| LED Digest 2044: What Makes Communities Work? |
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================================================== The LED Digest Moderated Discussion List "Effective Online Advertising, Since 1997" pair Networks: The LED's Web Host Hosting and Domain Reg. from a Trusted Leader pair.com for Hosting | pairNIC.com for Domains ================================================== List Moderator: Published by: Adam Audette LED Digest post, led-digest.com http://www.led-digest.com .............................................. November 3, 2005 Issue #2044 .............................................. .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ====== NEW ====================== --== What Makes Community Sites Work? ==-- ~ Ian Smith "What makes these sites sticky?" --== Where to Start? ==-- ~ LilianPhuong Dang "I don't know where to start to get people to come to my website." ~ Don Coggan "...I would like to know if anyone has any suggestions..." ==== CONTINUING ================= --== Site Search ==-- ~ Tony Gschwend "I have used a search engine from Fluid Dynamics... ==== BILLBOARD =================== --== Google Droppings ==-- ~ Sanjeev Sachdeva ======= NEW ===================================== From: Ian Smith Subject: Community Websites > Can the (non-commerce) Internet be boiled down to > "communities" (whatever we define those to be) like > this one? Also - post some new topics you'd like to discuss! - Adam Hi LEDers, I have a topic that I'd like to bring up because I'm looking at trying to do something in this space. I'd like to know what experiences (good or bad) other people have had with building and monetizing niche community websites (or blogs). I'm not really talking about sites like Craigslist or MySpace which have become more like tools, rather I'm interested in sites more along the lines of joshreads.com or bluesnews.com or even slashdot.com. What makes these sites sticky? What features do people use? And how do you convert an audience interested in your daily content into some kind of cash flow? Any and all ideas welcomed! Ian Smith ------- new post - new topic ------- From: LilianPhuong Dang Subject: Internet marketing - Where to start? Hi, I am setting up a new website to sell maternity wear. I don't know where to start to get people to come to my website. Any suggesitions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. LilianPhuong Dang ------- new post - related topic ------- From: Donald Coggan Subject: Political Sites Hello fellow LEDers My son will be running for the Green Party as a member of the National Assembly in upcoming provincial by-elections here in Quebec, not yet called, but likely in early December. His riding has about 40,000 people, a mix of city demographics and a history of voting Liberal, although the race has become increasingly closer over the years. His party has the usual site, but I would like to know if anyone has any suggestions as to how I could help him with a separate web site devoted entirely to his election. I would start the build at the end of October and have 4-5 weeks for it to produce results. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Don Coggan don at coggan dot com ===== CONTINUING ================================= From: Tony Gschwend Subject: Site search > On the topic of site search, has anyone found a good > search engine that will spider any site that we want it to? - Renee Kennedy, LED 2043 I have used a search engine from Fluid Dynamics Software Corporation that works really well. The URL to their site is http://www.xav.com/ The Fluid Dynamics Search Engine (FDSE) will index any site or sites that you choose. Tony Gschwend Humble Web Guy ==== BILLBOARD =================================== From: Sanjeev Sachdeva Subject: Google Natural Listings Sometime this morning (Monday) my website http://www.designerdiscount.co.uk (Est. 1999) dropped in the Google natural listings from about number 6 to somewhere that I can't even find! It has constantly been appearing at around number 6 for the last two years or so and now, I just can't find it! Anyone have any suggestions why this may be and how I can get it back?? Thanks in advance, Sanjeev Sachdeva http://www.designerdiscount.co.uk/ sanjeev, designerdiscount.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------- The LED Digest is sponsored by pair Networks: pair.com for Hosting | pairNIC.com for Domains Copyright 1995-2005 Orange Wheel, LLC. All Rights Reserved. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." - William Blake |
