Yeah, a business section would be quite cool :) (members only maybe?).
If you do this... then be sure to get the mod_rewrite and search engine friendly templates setup. GT has some HUGE traffic coming from Google, which seems to be directly related to the forum (a lot of Perl questions that I'm trying to find the answer on, the GT forums come up in the first few results
). This is a great traffic builder, and once Google starts spidering your forum, then you will soon have literally thousands of new pages spidered, with potential traffic being increased. Obviously if your Google PR isn't brilliant (a 5 should be enough), then it may not spider the whole of your forum, but just 4-5 levels deep (which should be enough).
I'm just waiting for Google to update their PR's again (been an age since the last one). Then, I can see how well the forum gets spidered :)
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I've found that once I had the look etc. under control the focus shifted to how to promote the site and bring in more traffic. I'm thinking of adding a forum to my site, both for general topic discussion and more specific discussion on links (suggestions, etc.). Has anyone had any experience in adding a forum and increasing 'stickiness'?If you do this... then be sure to get the mod_rewrite and search engine friendly templates setup. GT has some HUGE traffic coming from Google, which seems to be directly related to the forum (a lot of Perl questions that I'm trying to find the answer on, the GT forums come up in the first few results
). This is a great traffic builder, and once Google starts spidering your forum, then you will soon have literally thousands of new pages spidered, with potential traffic being increased. Obviously if your Google PR isn't brilliant (a 5 should be enough), then it may not spider the whole of your forum, but just 4-5 levels deep (which should be enough). I'm just waiting for Google to update their PR's again (been an age since the last one). Then, I can see how well the forum gets spidered :)
Cheers
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