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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...

Well, it's time. Probably past time. After doing web dev work for several years, I have my own site that I want to promote, so I'm learning about SEO. Not that I was 100% unclued before. But I'd never really gotten into it, because I didn't want to do SEO work. High stress with anxious clients. That's why I quit doing database work, for goodness sakes.

However, it's a different ballgame with my own forum and site to promote. SEO = Cash. Therefore, SEO = Freedom, from having to do projects...

Okay, two days ago I installed CMPS. Last week or so I have been averaging about 150-225 bot crawls on my site. Yesterday, the first full day I had 349 and today at 9 PM my time (so with 3 hours left in the day) I am at 497 (about 2 to 3 times the normal).

I have put content in the right hand collumn and tried to keep all the SEO issues in mind. It seems to me that Google really likes vbadvanced (though it could be only that sitemap generator tells google about the changes and it...