SEO for your Forum

Posted by Guest Editor 20 November, 2009

First of all I am not an SEO expert. I have worked with a lot of SEO experts in past and so I have come to know some of their basic technques how they used to earn success. Here I have limited my ideas to forum promotion and seo needed to drive in more traffic, to rank higer in Search Engines and to keep a forum going so that it’s value increases. I have seen people selling their forums for as low as $5 when their forum went down and lost it’s value. Again on the other hand I have seen people buying forums for $500 when the forum is active and has generates a lot of reviews.

SO, let us come to the point. What is forum SEO? According to me it is just forum promotion to keep the forum going actively so as to generate a lot of reviews. The first steep in Forum SEO is Forum Promotion. until and unless a forum is promoted, there is no chance that it is going to run activey among a million of other actively running forums.

Here I describe you steep by steep guide for running an active forum.

1. FOROM PROMORION: You can write a press release article and then post it in a lot od do-follow forums. Also, you can post your press release article in some forums that matc your forum niche. You can also purchase signatures on rent. It shall be a chap option as you can get a signature hired for about $5 per 5000 posts in different forums.

2. FORUM BOOSTING: Untill and unless you boost your forum with some good and active posts your forum shall not attract any members. So, the first stage is to Boost your forum. You can contact a forum boosting cervice provider that shall boost your forum. Generally you need to buy a package from those companies. Say, normally a package of 1000 posts shall cost you no more than $250.

3. DIRECTORY SUBMISSION: The next steep is to submit your forum to a lot of directories. This shall not only bring in a lot of traffic but also build quality one way links that shall be useful to increase your page rank. A directory submission to 2000 directories shall cost you no more than $30.

4. ARTICLE SUBMISSION: Article submission to a lot of directories can bring in a lot of traffic as your article shall act as an advertisement for your forum. You can also get a lot of quality one way links for your forum. An Article directory submission to about 1000 directories shall cost you about $25.

5. BLOG COMMENTING: Blog commenting is a useful tool specially to increase your PR as search engines regards backlinks as votes for your forum and your forum shall climb the leather of Page Rank in major Search Engines.

5. HOLD CONTESTS: If you hold specific contests in your forum than it shall help you to gain more popularity as more and more members shall join your forum to win those contests.

I am sure these simple and easy forum promotion steeps shall be helpful to you. I wish you all the best for building a sucessful forum.

About the Author:

Harshajyoti Das , www.forumboosting.in