Post by Paranoid David on Jul 10, 2005 13:49:52 GMT -5
As all of you may know, advertising, aka spamming, your site around ProBoards Support and many other boards is not allowed. Here are some good ways to advertising your site without breaking the rules:
A good site for search engine submissions tips is this one: searchenginewatch.com/webmasters. It has many tips, organized into sections, which will help you immensely.
[/li][li] Meta Tags are used very frequently. Major search engines no longer use them, but smaller ones do. Adding meta tags to your site will help you get members through search engins. Here are some examples of meta tags:
<head>
<title>Site Name or Forum Name</title>
<meta name="description" content="The description of your website goes here">
<meta name="keywords" content="Keywords for your website go here, separated by commas.">
</head>
If you add your forum to all of these search engines, you may notice that you will recieve many new members. However, you may get members, but no discussion! Try to make interesting boards (coming soon on TUX), threads, and discussions.
[/li][li] Affiliates are a good way to advertise. When people see your mini-banner, they'll click on it. And they'll get to your site, which equals more members. But do not try to affiliate with the same kinds of boards. For example, if you own a Harry Potter board, it is not wise to affiliate with other Harry Potter boards. Because they already are on a Harry Potter site! But if a Harry Potter site affiliates with TUX for example, more people will most likely come here than to other Harry potter sites.
[/li][li] GOAYB stands for Get Opinions about your board. Get some rates on how to improve your forum, while rating other forums. It is useful to have a noticeable link in your signature when rating other forums. Chances are, they may visit your forum. So spend a couple days rating at GOAYB at ProBoards Support and you'll soon get more members. Make sure your rates for other forums are long and detailed. When putting a link in your signature, make sure it is noticable. Add a banner in your sig with the link to yoru forum. Everywhere you post, people will see your signature. Most likely, people will click to your site and possibly even join and become active.
[/li][li] Become active on similar kinds of forums. Join a board that is similar to your forum. For example, if it is about sports, join a sports forum. Add a banner to your signature and people will see this signature and may click on it and possibly join and become active too![/li][/ul]
Hope you enjoyed this. More will come soon!
- Search Engines, such as Google and Yahoo! will immensely bring visitors to your forum. The links below will take you to search engine submission forms:
- Yahoo!
- Google
- Submit Express
- AddMe
- Altavista (Yahoo! email required)
A good site for search engine submissions tips is this one: searchenginewatch.com/webmasters. It has many tips, organized into sections, which will help you immensely.
[/li][li] Meta Tags are used very frequently. Major search engines no longer use them, but smaller ones do. Adding meta tags to your site will help you get members through search engins. Here are some examples of meta tags:
<head>
<title>Site Name or Forum Name</title>
<meta name="description" content="The description of your website goes here">
<meta name="keywords" content="Keywords for your website go here, separated by commas.">
</head>
If you add your forum to all of these search engines, you may notice that you will recieve many new members. However, you may get members, but no discussion! Try to make interesting boards (coming soon on TUX), threads, and discussions.
[/li][li] Affiliates are a good way to advertise. When people see your mini-banner, they'll click on it. And they'll get to your site, which equals more members. But do not try to affiliate with the same kinds of boards. For example, if you own a Harry Potter board, it is not wise to affiliate with other Harry Potter boards. Because they already are on a Harry Potter site! But if a Harry Potter site affiliates with TUX for example, more people will most likely come here than to other Harry potter sites.
[/li][li] GOAYB stands for Get Opinions about your board. Get some rates on how to improve your forum, while rating other forums. It is useful to have a noticeable link in your signature when rating other forums. Chances are, they may visit your forum. So spend a couple days rating at GOAYB at ProBoards Support and you'll soon get more members. Make sure your rates for other forums are long and detailed. When putting a link in your signature, make sure it is noticable. Add a banner in your sig with the link to yoru forum. Everywhere you post, people will see your signature. Most likely, people will click to your site and possibly even join and become active.
[/li][li] Become active on similar kinds of forums. Join a board that is similar to your forum. For example, if it is about sports, join a sports forum. Add a banner to your signature and people will see this signature and may click on it and possibly join and become active too![/li][/ul]
Hope you enjoyed this. More will come soon!