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I read this article and don't know if it will be good or bad for us. It looks like Google caffeine will use page load time as a factor for sites being listed. The time listed in the article is 3 seconds. 3 seconds in this day and age is slow so it shouldn't hurt too bad. It's just interesting that Google is going this way. Now we'll have one thing to worry about when we optimize our sites for Google. I can see it now. We'll have stop watches out timing our page loads so that Google doesn't penalize us.

It's like a pyramid. The better you rank the more traffic the site gets. The more traffic the better the chance your ads get clicked on. I track dollars earner per page view. I have been doing this for a while. The money made is directly proportionate to the amount of visitors to my site divided by pages viewed by each visitor. The more pages viewed the better the chance the visitor will find an ad that interests them.

It's like a pyramid. The better you rank the more traffic the site gets. The more traffic the better the chance your ads get clicked on. I track dollars earner per page view. I have been doing this for a while. The money made is directly proportionate to the amount of visitors to my site divided by pages viewed by each visitor. The more pages viewed the better the chance the visitor will find an ad that interests them.

I have always went to sites in my same topic and asked if they would like to exchange links. I have never tried an type of exchange or trading site. I think it could be good. I don't know of any except for the ones I see at the admin sites I visit. Links are always good. You just have to watch that you don't get involved with any kind of bad link farms.

I have always went to sites in my same topic and asked if they would like to exchange links. I have never tried an type of exchange or trading site. I think it could be good. I don't know of any except for the ones I see at the admin sites I visit. Links are always good. You just have to watch that you don't get involved with any kind of bad link farms.

I have a registration goal setup on one site. I have experimented with others and like the feature. I just haven't had time to use it as much as I like.

I have a registration goal setup on one site. I have experimented with others and like the feature. I just haven't had time to use it as much as I like.

I used it on my vbulletin sites. The first site I installed it on was already doing well before I installed it. I didn't notice any more or less traffic as a result of having it installed. Just before I converted my first site to IPB I noticed I was starting to lose pages in Google and pageview stats were declining. This was also noticed by a few big board owners in a forum for big board owners. The thread was huge and the consensus seemed to be that rewritten urls were somehow being penalized by Google. Like Mike since I switched to IPB I have seen a steady increase in traffic as well as revenue. There was a time when SE's couldn't index dynamic urls. I was one of the first to ever use mod rewrite to make my forum search engine friendly. There is a thread at vbulletin.com about how it was done. vbSEO came out during this time. Then it had a benefit. Now that SE's can index anything vbSEO is irrelevant. Save your money.

I used it on my vbulletin sites. The first site I installed it on was already doing well before I installed it. I didn't notice any more or less traffic as a result of having it installed. Just before I converted my first site to IPB I noticed I was starting to lose pages in Google and pageview stats were declining. This was also noticed by a few big board owners in a forum for big board owners. The thread was huge and the consensus seemed to be that rewritten urls were somehow being penalized by Google. Like Mike since I switched to IPB I have seen a steady increase in traffic as well as revenue. There was a time when SE's couldn't index dynamic urls. I was one of the first to ever use mod rewrite to make my forum search engine friendly. There is a thread at vbulletin.com about how it was done. vbSEO came out during this time. Then it had a benefit. Now that SE's can index anything vbSEO is irrelevant. Save your money.

Tags for the most part don't do much to help seo. In fact there are a few well respected seo "experts" that say they are of no value. I used tags as categories. If I had a group of threads that covered the same topic I would use a tag to make it easier to access them. Other than that I never used them for any other purpose.

Tags for the most part don't do much to help seo. In fact there are a few well respected seo "experts" that say they are of no value. I used tags as categories. If I had a group of threads that covered the same topic I would use a tag to make it easier to access them. Other than that I never used them for any other purpose.

Alright. You asked for it so here it comes. You've done a good job with the site. The only thing I would do is store the CSS as files. It cuts down on the content to code ratio and makes it easier for the bots to get to the meat of the site. I would add a guest message to target your keywords. It will help. Other than it's looking good.

Alright. You asked for it so here it comes. You've done a good job with the site. The only thing I would do is store the CSS as files. It cuts down on the content to code ratio and makes it easier for the bots to get to the meat of the site. I would add a guest message to target your keywords. It will help. Other than it's looking good.

My personal Twitter account is [twitter]betatime[/twitter]

My personal Twitter account is [twitter]betatime[/twitter]

Get twitter account for your site. Get an account on TwitterFeed and let it post your rss feed to that account. Post a few times a week just so people don't get just the feeds. Sit back and watch the traffic flow in. You still need followers. There are tricks for that. This site has 2 twitter accounts, there's a story behind why, and between the 2 has almost 400 followers. I use my personal account to announce a new site when I start it. I use my personal account to converse with friends and rarely post any links unless it's to my blog or to announce a new site. That gets some followers. Then I use specific hashtags that target the niche the community is in with the first few manual tweets. With this site I wanted to target SEO and SEM. The followers built rapidly and still are. So get a Twitter account for your site. seed it with a few manual Tweets and use the keywords you want to target as hashtags. In you case #weather, #skywarn. Don't use more than 2 per Tweet. If you want to use more then use then in another Tweet. Go to a site like TweetGetter and do a search for people in Illinois or for your keywords and add them to your list of followers. TweetGetter allows you to add 25 at a time. Don't get carried away. Add 25 and leave it at that. When you setup your feed use those hastags at the end of each post that gets fed to Twitter. Sit back and watch Twitter work. Don't just follow all the users that follow you. After my original list to seed the account I only add others that are in my niche or friends that are following the site. After that sit back and watch the traffic and if you figure out how to get them to join let us all know how you did it.

