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traffic from directories never was big, but for some people they bring conversions which is definitely good thing.

my hosting do regular backups too(I think they backup databases daily and the rest files on weekly basis). Personally I don't do backups regularly but when I've messed two times in the past with database I've just contacted my hosting and they return me to previous backup which was pretty fresh.

Targetpoint try to match ads to content although I wasn't satisfied with it. It seems they have same problem as AdSence with matching ads on forums.

I strongly believe that it's really depend from the forum topic, it's name and domain. As if you got domain with keywords, name which exactly reflect main theme of your forum and there are not much offtopics than ads displayed on the forum would be well matched and you'll got good income...

You're not alone, Dale, as my business aren't going very well so I'm working all the time including holidays, and know it's not that bad when it bring results.

Good job, Dale! Wonder if most of customers come from Catholic or Orthodox and countries with other beliefs(as e.g. here we have usual working day on 25). BTW I've got 3 orders on 31st which is big holiday here and none is actually working already(these have come from states).

Thanks from me too! I'm going to try it out also. I think that it's unfair on Google side to show everyone how they are care about relevant results but from other side let their ads run on sites like this and have no real way to block traffic from them as we pay money for this. I really wish...

indeed, during holidays people have other problems to solve so not much of them spend money on the web I guess.

Hi Dale, that was long time ago, my hosting provider was linkstream.net with shoutbox that was my fault, I shouldn't use it before checking how it's done, as it actually let you execute code inside it. The only thing which happened is they were able overwrite shoutbox page with blank one, no...

Hi FunSiteMaker, I'm directory owner myself for many years and wouldn't suggest you to start general one at that point, as Google is trying to fight with directories as there are too many abuse in this field. You can see thousands of small directories which have 3 links in total and doesn't...

We don't celebrate Xmas here in the manner as in other countries, we celebrate new year in this way with presents. So on New Year and my birthday which was day after I've got nice handmade pillows from my girlfriend. These pillows aren't for sleeping but to put under your elbows when you work...

congratulations with your new camera! :) Wish I could get such present for xmas ;D Googirl, wonder if you sell photos from gallery or just when people see them? megapixels are important if you intend to do big prints of your photographs or going to upload them to some photo stock, otherwise...

For more than 5 year on the web I was hacked twice. this is also happened to me on the old hosting, one of hosting accounts was compromised and hacker manage to get root access and changed index pages to all hosted sites. I also was hacked when used shoutbox script with vulnerability which...

indeed, unless you have knowledge yourself or have friends who help you out it would be tricky to do and people may quickly loose interest to such forum. Anyway if you decide to create community, send me a message, I'll try to drop by as I'm programmer and your forum maybe interesting for me.

not at all, I just offered help but didn't help yet :) Mike, wonder if you decide to change phpBB for SMF too? ;D

AdSence seems to be not very good solution for forums as you got low CTR on such type of sites, I've got check from Google time after time and that's nice addition to family budget but it's not steady so I'm currently looking for alternative companies which provide CPM banners instead like...

phpMyAdmin (IMHO is must have tool for MySQL programmer) and SMF, the rest things I'm writing myself :)

on 1st of January we've got 0 Celsius at first time, next few days it's rapidly fall to -10 and now keep at this point. We have very few snow, it's not cover whole ground actually and very strong wind, so there was another shipwreck in Kerch straight.

Some traffic exchanges really worked in the past but these times have gone, now there are no quality exchanges I'm aware of and most of them have people who only visit them to make credits and exchange them for money or drive them to site with CPM banners for example. Some time ago I've got...

They seems to be one of the leading companies but therefore they are picky to publishers as well. I've worked with them in the past and although they don't have too much ads for my site they have really good selection of advertisers to choose from. For some reason my account was blocked although...