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December 19, 2006

Getcha forum running…

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

Some points from a discussion on setting up a new forum.

The steps to take to get started and make it successful: More »

July 4, 2006

vBulletin and Spammers

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

I’m a moderator on a few forums, one phpBB and the rest are vBulletin. One was a surprise - I hadn’t realised until I started getting reported posts

Personally I find the vBulletin forums better to moderate than phpBB but it’s a relatively close call - until you start banning people and looking for cheats. Then vBulletin comes into it’s own. More »

June 25, 2006

Nintendo Wii ranking dilemmas

Posted by Sarah King in Search Engine Optimisation

A while back I mentioned how a short lived forum demo lasted months in the SERPs. Another effect I’ve found with new sites is that the sites you use for dropping links will kick butt in the SERPs for a couple of weeks until the search engines fully index and propogate the results around the data centers.

A couple of weeks is no biggie and eventually you’ll pop out on top. The thing is, you drop the links from sites you know are indexed well because they’re going to help you and quickly.

So, I was amused to see, on a forum I frequent, that one site owner was requesting link exchanges and a site review for his Nintendo Wii site. More »

March 20, 2006

Indexed in less than an hour! #1 for a month!

Posted by Sarah King in Search Engine Optimisation

SEO experts despair! I launched a small forum recently and as I mucked about at Open Source CMS trying to decide which software to use I renamed the test category “SH20 Activists”.

Open Source CMS refresh their test systems every hour so I know that the forum lasted no more than 60 minutes, and probably considerably less! More »

February 24, 2006

BlogParty’s latest Incarnation

Posted by Sarah King in Search Engine Optimisation

Mike Dammann from BlogParty is one of those people with infectious optimism and energy. His blogs are spawned all over the web and I lose track of what, where and why.

BlogParty now seems to be just a blog, with the forum moving back to it’s blogparty.com domain. Lets hope the hosting is more reliable than some of the others used!

So, to try and drum up some attention, he’s offering $250 in a prize draw for bloggers mentioning BlogParty. The only problem is that by blogging about it you’re likely to increase the number of contestants and reduce your chances of being picked. Damn Dammann!