Seo help for my forum

[Crystal]

As I can see, Ace can handle this, though one thing is important to know about Search Engines.
Google for example, will look first for sites that have a domain that matches the typed keywords, second step is, it looks for pages that contain quality (yes google bot can recognize this) content based on the typed keywords, and then it looks for popular pages within these results. Popular pages are the ones that have most back-links, a back-link is link to your page on another page.

Backlinks are the most important thing for a website, then comes the "quality" content....
To get a decent amount of Back-links you will need to advertise your forum, for example in a signature like the most do, this is quite a good way to generate amazing amounts of backlinks, be aware that your signature doesn't help if the topic in the thread isn't like th main topic of your Forum, other way is to ask for link exchange on sites that cover your topics.

Just get out and spread the word, google can find you if no one yells your sites address...

I have been advertising my forum quite a lot.. I am even doing back-linking in .edu forums and spreading the word.. I even submitted by forum to many search engines.. Google does visit my forum OFF and ON but no other search engine has entered my forum apart from google

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TechLifeForum was initially created just to provide a decent community for people to enjoy, and serve as a great knowledgebase for any computer-related information. So this next step that we're about to make seems really appealing to us, as it will definitely raise the recognition for our forum and expand on twice the amount of content available for everyone else. Ultimately it was built for the community itself, not for money or any personal benefits for us. I just wanted a forum that everyone could enjoy, and a place where great knowledge comes free.

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Look at the post Gaijin made, he's a good member on our forum as well (I know him as the PHP lover lol ) but he raises great points. backlinks are the easiest way out, and content is very important. Duplicate content will be penalized though for SEO which is why I always remove spammer posts from my forum. Much easier than telling a search engine not to look at specific content if I was to place these posts somewhere on my forum and keep them instead of removing them. But even if it makes your overall forum stats go up (if you were hiding that junk spam like some forums do from regular members) I would rather have quality content wasting space on my forum instead.

ah i see Thanks for the tips Ace .. You really are a rock-star