SEO for Forums

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Djshazz, Aug 27, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hello SEO Experts;

    I am a newbie in Internet marketing and Web Business field and started a forum for internet earning and business prospectus, But i am afraid that traffic quality of my site is poor so please guide me step to step (I am using phpBB script) i am nopt showing my forum url because i don't know is it allowed or not ! so please help me out thanks !

    Thanks,
    Regards.
     
    Djshazz, Aug 27, 2009 IP
  2. pokey

    pokey Active Member

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    I would recommend reading Aaron Wall's SEO Book, you can Google his name and click through his website from there. That's a great starting point. From there, you can learn the basics of SEO and enhance your techniques over time...just remember, SEO is not an overnight thing.
     
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  3. Djshazz

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    Can you please pass me the download link, if its possible for you buddy ?
     
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    pokey Active Member

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    Unfortunately everything in life isn't free, however I usually insist on everything be free for everyone though there has been a substantial amount of time put into the SEO Book and he is one of the very few people I would actually recommend buying from. It's a small price to pay to experience some good profit, you'll make it back if you're determined.
     
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  5. Djshazz

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    OOh ok thats nice so can you please give me the link to buy it any ways :p
     
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    pokey Active Member

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  7. akashvista

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    Well running a forum is really a tough task because forums require a lot of initial marketing first of all get people who can provide useful posts for your forums you can hire them, create some kind of contests for your forums like the top 3 highest posters after 3 months get some kind of prizes.

    Do something innovative so that people join you forum and then stay on with it and you can also try to rank your forum in search engines for decently searched key terms but you'll surely have to spend a lot of money in the beginning in getting people to post on your forum, advertising and stuff like that.
     
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    I posted a word "itchy cucumber" in a forum twice over the last 2 weeks googled it today and it come up on the first search page..now i just need to make itchy cucumber famous...fascinating i thought....
     
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    LOL i will google it again next week and see if it comes up here aswell...dont worry about me just learning ...
     
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  10. Djshazz

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    Thats right i will do it but at present i dont even have 1 active member so is there any way to get people know about this site through internet with simple steps excluding spamming because i think this will make a bad image of my site right ?
     
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  11. akashvista

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    If you want to give your forum a jumpstart then first step I'll advice you to do is get some members to post for your forum daily with some informative posts and when you get some good and informative posts then you can announce some of the contests for highest posting and stuff like that.

    You can do some article marketing, have some press releases and then do some advertising on popular sites.

    Contribution from your side is very much required and running a forum is not an easy task for sure so keep patience and follow these things.
     
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    Promoting forums is really a hard tough. I personally experience this. SEO book of Aaron Wall became my best bud to generate success in that campaign. So you better check it out also.
     
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    Sure buddy i will keep in mind all the tips which m gaining fro DP and seniors bussy ! so just keep in touch =)
     
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    submit you site forums to some social bookmarking sites with a High Pr
    press release can help too and so does article submission. well you can
    participate in some forums and get referrals,
     
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    SEO of Your Forum

    1) keyword rich title
    2) meta tags
    3) Well Structured URLS
    4) Back Links

    Traffic for your Forum

    Try to engage following top 10 social bookmarking sites and then get ready for the huge amount of traffic on your Forum.;)

    Here is the list of Best Traffic generating social bookmarking sites lis:

    http://www.seogp.com/blog/social-me...marking-sites-for-webmasters-and-seo-experts/

    Best of Luck:)
     
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    Thank you very much buddy but how am i going to get a well structured URL while running a forum ?

    And please help me more with keyword rich title and backlinking !
     
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    And tell me how to use this social bookmarking sites to generate traffic to my forum ?
     
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    well structured URLs means making your urls search engine friendly have text links as an example "youforum.com/post/15267.html" rather than "http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1474950" which is a dynamic url.
     
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    You mean DP is not Search Engine Friendly ? =P Any ways how can i switch to SEO Friendly urls ?
     
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  20. akashvista

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    I think phpBB allows you to use that option I dont know how to do it but there's surely an option in phpBB to make your URLs search engine friendly.

    As far as DPs URLs are concerned it doesn't matter whether it is search engine friendly or not coz DP gets tons of traffic everyday and has loads of links linking to these pages so not important.
     
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