Your own message board - Why and how?

Written by Suzanne Roman


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- If it's a part of your web site, it should relate torepparttar content of repparttar 124896 site. - Divide your main forum into sub topics, for example "grooming your cat", "cat health" etc. - Start conversations yourself. Newcomers are more likely to reply to a thread then to start one of their own. Pretend you are hosting a party and it is your job to make people feel welcome. - Inrepparttar 124897 beginning you may need to invite as many of your friends to post as you can to help you get things started. - Hold contests forrepparttar 124898 most constructive posts every month to encourage posting. - Allow people to have signatures withrepparttar 124899 URL of their web sites. A lot of people join discussions forrepparttar 124900 sake of promoting their own sites. As long asrepparttar 124901 advertising is subtle, let them.

How to go about starting your own message board

There are lots of excellent free message board scripts, withrepparttar 124902 most popular ones being:

http://www.invisionboard.com/ http://www.phpbb.com/ http://www.yabbse.org/

They come with instruction on how to install them on your server, or you can pay someone a small fee and have it installed for you.

Try not to use remotely hosted free message boards as they can add their own advertising and you won't have complete control over your forum. It is well worth it to install one on your own server if you can.

Starting your own community can be a rewarding and profitable experience so get started today!

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How Search Engines Connect Sellers and Buyers

Written by David Leonhardt


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Are you ready to roll? Possibly. Some of this you can easily do yourself. But there are three places that are worth spending money to help allrepparttar Maggies out there find your website and your book.

The first is choosingrepparttar 124895 right keywords. It might look simple, but "bread baking" might not even berepparttar 124896 best keyword phrase to focus on. It might be "easy bread baking" or "home bread baking". The most searched terms might not berepparttar 124897 best, norrepparttar 124898 term withrepparttar 124899 least competition.

The second is to prepare a link strategy. The "link exchange" pages that are getting more popular each day are also becoming less effective each day. Here are just a few ofrepparttar 124900 linking factors that will affect whether Maggie discovers your book:

•The total number of incoming and outgoing links •The importance ofrepparttar 124901 sites you link to and from •The relevancy ofrepparttar 124902 sites you link to and from •Which pages on their sites and on yours are being linked •What you include inrepparttar 124903 incoming and outgoing links •Where onrepparttar 124904 pagerepparttar 124905 links are placed •How many links are on those pages •How many pages are linked to or have outgoing links •The ratio of links to content onrepparttar 124906 pages involved

You can implementrepparttar 124907 strategy yourself, but it is worth hiring somebody to put it together for you. Askrepparttar 124908 person what factors he would consider when building a strategy for you. If he does not mention several ofrepparttar 124909 above, your money is better spent elsewhere.

The third place to invest is to have somebody knowledgeable review your html code. Chances are that you have missed numerous opportunities to letrepparttar 124910 search engines know your website is relevant, and possibly some opportunities to show it is important.

Discover how to climb the rankings the RIGHT way: Pick up a copy of Don't Get Banned By The Search Engines at http://thehappyguy.com/SEO.html . You might also want to find out how to promote your website with a media relations plan at http://thehappyguy.com/publicity-self-promotion-report.html , or profit from more free publicity ideas at http://www.thehappyguy.com/publicity-self-promotion-products.html


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