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SEO For A Forum with thousands of pages

by oliverjones
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I have built and maintain Interestingly

Its a forum / q&a site with many pages of user gen content. The content is usually only 100 words or so as they are forum style posts.

I would be interested to know a strategy for this site? If I build a lot of links to the main homepage using the name of the site as the main keyword, will this pass the link juice down to the individual posts thus ranking them better in google?

What would you do?
#forum #pages #seo #thousands
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Example,

    Move the text that matters to the top of the page, move the text that doesn't matter towards the bottom of the page. Keep the end user view the same, use Absolute/CSS to move the important text to the top of the Google Cache.

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    Important text:
    Dynamo Football levitation

    18th August 2012 at 11:23pm

    I just noticed while watching this trick again. As Dynamo does the trick and levitates the football, watch the man in the background walk away. He is holding a football and when he realises he is in shot he darts off to the right. What do you think?










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    by ojones View User's Profile

    Right now your anchor-text is focused on Film & TV Forum (link above), is that the keyword phrase your trying to rank for?
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Build links to the main index page.

    If your forum has authority, threads will shop up in
    SERPs, possibly, for a number of things in your forum.
    Just like yahoo answers, warriorforum, etc.

    Check your crawling stats. Does google and other bots
    crawl it dozens of times a day? If so, you are good to
    go. If not, you need to build more backlinks, possibly
    more active users. Don't expect to get traffic from just
    any thread. Threads that answer popular questions, give
    out info, solve problems, etc. are more likely to show.

    Everyone should own a forum and have at it.

    Paul
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    If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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    • Profile picture of the author oliverjones
      Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

      Build links to the main index page.

      If your forum has authority, threads will shop up in
      SERPs, possibly, for a number of things in your forum.
      Just like yahoo answers, warriorforum, etc.

      Check your crawling stats. Does google and other bots
      crawl it dozens of times a day? If so, you are good to
      go. If not, you need to build more backlinks, possibly
      more active users. Don't expect to get traffic from just
      any thread. Threads that answer popular questions, give
      out info, solve problems, etc. are more likely to show.

      Everyone should own a forum and have at it.

      Paul
      Thanks Paul. The crawl stats look like this. What does this mean?

      http://realmendontlie.blogspot.co.uk...ost.html#links
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  • Profile picture of the author DizenSounds
    I'd recommend building links to all major parent topics on your website. That way the value of the pagerank is passed along your website easier, rather than simply linking your homepage as paul suggested.

    Give Googel more points of access to flow PR through your website rather than depending on your homepage, which will be limited on the number of keywords that people will actually be searching for. Keep in mind that not many people are searching "Yahoo answers" or public Q&A forums, but rather searching for the questions that are already being answered on Yahoo answers.
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  • Profile picture of the author neralu
    Its a quite lengthly process. U need to check on the on page and off page optimisation both, if u want to get the traffic from google.
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