment. Of course there are a few golden nuggets here and there, but sometimes (most times) you can't predict those.

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• Google Analytics Processing Error

Good morning folks, Just wondering how much do you guys rely on analytics for stats? and how much will the recent error affect you and/or your business. ---Quote--- *What happened?* Google Analytics experienced a data processing error from April 30 to May. Almost all of the data has been recovered and is currently being reprocessed. The recovered data will be reflected in your reports by May 14. Please note that a small percentage of data, particularly in the area of e-commerce reporting, was not recoverable from those dates. We take this issue seriously and apologize for any inconvenience. We will do everything possible to prevent such disruptions from occurring in the future. ---End Quote--- More information can be found *here* (https://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=95811&hl=en_US). Regards, Kyle

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• Typical test plan

Can any one describe the components of a typical test plan, such as tools for interactive products and database products, as well as cause-and-effect graphs and data-flow diagrams?

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• What do you want to know about online marketing

Hi Everyone :), I want to know what kind of articles you would find most helpful with your online marketing activities? - Pay Per Click - Search Engine Optimisation - Affiliate Marketing - Web Analytics - Email Marketing - Web Design What are you most interested in?

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• swap link interested

Do anyone have an interest in swap link to generate traffic? If so, pls pm or reply me. our website is here (http://www.couponmaster.ie/)Image: http://static.boards.ie/vbulletin/images/smilies/smile.gif cheers!

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• Freelance Rates for SEO and Online Marketing

Hi, I've been asked to do some freelance seo and online marketing work for a design and development company but I don't have a clue what to charge them. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've been in the industry for 5 years so I know what I'm doing...just not how much it should cost :) Thanks in advance!

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• Ebay Affiliates Program Any Experience

Hi Guys, I have a website which receives a decent amount of traffic monthly globally, but primarily in Australia. I also have close to 900 active members, who I know buy regularly from Ebay. I am considering replacing some Google Text Ads to show Ebay listings targeted towards car parts these members would be interested in. Or alternatively having a page on the site dedicated to Ebay listings. I think it would world quite well, but I'm wondering what others experiences with the Ebay Affiliate Program is? Have you had much luck with it? If things work out I'd probably scrap Google Ads from my site, as they are rarely relevant enough. So far I've made a whopping $200 US off Adwords in about a year. :rolleyes:

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• Google Analytics - Adding Notes to Graphs Etc..

Does anyone know if its possible to add notes to your analytics account? What I mean is lets say I have a huge traffic spike and I want to add a comment to it, so in a years time I can reflect and see certain notes on traffic trends or lets say particular articles I wrote that attracted good traffic? Maybe a better example would be: My blog redesign attracted a huge spike in traffic compared with my normal daily traffic, if I could tag that spike as (blog redesign), I or anyone else viewing the stats would understand why the spike occured. Another webstats package I use, has this feature so I'd be surprised if its missing in Analytics, but I guess you never know. *Slightly off topic, but could we perhaps get an Analytics section in the forum? While it could go under online marketing, I think a dedicated section would be a good idea, what do others think? *

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• How to attract business

Hi guys, I’ve been doing a website dealing in online printed coupons, on which merchants can upload their coupons to advertise themselves. Now I’m glad it was almost finished. To promote this website, I plan to do something to attract some business, that is, let some merchants upload coupons, almost free, except a little registration fee. So can anybody give me any ideas what should I do to promote my site to those business. I need many coupons upload to my website now. Any idea is appriciated! Cheers!

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• podcasting and broadcasting

I found one site ml broadcast, where you can make your propertie video and will display in many sites as yahoo video,metacafe,etc... How can I do the same without the mlbroadcast? I have real estate site and we have propertie videos,is it hard to make it awailable in other sites without big problems? And how we should let our customers add videos to give oprtunitie to subscribe for podcasts and rss???

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• Partner relation marketing

How to make PRM for new real estate site!? I need to attract real estate agencies to add their properties in my site!

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• what to do with this page

I have webpage jaunamaja.lv, it is latvian page,there is empty at the moment, I have idea to collect only new developments in one place and will be oprtunitie to register only agents and make them own account,pics,video and info about new developments- but dont laughf :), I dont know what to do next, I have page, objectives, but how to implement it, no idea :) Any ideas? Thanks!

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• Blogging & Marketing Tips

Hi Folks, New to this whole website thing ( hence the name ) so i'm just looking for a bit if friendly advice. Can somebody please explain this blogging thing to me? For example is it just another thread or forum discussion that is posted on the web advertising your website? If so how is one created and where & how would i post it? I am specifically looking to target traffic within Irl & GB. From browsing the web i have come across various seo software that claim to increase your traffic by as much as 600%, are these just as i think a waste of money or do they work? Please post relevant links for items you feel do work. I would appreciate if anybody coudl help me, as i am just lauching a fledgling website and have an extremely low budget for markting. Any tips or comments much appreciated. Thanks.

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• Online marketing for social networking site

I invested money in one social networking project year ago, we have no success till this :(! Our site is based on possibility that you can build your own online family tree, you can add and invite your relatives, that way growing your tree- difference between alreadie existed genealogie portals is, that we have IQ games, online IQ game, as well we have some usefull things, as well you can make your travel map, make friend list, and different stuff, we add tv,radi and games as well because want be interesting all the time watch in your family tree when will appear some of relatives what you dont know... At the moment you must register to see all activities,maybe this is the reason why we dont have users... Any ideas how to start to get traffic? What SEO option better to start- to make threads in popular sites? Actually soon our site will be opened for not registered users... Please give me some advices! I know something about online marketing but with what to start, how to make trafiic without PPC?

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