Questions relating to Webmasters using various Marketing methods to promote their online website(s).
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How to extend syndication of my site
Currently I am using feedburner, technorati, webmaster tools from google, and updating my RSS to twitter & facebook (via twitterfeed). However, I would like to lay out all of the syndication tools ...
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Web marketing: tangible advantages of being on Twitter?
Could someone explain me what could be an advnatage of being on Twitter for a company website?
Except the fact that it's on fashion right now. :)
I'm asking because on so many site I find the "little ...
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Free Places to List a New Site? [closed]
I recently launched http://www.comehike.com and promotion has not been easy. I currently have $0 promotion budget and am wondering where are good places to get free links, and some traffic?
Any ...
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Safe way to send thousands of promotional emails
My new partner has an email list with over 1 Million email addresses for targeted traffic (no spam... only genuine subscribers from his last startup )
But now I have a problem.. how can I sent an ...
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Is it useful to create a Facebook page for a website?
I'm aware Facebook pages can be used as a communication and marketing channel for a website. Is there value in creating a Facebook page for a noncommercial website that is moderately trafficked?
The ...
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How does Wikipedia's SEO work?
I'm currently developing an app for Android and iOS and of course I'm thinking about the best ways to market it.
Last night I Googled somebody else's app and the third link in was a Wikipedia page ...
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What effect if any does “Google Instant” search have on SEO and SEM?
It been a little over a month since "Google Instant" has been released to the public, what effect if any does "Google Instant" search have on SEO and SEM based?
RELATE LINK >> "Google Instant":
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Marketing for Scheduled Online Events
Last year I started working with a team on our first major web project (We, the Pixels). I believe the idea is very solid, but it has a hard requirement for a group of people being on the site for the ...
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Why do some large companies use a different domain for sending emails?
I've received notifications and newsletters from Microsoft and Facebook in the past and noticed that both emails came not from an address such as something@facebook.com or something@microsoft.com.
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Do I have to pay for advertising to get my site known?
If your site isn't going to show up in the search engines until people start linking to you, and no one is going to link to you until they know your site exists ... which will be when the search ...
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Best Way to “Launch” A Site That's Being Developed
I am currently developing a website that will be officially marketed for and "launched" months from now.
This site has minimal content at the moment but will soon start having more and more content ...
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Email marketing service with delayed sending?
I would like to dispatch certain emails to users that sign up for my email communications at a fixed timeframe. For example, send email A after 7 days of signing up, email B after 21 days, etc. ...
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As an affiliate, how do you know if a sale is made?
I want to start doing affiliate marketing on a blog.
Now I have someone who wants to advertise who has contacted me.
How do I know if he has made a sale to a user who came through my website?
Is ...
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Should Marketing departments have basic HTML skills?
Working within an organisation as part of the in-house site development team, a lot of my team's throughput is driven by the colouring-in (marketing) department. It is their responsibility to provide ...
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How do I know my email open rate?
I saw some people saying their newsletter has X open-rate. How can I know this thing?
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Can a web site charge for inbound links
On our company web site, we have a page which lists all the magazine articles and web articles that talk about our products. It makes sense that magazine articles are shown in PDF format because they ...
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What is the difference between a Facebook Group and a Facebook Page
I created a Project Management Stack Exchange Facebook Page to help promote the new Project Management Stack Exchange Site.
One of the users suggested a Facebook Group instead. I use Facebook, and ...
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Advertising Platform CMS
I would like to know if there is any "advertising platform" cms arround, in order to host affiliate marketing tags / banners / etc
Thanks
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Multiple Businesses at The Same Physical Address - SEO / Google Places
I was wondering what kind if there would be any negative effects to have multiple businesses having the exact same physical address on their website. Currently we have five businesses at the exact ...
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1answer
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Strategy to prevent spammers from taking advantage of “Invite by email” feature?
We are developing a web application, and we would like to make it very easy and effective for our users to invite their friends, family and colleagues to view and interact with their content on the ...
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What to do when product range evolves and site name does not reflect this?
Suppose, just as an example, I have a website with domain www.gifts-for-dogs.com.....but after a few years I start selling stuff for Cats and Fish. I may not keep enough of a range of products for ...
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Does anyone know any good resources for learning how to market a web app?
I'm a developer first and foremost. I write web apps but have a hard time generating traffic and converting potential users once I've released my product into the wild. I know I need to learn more ...
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Things we can do with VPS Packages
I am planning for purchase of VPS Package. Beside Webspace hosting, what other features can we provide to our customers?
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Creative ways to build e-mails lists and contact info
What are some of the most creative, ethical, and dare I say fun ways to build local e-mails lists that you have heard of or done yourself? For example--and although not e-mail lists-- Quora, using ...
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What skills in today's market as a webmaster have the most value?
From your experience, based on supply, demand, and effort to learn -- What skills in today's market as a webmaster have the most value? Second, if you were evaluating another webmaster on that skill, ...
