{"id":875,"date":"2009-07-19T20:15:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T02:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2009-07-19T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T02:21:34","slug":"post-your-link-at-the-new-sign-up-bonus-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/post-your-link-at-the-new-sign-up-bonus-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Post your link at the new Sign Up Bonus Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-526\" title=\"Sign Up and Make Money Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/signupandmakemoney-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Sign Up and Make Money Logo\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" \/>I&#8217;m excited to announce that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/forum\/\">Sign Up and Make Money Forum<\/a> is now complete and running in full swing. The Forum software I&#8217;m using isn&#8217;t\u00a0 just any Forum software, it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplemachines.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Simple Machines Forum<\/a>. SMF is one of the coolest open source Forum software providers out there. I love the speed, features, and look of their Forums.<\/p>\n<p>With all good things there are always downfalls. Simple Machines Forum isn&#8217;t the best when it comes to Search Engine Optimization though. This is why I had to go in a tweak the code to make the Forum more SEO friendly.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in tackling a Simple Machines Forum yourself, here&#8217;s some of the things I needed to do to make the site more SEO friendly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Had to update my urls with the <a href=\"http:\/\/custom.simplemachines.org\/mods\/index.php?mod=636\" target=\"_blank\">Pretty URLs module<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I went into the code and changed all important headings to h1 and h2 tags.<\/li>\n<li>I made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=40318&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">sitemap<\/a> manually for the Forum with regular pages, boards, and topics. The mod that you can download from SMF didn&#8217;t work for me. Then submitted it to the search engines.<\/li>\n<li>I made a simple if and else statement to provide a canonical link for the home page, plus a unique description and keywords. All other pages I kept the same.<\/li>\n<li>I added <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Analytics<\/a> code to track my traffic.<\/li>\n<li>This also removed the annoying <strong>&#8211; index<\/strong> behind the title on the main page.<\/li>\n<li>I also went in on links that ended in \/index.php for home page and changed them to \/.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The description and keywords aren&#8217;t as important on regular pages. That&#8217;s why I added h1 and h2 tags because search engines pretty much take from the text on the page and look for a heading.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/forum\/register\/\">sign up for a free account<\/a> at the Forum and post your link. Forums are a great way to build back links to your websites. Simply put, it&#8217;s a free way to get traffic back to your websites for life, so sign up and enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to announce that the Sign Up and Make Money Forum is now complete and running in full swing. The Forum software I&#8217;m using isn&#8217;t\u00a0 just any Forum software, it&#8217;s a Simple Machines Forum. SMF is one of the coolest open source Forum software providers out there. 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