SEO, Adsense and General Stuff

Over the last few months, I’ve been battling spam on a forum I own. Tried everything from captcha, require new users to validate their emails and I still got loads of spam.
I headed over to vBulletin.org to find a good plugin and found this. It uses your Akismet API key to filter certain usergroups posts. Akismet […]

A californian court has ruled that web publishers and internet providers aren’t responsible for defamatory comments written by others. The court ruled that people claiming they were defamed online could now only seek damages from the original author of the comments - and not the website which re-posted it. Good news for bloggers and forum […]

All these sites provide good information regarding; Contextual Advertising, SEO and Affiliate marketing and other related info. I read most of them and have probably missed a lot out. Here we go;
Blogs

Shoemoney (Also check our his radio show, Net Revenue
ProBlogger (Some of his posts also apply to websites as well as blogs)
Google Adsense Blog (Makes […]

The show this evening (3PM PST, 5pm CST, 6PM EST) is about how to make money from forums and other social networking sites.
On the show he will be joined by Lee Dodd, someone who owns many. I’ve written about adsense with forums and how placement is everything to combat ad-blindness.
Shoemoney’s Blog has some really useful information about PPC and contextual advertising. For forum owners, I think he wrote a good piece about subscriptions here.
If you’re […]

A quote from an Adsense Optimization Webinar,

E. Lazar
This is with regards to high traffic forums and the question is basically, on the ads, because forums and people return – the same people return to the forums, do you have any specific suggestions for forums like that?
P. Ho
We want to make sure that […]

First of all we need to remove the session ids. There are many mods out there but I will be using CyberAliens You can download it here.
This mod removes session ids from url for guests. This allows bots (like googlebot) to spider your forum correctly without adding session id to urls also, guests won’t have […]

Getting a good rate on forums is difficult, many of the users after belonging to your site for a while will develop “ad blindness”. To combat this problem, Ted S off theadminzone.com has written a great article on forums and adsense.
For many forums, AdSense has meant the first reliable revenue stream that actually performs well […]