Create a Community with vBulletin
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Written by Atila on August 15, 2008 – 3:07 pm
vBulletin is a community forum software that lets your visitors interact, take part in discussions, ask questions, give answers, and express opinions, giving you an instant community. Unlike a blog, a community forum is more of a discussion board where members and forum moderators interact by posting questions and answers and discussing common problems.
A forum encourages your visitors to return again and again by allowing interaction and information sharing.VBulletin is community-forum software that gives you the ability to create a community that lets your visitors interact, take part in discussions, ask questions, give answers, and express opinions. Unlike a blog, a community forum is more of a discussion board where members and forum moderators interact by posting questions and answers and discussing common problems.
A forum encourages your visitors to return again and again by allowing interaction and information sharing. vBulletin is powerful, scalable, and fully customizable forum software. vBulletin is easy to install, user friendly, and easy for new members to learn to use. vBulletin has been written using the Web’s quickest-growing scripting language, PHP, and is complemented with a highly efficient and ultrafast back-end database engine built using MySQL.
One of the clear benefits of vBulletin is that the software is search-engine friendly. Moreover, controlling the meta tags for each page of your forum is done through the easy-to-use vBulletin admin panel. Within the vBulletin admin panel you can set up your meta keywords and meta descriptions, among other things.
vBulletin allows you to customize the look and feel of your forum. You can get free skins and different forum style sheets at www.vbulletin-faq.com/skins-styles.htm. Skins refer to preselected template designs that allow you to change the look and feel of your forum or Web site. You should make sure that your forum’s look and feel are consistent with the look and feel of your Web site. You should also set up the forum on the domain of your Web site, such as www.example.com/forum or forum.example.com.
By building a community on your Web site with vBulletin, you are making the case to Google and other search engines that your Web site is an information hub for the particular area of your business. Aside from creating content on a regular basis yourself, hosting a community forum or a blog is the best way for you to rank well in the search engines.
One of the steps that you should take to prevent search-engine spiders from visiting areas of your forums that are private is to create a robots.txt file. A private area of your Web site may be an area that is accessible only to paid members or an area where you have concerns about search engines indexing duplicate content. Here is an example of the code you can upload to your public_html directory to prevent private pages from being indexed:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /forums/memberlist.php
A complete list of code that you can upload to your public_html directory is located at www.vbulletin-faq. com/optimize-vbulletin-server.htm. If you use something other than /forums/ for your forums directory, adjust the paths accordingly.
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Hello and good morning! Just wanted to come in and say hi. I’m Jerry. I enjoy cooking, volunteering, doing Paint Shop on the computer. I also like to listen to country, 70’s and 80’s music. Thanks for letting me join your group!
I began this thread to evaluate public usable web proxies:
Which are really anonymous?
Which can unblock facebook, myspace etc, in other words: are fresh ?
Which would you recommend?
Thanks for your help,
Dschibut
P.S.: In my country, the freedom of speech is somehow constrained, please give me a hint, if you have doubts about your recommendation.
Suicide. What is it with friends who feel the need to talk about suicide. They come to you on the internet and you talk to them for 2 hours, than they act like nothing happened. You confront them about it and they say they were just having a bad day. What do you do when you’ve heard this from the same person over and over? [IMG]http://fish.cookiestuffing.me/img/126/w08e0929lzpg/smiley.jpg[/IMG]
I got rid of my cable connection recently and went “internet only.” I know about those places like Hulu and such where you can watch pre-recorded TV shows. But I’m looking for a service where you can watch actual TV channels live as a replacement for cable. You know, where you can flip through channels of the big broadcasters and see TV shows and sports games as they’re broadcasted.
What do you guys think?