Keeping on top of ideas for new threads
Written on 30 Oct, 2009 at 15:36 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 1,393 views times | 0 Comments
Visitors keep coming back if the latest information for your niche is on your site. If they like what they see, they will join as a member. What methods can be used to find content and to get the breaking... (Continue reading)
All forums should nofollow external links
Written on 24 Oct, 2009 at 20:51 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Management, Security and Spam | viewed 7,362 views times | 3 Comments
The spam and fluff posting is getting out of hand on many forums. Too many messages get posted for promotional purposes and to link drop signatures because of advice from SEO Kiddies that this is a good way to build... (Continue reading)
Yahoo! Answers as a Source of Traffic and Members
Written on 24 Oct, 2009 at 18:00 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion | viewed 4,952 views times | 2 Comments
Participating in Yahoo! Answers not only contributes to the community and helps people, it is also a potential source of traffic to your forum and a potential source of new members. Do a search for the keyword(s) related to your... (Continue reading)
Getting through the Admin tasks a bit quicker
Written on 24 Oct, 2009 at 4:28 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 1,507 views times | 0 Comments
Isn’t it frustrating getting through some of the Administrative and Moderation tasks that need to be done in the background. Isn’t it more fun being involved in the forum and promoting it and building it? One tip I got a... (Continue reading)
Intelligent use of the tags
Written on 22 Oct, 2009 at 1:50 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 2,272 views times | 0 Comments
Most forum admins activate the tags but do not really pay much more attention to them than that. I pay a lot of attention to them. Here is what I do with them: 1. I have a predetermined list of... (Continue reading)
Forum Directory List
Written on 17 Oct, 2009 at 16:46 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion, SEO | viewed 38,389 views times | 1 Comment
Building backlinks are an important part of forum promotion for traffic and search engine ranking. Submitting to key web directories is important and submitting to a wider range of directories will also help a site somewhat. It is also probably... (Continue reading)
Adding a favicon to your forum
Written on 17 Oct, 2009 at 15:27 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 2,910 views times | 0 Comments
See how many sites have an image next to the URL in the address bar? When you click on your bookmarks, notice how some have an image beside the site name? These are called favicons – which is short for... (Continue reading)
Where to find a good banner designer?
Written on 14 Oct, 2009 at 17:11 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Design & Software | viewed 7,327 views times | 0 Comments
I have used many over the years and never seem to stick with one for long. A good banner designer that you have a good relationship with are hard to find. I use $20Banners for my own banners and use... (Continue reading)
How to get a forum listed in DMOZ
Written on 9 Oct, 2009 at 3:32 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion | viewed 11,702 views times | 2 Comments
The Open Directory Project or DMOZ is the largest web directory on the internet and is generally considered a directory that is worth getting a site listed in. It is run by a large army of volunteers and is owned... (Continue reading)
Getting the search engines to index all of your threads
Written on 23 Sep, 2009 at 22:20 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion, SEO | viewed 6,620 views times | 1 Comment
I recall reading somewhere that something like 20% of the searches in Google are for phrases that have never been searched for before. It is one thing to target and SEO a forum (or any website) for one or a... (Continue reading)
Using member profiles as a source of traffic.
Written on 23 Sep, 2009 at 15:08 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion | viewed 2,504 views times | 0 Comments
Have you considered that member profiles may be a sources of traffic? If your forum is the sort of forum where many use their real name (especially the case in some specialist niche or industry specific forums) or a name... (Continue reading)
What is your favorite Youtube clip? (off topic thread idea)
Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 3:08 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 5,961 views times | 0 Comments
How is this for an idea for an off-topic thread at your forum? Install a plugin or mod to insert YouTube clips into posts. Start a thread asking member to contribute their favorite YouTube clip. See this example. Make it... (Continue reading)
Use Google alerts to find ideas for new threads
Written on 12 Sep, 2009 at 0:46 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 3,026 views times | 0 Comments
Sign up for Google alerts for several keywords or phrases related to your forums niche or industry and get a daily email of news, blog posts and web information related to that niche or industry. The alerts monitors activity for... (Continue reading)
Treat each thread like a baby or like gold
Written on 9 Sep, 2009 at 19:51 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Management | viewed 5,139 views times | 0 Comments
Nurture each thread into being a great resource on the topic of the thread, so when visitors come to the site, they are impressed; they stay and look around; they join as a member; they contribute; they happy; they click... (Continue reading)
Submitting to link directories and social bookmarking sites
Link building is time consuming and can often feel unrewarding for the effort that is put in. It is still an important way to improve traffic to your forum and to help with the link popularity that is so important in... (Continue reading)
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