A popular method to generate revenue on your forum is using ads. However, there are other methods that you can use to generate revenue: Premium membership: allow members to purchase premium membership for a small fee. ...
In a previous discussion, we discussed whether allowing signatures on forums encourages spammers. Today I shall share some tips on how to prevent forum spammers. Only enable signatures for active members: If you want t...
From my experience, forums that allow members to have a signature encourage spammers. For example, people would join, add a signature and then post very low quality posts. It doesn’t matter if your forum guidelines sta...
If your website gets a lot of traffic but have low click through rate (CTR), then using a CPM ad network may be more profitable. CPM ad networks normally pays a fixed rate per 1000 impressions your ads get. On the other ...
What is your application process for joining the staff team? When we pick moderators on my forum, normally it is just an application and possible some related follow-up questions. However, I plan on introducing a new ...
What criteria do you use for choosing staff or team members? When I choose staff for my forum, I normally look at multiple things. I need to make sure that they will stay active on my team for a long time and won’t ...
It is definitely possible being webmaster without knowing coding as there are lots of resources online and you can always hire developers. You can always use open source and paid softwares for your website. However, ther...
Do you think it is more profitable being a webmaster or freelancer? I personally think this depends. You need a lot of traffic on your website to gain revenue but with freelancing, you can also use marketplaces and wh...
One of the SEO trends of 2016 is to have a website with good user experience. In order to have a good user experience, you must have a mobile friendly website to give mobile users the best experience. My question is what...
If you open a HTML file using your browser, it will open fine. However, this is not the case with PHP because PHP needs to be processed on a web server. If you open a PHP file with your browser, it will show your PHP cod...
As a webmaster, it is important to motivate your team. Only motivated staff will be working hard and doing their job to the highest quality. Here are some tips on how to motivate your staff members: Provide incentives ...
If you would like to start a forum or already own a forum, then understanding the ways to boost activity is important. Here are some tips for improving activity on forums: Buy Forum Posts: Buying forum posts is a good ...
I recently started learning PHP and found a few useful resources online to learn programming. Here are some of them: Vtc.com – This is a website that provides videos for tutorials on a wide range of computing subjec...
Whether you are a freelancer or webmaster, if you have a team, giving each other feedback is very important. This allows you to keep improving yourselves and help your team become better. Sometimes, not everyone on your ...
Some forums seems to be getting less active these days. People seems to be moving to social media and less people are participating in forums. Forums are still very useful resources but I see that there are some forums w...
When your main source of income is from ads, placing your ads at the right place and using the right type of ads is crucial. Here are some of my tips on how to maximize ad revenue: Experiments: If you are using Google ...
What is your favourite forum software? My favourite one is Xenforo because even though it is newer than some of its competitors such as IPB, Mybb and Phpbb, it is packed with features and there is an active community ...
When it comes to online purchases, PayPal is a very popular option but everything has advantages and disadvantages so let us discuss these today. Advantages: Flexibility: PayPal is a very flexible option for buyers ...
If you are wondering why you should become a SEOCerks affiliate, check out this discussion. Today, we shall discuss how to maximise your affiliates earnings on SEOClerks. Unfortunately, you cannot affect the number of or...
Subscription or membership websites are websites that have premium content that can only be viewed for a monthly fee. Some websites may provide limited amounts of free content so you can have a trial before purchasing me...
NOTE: This tutorial is only suitable for installing Wordpress using cPanel cPanel is a very popular control panel for web hosting servers so I decided to make a guide for installing Wordpress using this control panel....
Wordpress is a very powerful software; most people know it as a blogging software but you can create more than just a blog with it. Here are some advantages of Wordpress: User friendly: The software is very user friend...
I am sure that this is a very interesting topic to discuss. Adblockers. I am sure most of us here use adblockers because we hate all those annoying ads, especially, those pop up ones. However, as a webmaster, I hate adbl...
I have read a few articles about the real-time Google Penguin 4 algorithm. From what I read, originally, Google confirmed the real time algorithm in 2015 and it was expected to be released during early 2016 but it was th...
The Google Search Console, previously called the Google Webmaster Tools is a very useful resource for webmasters because it gives you lots of information that can help you optimize your website. These are some of the fea...
The Penguin algorithm was created to deal with web spam and it detects and reduces the rankings of websites related or linked to spammy websites. It is well known that Google gives websites Penguin penalties for having s...
I have read a few articles about the real time Google Penguin 4 algorithm. From what I read, originally, Google confirmed the real time algorithm in 2015 and it was expected to be released during early 2016 but it was th...
The SEO world is changing every day with new information released regularly. Therefore, it is important to keep yourself updated with the latest trends in order to dominate search engines. With so many websites online, w...
Page speed is an important factor for SERP since Google has put more emphasis on user experience. Therefore, it is important to host your website on a fast web server. As someone who generate revenue through advertisemen...
I recently read some articles about the relationship between user experience and SEO. It seems like increasing user satisfaction will help boost rankings and I understand that but the articles are quite vague on how to i...
