September, 2009

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Would you delete a user on request?

Written on 25 Sep, 2009 at 4:47 in Member Management | viewed 2,915 views times | 0 Comments
Would you delete a user on request?

Alongside the issue of who owns forum posts, is the issue of what do you do if a member wants to have all their posts and their account deleted.  More and more people are increasing their consciousness of their internet... (Continue reading)

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Who owns Twitter posts?

Written on 25 Sep, 2009 at 1:17 in Legal | viewed 2,328 views times | 0 Comments
Who owns Twitter posts?

Twitter have updated their terms of service to make it clear that whoever posts the tweet owns it. This is timely as I just wrote about who owns forum posts. See the Twitter announcement here. Apparently the reason for clarifying... (Continue reading)

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Link exchanges are not worth it

Written on 24 Sep, 2009 at 3:51 in SEO | viewed 2,097 views times | 0 Comments
Link exchanges are not worth it

We all know the importance of link building to get a site indexed in the search engines; to have the search engines crawl deep into a site (especially a forum) to index most of the site; and to have the... (Continue reading)

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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 6,623 views times | 1 Comment
Getting the search engines to index all of your threads

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)

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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
Using member profiles as a source of traffic.

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)

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Dates of Google PR updates

Written on 23 Sep, 2009 at 0:40 in SEO | viewed 3,361 views times | 0 Comments
Dates of Google PR updates

Google periodically exports the internal PR data that they update internally on a daily basis to the Google Toolbar for us to look at. The most recent dates of the export were approximately: 7 November 2011 5 August 2011 18... (Continue reading)

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What is your favorite Youtube clip? (off topic thread idea)

Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 3:08 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 5,962 views times | 0 Comments
What is your favorite Youtube clip? (off topic thread idea)

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)

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Google’s link: operator

Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 1:15 in SEO | viewed 8,029 views times | 0 Comments
Google's link: operator

Ignore it….nuff said. For those that want a more detailed explanation: Google allow webmasters to search for sites that link to a web page (not a ‘site’) by the use of the link: operator (ie the backlinks). See this search... (Continue reading)

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What is the Google Dance?

Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 0:40 in SEO | viewed 2,969 views times | 0 Comments
What is the Google Dance?

The Google Dance goes back to the good old days of search engine optimization. Google used to update PageRank (PR) and the search engine rankings (SERPs) on a monthly basis. It was a big event as the updates would roll... (Continue reading)

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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
Use Google alerts to find ideas for new threads

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)

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Best and funniest read in a while

Written on 11 Sep, 2009 at 21:45 in Whatever | viewed 3,042 views times | 0 Comments
Best and funniest read in a while

Twitter Witt is a book I just finished reading in one sitting! I have not enjoyed reading a book lately as much as I did this one. The editorial description says: Twitter Wit is the first ever compilation of Twitter... (Continue reading)

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Linkvana as a forum thread link building tool

Written on 9 Sep, 2009 at 21:50 in SEO | viewed 115,913 views times | 7 Comments
Linkvana as a forum thread link building tool

Building links (getting backlinks) is one of the more important ways to get a site indexed and ranked in the search engines. Directory and social bookmark submission is one of the ways to get some lower value links. I use... (Continue reading)

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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
Treat each thread like a baby or like gold

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)

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How important is a good Alexa ranking?

Written on 5 Sep, 2009 at 4:42 in SEO | viewed 41,644 views times | 1 Comment
How important is a good Alexa ranking?

Basically an Alexa ranking is not important. Having a high or low Alexa ranking does not help a site one bit, unless you want to use it to impress people who are impressed by this sort of thing, but do... (Continue reading)

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How to get Twitter followers, so you get forum traffic?

Written on 3 Sep, 2009 at 0:54 in Forum Promotion | viewed 3,692 views times | 0 Comments
How to get Twitter followers, so you get forum traffic?

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)

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