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Shawn has added a new option for DP members — paid accounts.

The new paid accounts come with a few privileges:

• A new private forum
• Storage of up to 5,000 PM’s
• Storage of PM’s for up to six months
• Bold usernames
• Bold usertitles
• Editable usernames
• The ability to continue to have 4 signature links
• Customizable user profile page
• Automatic sticky-status for B/S/T threads during their first and last two hours
• Special colors for threads in the B/S/T forums

This is a great start!  vBulletin has a lot more features that can be enabled for premium users, but this is a move in the right direction.

Unfortunately, this move was accompanied by a sudden restriction of “normal” forum users by reducing the number of links in their signatures from four to two.  This caused enormous troubles for people who had sold signature links and now cannot deliver what they had sold.  This is costing a lot of forum members significant amounts of time to renegotiate closed sales, as well as lost revenue from refunds and decreases future sales.

The costs of premium membership are:

• 1 month – $25
• 3 months – $50
• 6 months – $75 ($80 if non-recurring)
• 12 months – $125 ($130 if non-recurring)

The signup page is here.

If Shawn can sign up only 1,000 premium members, it will raise between $10k and $25k a month in revenue which can then be used to improve the forums.

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Shawn recently opened the Revenue Sharing Maybe Going Away… thread to discuss turning off revenue sharing.

The concept was reasonably well received and has now been implemented.  Revenue sharing is gone from DP.

This change allows Shawn to experiment with new ad models to improve DP revenue.  More importantly, it reduces one of the incentives for people to spam the forum with large volumes of low-quality posts.

I think it’s a good move for DP, but only time will tell if I’m right.

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I have removed the Tip Jar from DigitalPointing.com.

Instead, if you would like to donate, I encourage you to visit DigitalPoint’s Donations Page and contribute to DP’s hardware fund.

DP’s current servers cost $85,043.84, but the hardware fund has only raised $63,172.15 thus far.

Your contributions are appreciated!

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Hello DigitalPointers!  Most of you know me as Will.Spencer from the DP Forums.  Some of you also know me as Will.Spencer from NetBuilders.

I’m a long-time DP member.  I was member 211 when I joined on 13 April, 2004.

I’ve been banned three times, so I know both sides of the fence at DP.

I’m a pretty serious SEO and webmaster, although I spend most of my DP time in the B/S/T forums these days.

I’m one of the admins at NetBuilders, and I spend more time there than at DP. With Shawn’s recent return, I expect that a lot of the long-term problems at DP will be resolved and it will once again become a fun place to hang out.

I feel pretty positive about the changes Shawn has made already and I’m anxious to see what he will roll out next.

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Hi there,

Its quite some time now since I have made my last post at DP. It’s an addictive webmaster forum. And I don’t like to stay away from it more than a day lol joking … I’m not that addicted though. But I like stay there and see what others are doing. Most of the times I simply stay quiet.

I have been a bit busy the last few days. Yup, I got some programming related projects. Still in it – got some free time – so thought I should inform you lucky guys who is reading this crap atm lol … Ahh, I write crap though not always …

stay tuned ….

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Got banned from DP or what? If you are here reading this post – then surely you might be one of those who might have got banned and trying to find an alternative for DP. Or you might be just looking around what others are saying after they have been banned. Or you might be planning to join those who have left DP after getting banned. If none of the above situations match – then you might be trying to get some information regarding how to avoid DP bans in the future and how to remove the ban that you have got already or at least the period of the ban to some 1-2 weeks if its for more than a month. Yup, sometimes the mods ban people for more than a month. I have heard people saying that they had been banned for about 8 months or so in the past for doing something stupid unknowingly.

Are the mods who are to be blamed?

I don’t think that it is only the mods who should be blamed. Mods won’t ban anyone without reasons. It should be the responsibility of the members to read the rules of the forum – and stick to it while posting there at DP. Even after a lot of crazy bans from the mods, people are still making the same mistakes. I won’t blame the mods – and I have reasons to support it – I have seen threads which are posted by members that are against the rules – like-  some are asking to pm them in threads (which is not allowed in DP) – but still, not all of them are banned. I think mods are giving chances to members before they are banned. We should here what the mods have to say as well – actually they are not bothered about these things – and won’t blame them again – they would be having lots of things to do – DP is a huge forum and controlling it is not a kids game! Members throw frustrtations over the mods after they are being banned – who knows these people might have been banned after giving lots of chances! But they won’t tell about those things while complaining about the mods. At the end of the day, if you are looking to make some good reputation there at DP and trying to stay active there in the community, then follow the DP rules – otherwise get ready to get banned!!!

