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Now that's opening a thread with the $64 question, right up front. :D

 

One thing I like to do is eliminate as much of the repetitive text as I can. For instance, it's common to see text welcoming guests and encouraging them to register on nearly every page of a forum. Whilst that can be great for getting new registrations, the search engines also see that text on every page. Setting those types of messages up as images can help.

 

I also am a fan of eliminating the forum name from the title tags. I prefer not having every indexed page showing up with the XYZ Forums appended to it.

 

I like to look at pages the way a search engine 'looks' at it. I want keyword-rich content as close to the top as possible. On a brand-new forum, I might set up an Introductions forum near the top, so people are encouraged to use it. As the forum matures, I will move it to the bottom and try to my on-topic content noticed first. For the same reason, I am not a fan of using left-hand side columns.

 

I like to keep the number of links per page as low as possible.

 

These are some of the things I try to address first. What are your ideas?

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At its most basic, "SEO" means finding ways to increase your site's appearance in web visitors' search results. This generally means more traffic to your site.

 

1: Find the Best Keywords

2: Discover What Your Competitors are Doing

3: Write Very Linkable & Sharable Content

4: Optimize Your Title and Meta Tags

5: Optimizing Your Headings and Subheadings

6: Use Title and ALT Attributes

7: Optimizing File Nomenclatures

8: Tell the Search Engines What to Index

9: Feed Search Engines Static and XML Site Maps

10: Use Checklists and Validators

 

search engine optimization

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