The comprehensive guide to forum SEO

By Rajab Bader on Mar 3, 2008 | 8 Comments

Forums and communities are an aspect of the internet and are a tool that people use to share ideas and experiences. However, to most webmasters, starting and promoting online communities is a hard task and SEO can play an important role in growing forums in any niche.

In this post, I’m going to share my experience with Vbulletin, the most popular forum software on the web, but you can also apply these tips to any other forum softwares just with more thinking and work.

On-Page Optimization

Duplicate-Content
Duplicate-content is a serious issue and often neglected by many forum owners, and therefore their sites may struggle to rank in the search engines.
The problem is that your threads are accessible both to search bots and visitors by different links. While users might be fine with this, search engines are not, because they want to keep their index clean and only have one original version of each document.

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Finally! It is SEO Gladiator

By Rajab Bader on Feb 24, 2008 | 3 Comments

After weeks of research and brainstorming as well as asking for advice, I have found the best name for this blog - SEO Gladiator.

What helped me to choose the most appropriate name is that I wrote down on a paper what I wanted this blog to represent. You might be asking, what the hell he wanted this damn blog to represent? Alright, here goes…

1- I wanted to have a place where I publish articles on search engines and blogging (plus personal but related stuff - ).
2- A place which would provide an opportunity to network with like-minded individuals and meet new cool people.
3- A place where I showcase my skills and build a portfolio for my consulting services.

And since there are SEO ninjas, I thought it would be cool to be a SEO Gladiator. Gladiator is an ancient Roman warrior who fought other warriors in a large theater full of people. Does it make sense? I guess so…

Anyway, I would like to thank Rand, Jane, Rebecca, Darren, Aaron, Mauro and everyone else who gave me their advice and suggestions. Thanks so much guys!.

This is just my first post. I will try to get to a posting schedule starting from next week.