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FDA compliant online-marketing of products in the US
For a US site we have to market products for the research market. These products are helpful in medical applications but do not meet FDA requirements. Is a general disclaimer on the site sufficient to ...
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How effectively to promote\publicize my web application?
I have just finished the development of my application. Now I would like to promote\publicize that (I have no money!). What are techniques most commonly used to do that on the web? And the most ...
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Sponsored blog or explicit owned?
I'm trying to convince my client to use a blog to communicate with his audience and promote his site. However, I'm still unsure whether this blog should explicitly advertise the brand as in Nike Blog ...
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Do first impressions really count?
So, i am currently writing something up for a college class. Problem is everything is hypothetical. I need some proof. I believe a first impression on a website is imperative so that people actually ...
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Is “The Art of SEO” book dated?
And if it's dated, what would a good alternative be? Please don't mention blogs or tutorials, I need a book. :) Thanks a lot.
http://www.artofseobook.com/
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E-Mail Marketing “Width”
I am working on building an email marketing newsletter, is there a good general width that I should stick with? I have seen 600 as a number but I am unsure what others have encountered. I need this ...
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How to proceed now , development is done ! [closed]
The project I was working/coding on from last couple of months is done from a development point of view. The project is a lightweight desktop video streaming application in Adobe Air. I also put up a ...
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Ideas for newsletter content for a graphic/web company?
We've just launched our new website and we're looking to include a newsletter that will be sent out once a quarter. We're struggling a bit for ideas on what to include in the newsletter.
There's the ...
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How do you promote your blog or website? [closed]
I tend to get (what I think are good ideas) and I go out and either build software/websites from scratch or use an existing software/tool such as wordpress. But when I'm done, and even though I get a ...
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Big Gorilla Company Compared to Highly Successful Small Company
I am a big fan of 37Signals, and out of curiosity wanted to see the difference between their CRM app (Highrise) and SalesForce's app, in terms of google search rankings and general visitation.
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Google Analytics: Track user from opening email to following link to finishing form
We track the opening of our marketing emails by using the utm.gif image which works well. But, we would like to see how many users go from opening the email, to clicking a link within the email and ...
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How may I provide Google Analytics access to a 3rd party?
I have a marketing guy who is helping me with marketing my website. I want to give him access to my GA page so that he can see the numbers, for performance monitoring etc.
Does anyone know how I can ...
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lead capture apps
I'd like to build a lead capture website, where a visitor is required to enter their name and email address in order to receive a free report for download.
Do you know of an app which will let me ...
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DIY Social media buttons Vs. Ready built (e.g. AddThis)
Is there any benefit from rolling-your-own set of social media 'like' buttons rather than using a pre-packaged widget, such as that provided by AddThis? Are there any downsides from using out of the ...
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Sending a small number of targeted emails, is it spamming?
I have a directory website and I want to send focused emails, a small amount, less than 50 a month, to some of the businesses on my directory that get many visitors.
The intention is to let them know ...
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Where can I find cheap domains for sale?
I have been settling on the .biz namespace for some time because I cannot find any available .com's. However, I run a computer repair business and someone tried to sell me motherboardrepair.com for ...
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AOL and E-Mail Marketing
I offer a paid subscription newsletter service that sends e-mails daily. I have had trouble in the past and currently with AOL E-Mail Address users and did not know if there is anything specific that ...
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What are the tactics used to discover what kind of affiliate products will do well in your website?
I'm starting to post some affiliate ads on my website. As it happens, I am not even close to making a sale.
I'm not sure if the products I have chosen will appeal to the audience I have.
I'm not ...
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What are the advantages of a corporate blog?
I'm going to make a presentation to a few decision makers in the following week and I'm trying to gather good reasons to start a corporate blog. Since we're handling a low budget, it's not in the ...
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Do I create new site or add to existing site?
Suppose, as an example, I have a website with the address, www.cool-gifts.com and I'm getting regular sales and its a worthwhile site, but no great fireworks. After research I find that there is a ...
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Visitors are coming on the site but are not submitting questions for my Q&A site [closed]
Here is my site http://starsQA.com, it's purpose is that it is has stars(actors, actresses, singers, authors) and that the fans(people who like the stars) send in questions for their fav star and they ...
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Why do you need to keep users engaged through your site?
I hope this is an appropriate forum for this topic. If not, I apologize.
To rephrase the question, I am debating a new tactic that some marketers are trying to implement that goes against everything ...
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I need some suggestion: Starting a portal for a local medical community
There is a Medical Community in our town that I would like to approach to build a web portal for them. It could be free or they could pay me for it. Honestly, I'm really after of the community that ...
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Does e-commerce platform matter for branding
The place I work is now looking into developing a new e-commerce site on the Magento platform. Magento will fill all of our needs.
I was just wondering if it is in anyway unprofessional doing it this ...
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What credibility indicators can be used for a new web app?
I understand that when you have an app which you launched an year back or so, its pretty easy to get testimonials from your users which then works as 'credibility indicators' when published on your ...
