Hi,
I am trying to get my forum in the first page of google under a "Thailand forum" search.
At the moment it is on the 22nd page of goggle.com and 24th on google.co.th
It is http://www.thai-discovery.com/forum
I have been writing articles for it for a month, I suppose it will take 6 or so months.
But any other tips?

^Believe me, if it is only you working on getting onto first page for thailand forum you aint going to get there, I don't think you realise how much work those sites on first page have put in to get there.
And 1 article per week might get you onto 10th page.

I find it funny one of my competitors are on here giving me advice. Which is good I guess.
I have posted nearly 100 articles in 4 weeks with some help ofcourse, I just hope it pays off.
You wouldn't want to just swap forums would you?

100 articles or 100 forum posts? Big difference between stuff on dynamic pages and stuff on static pages.

SEO like for any site / blog

Being a forum doesn't change nothing ...

No I have posted nearly 100 articles all about Thailand and have anchored links back on most of them, some just a normal url. I will do so for the next few months and see where that gets me, but hopeing for a short cut as I am a very busy person.
I would be happy to get from page 5 to 10 at least.

I don't want to appear rude and I haven't read your site, but have you actually got anything of interest on there that people may link to or forward to their friends, that maybe the first thing to concerntrate on.

I have a few things that are in the works right now which will attract people I have collecting info from networking in Bangkok. I have some other ideas too that no Thailand website had that I could find.
Teakdoor has been around a long time, I probably won't catch you guys anytime soon. I think it will take 5 to 10 years at least, but I will get there.

Don't forget, most Thai forums you could delete around 90 percent of the forum postings and it woudn't affect them serps and visitor wise, forums have trouble with basically being filled up with crap that is of no or little interest to anybody in the world, content is the only thing that will get visitors returning, look at stickmans site, he does 1 post per week and gets what, 7k visitors perday? Think about it.

I have some other ideas too that no Thailand website had that I could find.

If it can be done we have already done it, if we haven't done it it either can't be done or is not worth doing







Or we missed it somewhere along the line

Chose a keyword or set of keywords to promote

I will go for less competitive keywords first I think. Thailand forum seems out of my reach at the moment.

42 million results I get, go for easier stuff, Thailand is a big place.

You're not competing against 42 million URLs...

Search for:

intitle:"my keyword phrase"

to find out how many sites in Google's index have that EXACT keyword phrase in their title element.

Search for:

inurl:"my keyword phrase"

to find out how many sites in Google's index have that EXACT keyword phrase in their URL.

Search for:

intitle:"my keyword phrase" inurl:"my keyword phrase"

to find out how many sites in Google's index have that EXACT keyword phrase in BOTH their title element AND their URL.

It's THESE sites that you are competing against. If they are putting that keyword phrase in their title, in their URL, or better yet both then they are trying to rank for that keyword phrase. The others simply happen to have "thailand" or "forum" or "forums" or some othe LSI equivalent keyword somewhere on the page.

The most important thing you need to do is choose a set of keywords suited to your niche.

It's THESE sites that you are competing against. If they are putting that keyword phrase in their title, in their URL, or better yet both then they are trying to rank for that keyword phrase. The others simply happen to have "thailand" or "forum" or "forums" or some othe LSI equivalent keyword somewhere on the page.

So if it is somewhere on a page it should just be ignored? What about if it is an article by cnn that is about Thailand forums, page rank 10, millions of inlinks, serps well, just ignore that as it is just on the page?
For Thailand forum there are now 112 million results in google, do you really believe it is a sensible keyword for a small, new, unknown forum to go for?

Originally Posted by TheDon

"Thailand forum"

Why do you want to rank for that term for? Are there a lot of people searching for that term.

In my forums, the bulk of my traffic does not come from my main keywords - its comes into specific forum threads for the long tail searches --- target them.

See this:
http://www.forumdr.com/the-importanc...h-phrases/228/
http://www.forumdr.com/getting-the-s...r-threads/140/

ie get more backlinks to individual threads of value to capture the long tail.

Use link building

use less popular keywords, as once you become very popular yourself, you can target bigger yeywords such as those, as you will have the correct amount of "manpower" (massive community) that will just dominate it XD

Addition of contents to the websites could be very useful indeed but they may not replace the links effectiveness in terms of gaining ranks and improving the search engines placements. If your forum is a new one, you would need to remain patient for some time because links need to be gained and built in the course of time and constantly.