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Please How Do I Optimise My Forum for search engines? because i need more traffic to my forum, Thanks.

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Member Avatar for techniner

Do some homework on URL rewriting.

You maximize your exposure to th engines by re writing on target keywords.

Don't be too broad, narrow down to only relevant subject matter and tag urls with keywords.

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Do some homework on URL rewriting.

You maximize your exposure to th engines by re writing on target keywords.

Don't be too broad, narrow down to only relevant subject matter and tag urls with keywords.

Can you give some details about URL rewriting?

Member Avatar for ~Calyxto~

through link building and social bookmarking!

Member Avatar for Oba

Your mean linkexchange?

Member Avatar for Hafsoh

link exchange is part of link building, others techniques includes:
* forum posting in related forums
* ads posting
* RSS Submission
* Directory submissions
* Blogging
* Viral Marketing with ebooks on forum marketing
* Comment Posting on related sites
* social bookmarking
* press release make it news worthy

Member Avatar for Hafsoh

I forgot to optimise your Forum for SE
* Avoid duplicate content - Multiple links to the same content can ruin your site in the search engine rankings.
* You should get active meta tags
* Get links to your content
* Avoid forum bloat by really thinking if what you want to do adds value to the site for the search engines and the visitors.

Hope this will help, i will join your forum soon cos an a Nigerian.

Member Avatar for Oba

Thanks Hafsoh and others.

Member Avatar for AussieWebmaster

also the naming convention of the categories of the threads will help... just make sure they default as the title

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also the naming convention of the categories of the threads will help... just make sure they default as the title

They do already.

Member Avatar for seoindia5

Also make sure not too many people are advertizing in your forum as it may harm your ranking.

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I have only google adsense on my forum as ad, so can google harm google?

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Hey guys,
I'm back to let you know that your advices are working fine for me.

Thanks all for your contributions.

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