Keeping on top of ideas for new threads
Written on 30 Oct, 2009 at 15:36 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 1,394 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)
Watch out for these SEO Scams
Written on 29 Oct, 2009 at 17:22 in SEO | viewed 1,398 views times | 0 Comments
If you decide to engage a SEO’er (Search Engine Optimizer) to help with the SEO on your forum, how do you tell which ones to stay away from; which are the ones running a scam?; which are the ones that... (Continue reading)
Ban these members from your forum
Written on 28 Oct, 2009 at 14:29 in Security and Spam | viewed 4,093 views times | 0 Comments
As well as getting rid of fluff posters, get rid of these members if you have them. They have either posted spam messages; or they are joining forums just to link drop a signature link in their profiles; or they... (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)
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)
Sneaky tricks used by the spam link droppers
Written on 22 Oct, 2009 at 3:35 in Security and Spam | viewed 3,103 views times | 0 Comments
I have a low tolerance threshold for fluff posters with links in their signature, let alone in the message posted – I just delete them and ban them as they NEVER become useful members. A number of silly new tricks... (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)
How not to get a site listed in DMOZ
Written on 21 Oct, 2009 at 20:40 in SEO | viewed 4,458 views times | 2 Comments
I have already covered How to get a forum listed in DMOZ, now this is how to go about not getting a site listed: 1. Do not submit a site under construction or a forum with not many members and... (Continue reading)
Bing’s Page Score
Written on 21 Oct, 2009 at 19:35 in SEO | viewed 7,468 views times | 0 Comments
Everyone is familiar with Google’s PageRank or PR score for a website based on Google’s analysis of links to a page. Not many are familiar with Bing’s (formally MSN Search and Live Search), Page Score. You can see your score... (Continue reading)
Does Your Forum Target a Specific Geographic Region?
If it does, you want it to show up in the search engines for that country. All the search engines use geotargeting and the search results are different from country to country (and even from city to city) (more on... (Continue reading)
Submitting a forum to search engines
Written on 21 Oct, 2009 at 1:37 in SEO | viewed 2,096 views times | 0 Comments
Do not waste your time on this. The need to submit a site to a search engine, such as Google, Yahoo or Bing using their add url page went out of fashion last century and has not made a difference... (Continue reading)
Forum Advertising Software
Written on 19 Oct, 2009 at 1:11 in Forum Monetization | viewed 20,023 views times | 2 Comments
There are many options for software to serve up advertisements on forums. The simplest way to do this is to not use any software and to just insert the code for the advertisement (eg Google Adsense) into the template. It... (Continue reading)
Forum Directory List
Written on 17 Oct, 2009 at 16:46 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion, SEO | viewed 38,393 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)
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