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Management Students Forum runs on the famous software vbulletin and is optimized by vbseo

The website ranks awesome in helping management students by providing free ONLINE MBA material ,MBA PROJECTS , International MBA , CAT, XAT, MAT, CET, JMET and other Indian MBA Entrance Exams , Stock Markets Tips & Gyan , Management E-Books

and loads more.

I ran across an interesting new tool when I was perusing my list of linkbacks in analytics... Quantcast - Open Internet Ratings Service.

The traffic listing they had for me appeared too low, but I was very interested in the demographics they had, and it occurred to me that sort of info would be of significant interest to possible advertisers. I'd like to diversify from my "adsense is the only thing that makes my site any money, damnit" stategy, long term.

So...

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...

The default single-post comes a little too stripped IMHO. User feedback says that they miss the normal navigation and don`t know how to get back to the forum. If visitors click on a direct link to a single post e. g. in a google search result the bounce rate is probably very high as they don`t find the way into your forum.

The template name for the single post view is "SHOWTHREAD_SHOWPOST". The first thing I changed was the title.

default:

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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...