November, 2009

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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
Converting the visitor into a member

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)

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The Welcome Committee to engage the newbie’s

Written on 25 Nov, 2009 at 19:23 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 2,176 views times | 0 Comments
The Welcome Committee to engage the newbie's

On the forums I admin, all new members get an automated welcome email and a welcome PM (private message). As part of that, they are encouraged to stop by the Introductions Forum to introduce themselves and make their first post... (Continue reading)

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A day in the life of forum administrator

Written on 25 Nov, 2009 at 16:49 in Forum Management | viewed 14,023 views times | 0 Comments
A day in the life of forum administrator

What does the forum admin actually do? Below is my hypothetical list. Its a combination of things from several different forums and a number of the tasks are shared with moderators. It is largely based on what I did today.... (Continue reading)

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Reading for beginners

Written on 24 Nov, 2009 at 16:52 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 1,627 views times | 0 Comments
Reading for beginners

I have had a couple of emails about some background reading on running forums for beginners. I suggest everyone starts out with Patrick O’Keefe’s Managing Online Communities. You can browse our Table of Content’s for information. For a free read... (Continue reading)

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Forum metrics to monitor your forum

Written on 22 Nov, 2009 at 20:37 in Forum Management | viewed 3,980 views times | 0 Comments
Forum metrics to monitor your forum

What forum metrics do you use? How do you monitor the health and growth of your forum? There are many ways to do this and everyone has their preferences. I use a spreadsheet and for each month monitor: Number of... (Continue reading)

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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
The 90-9-1 Principle Applied to Forums

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)

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Dealing with vBulletin Spam

Written on 14 Nov, 2009 at 22:53 in Security and Spam | viewed 173,179 views times | 5 Comments
Dealing with vBulletin Spam

The spam posting and fluff posting on forums is not limited just to the vBulletin software, it is just that I am more familiar with vBulletin, so my comments here are directed at that. However, the principles for other forum... (Continue reading)

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A SEO book that is NOT out of date!

Written on 14 Nov, 2009 at 17:20 in SEO, Whatever | viewed 4,562 views times | 1 Comment
A SEO book that is NOT out of date!

I have never been a big fan of books on SEO (search engine optimization) as there can be a very long time lag between when a book is written by the author, the editors do all their work on it... (Continue reading)

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The robots.txt file

Written on 3 Nov, 2009 at 19:39 in SEO | viewed 14,647 views times | 0 Comments
The robots.txt file

The robots.txt is a file that can be used to restrict access to your site or parts of your site by preventing access from the search engine robots as they crawl the web. Most of the time this is used... (Continue reading)

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What do you do about competing forums?

Written on 2 Nov, 2009 at 21:16 in Member Management | viewed 4,081 views times | 0 Comments
What do you do about competing forums?

What do you do when one of your moderators or one of your valued members departs on good terms (or even bad terms) and starts a forum that is competing with yours? What do you do if they start recruiting... (Continue reading)

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What is an “Authority Site”?

Written on 2 Nov, 2009 at 2:40 in SEO | viewed 12,270 views times | 0 Comments
What is an

An ‘Authority site‘ is a site that seems to get an extra ranking boost from the search engines. Somehow, in their analysis of the site and its backlinks profile, the search engine algorithm recognizes a site as being an ‘Authority’.... (Continue reading)

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First Amendment and the “Freedom of Speech”

Written on 2 Nov, 2009 at 1:23 in Legal | viewed 2,488 views times | 0 Comments
First Amendment and the

How often have you had someone try to claim their First Amendment and their “Freedom of Speech” rights? They usually come in response to something like the closing of threads or deleting of posts. Most of those who try to... (Continue reading)

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Monetizing your forum with eBay

Written on 1 Nov, 2009 at 23:56 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Monetization | viewed 12,391 views times | 3 Comments
Monetizing your forum with eBay

The eBay Partner Network (EPN) affiliate program offer another potential revenue stream for forums. It is especially useful to get some feeds of eBay auctions that are relevant to the niche of your forum. There are several ways to integrate... (Continue reading)

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