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Why should I keep quiet? Everyone in the blogosphere is talking about google and its latest announcement about no follow tags, links (whatever!). But something, we people didn’t knew is :-

["Google had taken that step an year ago !! None of us noticed ! We might not have noticed ever ! But we came to know about this when MattCutts told about this in his blog post about page rank sculpting!! --- "]

And, I don’t think there is any use in discussing and complaining about it. Yup, many are complaining about this – that – “why didn’t Google announced it earlier? ” – well, we didn’t even notice anything because of that change! Then why should we complain now??? Anyways, we at digitalpointing don’t have any complains. We were not using no-follow tags anywhere – and we were allowing pr juice to flow all over the site and to other sites equally!!!

Now, it is time, that we should learn something. Something that would benefit we webmasters. Matt did a good job by telling something about whats happening behind the scenes at Google. Before we discuss about what to do, let’s once again ( I know you guys have read numerous blog post regarding the new announcement by google,  anyways, just one more from us also) , read what’s the real Google Announcement about page rank sculpting and about use of No-follow tags for linking to pages.

 If a page had 20 page rank points. And suppose it had 5 do follow links and 5 no follow links, then do you know how much PR juice the links with do follow tag get? Well, before that you must know something.

You should know how google calculates the PR juice. Well, one more thing that you should understand is :- links with no follow tags won’t get PR juice BUT they will affect the PR juice of do follow links – even though no follow links don’t get PR juice they will evoporate the PR juice that would have gone throught the do follow links.

Earlier, full PR juice used to go through do follow links – BUT now ( from the last year onwards ( we came to know about this only now) , PR juice won’t flow fully through the do follow links – if there are no follow links, then it will decrease the amount of PR juice that flows through do follow links – and that doesn’t mean some PR juice will flow through no-follow links – NO PR juice will flow throuhg no-follow links – BUT they will decrease or evaporate some PR juice that would have otherwise gone through do follow links!!!

So, what should webmasters do from now on:-

1- Nothing special! Just give importance on quality content. And as far as I know, Google gives importance to quality content than anything!

2- Link wherever you want- but keep in mind that you link to things that have something to do with your niche. That’s because google loves sites that link to quality sites related with their niche. So, don’t remove the comment section of your blog – let people who are related with your niche link to their website!

That’s it for now!

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Making money by flipping websites is something similar to making money from real estates. Flipping websites can be treated as a flipping a virtual real estate. Here you are creating/buying a website and then selling it for profits. It is that easy, and I don’t wish to make it any tough by telling BS crap !

So, let’s get into …

First of all you should decide whether you are gonna create sites on your own or buying them from others? Well, if you are thinking of creating websites from scratch, then either you should have designing, and web programming skills or you should hire a freelancer.

Then you’ll have to bring traffic to the newly developed site. It is the toughest thing. And this is one of the factors that will decide the price of your website. I’ll be telling you how to bring in traffic in some other posts.

That’s it. You can then sell the site for profits !! Experts website flippers earn like 200-1500 % ROI (return over investment) or profit !!

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Hi there,

Have you ever wondered how other fellow members of DP makes so much of money just by posting, posting and posting at DP, and doing nothing other than that? There are many members out there who are with no skills like programming, designing, etc. But still they make money online from DP. But how?

Well, if you are planning to make money from DP like those people, then just do what they are doing ! And there’s nothing more to learn. It’s that simple. I’ll tell you what to do.

—–> Try to do at least 50 posts per day at DP.

I’m not responsible if you get banned for posting crap here and there. I hope you know what to post and where to post ! Well, here is a quick tip :- posting in the general section is a good idea since you’ll find people like you who are looking to just increase thier post !! So, there wou’ll find threads like “which is your favourite website” , “how do you spend your free time ” etc. So, it won’t be difficult for anyone to make at least 50 posts per day.

