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frm
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Well, I still can't. So, stand by to stand by if you're waiting for a forum of yours to be added!That's working now - can access the site
Basenotes
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Hey, I've only just seen this, and really love it. (went to add my site, but it seems you've already got it)
I love looking at other forums and seeing what ideas they have, so I'm loving the random button too!
Maybe consider making some buttons for people to link to, something like (it's a bit small, but I was going for the classic 88x31 look):
I love looking at other forums and seeing what ideas they have, so I'm loving the random button too!
Maybe consider making some buttons for people to link to, something like (it's a bit small, but I was going for the classic 88x31 look):
frm
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A lot are still to be added. But, I am slowly dripping them in now over weeks/months instead of chunks of 10-20 a day, as that may have contributed to the drop in Google ranking.
Thanks for the idea!
Perhaps I could work it into a feature of some sort. If I did, it would probably be changed to "Featured on ForumDirectory" if I went that route, and the listing's link to that forum would have the
rel="nofollow" attribute removed. The current featured forums link to FD, but there is no system to monitor linkbacks and add that attribute back automatically if the link disappears (which would also alert me of a possible downed forum that needs to be deleted from the Directory). If a link exchange is something that you'd like before I can get to that, feel free to drop me a message on here or use the contact form:
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frm
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Try this standalone search:
site:forumdirectory.comIt's indexed, but rank hit the tank with the last Google update. Notably, Bing picked up the slack.
GrnEyedDvl
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This is an interesting idea. It reminds me a bit of the old BigBoards.com site.
How are you collecting member and post data? Some form of scrape? And does CloudFlare bot blocking impact that? Or are you adding them manually?
If you implemented some sort of rank system. By posts, members, something else? and hooked it back to the forums who installed a small plugin that showed your rank in the Statistics widget I would do that. So under all the other stats it would say:
ForumDirectory.com rank #12345 And then link back to your site.
You could probably setup something without too much difficulty that sends the stats back to you through that plugin monthly or bimonthly, which could then show the site as Confirmed. This would give site owners some incentive to join and setup that plugin as you could separate Confirmed forums from Unconfirmed.
I think the layout you have is pretty good. The only real critique I have is that there is nothing else there to discuss at all. I have no interest in talking about another forum on a third party forum. What I mean is (just randomly picking one) I would not talk about the Australian Broadband forum on your forum. If I wanted to talk about it I would go join their forum. So there is no real reason for me as a forum owner to visit your site much.
But what you could do is setup something like XenForo has here. Something for new forum owners to ask questions of established forum owners that is not platform dependent. On this site you are not going to get advice for anything except XenForo. On yours you could get it for just about anything if you have enough members.
How are you collecting member and post data? Some form of scrape? And does CloudFlare bot blocking impact that? Or are you adding them manually?
If you implemented some sort of rank system. By posts, members, something else? and hooked it back to the forums who installed a small plugin that showed your rank in the Statistics widget I would do that. So under all the other stats it would say:
ForumDirectory.com rank #12345 And then link back to your site.
You could probably setup something without too much difficulty that sends the stats back to you through that plugin monthly or bimonthly, which could then show the site as Confirmed. This would give site owners some incentive to join and setup that plugin as you could separate Confirmed forums from Unconfirmed.
I think the layout you have is pretty good. The only real critique I have is that there is nothing else there to discuss at all. I have no interest in talking about another forum on a third party forum. What I mean is (just randomly picking one) I would not talk about the Australian Broadband forum on your forum. If I wanted to talk about it I would go join their forum. So there is no real reason for me as a forum owner to visit your site much.
But what you could do is setup something like XenForo has here. Something for new forum owners to ask questions of established forum owners that is not platform dependent. On this site you are not going to get advice for anything except XenForo. On yours you could get it for just about anything if you have enough members.
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