Hi All, I would like to install vBulletin software in my website. I am unsure whether to choose forum or forums as sub-folder name for this. I like to know which is right usage ? www.samplesite.com/forum or www.samplesite.com/forums Please advise !! Thanks in advance...
I guess it would just depend on what you want. However myself I prefer forums. vBulletin dot com, and dot org use just forum. I prefer forums that have it forums.
It doesn't really matter I guess. I see /forums/ more than /forum/. anyways. I never liked how they use /community/, it's too long IMO.
Forum, and Forums. They are basically the same. They are both easy to remember. One is just a little shorter.
Yes my findings were to use the singular. If you are asking to share my methodology that's simple. Google Wordtracker and common sense. Google - forum results = 4,530,000,000 forums results = 1,780,000,000 So that's about a 3x difference. Wordtracker - search plural and it defaults to singular. Many search engines are smart and understand the difference. So using a plural doesn't benefit you there. It's not always considered a seperate keyword. Common Sense - Which of these sentences are correct grammer? I am a member of a webmaster forum. I am a member of a webmaster forums. Singular is obviously the correct grammar. As the results from google show...the word forum is typed more often and that's should mean it's more desirable.
It's all mixed opinions for this I guess, but just out of general stuff digital point uses forums too. I guess you could say there are multiple forums on the message board hence meaning "forums" can work as well. If you have just one forum on your message board then you can probably call it forum. It all just depends on your taste and how you prefer it. If people complain about either one on your forum you could poll it to find what your users want.
I've the subfolder named as /forum, easy to remember. btw, what do you guys recommend xxforums.in or xxforum.in (just going to get a domain more relevant to the site)?
In my opinion it depends on the audience (most cases country) you want to target. By that I mean in some contries more common is 'forum' while in the others 'forums' is way ahead. The tricky part appears when you deal with multinational audience (it's a lot easier when your site already have some branding done). BeeArcade posted a very good advice on this subject. The only thing I would like to add to it is: Choose more popular/commonly used word around your place (the target audience) and redirect the other one to the first one with, e.g.: - .htaccess 301 Redirect (saving bandwidth, avoid misleading users, need an Apache mod_htaccess enabled), - the automatic redirection metatag inside HEAD section in HTML page (no need for mod_htaccess, but eats your brandwidth and you need a place for a webpage).