SEO for a forum

Sido_vd · #1 (**permalink**) 05-26-2007, 03:46 PM

Hi

Has anyone got any specific advice when trying to optimise a forum with search engines?

chum112 · #2 (**permalink**) 05-27-2007, 02:42 AM

Just use the same principle for seo of a website. Submit to all directories, search engines etc. Let forum posters use signatures as they leave backlinks into telling others about available links.

yogesh · #3 (**permalink**) 05-27-2007, 03:34 AM

Install a google and yahoo sitemap plugin and submit those sitemaps to yahoo and google. I feel this is the most important thing while optimizing a forum for search engine, because search engines have a little bit of a problem while trying to crawl a forum.

st1905 · #4 (**permalink**) 06-05-2007, 04:33 PM

For smf i always use modrewrite function of apache.There is a mod called seo4smf from webmasterstalks and it is an awesome mod for seo.I highly recommend it.

joshua · #5 (**permalink**) 06-06-2007, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by st1905

For smf i always use modrewrite function of apache.There is a mod called seo4smf from webmasterstalks and it is an awesome mod for seo.I highly recommend it.

Yes you are right as this is a great mod for smf as it changes the url from the php session id.I think that all major forums such as vbulletin and phpbb have these kind of mods that need to be installed to facilitate the index process.

neeraj23 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-31-2008, 02:18 PM

It's very easy to post forum site in the forum, many forum don't care if someone is posting link of any forum site. they appreciate it.

seocipl · #7 (**permalink**) 11-11-2008, 07:26 AM

Forum posting is very effective to increase your back link
But only forum post in dofollow site not in nofollow site.....