He there, I'm having a Educational forum here http://www.project-bb.org/ I've done so many things for SEO, but still unable to find out what i'm missing. Let me tell you what I've done till now. 1) Meta Tags Mod for settings the meta keywords & description of each page. 2) XML & HTML Sitemap for better crawling of my site. 3) Submitted site for many directories (I think its not working) 4) Logged in Webmaster Tools & Submitted my Sitemap there. Also made some settings there. 5) Also submitted some the site RSS using RSS Submitter. Which things I'm missing. I'm still not getting good search results for particular terms while comparing with my competitors. I've load of contents. Some of them are copied and some are genuine. Also I'm getting members by advertising on friends site members. But i need genuine members from Google search results. I've also analyzed the Result queries for the persons reached to my site. Those queries are not related to main aim of my site. Also about backlinks, i don't know how to create backlinks as i'm getting zero results for backlinks. I will be more than happy if someone helps me in making that thing possible. Thanks in advance. Hope I will get Good response.
You have to get links from High PR pages of relevant websites to your site, or you can use forum posting signature to get relevant links to your site this is more important in SEO process than everything else
I had written some information on what I have done to optimize some of my smf forums here: http://www.jerry-bell.com/search-engine-optimization-for-the-simple-machines-forum/ In fairness, there was a lot of discussion on my ideas on the SMF site. You can read through them here: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=251309.0