Optimize the welcome message for the visitor and the search engine
Written on 23 Dec, 2009 at 23:36 in SEO | viewed 1,001 views times | 0 Comments
It is always a good idea to optimize a site primarily for a few main keywords that you are targeted for a search engine ranking, but at the same time implement strategies to get all your threads indexed so you... (Continue reading)
Do forum signature links help a sites ranking?
Listening to the SEO kiddies on some SEO forums, you can’t help but notice how they heavily promote posting in forums to link drop signatures and profile spam as a way to help build backlinks to a web site to... (Continue reading)
A SEO book that is NOT out of date!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)
What is an “Authority Site”?
Written on 2 Nov, 2009 at 2:40 in SEO | viewed 1,515 views times | 0 Comments
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)
Watch out for these SEO Scams
Written on 29 Oct, 2009 at 17:22 in SEO | viewed 470 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)
Submitting a forum to search engines
Written on 21 Oct, 2009 at 1:37 in SEO | viewed 634 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 Directory List
Written on 17 Oct, 2009 at 16:46 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion, SEO | viewed 3,077 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 important... (Continue reading)
What is Link Juice?
Written on 16 Oct, 2009 at 21:13 in SEO | viewed 5,238 views times | 0 Comments
Getting backlinks to a site is an important part of the search engine optimization (SEO) process and helping a site get all its pages indexed in the search engines and ranking well in them. Link Juice is the term used... (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)
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 clip... (Continue reading)
What is PageRank?
Written on 12 Oct, 2009 at 21:03 in SEO | viewed 727 views times | 0 Comments
PageRank (PR) is the term that is trademarked and an algorithm patented by Google. PageRank is the link analysis algorithm named after one of the founders of Google, Larry Page. The algorithm assigns a numerical value to each page on... (Continue reading)
How I pretend search engines rank sites
Written on 9 Oct, 2009 at 6:42 in SEO | viewed 1,249 views times | 0 Comments
I like to think of the ranking of a site in search engines to be a conceptual formula. This is not how search engines actually rank a site or page, but pretending it does it this way helps understand what... (Continue reading)
The SEO Kiddies
If you hang out at SEO forums long enough you get to recognize the SEO Kiddies. They are the ones that: 1. Always want to know when the next Google PR update is and expect their sites ranking to change when... (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 979 views times | 0 Comments
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)
Dates of Google PR updates
Written on 23 Sep, 2009 at 0:40 in SEO | viewed 499 views times | 0 Comments
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: (4 Jun 2010)* 3 Apr 2010 31 Dec 2009 30 Oct... (Continue reading)
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