SEO Tycoon

**sujith.it** · 07-22-2008, 11:46 PM

Hey guys, I was just wondering what you guys thought about Forum SEO. I am just starting out with SEO, and as you could guess, I own a forum. Is there anything that should be done differently, when optimizing a forum?

Thanks,

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**jpablo** · 07-23-2008, 12:39 AM

Will be useful to know what forum software are you running.

**saurabhj** · 07-23-2008, 01:12 AM

You can use SEO Friendly URLs for topics and thread to optimize your forum

**david_john** · 07-23-2008, 02:37 AM

Try to have static urls with post title. Try to control the spam that would come into your forum.

**tehfincheh** · 07-23-2008, 04:51 AM

If you're using vBulletin, get vbSEO. It's a brilliant add-on for improving your long-tail results.

**chrishirst** · 07-23-2008, 06:05 AM

Quote:

I own a forum. Is there anything that should be done differently, when optimizing a forum?

No.

Your users will optimise the content using the same language and terms that searchers will be using.

static looking URLs will make very little difference, making the page titles unique will

**northbeach23** · 07-23-2008, 06:12 AM

Yes, the URL's should be static. You can also promote it by blogging it.

**seo me** · 07-23-2008, 02:52 PM

If your forum is well aged, you should not switch to static URLs.

**homebizseo** · 07-24-2008, 03:50 AM

Use automatic scripts to submit to DIGG.

**milvos** · 08-08-2008, 08:35 PM

Try to get some form of mod rewrite so the URLS and titles are search engine friendly also look at get some posts which are good landing pages created for high searched for terms, this can help bring people to your forum. Also have do follow or signature links this can help to get people posting, and there are plenty of people out there sending around lists of do follow forums blogs etc, you need to get listed in these.

**directorygurl** · 08-08-2008, 09:45 PM

its normally optimize when you have a huge number of member, try to promote your website forums so that member attract to join in your forums.

**pates11380** · 08-09-2008, 12:51 PM

www.VBSEO.com

That is all.

**chrishirst** · 08-09-2008, 06:34 PM

And if the forum isn't running on vBulletin???

**Brandon** · 08-09-2008, 08:13 PM

It would really help to know the script your using, there are SEO mods for just about everything.. I would look into those, make sure all titles and descriptions are unique on all pages, then build quality content and link to those pages.
Do that about 3,000 times and you should be well indexed in search engines and should have a good deal of traffic.. that is, if it's being searched

**sahiba82** · 08-11-2008, 03:36 AM

SEO forums help us to find more information regarding latest techniques in SEO.

**sahiba82** · 08-11-2008, 03:38 AM

Also, whenever we find any problem regarding SEO or need to know about SEO tools, there is no other place beneficial to us than forum.