My hard work is finally paying off

Just been offered sole publishing of jobs vacancies by an international jobs agency looking for a sole internet forum to publish their jobs in Spain.

No more repeat content from rss feeds from other agencies.

But the SEO optimisation question now kicks in.

If I have the jobs showing region by region, this will create a further 30 sub forums. I use a similar set up to the vbseo layout with all the sub forums on show on the forum home.

Will doing the jobs adverts this way totally screw over my present optimisation. Too many links on forum home.

Over two years of getting no where and I might finally of got the break I have been looking and waiting for

Congratulations on your new opportunity.

Cheers for that Joe.

Any ideas on how adding thirty new sub forums will affect the SEO.

I killed off a lot of forum home links over the weekend, bits pointing to the arcade etc to try and help my google search engine ranking

I was thinking of dumping all the jobs into one section, but by adding new sections for each area, it should in theory bring in a lot more hits and a few more dollars from google

It's necessary to have them there as new sections. Link value will be dispersed more since there are more sub-forums you are linking to.

If you are worried about that you could start cutting back on as many links on the page as possible for *guests*, like everything in the "What's going on?" block, maybe make the "Help and Support Issues" projects available to registered users only, prune or merge any sub-forums that have not been producing for you, etc. That sound counter balance the 30 new sub-forums you are going to put in there.

Note: Your welcome header image text is not great. You should create it again with more readable text.

The welcome header is a bit outdated in look etc for the forums now. So that will be high on my priorities, plus try and reduce its size, so people don't scroll half a mile down a page.

Cheers for the advice. It will give me something to look further into and help break the monotony of building up the google placements on my other web sites that link through to the forum.

Looks like another trip through the walk through on here for creating the welcome header

Looks like another trip through the walk through on here for creating the welcome header

You should just need to create a new graphic. If you have the text available, I'm sure someone will create it for you for about $5 at DP (if you're not familiar with graphics editing, etc).

turn off the welcome headers... useless IMO. i actually convert HIGHER since i've disabled it a year. I replaced it with a guest login box and a 1-liner (register and see less ads). done.

Interesting. A significant %-age higher?

10%

Looks like I'm getting a few more clicks and hits already. The jobs feeds have only been in place a few hours.

Anything that helps earns extra beer tokens cant be bad

The only problem now is they use a sync system run through a cron job. Kills all filled jobs positions from their feeds.

Seems to be a syntax error.

Invalid SQL:
SELECT THREAD.THREADID FROM POST, THREAD WHERE POST.THREADID = THREAD.THREADID AND LOCATE('[0]', PAGETEXT) != 0 AND THREAD.FORUMID = 240;

MySQL Error : Table '########_vbulletinsql.POST' doesn't exist

Let their tech guy sort it

And sort out those welcome headers tomorrow.

BTW how do you get on with running a plain text header now Brian instead of an image one. Do the search engines pick up on the text and add it to searches?

i never ran an image ever.

So killing the welcome headers and replacing them with something like this would be far better for increasing membership
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Or am I way off the mark again

I might give it a try for a couple of weeks, depending on general opinion and see if registrations increase

Originally Posted by Lee G

So killing the welcome headers and replacing them with something like this would be far better for increasing membership
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Or am I way off the mark again

I might give it a try for a couple of weeks, depending on general opinion and see if registrations increase

Looks like a good mod. I would be interested in hearing about your results after testing for a couple of weeks.

Thanks for the vote of confidence Joe.

Next your be changing the bit under my name from vbseo owner to vbseo guinea pig

My reckoning and argument to put forward while Brian is not here to say different is

Its in your face on every page if you add it to the header
You can add a simple message like like Brian mentioned
The user has no need to click here, click there etc etc to join.
One simple form to fill in, no going to different forum pages to do it
And it also shows how simple registration is

The only down side is what impact would it have on seo
There is very little extra wording there apart from what ever message you add to it

This could also bring in more advertisers on my vb classifieds, which google likes sending people to, but I get very few adverts on

My forum is the same, now getting between 6 to 8K hits a month with very few new members

It's definitely worth a test. I think the dynamics of every forum will be a little bit different depending on many factors, including the theme of course.

For SEO, I don't like it positioned at the top of every page, but I don't think it's going to have a huge impact.

If it is on every page, then you'll probably want to make sure you run our Relevant Phrases and get them placed above it.

Beyond just having the registration box there, you should have some compelling text to get them to do it. With this mod you probably convince them it's not going to be a hassle - but you also need to give them a reason to want to do it.

A nickel is a cheap price for a soda, but I still won't buy one if I only drink water.

In other words, yes it's easy to register, but why should I? What's in it for me.

I think 2 weeks is a reasonable test period.