By selecting a specific topic to view, users are taken to a page with a list of posts in that topic.

Each individual message usually looks like this:

Usually, a small menu is displayed along the top and bottom of each page, containing (depending on the forum settings) the following buttons:

• Answer- The most popular button with which users can leave new messages in the topic.
• Notify- Subscribe to receive notifications of new posts in this topic.
• Mark unread- You can mark the current topic as unread.
• Submit this topic- You can send a link to the current topic to your friend/acquaintance by specifying his e-mail.
• Seal- Create a printed version of the page with the content of the current topic, for review before printing.

As a rule, the list of messages in a topic is displayed in vertical order: old messages at the top, new ones at the bottom. But each user can set a different, horizontal order in his profile. Then new messages will be placed at the top. Each message in the list is divided into two sections. The left section contains short information about the author of the message, and on the right - the message itself.

• Author Section
  • Post Author- Nickname of the user (or guest) who left this message.
  • Signature above the avatar- Depending on the forum settings, users may have pre-made inscriptions above the avatars or may set them themselves. Typically, this signature is used to individually "mark" users.
  • Main group- Most often all users are in a group Regular Users, whose title is not displayed. If the group is any other, its name will be displayed in this place. If the author of the post is a guest, this will also be flagged here.
  • Group based on number of messages- Depending on the number of messages left, users are divided into different groups (Newbie, Guest, etc.). The name of this group may not be displayed if the user is a member of a special group or its display is disabled in the settings of the current theme.
  • Emblem- Usually the number of images in the emblem is set depending on the rank of the group (for example, beginners have 1 star, advanced users have three, veterans have five), or they use different images for different groups.
  • Number of messages- Display the current number of messages of a particular user.
  • Icons for contacting the author- Display of various icons that help in one way or another to contact the author of the message: link to the profile, link to the site, ICQ number, e-mail, sending a personal message.
• Post section
  • Message icon- An individual icon chosen by the author when creating/sending a message.
  • Message subject- The title of the message usually coincides with the title of the topic, however, at the request of the author of the message, it can be changed to any other.
  • Button bar- At the top of each message, in the right corner, a number of buttons are displayed that allow you to perform certain quick actions on the text of the message: quote, change, delete, etc. (depending on the settings and installed mods). Most often, the "Quote" button is displayed, all other buttons are available only to the author of a particular message, as well as moderators and administrators.
  • date and time- The date and time the post was posted is displayed directly below the subject. A warning about the subsequent editing of the message will be displayed under its content and above the signature of the author.
  • Text- The content of the message (if there are no messages, then why the forum?)
  • Signature- If the user has indicated his signature in the profile, it will be displayed here, under the text of the message.
  • Report to moderator- Each specific message can be quickly reported to the moderators (for example, complain if the message uses a mat).
  • Recorded by- A flag indicating that the IP address of the computer used by the user or guest when sending the message is saved in the logs (in the database). For administrators (and for those who are allowed), the IP itself is displayed next to this mark.

While these are the most common message items when browsing threads, users can hide some of them by editing their profiles.

Long time no love for seobayers so iam writing this tutorial for you guys:

One of the biggest mysteries about xrumer has been creating profiles and me myself being a noob , but a smart one:P, always try to find ways for creating thins easier. Recently i was doing a test and found a good way of generating profile links easily. Before we start i will post results:

Tools- Hrefer 3.3, Xrumer 7.5, Scrapebox, Adword tool for keyword, Keyword studio pro and a linklist merger

Linklist generated- 250k (unique domains)
Profiles generated- 60k (unique domains) - a lot in just 20 days.

Step 1
Generate keywords which people actually try to rank for. This is the most crucial step in profile building. I saw a huge list being shared on another forum which had over 300k words. I say what is the use for searching keywords like "aaaaa", "abra ka dabra" etc. Who will rank for these? So i used common sense and generated keywords which people actually use for ranking.

Usage-
1) Note down atleast 100 keywords from google search (not adwords) which are broad and have massive competition like credit card, insurance etc.

2) One-by-one load these keywords into keyword studio pro (i used crack version:P) and generate similar keywords. Note that these words are better than scrapebox wonderwheel scraper.

3) Load all these keywords into scrapebox and generate keywords upto 3 levels. De-dup them etc. and save them. Then in the end make a huge list of all the keywords generated from original 100 words.

Step 2
Load them into hrefer but before you begin to do this:

1) Edit additive words and just use these:

"powered by smf"
"powered by vbulletin"
"powered by phpbb"
"powered by ip.board"

etc. etc. etc. but only forum software names. I did this so i don't know which are the most useful.

2) Edit search engine filter and place this:

member.php?action=
profile.php?viewprofile=

etc. etc. basically all those filters which have view profile in their url.

The logic is to get the maximum of those profiles which have been made for the purpose of visible backlinks. (Iam having trouble loggin into my dedi so will post the complete list later)

3) Start scraping and wait for it to complete.

Step 3- Another very important step.

Usually you all just load the links in xrumer and blast away but no you should analyze the database also to remove dead ones. So click on tools -> database analysis

1) Type the same "powered by" stuff into the box on the left hand side.

2) Choose your linklist and select search content and 50 threads and go. This will remove all 404 forums and blogs etc.

Now we run xrumer with this linklist.

1) Load the database and setup your project.

2) Goto advanced options -> select register only, goto speed<--->success and move all the way to success and select recaptcha with 40-50 atempts.

3) Start and let it complete.

While the posting is done i usually move to next keyword building step.

When all your profiles are created, load them into linklist merger and create a big file from it. Now remove dups and all and you have a good profile link package.

So the jist is - keywords which people search - only a few additive words and filters - right settings etc.

You will notice that from your final linklist with medium success and recpatcha off and 20-25 atempts for captcha you will get approx 30k+ profiles. I get 60k with recaptcha and half-success

Happy profile creation....

Everyone knows that I simply cannot live without Joomla, but, in my opinion, there is no good forum in components. That's why I work with forum engines. One of the new ones I just recently started using is Starting a new SMF category, hopefully with useful material. We start small, well, as beginners very useful.

First Steps in Search Engine Optimization Simple Machine Forum: remove copyright and external links

I’ll make a reservation right away that I work only with smf 2 and this article will refer specifically to this version of the free forum engine.

And so, regular readers know how much I do not like to put "10" external links to the official sites of engines, including forum ones. That is why, first of all, we remove the copyright and as many as 4, attention 4 external links of the form " SMF 2.0.2 | Simple Machines | SMF © 2011 | XHTML" ! To do this, connect to the site via FTP forum/Themes/ name of your theme/ and edit the file index.template.php. Naturally, at the very bottom is the code (about line 330), which displays external links that we don’t like so much. Therefore, we remove: "

", theme_copyright(), "

" and "

", $txt["xhtml"], "

". Everything is so simple and easy. In the next publications, wait for new materials on promoting and optimizing forums on SMF /