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Selling advertising space on your forum
Written on 25 Jan, 2010 at 20:01 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Monetization | viewed 4,974 views times | 0 Comments
There are many options to monetize a forum, from Google Adsense, to affiliates such as eBay and Amazon. The direct selling of advertising space is another option. This requires more active work than the more passive methods such as Adsense... (Continue reading)
Suicide threats made in a forum
Written on 23 Jan, 2010 at 21:55 in Member Management | viewed 8,964 views times | 0 Comments
Have you had a suicide threat on your forum from a member? Chances are you haven’t and most forums probably will not have to deal with it. Some forums will and do have to deal with these. What will do... (Continue reading)
Nulled vBulletin
Written on 14 Jan, 2010 at 21:38 in Design & Software, Legal | viewed 592,841 views times | 0 Comments
Nulled vBulletin is not a different version of the forum software vBulletin. Nulled vBulletin is a version of the software that has been hacked to remove the license information. The nulled means it has been pirated and everything that could identify... (Continue reading)
Using a Paid Forum Posting Service to Kickstart a Forum
Written on 11 Jan, 2010 at 17:43 in Forum Management | viewed 28,751 views times | 1 Comment
There are many ways to kickstart a community. One option in the early days is the use of a paid forum posting service – that is paying people to post to get that initial content. There are plenty of sites... (Continue reading)
Monetizing a Forum
Written on 10 Jan, 2010 at 1:40 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Monetization | viewed 27,390 views times | 2 Comments
Forums cost money to run and they take time to run (see a day in the life of a forum admin). If you are in it just for the passion or the money, there are a number of ways to... (Continue reading)
What signals do self-promotional links tell the search engines?
Written on 8 Jan, 2010 at 6:07 in SEO | viewed 4,824 views times | 2 Comments
We all know the importance of building links to web sites to improve traffic and improve search engine rankings. For forums, building links to individual threads is a great way to take advantage of the long tail part of the... (Continue reading)
Monetize a forum with Adsense
Written on 6 Jan, 2010 at 19:43 in Forum Monetization | viewed 6,743 views times | 0 Comments
Google’s Adsense program is probably one of the more effective ways to monetize a forum. Essentially, you place the Google Adsense code on your forum in the template for where you wish to show the advertisements, Google then displays contextually... (Continue reading)
What is DMOZ? Understanding DMOZ
Written on 5 Jan, 2010 at 18:24 in SEO | viewed 7,769 views times | 0 Comments
DMOZ or the ODP (Open Directory Project) is a web directory that so many want to get their websites (or in our case, our forums) listed in to build a backlink to their sites from a site that the search... (Continue reading)
Redirect the non-www to the www url?
Written on 4 Jan, 2010 at 18:47 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 2,999 views times | 0 Comments
Should you redirect the non-www url to the www url for your site? For example http://www.forumdr.com tends to be treated as a different site to http://forumdr.com by the search engines. This sort of handling of domains by the search engines... (Continue reading)
Consider editing the ‘instant email notification of new post’ email
Written on 1 Jan, 2010 at 16:37 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 129,852 views times | 0 Comments
I always make sure that the Default Thread Subscription Mode is set to Instant email notification (this is the vBulletin terminology, but the principle is the same for other forum software). This means that when a reply is made in... (Continue reading)
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