niky
Thu 24 July 2008, 02:41 pm GMT +0200
Hey guys, I was just wondering what you guys thought about Forum SEO. I am just starting out with SEO, and as you could guess, I own a forum. Is there anything that should be done differently, when optimizing a forum?
Thanks,
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<snipped> go away spammer!
designer
Fri 25 July 2008, 06:53 am GMT +0200
The same principle applies for SEO on regular(non-forum) type sites, although you must also take note that the forum topics will get indexed and you must use meaningful Sub-Forum titles as well...
TryUsOut
Fri 25 July 2008, 09:56 pm GMT +0200
Forums are a tougher niche to market. Getting traffic to it is one thing but enticing your visitors to register and participate is a whole new different ball game ;) But SEO wise, it is optimized the same way you optimize other sites.
olaf
Fri 25 July 2008, 10:08 pm GMT +0200
hey guys this thread was opened by a spammer ;)
Tucson Web Design
Sun 14 September 2008, 12:34 am GMT +0200
hey guys this thread was opened by a spammer ;)
That's a bold statement. Do you have evidence to share? Otherwise that seems like slander to me.
olaf
Sun 14 September 2008, 08:51 am GMT +0200
That's a bold statement. Do you have evidence to share? Otherwise that seems like slander to me.
just believe me :D
he spammed not only with this thread, the other two posts are spam too (check his count)
classylady
Thu 25 September 2008, 08:34 pm GMT +0200
Well, deliberate or not, this is a pretty good topic and something I'm interested in. So basically to promote a particular forum to the point of registering and participating, one must go through the general "steps" as far as optimizing it on a search engine. Just speculating here, but would it not be a more appetizing place to register if there are more users there to begin with? It would be a good idea to market it in a "beta" sense first giving the first wave of users more access than when it gets launched, right? What else can one do to garner presence to a forum besides a "pre-launch" period?
olaf
Fri 26 September 2008, 06:43 am GMT +0200
Hi classylady,
sure the topic is fine, check the forum for great and real threads on this subject.
Nick has posted great information on how to optimized SMF forums.
Small Business SEO
Sat 4 October 2008, 06:18 am GMT +0200
Maybe its m, but it looks like a straight forward question to me!
designer
Sun 5 October 2008, 09:55 pm GMT +0200
Maybe its m, but it looks like a straight forward question to me!
Yes, they are also real persons behind the posts, and they actually answer their own questions and then link drop all over. Was giving the benefit of the doubt first however...
Luckygirl
Thu 23 October 2008, 01:49 am GMT +0200
olaf can you provide the link? ...