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Some points from a discussion on setting up a new forum.

The steps to take to get started and make it successful: (more…)

That’s the catch phrase from an Aussie ad campaign but is quite apt when looking at some picks posted by lad called Ottodo.

Ottodo found some picks and in one the rock formations and sky look quite unusual so he posted them online. I was curious so I googled the photo’s image name and Google returned two pages of candidates and there at the bottom of page #2 was the photo.

Ottodo says the series of shots in the photo gallery aren’t his… but they are cool. See http://g.ozq8.com/categories.php?cat_id=647

I’ve been playing around with adding sites to the social bookmarking site Delicious. It doesn’t work for SEO purposes but apparently for traffic it can be useful. I have my own tags cloud for my posts on this blog here but thought it might be interesting to have the Delicious cloud of sites I’ve bookmarked here too! (more…)

We all hunt down ways to push our sites out infront of people and Stu McHenry has come up with the latest cool trick - get as many users as possible to use your Christmas avatar as possible on the major forums. Certainly if you look at the memberlist at DigitalPoint there has been a significant uptake (although this will change after Xmas, I guess).

Whether this translates into a reinvigorated site sift forum or more submissions at his paid directory remains to be seen but it’s certainly created a buzz and people are talking about his logo if nothing else.

An excellent viral marketing campaign so far.