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Forum Spam Sucks! Learn Forum Marketing the Right Way.

February 22, 2009 Forums

I was just going through one of my forums and noticed something I hadn’t seen in a few years. A 3 year old forum post was brought back from the dead by a brand-new member of the site, whose comment had NOTHING to do with the discussion at hand. While his post was not any [...]

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Seeking phpBB Forum Mod Installer aka Modder

August 3, 2007 Forums

SEEKING PHPBB MODDER FOR FORUMS I’m looking for someone to help me out installing some mods on a phpBB forum. I need someone with a background working on phpbb forums, who has the ability to problem-solve and work around any coding issues that may exist. Please contact me if you can do this or if [...]

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The Story of a Forum Troublemaker: How to Handle a Wacky Situation

June 6, 2007 Commentary

How A Simple Forum Conversation Got Ugly Some people just make no sense to me. Yesterday, a situation came up on our real estate forums that I had not seen before. A member who was relatively new (less than 2 months) made a post where he was trying to find buyers for properties that he [...]

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Some Advice for Growing Your New Discussion Forum Community

April 13, 2007 Forums

Forums can be wonderful tools for users, especially if they are properly run and administered. I wanted to share some tidbits that newer forum administrators should find useful. Some Tips for New Forum Community Webmasters Establish a set of rules and guidelines from the outset that your users need to follow. If you have your [...]

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9 Steps To Growing Your Business Using Forum Marketing

April 10, 2007 Advertising

9 Steps To Successfully Market to a Forum Community In a previous post The Direct and Indirect Approaches to Forum Marketing we talked about the two approaches to forum marketing. I’d like to share the 9 steps you will want to follow to forum marketing success; this is basically a primer on indirect forum marketing [...]

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The Direct and Indirect Approaches to Forum Marketing

April 10, 2007 Advertising

Forums (aka. message boards or discussion boards) are incredible resources. Not only are they helpful for learning and helping others, but they can also be valuable tools for marketing your business or website. There are two approaches you can take in using forums for marketing; the direct approach, or the indirect approach. The Direct Approach [...]

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phpBB Forum Spammer Registration Mod – Kill the SpamBots!

December 19, 2006 Forums

I found a great mod for phpBB forum administrators. This particular mod will ban any user who registers for your forum from a particular time zone. I’m not sure if many newbies to phpBB are aware, but most SPAM registrations come from GMT-12 Timezone. If you can prevent users from registering from that zone, you’ll [...]

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Use Forums to Find Material for Your Blog

November 25, 2006 Blogging

Wondering how to find some new material for your blog? Create a companion forum site to go along with it. Last year, I decided to create a blog for our real estate investing site, BiggerPockets.com. After a few months, I realized that I had lost my motivation and had run out of material. Why? I [...]

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