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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
Using a Paid Forum Posting Service to Kickstart a Forum

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)

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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
Keeping on top of ideas for new threads

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)

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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
Intelligent use of the tags

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)

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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 6,620 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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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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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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Linkvana as a forum thread link building tool

Written on 9 Sep, 2009 at 21:50 in SEO | viewed 115,910 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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