Get twitter account for your site. Get an account on TwitterFeed and let it post your rss feed to that account. Post a few times a week just so people don't get just the feeds. Sit back and watch the traffic flow in. You still need followers. There are tricks for that. This site has 2 twitter accounts, there's a story behind why, and between the 2 has almost 400 followers. I use my personal account to announce a new site when I start it. I use my personal account to converse with friends and rarely post any links unless it's to my blog or to announce a new site. That gets some followers. Then I use specific hashtags that target the niche the community is in with the first few manual tweets. With this site I wanted to target SEO and SEM. The followers built rapidly and still are. So get a Twitter account for your site. seed it with a few manual Tweets and use the keywords you want to target as hashtags. In you case #weather, #skywarn. Don't use more than 2 per Tweet. If you want to use more then use then in another Tweet. Go to a site like TweetGetter and do a search for people in Illinois or for your keywords and add them to your list of followers. TweetGetter allows you to add 25 at a time. Don't get carried away. Add 25 and leave it at that. When you setup your feed use those hastags at the end of each post that gets fed to Twitter. Sit back and watch Twitter work. Don't just follow all the users that follow you. After my original list to seed the account I only add others that are in my niche or friends that are following the site. After that sit back and watch the traffic and if you figure out how to get them to join let us all know how you did it.

Yahoo? Get in the directory. To tell you the truth Yahoo isn't what it used to be. People used to kill to get in the directory because once you did the traffic was amazing. Once the swing from directories to search happened and Google became king Yahoo became more of an after thought to many. The key is to optimize the site for Google. That will help you with the rest. Bing seems to be an up and comer. I get decent traffic from Bing and rank well for the keywords I target. The best thing you can do is optimize for Google and you'll do alright with the rest.

Yahoo? Get in the directory. To tell you the truth Yahoo isn't what it used to be. People used to kill to get in the directory because once you did the traffic was amazing. Once the swing from directories to search happened and Google became king Yahoo became more of an after thought to many. The key is to optimize the site for Google. That will help you with the rest. Bing seems to be an up and comer. I get decent traffic from Bing and rank well for the keywords I target. The best thing you can do is optimize for Google and you'll do alright with the rest.

I have an account just never spent any money except for the voucher I had. That was a while ago so I don't remember if I got any traffic from it. Maybe someone else has had more experience with it.

I have an account just never spent any money except for the voucher I had. That was a while ago so I don't remember if I got any traffic from it. Maybe someone else has had more experience with it.

Luck and good traffic. Like with any ad network you need good traffic and the ads have to be targeted to your topics. I do well with adsense on some site and do terrible on others and it's not always the site with more traffic doing well. I do much better selling ad space.

Luck and good traffic. Like with any ad network you need good traffic and the ads have to be targeted to your topics. I do well with adsense on some site and do terrible on others and it's not always the site with more traffic doing well. I do much better selling ad space.

Oh no. On the contrary that is the kind of feedback I like. I was in a haste to get the site going and I knew there would be somethings that I would miss. I like that kind of feedback. You know I have a site that had the same mistakes. It's probably been like that since I rebuild it last year. No one bothered to tell me I had spelling mistakes in the forum description and in one title. It also answered the question as to why I was getting people searching the misspelled words and getting to my site.

Store the css in a file. It cuts down on the code to content ratio and makes the site load faster. The skin fits the topic. Make the changes that Mike suggested and you should be good. Your welcome message. Make it more descriptive. Use a few sentences to describe your site and make sure to use the keywords you want to target. Logout and take a look at my guest message to get an idea. Use that intro to target your keywords. Only show it on the index page and the forum home. Showing it on all pages doesn't help rankings. To see the reason why you should remove it from all pages instead of the 2 I mentioned check out your Google site results. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS338&q=site%3Ailskywarn.com%2Fforum&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= Notice the descriptions of your threads. They get the title. They miss the content of the threads. That's not good. Looking at the results again. Disallow search.php, member.php, memberlist.php, online.php, showpost.php and anything else that isn't leading to the threads. There is not enough conetnt to any good on those pages. Take a look at the results to one of my sites: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS338&=&q=site%3Acomputerhelpforums.net&aq=f&aqi=&oq= Notice the difference? This is what builds the longtail search. Make these few changes and you'll notice an increase in traffic.