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Post by Ashmadai on Nov 5, 2005 22:40:08 GMT -5
If you want people to find your forum then it can help to have your forum listed in the Search Engines. There are many search engines on the net but if you are like I... You want to go with all the freebies you can get. The most popular and famous search engine, as of this posting, has to be Google and Yahoo. However rather than sign up to each one individually there are several providers who will in one sign up, submit your forum details to many search engines. These providers include: Add-Url-Free www.add-url-free.com/freesubmitter.htmSubmits to 50 search engines/spiders & webcrawlers for Free. SubmitExpress www.submitexpress.com/Submits to 40 Top search engines for Free. AddMe tools.addme.com/servlet/s0newSubmits to 14 search engines for Free but Requires AddMe Return Link. AddPro www.addpro.com/submit30.htmSubmits to 20+ search engines for Free. Search Engine Optimisingwww.searchengineoptimising.com/url_submission/submit-add-url/ Submit your website URL to over 100 search engines, for free. Superb Submitsubmit.superb.net/ And here is a neat little tool for you to use: SE Tools - Search Engine Toolswww.se-tools.com/
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Post by Ashmadai on Nov 5, 2005 22:42:28 GMT -5
These are a very good way to attract traffic to your site. You add your link to the list. Place the button on your website which visitors click to Vote for your vote. The more clicks the higher you get in the list. The higher in the list the more likely people will visit you. You can join exisiting ones or even create your own. See 3rd party sites which provides Top Sites lists such as Topsitelists.com www.topsitelists.com/Topsitenet.com topsitenet.com/Nuked Topsites www.nukedweb.com/topsites/
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Post by Ashmadai on Nov 5, 2005 22:45:00 GMT -5
A good way for new sites to get some traffic is to affiliate with other websites/boards. Most places tell you to affiliate yourself with other sites which have similar topics as yo do, but you can also be an affiliate with other sites because they offer different things than you.
The way affiliation works in that you put a link/banner to their site on your board and request that they put one back to yours.
Where can find affiliates?
Try a google search using similar keywords as your site, see what sites are found. Those are the sites you may want to target for affiliation.
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Post by Dianne on Dec 8, 2007 16:44:30 GMT -5
I've been playing with some of these to up my boards visibility and I found this that bothered me:
Watch what you do with DMoz the open directory site. The request that you give up some of your rights to your site which isn't in the best interests of people like me who have copyrighted material. This next bit is from their submission page: specifically point I've made bold:
"In exchange for ODP's consideration of the site I am submitting, I agree To be bound by the ODP's Terms of Use. To waive any claim related to the inclusion, placement, exclusion, or removal of this or any other site in the ODP Directory or to the title or description of any site appearing in the ODP Directory; and To grant Netscape Communications Corporation a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, publish, copy, edit, modify, or create derivative works from my submission.I also acknowledge that Netscape and the ODP have unfettered editorial discretion to determine the structure and content of the directory and that, because a site's placement in the directory is subject to change or deletion at any time, I may not rely on any aspect of a site's inclusion in the directory. (i.e. "submission" means the title and descriptive information you supply for your site, not the actual website or its contents)."
Since I'm not a lawyer I'm not exactly positive what this truly means, but it sounds ominous.
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Post by Ashmadai on Dec 8, 2007 23:16:15 GMT -5
I am not an attorney, however attorneys aren't always right either. lol Another thing is that disclaimers are often just words, in court disclaimers were overthrown. In other words it didn't matter what the disclaimer said... the court found that the places were still responsible or that they had to do something the disclaimer said they didn't. The key thing about these sites is "If you are unsure, or unhappy, with what their TOS or Disclaimers say.. don't join!". What that means is that Netscape and ODP or DMoz reserves the right to do as they wish... if something was copyrighted properly they might find their disclaimer is null and void. It's just something to cover their tails, which may or may not have any validity in a court of law.
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