darnoldy
3rd November 2007, 10:06 AM
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Title: Very powerful "trick" to get more visitors over time
Author: StarBuG
Published: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:09:39 GMT
Full Article: http://www.vbseo.com/f34/very-powerful-trick-get-more-visitors-over-time-17714/
Hi
I just wanted to drop a note here.
When starting a forum the main problem you have is that you don't have much content and without content you don't get many visitors from Search engines.
The easiest way to get content on your forum is to create an extra "News" Forum, find a few RSS Feeds about your theme and use the RSS Feature of vBulletin to post these news into your newly created news forum.
Over time this forum will fill up with hundreds and thousands of news posts which get all listed by google & co and bring in new visitors.
Even if you have an established forum and a good load of content already, it never hurts to have more.
Especially not if it is free and constantly fresh http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif
It sounds like a no brainer but I don't see it very often.
A few tips:
Exclude the news forum from New Posts by editing the link to:
domain.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=ForumID
Exclude it from "the last X replies" if you use the hack.
Exclude it from newsletters and so on.
USE IT.
Your members wount mind and mostly ignore it, but if the RSS Feeds fit your theme you get tons of new visitors over time http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif
StarBuG
(affiliate link)
http://www.vbseo.com/aff/banners/banner_vbseo_468x60_01.gif (http://www.vbseo.com/295_1_1_4/)
Title: Very powerful "trick" to get more visitors over time
Author: StarBuG
Published: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:09:39 GMT
Full Article: http://www.vbseo.com/f34/very-powerful-trick-get-more-visitors-over-time-17714/
Hi
I just wanted to drop a note here.
When starting a forum the main problem you have is that you don't have much content and without content you don't get many visitors from Search engines.
The easiest way to get content on your forum is to create an extra "News" Forum, find a few RSS Feeds about your theme and use the RSS Feature of vBulletin to post these news into your newly created news forum.
Over time this forum will fill up with hundreds and thousands of news posts which get all listed by google & co and bring in new visitors.
Even if you have an established forum and a good load of content already, it never hurts to have more.
Especially not if it is free and constantly fresh http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif
It sounds like a no brainer but I don't see it very often.
A few tips:
Exclude the news forum from New Posts by editing the link to:
domain.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=ForumID
Exclude it from "the last X replies" if you use the hack.
Exclude it from newsletters and so on.
USE IT.
Your members wount mind and mostly ignore it, but if the RSS Feeds fit your theme you get tons of new visitors over time http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif
StarBuG
(affiliate link)
http://www.vbseo.com/aff/banners/banner_vbseo_468x60_01.gif (http://www.vbseo.com/295_1_1_4/)