I am starting a website, tattoos.org. I would like to go after the keyword "tattoos" and them also have a forum on the website to target all the long-tail keywords...
What is the best seo friendly forum to use? Whats the best way to monetize them?
looking for details...
thanks
Nice domain
I don't know whether VB is or isn't the best for SEO, but it can't be bad otherwise it wouldn't be as popular as it is. It also seems to be well supported.
Because its so popular, most people familiar with forums already know how to use/navigate it, for those that aren't familiar with forums its easy enough for them to work it out. Which is obviously a big plus when starting a new community.
As for monetizing, don't worry about it until your getting enough traffic to warrant it. Once you are getting enough traffic, AdSense is the obvious choice but you can also try and sell your own advertising directly.
Digital point have a nice homegrown system that displays ads that you have directly sold first, and falls back to AdSense if you have no directly sold ads to display. You can read more about that at digitalpointads.com or advertising.digitalpoint.com
Cheers
James
