and ALREADY noticing a difference in traffic and search engine traffic to the site.

This is 3 days after installing vBSEO:
Search Engine Visits

Unique Visits

I’ll be adding a 14 day update soon, so check back and see if things slow back down or continue to rise.

I have just installed vBSEO with the help of Brent Wilson tonight. I’ve had him set up my options to what he thinks is good as he is one of the most knowledgable guys with vBSEO that I know of.

So anyways… this marks the beginning of my vBSEO experience and you’ll be able to follow along with my success (or failure) first hand over the next 12 months. One thing you have to understand with vBSEO is that it is not going to just miraculously make you better in one week, it takes time and effort. So each 2 weeks or so I’ll give a quick rundown of my newest findings on traffic relating to vBSEO on F-Body Online

That is one thing you really don’t want guests to your forum to think, yet I see plenty of forums online that don’t really let you know what they are about on their index. With some sites its obvious with their URL or title, others use graphics or text on the forum index to let you know what their forum is about, but some don’t seem to take guests into consideration.
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This is the third post in this series Forums for Beginners

Now that you’ve gone through and decided on your niche, software and all that fun stuff we’re going to look at one of the most important steps in building your site; Keyword Research. If you have a good set of keywords that you target you will greatly improve your chances of getting members from search engines. After the jump are 2 great videos by Sage Lewis of SageRock and he explains a great way to look at keywords and what ones you should target.
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I’ll be testing how well Google Adsense does for me with different setups and locations on my F-Body Forum for the next few months. I’ll go a whole month with each set-up and determine which seems to give the best clicks.

One thing you should know is that I added conditionals that make it so only guests can see the ads. (more…)