Hi all, My travel forum has PR2 after being live for 5 months. Also have about 90 active users. Does this sound like im on track? Im still working hard on trying to get members to post more...
Hi, First of all congratulations you are doing well at the moment with your site As you are using standard forum so no code issues But I would like to say you can utilize more from it SOME Important ON PAGE Suggestions 1. Meta Keywords <meta name="keywords" content="travel,sports,asia,australia,aussie,tourism,tourists,location,south australia,forum,travellers,china,USA,visa,flights,hotels,accomodation,qantas,queensland,new zealand,australian" /> You are not making use of your keywords effectively, You are only using 182 characters when you can use up to 1000. 2. Title tag <title>Aussie Travellers Forum </title> Your title can be used for some of your top Keywords as well, I see there is room for using them effectively . You are using them but more can be accommodated You are not making use of your title effectively, You are only using 24 characters when you can use up to 80. 3. Meta description <meta name="description" content="This is a discussion forum about travel for Australian and world travellers" /> You are not making use of your description effectively, You are only using 77 characters when you can use up to 250. Some Off page suggestions when you run following query link:http://www.aussietravellersforum.com.au or link:www.aussietravellersforum.com.au in google you will see 6 links coming back to you Well its good actually not bad as well Dont mess in increasing drastically which many of us learn hard way You are doing well, try to increase them slowly by putting more links on unique articles , ezines say 5 a month or so as this will help to increase your PR Add one blog on your website , i haven't checked anything except home page but if you dont have a blog add one blog and keep adding good fresh content about travel to australia in your blog, Search engines will come rushing to your website because blog is like dog-food for search engines. make sure you add 5 articles to the blog. Distribute your blog via RSS feeds to increase popularity Don't do any bulk link building because many times the craze to jump from pr 2 to 4/5 will lead into over doing stuffs and then you struggle with google algos and stay back there, so don't do bulk submission do is slowly
I would rather figure out a way to get my member to post more than increase my PR, but i just hope my PR is helping with the search results
Ok i have implemented some of the suggested changes, but its hard work trying to get to 1000char for the keywords! only got to 500 but will ad more as i think of them