Do you consider video blogging a form of blogging? Also known as "vlogging", video blogging is a means of expressing yourself online by recording yourself with a camcorder or a webcam and posting it on various video sharing sites, such as YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. The videos can be embedded on a personal website or on forums.

What do you think about video blogging?

Ever since it was purchased by Yahoo!, tumblr seems to be dominating among the online blogging platforms. So many people use it nowadays! From serious bloggers posting well-written articles about all sort of social and political ideas, to teenagers who post random photos and animated gifs - almost everyone I have met online has a tumblr account.

What do you think about tumblr? Do you use it?

If bing and Yahoo! merged after Microsoft bought Yahoo!, then why are the search results they offer for the same keywords different? Shouldn't they be using the same algorithm? Did Microsoft change Yahoo!'s algorithm after it purchased the company?

Some webmasters use Google Analytics from the first day they launch the website, while others prefer to wait for a few weeks or even months, to get the site some exposure, to allow the crawlers to discover its content, before using Analytics...

What do you think? Which is the best time to start using Google Analytics on your site? From the beginning, or later on after the site grows a bit...?

Hello guys,

My name is Ian, and I'm 21 years old. I found this great site on one of the promotion forums and I'm looking forward to post here and be active.

It's a pleasure to be part of the community.

Google AdSense is probably the most popular web-based advertising company. But if your account gets banned due to random reasons (as it happened to thousands of users), Google's support is pretty much non-existent, so you have to turn to an alternative.

Which are the best alternatives to Google AdSense you have used or at least heard of? The top three I have seen around are: Adversal, Chitika and InfoLinks, but there are others too. Let's talk about them in this thread.

Everyone has probably noticed that many times when you search for certain terms on Google, there are a few YouTube links among the results. The integration of Google+ with YouTube has made YouTube an important source of do-follow backlinks. Do you think that promoting your site in YouTube comments and YouTube video descriptions can have a significant impact on its ranking in Google search?

What do you think about Duckduckgo? It is one of the most famous search engines that emphasizes on protecting its users' privacy. They have their own algorithm, they don't use Google's or Bing's, and their FAQ page says that high-quality backlinks from websites like Wikipedia can make your site rank on the first pages of Duckduckgo.

Do you use Duckduckgo? Have you noticed any traffic coming to your site from this search engine?

This is the most obvious question that i heard every now and then. "How to get people to join your new forum?"
Well the first thing is that there is no general procedure to follow to get new members. But there are some way that can help you get members to your new forum.

First Impression: Design & Looks
The first thing that all forum owners should care about is the design and looks. The best way to determine how is it, is very simple, ask yourself the question "Why will you join the forum??". Look your forum through the eyes of a new visitor & ask yourself these questions "Is the true purpose of this forum is highlighting in the main landing page?", "Does each and every branches of your niche (that you want to keep in your forum) are clearly divided into forums and categories??, "Are there sub-categories highlighting themselves properly through sub-forums??", "How does your forum looks? Does it looks like a customized forum makes a professional impression or simply reflects the impression of your forum scripts default looks??" etc. Once you have the answers to these questions you will definitely find your way to kick start your forum.

Professional looks to a forum is very important factor, it makes a heavy first impression to the visitor. The more your forum becomes personalized the more its better.

Note: If you have not bought any professional themes for your forum then my suggestion for them are; First of all change the default color of your theme, place a customized head banner for your forum, put a good personalized favicon image (or signature image), & lastly change all the category forum images.

First Impression: Content Wise
Content is the king factor for any blog or forum. Suppose a new visitor comes to your forum he/she gets impressed by your forum design, categories etc & then he/she does not find anything useful content inside your forum. Do still they will join your forum?? The straight answer is “NO”. If your content is truly great then the design or looks can’t even matter for your forum to grow.

The most important factor is that your forum must not look empty according to content. The more is the content the better. Forums means online discussion boards but it does not mean that you only have to post discussion type articles in your forum. Post blog type articles, how-to’s, tutorials etc in each category and sub-forum. Atleast 3 to 4 in each section this will help you to build the elemental structure of your board. Make 1 or 2 posts which are really important to the category “Sticky Topics”. After doing that make a minimum 10 posts in each category which are discussion type, focus on the hot topics of your niche while doing it.

........to be continued

What you guys think?? Is it possible that facebook ads will become more people and gain importance in the ad world beating the Google adwords??