thisisabraham
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Every forum owner dreams of their forum showing up on the first page of Google Search for at least one or two keywords. Imagine getting hundreds of new visitors pouring into your forum on a daily basis, wouldn’t that be great. While getting on the first page or rather anywhere in first 10 pages of Google Search is quite unrealistic in the short-term, doing the basics right will ensure your forum makes steady progress up the search rankings.
With the amount of competition out there for even the niche keywords and the money being invested in content creation for SEO, life becomes difficult for forum owners with limited budgets. But with the right approach, a forum can find itself leaping over thousands of other websites and maintain a great search ranking. Here are the things that a forum owner needs to do to win the SEO game:
> Maintain a Blog
Content is king when it comes to SEO in 2017. So, the more useful content you have, the higher the chances for your forum to dominate a niche in the search rankings. You can collect answers from your forum and convert them into blog posts or request members to contribute. This blog can be connected to the forum and the blog posts can be a useful in getting great backlinks.
> Eradicate Spam
Spam is the biggest enemy when it comes to making a good impression in front of the search engines. When the search engines index your forum and discover spammy content and links, it immediately downgrades your search ranking and rates you negatively. Take the help of moderators and community members, plus also use plugins to keep your forum spam-free.
> Keyword-filled Content
Go back 10 years and you would open top ranking search results and find content stuffed with keywords. It had become the main SEO technique for all those who were getting to know search engines and trying to rank on it. But with multiple changes in the Google Search algorithm, this no longer works. Try to write more about a topic and let the words flow naturally. That’s the best way to avoid keyword stuffing and get unnecessarily penalized by Google.
> Get the Tags Right
Having the right tags on the forum can clearly establish the forum in a particular niche. While forum owners needs to avoid deliberately adding keywords, they can always get creative in the way they use long-tail keywords. They can use them to create tags for pages, ask questions, name topics after them, start threads, etc. Throw them into the right conversations, so that members unknowingly pick it up and start discussing and using it.
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