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When it comes to online communities there are some disturbing trends taking place right now. Forum administrators are spending too much time working to improve their ranking on the Google homepage, and optimizing the search engine in general.
The idea behind this trend is that better page rankings in a community easier to find. Although there is no truth to the notion that your grade in the research forum will be more records, there are some problems with this line of reasoning.
First Google PageRank is not very relevant for a forum. A high Page Rank can help somewhat with SEO, but never help keep the community active. In other words, what good is a search engine high ranking and a flood of new visitors if there is no activity in the community to support its membership base, and nothing to attract new listings?
In this article we look more closely at the top of Google, the ranking system and how it fails when it comes to forums. A look at Google Page Rank
Before discussing the classification forums page, we will cover the PageRank system itself.
Google created the page rank as an easy way to represent the popularity of a website. The idea of ranking pages is that the more links a website has pointing to it, the more popular the site must be.
To measure the popularity of a site Google will count the number of one-way links to that site, to analyze the popularity of the site provides a link, and also to analyze the relevance of each link. With these data, the system calculates a page rank from Google. In other words, PageRank is a unique number that represents the popularity of a website.
Although this system does a website regularly (assuming that people do not cheat the system by buying relevant links), not just a forum. Google Page Rank and forums
For an electronic bulletin board, the numbers of page rank are irrelevant. Are taken into account to some extent, on the first page of the forum. But the son of the content themselves (important on the site) are rarely properly evaluated.
In fact, when a single page of a forum has a good page rank, is generally regarded as a previous post. The wire may be the most useful site on the web, and can reach hundreds of responses, but as no one is a link to it, the page rank is still very low.
The idea is the same for the forums in their entirety. A forum of age, no longer houses an active community, often have a page rank well above the new community asset. The reason is quite simple. Many people have gone through old son and linked them to provide information to others. This has not happened with the new site yet.
What is needed to classify a forum, looks at issues of concern to the community. Page Rank We take care of yourself, and focus on the Community
If you want an indicator of the health of a community online that you must account for many factors. Have members, the activity of these members, son, posting activity, and more needs to be taken into account to obtain a picture of where the forum has actually compared with other factors (BoardsMD – http: / / www. boardsmd. com – Mira).
Over time, as more people start linking to information in the forum, the page rank will automatically increase. A forum administrator should not waste their time working on improving page rankings. The focus must always be in the same community, and members. With a healthy and active page ranks will take care of themselves, and your site will be very useful for members because its focus is always on the health forum.
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