Domain Owl

The Twitterverse is filled with “blah” websites that make the first time visitor flee upon landing. but a few features can make the browser hang around and click a few times to make sure they aren’t missing anything. A domain name with “forum”, “talk” or “chat” can be its own SEO boost by receiving links from related forums. If the forums don’t allow you to furnish your link in a s signature line, put it in your profile.

1. Install Custom Avatars

The option to include an avatar in a forum post personalizes the user and allows them to enjoy making a statement with every comment. It’s a disappointment when this option is not provided. Worse, when especially cutting edge sites have default avatars, it’s a real conflict with their stated ambition to seem avante garde. If the new template does not have any images for the avatars or (worse,) has only the same ones on every board of the type, and make sure the template is used on other high-SEO sites.

2. Chatbox/Chat Board

The chatbox used to be for people who wanted Twitter but it hadn’t been invented yet. They would spout nonsense, get into fights, or babble incoherently. Providing a chatbox invites repeat traffic and user connections available only at that site. If users need to exchange FaceBook identities for easier and more facile communication, you’ve done something wrong. If webmasters find that the forum site gets spammed or uploaded files are out of control set parameters to limit size of graphic upload or only allow a miniature preview.
If spam links get out of control, then only send the participation bulletin to a few chosen users or define the chat as invitation-only. Webmasters can set up a weekly or nightly appointment time when the chatbox is enabled, or restrict the chatbox participation to ten administrator-approved posts. The newsletter or email reminder could alert members of a forum that approval is required up to one hour before chatbox tie, allowing adequate server bandwidth overage protection.

3. Mod Your Board

Deserted Web forums are the worst advertisement for websites in existence. A static one-shot HTML page at least has the excuse of being prepared for brief visits. Forums with extended participation expectations should have at least one full time moderator policing the content and invigorating the discussions.And always put a email verification and other restriction, such as a addition number or image reading Captcha, on the enrollment login registration processs.

An unmodded board may get record enrollment, and 99.9 per cent of it will be out of control spam. Adult material, wares advertisements, email solicitations or instant message abuse needs to be nipped in the bud. Abuses will multiply and encroach until the keyword tags for your forum point in an entirely inappropriate direction in a few days’ time.

4. Tag Clouds

By devising tag cloud per forum category and section, a webmaster allows for loading categorical tag cloud keyword options for user pulldown or fill-in. Thus every post has a resonant keyword association. Always encourage members to introduce new ideas and forum category topics. A search engine bot or spider will trace the development of the new pages the new category builds and their relevance and growth with respect to the rest of the forum.

5. Twitter Favorite Posts

Many forum users will be looking to publicize their own site links or just distinguish themselves by making relevant, board members or forum visitors know more about them, when they are on the forum, and how they can interact with such key users. Encourage such star members to mod their own section, write a review or blog for the board, and/or devise polls and surveys on the forum subject matter. Community members may visit the forum or return to check in just because this user may have said something they want to read.

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Every blog owner has now come to know that a necessary chore of every blogista or blog owner is to weed through the spare comments on the blog. But the cryptic inattention to detail is confounding. When people with keywords that fit your site insist on leaving links of unrelated topics and material on still a third topic, it’s fit to cause blog rage.

I am also enraged to find that on many of my blog sites the submitted comments are argumentative and rude, as if there is any value at all to my posting this? This kind of comment is guaranteed to be deleted. So why bother leaving it? No blogger wants that kind of material on their site. How can links which are never accepted help anyone’s SEO?

Furthermore I am getting comments where blogs I have under development are being submitted. This is surprising since the posts they are writing comments to don’t exist. The blog posts they are “replying” to are listed as “coming soon”. There is no content to read or respond to.

I can only conclude that the software submission used for this type of blog comment must be verified and only these type of comments stand out. Pity the poor clients who think they are really purchasing SEO. I can also infer that these visits are intended as malicious. For some motivation of their own, submitters are using my url for target practice.

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The good news about doing business online is that online Internet users are now conditioned to search, point and click. Tapping that instinct is the webmaster’s job. Tapping the webmaster’s talent is the domainer’s job. One way domainers can extract value fro their hosting dollar is to produce a blog. But many domain name buyers and sellers can’t leverage value from the blog or reap benefits. They try and try, but something gets lost in the mix. Yet domainers have profit and cost targets just like everyone else. Every blogger does.

Websites intend to communicate using words and images. Software to produce easily changeable websites were produced to ease this communication path to HTML publication online. Blogs, basic message boards with one or a team of authors, became functional for users to read and authors. Then blogs for profit started, to attract visitors and showcase ads, but few writers can garner the audience or channels the resources to turn a profit. The Internet is indeed full of dead blogs.

An online blog actually increases value over time, as its content get more clicked, more integrated into SEO databases and linked up elsewhere. But revenue hungry blog writers are constantly on the prowl for hosting-account-paying cash. And now newsletters are an option. Newsletters are publicizing marketing tools popular among savvy blog webmasters. The HTML templates are found everywhere. Mail servers, hosting accounts, or online sites can distribute them for you. Newsletters can be fun, satiric, comedic, newsworthy, or merely advertorial. The trick is how to implement them.

Newsletter distributions can hurt and help you. Not everyone who once read your domain (or any other type of) blog, and liked it enough to sign up, feels the same today. Not every past reader wants to get daily reminders you exist. Some days the inbox fills up too quickly and the guilty parties are an object of scorn. But a good way to split the difference is to address some of your best stuff, (in this case, surgically topical domain industry or SEO writings) to a subset of the readership audience. And bloggers should time the release to spike the readers’ interest, and salt and pepper the blog audience, not dump a pile of unread code in their spam folder.

Where is the profit for blogging and sending out newsletters? This can be done for a fee. But instead of limiting your readership (or membership) by implementing some kind of mechanical flytrap, use the power of suggestion. Gently (and only occasionally) remind your readers of the effort needed to fulfill their entertainment or information needs. Provide the supplemental or in-depth material only to those who sign up. Then follow up to your readers with a subtle  suggestion and a Paypal address. If your readers have even 20% of the goodwill you think they have, then for every hundred signups you might get perhaps $5 a month.

Let’s look at the metrics. For a blog with two thousand signups, that’s twenty groups of readers who might each generate (for a newsletter) ten out of a hundred reader signups. Ten times twenty is two hundred. Out of two hundred putative signups, using the 80/20 rule, 160 people will decline the opportunity to fork over any ducats, and maybe forty people will consider it. If forty people send you $5 even once, that’s $200 toward your enterprise hosting costs. And maybe publication of an eBook. If they make this decision over a year’s time, the blogger still clears costs and pays their way to a coffee or two.

Any any further offers, special content, or ideas and communication exchange between the subscribing parties is at the blogger’s (webmaster’s) discretion.

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