Shawn

The big thing about it is not feeling like you need to inject your keyword a certain amount of time. You could get away just putting it in all the places above and maybe two times in your content. A lot of people still make the keyword stuffing mistake.

Thank you! I look forward to it :)

Here's my simple formula for SEO. 1. Choose your topic based on the needs, wants, and pain points of your target audience. You have to "listen" to what they want before you know what they want. 2. Research a suitable keyword. Use a tool like SEM Rush, Uber Suggest, or something like that to make life easier. You want a good search volume but a low competition score. Don't use the same keyword more than once. A longtail keyword is going to be easier to work with. 3. Write the best content you can. Search your keyword on Google and open up the first 10 results. Make sure you include what they include in your own words, but fill in the gaps that they miss. Long-form is best. 1,500+ words. 4. Keyword injection: *Title *H1 header *H2 header *First sentence in first paragraph *Add keyword to a few more places throughout content where it smoothly integrates in *Image ALT tag *URL slug 5. Submit and promote. That's it! That's what I do to get on page one of Google.

I just want to update this. LOL. I still have a lot of websites LOL some things never change!!! I don't do weather websites anymore. I'm pretty good at marketing and SEO now. I have a hiking blog and getting my posts on Google page one isn't that hard anymore. I'm still a male... I'm not 25 :( I'm 40. I still live in Southern Illinois. I'm still a county boy, but a married one! I don't chase storms anymore and thankfully I don't coal mine anymore. I work in investigations. Now I hike and bike quite a bit.

For those of you who use vBulletin, what would you like them to add to it? What features would make vBulletin even better out of the box?

True. I need to get me a .forum one and mess around with it. I registered CommunityManager.blog and plan to make a community tips blog with it. It's nice getting those easier domains with all these new TLDs. Sometimes, trying to think of a .com and then getting one that's available can be a migraine of an activity.

In my 20s I thought of myself as an expert, in my 40s? I'm a newbie LOL My 18 year old is still showing me how to use my iPhone LOL

I feel like I remember my first forum being a perl script. Shortly after that, someone told me about PhpBB.

:o I want to say that's higher than I'm willing to pay but in reality, I am working on a paid community on Circle and it's $100 a month.

And what's crazy is Vanilla, I think, has been around for a long time, but they went modern really early.

It took me a minute to figure out categories and boards. It came default with a "Forums" category and one board under it. They call it channel, I call it board LOL. But I had to create a secondary category under Forums to make the category name show up on index and then child forums under the categories. So, like three deep to get a board to display under a visible category. That took me about a half hour to figure out. It's lacking some feature. Security questions, likes, etc. I figured vb would already have that TBH to compete with XF.

I have a few .blog ones. But I don't have .forum ones yet. I'm so Grumpy Old Man Old School about domain names. I am one of those, .com or nothing, but I realize I need not to be that! My biggest concern was whether they were going to be widely used for spam and people would just block the whole domain.

So, is IPB still downloadable? I thought it was all cloud now where you had to host it on their service like a SaaS.

I'm enjoying it myself. It took me a minute to figure out how to add new forums. Channels are different than nodes. But once I got that out of the way, I started picking up on everything pretty quickly.

Howdy folks, Shawn here. Shawn Gossman. Joined in 2010... WOW! 2010? I was 26! :o I'm 40 now. Crazy. Anyways, I'm back! AWS linked here on my forum (it's just another admin forum lol) and I love admin forums, so here I am :) 40, married male, live in Southern Illinois Thanks for having me...again!

So I have a new forum using IPB 3.1 and this is my first time using IPB 3.1. I want to optimize it the best possible way I can for SEO and need help, instructions, recommendations and reviews from others. Please feel free to be the others =) http://www.horrortopics.com/

So I have a new forum using IPB 3.1 and this is my first time using IPB 3.1. I want to optimize it the best possible way I can for SEO and need help, instructions, recommendations and reviews from others. Please feel free to be the others =) http://www.horrortopics.com/

Yeah I had it as a UFO/Paranormal site at one time. Now Lisa owns it :P

Yeah I had it as a UFO/Paranormal site at one time. Now Lisa owns it :P

Is buying paid submissions in link directories worth it? Do you think it helps you get a backlink better?

Is buying paid submissions in link directories worth it? Do you think it helps you get a backlink better?

How can they hurt you?

How can they hurt you?

Science should be there :D for my sites :P