PR2 Travel Forum after 5 months

Discussion in 'SEO' started by prawn_86, Apr 16, 2009.

  1. #1
    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...
     
    prawn_86, Apr 16, 2009 IP
  2. prawn_86

    prawn_86 Peon

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    #2
    no comments?
     
    prawn_86, Apr 16, 2009 IP
  3. merlinseo

    merlinseo Well-Known Member

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    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
     
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    prawn_86 Peon

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    Thanks very much Merlin, thats a great help. I will implement your suggestions when i get time :)
     
    prawn_86, Apr 19, 2009 IP
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    congratulations and I hope you will get PR 4
     
    Garebooo, Apr 19, 2009 IP
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    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
     
    prawn_86, Apr 19, 2009 IP
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    prawn_86 Peon

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    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
     
    prawn_86, Apr 20, 2009 IP