This way, in 30 days, you’ll be with 1500 posts !! And for 1500 posts, you’ll be getting on an average $ 10 per month for one signature spot. You can place like 4 signature links there in the signature section. So, you’ll be able to sell 4 signature spots!! That means, if you are ready to do 50 posts per day, then you’ll be making  ( 10 X 4 ) = 40 $ per month !!! after doing 1500 posts the first month. If you repeat it the next month, then the number of posts after 2 months will be 3000 and you’ll be getting 80 $ by selling the four signature spots !!! This way, if you continue for 1 year, then you earnings will skyrocket in not time !!!

Not just that, you’ll be getting what is known as those precious I-traders (which many thinks that is of a great value !! ). And thus, like others, you’ll also be treated as a reputed member at DP.

Check out this post if you are one of those who got banned from DP forums.

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Did you ever thought about how internet got invented and who invented the internet ? Did you? Well, most of us use internet for our daily needs. But we never bother about such things. We are so bust that we even forget to say a thanks to those who helped us somehow, let it be directly or indirectly. But let me tell you one thing. At least now, try to find out who invented the internet.

Do you know who invented the iPod ? You might have been using it for years now. If someone asks you who invented it, you might not be in a position to answer it. But why? With internet in your finger tips, why are you not bothering about these things, which are ought to learn! Can you think of a day without Ipod? I don’t think so.

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Ever took the pain of understanding how the things that you use daily in your life were invented? Don’t you think you should at least try to learn about the people who are behind the gadgets,  electronics equipments that we use daiy in our life? If they hadn’t took the pain of inventing it, do you think life would have been this easy and of fun? Well, I don’ t think so. Like me you also would be a big fan of Ipod. Recently, I came to know about the History of the iPod from one of the websites that I visit daily. I was shocked seeing some of the information about Ipod there. I didn’t know those things before.

One of the things that I use most is television. I can’t think of a day without television. The uses of it are many, as well all know. I know who invented it from my chilhood days. But till now I didn’t thought about knowing the History of Television. Why are we so? Are we so busy?

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Have you ever worked with databases? If yes, then you’d be knowing the power of a database. A database is actually the backbone of a site. And if your website, doesn’t doesn’t have a database, then it’s a different case. Here I’m talking about Database Guides and Database Indexes – these are things which are easy to understand if you are willing to learn about it and use it in your website.

Well, indexes are something about which you will be learning at first when you start researching about databases. In each and every table, it is a good option to have an index. Indexes are something will allow us to program the site in a much better way, which otherwise wouldn’t have been possible that easily. So, it’s all about our efforts.  I’m saying that you must use databases and indexes in your website. But I’m trying to make you understand about the importance of Database indexes.

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Have you ever came across a DocX file? If you use internet for your daily needs like me, then you might have surely came across this format which is from Microsoft. There are a lot of users who use MS-Word for their day today needs. And the documents that they save are mostly in the docx format. Well, so if  you are not with Ms-Word, then how would you be able to read those documents that are in the docx formats?

I have come across such situations many times. Yup, that’s true. Even yesterday, I was looking for some info in a website, and I ultimately found what I was looking for. I got the link to the document and when downloaded it, I couldn’t access it. The reason was – it was in the docx format and the text editors with me couldn’t open it, neither I was having Ms-Word. So, is there a solution to this?  Is there a good Docx Converter ? Yeah, there is one. I have been trying to find one,  and at last I found one. It is the ultimate Docx Converter

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Today, while I was browsing net, I found a new site which will allow you to advertise your site for free. You’ll able to place a banner in their site and there is no need to pay for it!!!

Not just that, it is a PR 4 site !!!

Advantages of using this cool site are :-

1- You’ll be able to advertise your site for free.

2- Free traffic (since the site gets fairly good amount of traffic daily)

3- Improve the pagerank of your site ( the site is a PR 4 site ) – so you’ll be getting juicy backlink to your site for sure.

4- No need to register. It takes just seconds to advertise your site.

5- You can upload a square sized banner of your site, and it will be displayed in th homepage itself !!

I know you’ll be in a hurry to join the site before others do it.

Here is the link to advertise your site for free !!! in a PR 4 site.

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