Search Engine Optimization

My adsense revenue is slooooowly, sloooowly starting to creep up. I updated my plugins that allows for slightly better tracking: I can now see what page lots of the clicks are on. (FF still doesn't cooperate.) But it's still pretty low overall.

I tried to add a clicktracking script, but it worked poorly and seemed to lag the site as well, so I dropped that.

Ultimately, I want to continue to optimize my adsense, and then integrate alternative ads in there as well. I'm ...

I've been trying to take the LONG term approach to SEO, with the idea that doing little things, every time I can think of them, is more effecitve than doing one or two big things and then forgetting about the process.

So when I do my content in my CMS, I've been working on making sure all the links have titles with (hopefully) SEO-relevant keyworks, and same goes for image alt tags. I don't know if I'm going to end up going too high on keyword percentages, but overall, I think it's ...

After installing the welcome headers mod the other day (and a great big, honkin' googlead next to my image header for guests), I'm ancedotally noticing some differences.

I did customize the messages for my userbase; my community is basically known for friendliness and supportivenss, so that's the tone I looked to hit and I think I was reasonably successful.

Linking to the intro forum in the "you haven't posted yet" message especially seem to encourage folks ...

ok, following the advice of the fine members here at vbseo, i did some tweaking today!

added the welcomeheaders plugin, and changed the guest message to an image.

added the magical 336x280 adsense block next to the new image...since this is the only adsense size and placement that's reported to do well on forums (and my other experiments so far support that most don't).

and added vbseo RR for guests, including h2 and h3 tags, before the welcome headers. ...

trying to take the "little at a time" approach to seo. not stressed, but make it fun. like a puzzle to solve, y'kno?

i sucessfully managed to get all redirects working right, so everyone coming in with the www. prefix will get redirected without it to both the site and the forums. yay, me.

traffic is going up gradually. i'm currently getting about 600 hits a day, so i'm approaching levels pre site redesign. that's good news. bounce rate is also down from ...