Category Archives: Forum

How to make money running a message board.

By bulalo | Published: March 3, 2008
One way to make money online is to set-up a message board and run an online community. There are 2 popular ways to monetize a forum: (1) premium membership and (2) advertisements. Members are usually willing to pay a reasonable one-time or monthly fee for extra privileges such as more spaces in signatures or access to [...]
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How to strikethrough a forum post.

By bulalo | Published: March 2, 2008
As indicated in this post entitled How to Post a Link in a Forum, bulletin boards or forums use a special code called BBcode for formatting text and inserting links and images. BBcodes are formatted with the rectangular brackets (“[" and"]“).  Their operation is similar to HTML tags. Most forums comes installed with a default set [...]
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How to post a link in a forum.

By bulalo | Published: February 28, 2008
One part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is off-page SEO. Off-page SEO deals with getting other websites to link to ours. One such opportunity is offered by forums or bulletin boards that allows us to post links without the NoFollow tag (that tag tell Google bots not to follow the links, thus giving us no [...]
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How to create a forum.

By bulalo | Published: February 5, 2008
Despite the boom in social networking sites such as MySpace and Ning, the simplicity of bulletin boards, both from the administration and users perspective, keeps them popular. So much so that any long time member of such a community invariably ask themselves on how to create an online forum. Fortunately, the latest versions of popular bulletin [...]
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