Help Needed With Forum Descriptions

[David Bowley]

The forum descriptions that you can see on the front page are quite frankly just terrible. I have a feeling that they were meant for some kind of SEO but keyword stuffing "web design" isn't going to cut it nowadays.

If any of you have any suggestions for a description for any of the sub-forums then feel free to either respond here for PM me.

[katiesmily]

Thanks for your information.This site is informative,the Web Design Forum that Help Needed With Forum Descriptions that we can see on the front page are quite frankly just terrible.
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[Jason]

I reletively new. I didn't even remember creating this account. Looked at my posts.. don't even remember making them :o.

A good place to start with a page description would be to actually describe the forum perhaps. Where is Google getting this description from?


A bulletin board community that covers all aspects of web design including HTML, CSS, Flash, PHP, ASP, and Javascript.

[David Bowley]

No idea, a few years ago some guy tried to make it SEO-friendly and of course the keyword spamming is so 2005.

[Yangster]

No idea, a few years ago some guy tried to make it SEO-friendly and of course the keyword spamming is so 2005.


David,

Basically you need to get vbSEO and install it, my forum
Talk Angling (http://www.talkangling.co.uk/upload/) uses that and has gone from 200 users a day to 3000+ inside 12 months.

Simon

[David Bowley]

I can't install anything, I'm just in charge of managing the overall forum/users, can't install mods or anything.

[Simonb]

Right You want seo, this might be hard as you can't change much.

"Web Development and Web Design Forums - SEO, Hosting, keyword, keyword, and keyword Help Forums - Webdevforums.com "

You might want to edit the meta tags if you can in vb options.

on http://www.webdevforums.com/admincp/options.php?do=options&dogroup=stylelang change Store CSS Stylesheets as Files to yes. That will make the css in a remote file and speed the site up and better seo.

[David Bowley]

I appreciate the help, but...


Sorry, you don't have permission to access the administrative controls on this page.

:(

[Yangster]

David, seriously - get the owners of the forum to install vbSEO it will be the best thing they ever did and solve your problems.

[Simonb]

But the forum owner does not really care, look this is vb 3.0.0 and vb3.7.3 is the most up todate.

[David Bowley]

Yea it's out of my hands now, just have to see what happens.

[Yangster]

Yea it's out of my hands now, just have to see what happens.

I was in a similar situation basically running the board and keeping the members interested - asked the owners what they wanted for the site and negotiated and bought it - then took the site to where it needed to be. Perhaps you should consider doing the same or getting a few of the bigger posters together to make an offer to the current owner.

[David Bowley]

Perhaps, things are going somehwhere now though with the upgrade and all.

I'd like to run my own forum, but the more I think about it, the more I realise it's a lot of work for not very much revenue. I'm an internet marketer at heart, and there's so much more money to be made with PPC.