Fresh blood - SEO work for ourselves.
  • Gabriel CroweGabriel Crowe
     
    June 2009
    I think its time that we got some more people, some people flowing via SEO.

    This forum is really just run with love, and not cash, so how can be get a quick boost?

    Malc, can we ahve some of your magic on here please? We want to come high for terms related to getting help and general chat about ecommerce.

    Can anyone lend a hand? perhaps some links from your respective sites?

    Thanks for your help in advance proud citizens of TAS!
     
  • GrantGGrantG
     
    June 2009
    Sounds good and will also benefit all.

    Name your keywords... :p
     
  • Gabriel CroweGabriel Crowe
     
    June 2009
    well, i'm just throwing them out there, but:

    ecommerce chat
    ecommerce help
    selling chat
    help selling online
    starting an online shop
    starting ecommerce
    new online shop

    and probably loads more, some i ahve not even thought about

    if you could all hit your twitter with our url too:
    'need help selling online? try the pros over at www.talkaboutselling.co.uk'

    or something of the sort. and, things like facebook, and such. it cant hurt.
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    June 2009
    First thing to do then is to rename the forums and incorporate your keywords into the title of each as applicable.
     
  • Gabriel CroweGabriel Crowe
     
    June 2009
    woo! lets have some ideas then?

    what do you suggest we rename them to? lets see if we cant get something rolling.
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    June 2009
    Simply renaming them to reflect better what they are about will have good effectes eg open source carts - would become open source ecommerce carts.

    This would allow G to better theme the forum - at the moment its pretty non descriptive.
     
  • Gabriel CroweGabriel Crowe
     
    June 2009
    SEO plug installed.

    we can now use titles, metas, and such, much better control.

    as well as url re-writing.

    woot
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    June 2009
    we can now use titles
    These should link up with the forum titles now and make things much better.

    As always the question is - what is the ultimate aim of the site?????
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    June 2009
    excellent. then our plan worked perfectly:

    *bows*

    hehehe
    If this was the whole aim of this forum then Im pretty pissed:mad::mad:
     
  • DarrenDarren
     
    June 2009
    Ruralweb said:

    As always the question is - what is the ultimate aim of the site?????


    To make me rich so i can retire - oh wrong answer
     
  • ChunkfordChunkford
     
    June 2009
    i always think uk business forums is model to strive to
     
  • Gabriel CroweGabriel Crowe
     
    June 2009
    no, it was an interesting side effect mr malc, only realised after soem wierd events took place.

    originally, i wanted a place to talk about other carts and discuss ideas not allowed on that forum, but what happened was a little bit wierd. i lot of anti actinic talk happened, and i had to adjust the flow accordingly. this is a better place now, and i hope you'll agree, more help happens on the actinic forum, and less biting :)

    trust me, the dulling of the actinic forum was not top of my list. what has happened, is that this place has allowed you (and others) to talk freely about things that would otherwise hurt the actinic forum. like comparison to competitors.

    but that, is for another thread. :)
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    June 2009
    would otherwise hurt the actinic forum
    As far as Im concerned Actinic ruined the Actinic forum and now it only exists because people have so many problems with the software and actinic support is crap.
     
  • Gabriel CroweGabriel Crowe
     
    June 2009
    [edited because i'm not really about to censor someone]
     
  • ChunkfordChunkford
     
    June 2009
    Politics, gotta love it!
     
  • Gabriel CroweGabriel Crowe
     
    June 2009
    ah, fuck it.
     
  • Gabriel CroweGabriel Crowe
     
    June 2009
    so, i'v filled in some meta info on the pages and tuned the clever url re-writing.

    now it uses thread titles and other useful words.

    so, later i'll make sure that the forum titles and metas are pretty.

    thanks to all those people who twittered!

    :D
     
  • GrantGGrantG
     
    June 2009
    If the Interspire thread was renamed to 'Interspire - Tell me about your Experiences', I bet it'd be much higher ranking for 'Interspire' and would bring quite a bit of targeted traffic. Sound good?

    Signature links at all of the forums everybody frequently visits would also be a big help, shame community.*******.com have sensored talkaboutselling.co.uk :(lol
     
  • DarrenDarren
     
    June 2009
    Done

    Thanks Grant
     
  • ChunkfordChunkford
     
    July 2009
    Have you looked at this Mod for VB?

    http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=206169

    Should help with SEO by creating a sitemap for google and yahoo to index
     
  • Gabriel CroweGabriel Crowe
     
    July 2009
    excellent, i'll look into it. :)
     
  • ChunkfordChunkford
     
    July 2009
    This might be another good one to get extra content on the forum. Also it will give users a better idea of what a thread is about, rather than just reading a title.

    http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=200259
     
  • ChunkfordChunkford
     
    July 2009
    Gabriel Crowe said:
    SEO plug installed.

    we can now use titles, metas, and such, much better control.

    as well as url re-writing.

    woot


    Which SEO mod have you used?
    Is it this one? http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=202739
     
  • ChunkfordChunkford
     
    July 2009
    Here's some other ones that might be handy.

    http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=203064 - to make it easier for the rush of new sign ups (facebook connect)

    http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=211638 - Create worthy articles that people will link to!

    http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=194825 - Tag cloud (non relevant but looks nice, and may help with internal linking ;) )

    http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=207314 - Add rel="nofollow" to links, helps pagerank (Debatable)

    http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=207200 - might help with site speed (and we all know Google loves fast loading sites)
     
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