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The Value of Facebook Advertising for a Forum
Written on 25 Mar, 2011 at 21:21 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion | viewed 2,315 views times | 0 Comments
I was just checking the metrics for one of the forums I run and was surprised to see that Facebook was second to Google as the referring site. Given the recent Panda update that Google did that did affect traffic... (Continue reading)
How to get traffic to your forum
Written on 26 Mar, 2010 at 2:09 in Forum Promotion | viewed 20,488 views times | 0 Comments
As part of the 90 9 1 principle of forum participation, getting traffic to the site is of prime importance to build up the 90, so the 9 builds up and then the 1 (ignore that actual numbers, as it’s... (Continue reading)
Converting the visitor into a member
Written on 29 Nov, 2009 at 3:43 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion | viewed 7,756 views times | 0 Comments
As part of the 90 9 1 principle or theory of forum participation, one of the strategies is to convert the visitor to the site into a member (ie convert them to the 90). Getting the visitor by a variety... (Continue reading)
The 90-9-1 Principle Applied to Forums
Written on 18 Nov, 2009 at 20:15 in Forum Promotion | viewed 7,121 views times | 0 Comments
Essentially, the 90-9-1 rule states that in a social community, 90% are lurkers, 9% contribute a bit and 1% contribute a lot. Jake McKee is a strong proponent of the theory and has a whole site devoted to it. Some... (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)
Twitter being used by Google and Bing
Written on 22 Oct, 2009 at 20:55 in Forum Promotion | viewed 1,858 views times | 0 Comments
Both Google and Bing this week (23 October, 2009) announced that they have agreements with Twitter to include Twitter updates in their SERPs. Bing have launched their Twitter search (only accessible by those in the USA at the moment). Google’s... (Continue reading)
Forum Directory List
Written on 17 Oct, 2009 at 16:46 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion, SEO | viewed 38,392 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)
Article Directory Submission
Submitting articles to article directories is another one of the link building strategies that can be used to build links for a forum. There are 100’s of article directories available and most are not worth it, as the search engines... (Continue reading)
Submitting to Web Directories
Submitting to directories is one way of building backlinks to a site that are needed to rank well in the search engines. Is submitting to web directories worth it? Not a day goes by in which many people in SEO... (Continue reading)
The importance of the Long Tail search phrases
The so called Long Tail is an important concept in understanding the keyword phrases that can bring in traffic to a website. The Long Tail is probably more important to forum’s traffic than a regular website. Here is a video... (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)
How to get Twitter followers, so you get forum traffic?
Written on 3 Sep, 2009 at 0:54 in Forum Promotion | viewed 3,691 views times | 0 Comments
Other posts have discussed the Twitter basics and how to put for forum RSS feed onto Twitter. Once you have it on Twitter, you need to get followers so they can see the new threads in your tweets and come... (Continue reading)
Send your forum RSS feed to Twitter
Written on 27 Aug, 2009 at 21:20 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion | viewed 14,585 views times | 2 Comments
The easiest way to get your message across on Twitter is to use Twitterfeed. It simply posts your new threads via your RSS feed on to Twitter. Set up a username with your main keyword, so anyone searching for it will... (Continue reading)
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