Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject: phpbb
Hi Alan
I am about to setup an SBI site only to realize that they don't support forums. I know that I can build my site at SBI and host my forum elsewhere, but I am not sure that is the best plan. I am planning to use phpbb to build my forum. Your advice will be appreciated.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:38 am Post subject:
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One of the major of benefits of SBI is that it teaches you so many different skills while you learn how to build a business. That's why I strongly recommend it.
However, in your case, if you already know how to do search engine optimization and know how to get traffic to your site, it seems logical to me to create one site and place your forum on it. The main advantage is that you have only one domain name for your visitors to remember.
(An alternative would be to own example.com and example. NET.)
If you do create a separate SBI site and use it to lure visitors to a forum on a non-SBI site, you'll need to make sure you don't get involved in excessive crosslinking. You wouldn't want to link to your forum from every page of your SBI site. You could safely link to your forum from just a few important pages.
One good option would be to have a page on an SBI site which showed snippets of the last 10 posts on your forum. Every page of your SBI site could link to that page saying "Latest posts on our (keyword) forum". Those snippets would link to your forum.
By doing this, you'd be linking to your forum from a page which had a high PageRank, and giving your forum the maximum publicity on your SBI site.
As you probably know, forum pages are usually not perfectly optimized for search engine traffic. A large, popular forum is likely to attract visitors to wide range of very obscure phrases, but not necessarily ready-to-buy phrases. You'll probably want to create a good number of additional pages which ARE well optimized.
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