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How a free (no ads) site maintain itself?

The past few years a trend has grown concerning a startup creating a webapp, paying a staff and priced hosting and yet offering a service for free and with no ads. Sites like droptask, Geeklist, koding and many others are practicing this kind of…
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Free Places to List a New Site?

I recently launched http://www.comehike.com and promotion has not been easy. I currently have $0 promotion budget and am wondering where are good places to get free links, and some traffic? Any tips or tricks would be appreciated? An example of…
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The name of my startup returns many search engine results - will using it as a domain name cause problems with SEO?

I've come up with a good name for an online service startup that has the .com, .net and .org domain names available for it, and is also available on most social networks that we care about. The bad news is that when I Google this startup name, I get…
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New site. Tons of traffic from Google. Nothing from Yahoo or Bing. What gives?

I've launched a number of sites recently (8-12 weeks) that are getting tons of traffic from google search at an increasing rate (both image and web), but they are getting absolutely nothing from bing or yahoo. what gives? what are some tricks to…
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Social media guide for web startups

I'm looking for a social media guide that would talk me through all the different steps involved with setting up social media for a new website (e.g. how to create accounts on the main social media like Facebook and Twitter, how to get new…
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Are there any risk if your DNS's SOA or admin contact are using the same domain as the DNS

For example, Google.com [1] The SOA email is : dns-admin.google.com The contact is: Administrative Contact: DNS Admin Google Inc. dns-admin.google.com As you can see, both are using google.com, I am thinking it is safe to use the same…
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How to ensure mysql starts automatically if server restarts on Ubuntu Server

Occasionally for various reasons my webhost 'reboots' my VPS after doing some routine maintenance or upgrades. However when they do, or if I reboot the server for any reason myself, mysql doesn't restart. To restart it I need to ssh in and…
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Is there an easy way to do referrer based advertising?

This a bit of a weird question so please let me know if you need more information. For a side project I am working on I need to ability to generate advertising on a specific page based on a specified domain. I have looked a bit and haven't found…
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How do i found developers groups to let they build my own startup?

As for the title, i would like to meet some developers groups to pay them to build startups, doesn't matter where they are located, just they should speak english. does anyone knows how can i found them and where? thanks!
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Got PHP; Need Designer; How Good is this approach

So I was free for a couple of weeks and hence I wrote the php script for a website that I had in mind. To be honest; I am not the best; I am just an amateur; I have read a couple of books (o'reilly) and that is all i know about php. Now my website…
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What's the best way to plan and manage an SEM campaign?

We are launching a site for the local retail arena. Our deals will earn about ten dollars in income. How should we approach SEM marketing and what packages would you suggest to track our marketing spend.
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