Archive for the 'Forum tips' Category

Targeted forum spamming

Lately I have been observing a steady increase in targeted forum spamming; my travel forum is being spammed by people who belong to the travel niche!
On one had it means my forum is gaining popularity, on the other hand dealing with this type of spamming has become time consuming. This is due to the fact [...]

Ten mistakes that can ruin your forum

Just came across “10 Mistakes that Will KILL a Forum” from SEORefugee. The blog post talks about 10 mistakes we as forum owners can make that that can have far reaching consequences and can eventually lead to the death of our forum.
While majority of it is commonsense and is some thing almost every successful forum [...]

Get rid of duplicate content from your vBulletin forum!

When I switched my Travel forum from Phpbb to vBulletin, I was amazed by the fact how search engine friendly vBulletin really is and how easy it is to optimize it even further!
One aspect where vBulletin clearly takes a beating is when it comes to the question of duplicate content. In the process of making [...]

Are your member’s profiles safe from the praying eyes?

A few days back I was working as usual when I got a message on yahoo messenger from a person I didn’t knew. It was in relation to a review I had posted on one of my website and he had a genuine query about it. Though I went ahead and answered it, I realized [...]

Choosing the right forum software

While starting a forum, one of the tough choices many budding Forum Admin’s face, is the dilemma of choosing the right forum software for their forums, out of the dozens of options available in the market.
Things get even tougher by the fact that not only are there dozens of paid solutions available in the market, [...]