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A good post on making Facebook comments on your site indexable is here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/make-facebook-comments-box-indexable-by-search-engines But yeah as far as making comments into a dedicated URL I don't think you can do it. I hope this helps, Regards, James Norquay

Hi Robert, thx - I try my best

Below is a list of sites that accept infographic submissions: http://dailyinfographic.com http://visualoop.tumblr.com coolinfographics.com http://www.scoop.it/t/awesome-infographics/ http://dailyinfographic.com/ http://fuckyeahinfographics.tumblr.com/ http://iheartinfographics.tumblr.com/ http://infographic.co.za/ http://infographicsbin.tumblr.com/ http://infographicsgenerator.com/ http://infographicsite.com/ http://infographipedia.com/ http://infographr.tumblr.com/ http://submitinfographics.com/ http://theinfographics.blogspot.com/ http://videoinfographic.com/submit-infographic/ http://visual.ly/ http://www.bestinfographics.co.uk/ http://www.bestinfographics.info/ http://www.cloudinfographics.com/ http://www.infographicas.com/ http://www.infographicgallery.com/ http://www.infographicpost.com/ http://www.infographicsarchive.com/ http://www.infographicsshowcase.com/ http://www.pureinfographics.com/ http://www.omginfographics.com/ http://www.coolinfographics.com/ http://chartporn.org/ http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/infographic Rob. <colgroup><col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 8561; width: 181pt;" width="241"></colgroup> | http://dailyinfographic.com | | http://visualoop.tumblr.com | | coolinfographics.com | | http://www.scoop.it/t/awesome-infographics/ | | http://dailyinfographic.com/ | | http://fuckyeahinfographics.tumblr.com/ | | http://iheartinfographics.tumblr.com/ | | http://infographic.co.za/ | | http://infographicsbin.tumblr.com/ | | http://infographicsgenerator.com/ | | http://infographicsite.com/ | | http://infographipedia.com/ | | http://infographr.tumblr.com/ | | http://submitinfographics.com/ | | http://theinfographics.blogspot.com/ | | http://videoinfographic.com/submit-infographic/ | | http://visual.ly/ | | http://www.bestinfographics.co.uk/ | | http://www.bestinfographics.info/ | | http://www.cloudinfographics.com/ | | http://www.infographicas.com/ | | http://www.infographicgallery.com/ | | http://www.infographicpost.com/ | | http://www.infographicsarchive.com/ | | http://www.infographicsshowcase.com/ | | http://www.pureinfographics.com/ | | http://www.omginfographics.com/ | | http://www.coolinfographics.com/ | | http://chartporn.org/ | | http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/infographic |

I'd say you need to have a reason why your forum is better than what is already out there, and why a broad forum where any topic goes is better than a niche forum. I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum from you. I run RC Naval Combat, a forum that is devoted to RC warships that shoot and sink each other. We have a custom design warship registry where you can show off your boat and list details about the scale (1:96, 1:144, etc), class (USS Iowa, HMS Revenge, etc), type (battleship, cruiser, destroyer, etc), local club, and more. We have a number of subforums for various aspects of the hobby. That site has more activity and members than the warship combat subforum of a couple of major RC hobby forum sites. Those sites are much bigger, but look at us as the crazy people who shoot ball bearings at each other and sink each others ships. There can be helpful advice in the other subforums, but they just don't have the experience with fully submersing a ship and how we need our things set up differently in many cases. Think about what exists out there already, and what you can do better. You're going to have this battle in many subject areas I would imagine. You need a value proposition about why people should come to your site for their discussions. It could be ease of use, mobile friendly, unlimited image uploads, a way of doing something way better than most everyone else is..but it's more than a build it and they will come proposition.

Tyler, I was curious so I started searching.  I could not find anything new.  Pages are associated with organizations, businesses, celebrities, brands.. as opposed to personal profiles.  The personal profiles do have something relatively new called "Timelines".  A few of my kids have changed their profiles to timelines, but I like the old way with a wall...  Here is what I see available: Personal Profiles Timelines (New) Page Local Business or Place Company, Organization or Institution Brand or Product Artist, Band or Public Figure Entertainment Cause or Community Group The only thing I really see as new are the timelines and they have been around for awhile.  Hopefully someone else has a better answer.

Personally I will begin by following any accounts I feel may be influential or interested in the field I am marketing. Out of 'Twitter courtesy' you will see roughly 20-40% of these follw you back. If there are any particular accounts I want to follow me I will mention one of their previous tweets before following them. That tends to work to an extent. Once I have a following, with the companies actual Tweets I tend to Tweet articles, videos, pictures etc that are relevant to their interests e.g. An article on 'Podiatry vs Chiropody' with each of the terms hashtagged.I'll only hashtag certain words I think are relevant to the tweet. Rather than RT other tweets I mentioned the person and put the Tweet via @whoeveritmaybe. Also I find it important to add some sort of opinion to the informational tweets. It gives the account an element of humanization rather than just looking like a bot pushing out articles. Also important to respond to any mentions no matter how negative/random they may seem at the time. This is quite an over simplisation (and there are a lot more things I do) of what occurs but I think you get the jist of what I'm getting at P.S - I wouldn't use hundreds of hashtags - I think even though you'll appear in more #searches# it will reduce the chance of followers engaging and any click throughs on content you're pushing

Hi Samuel, Just copy what seoMoz is doing with their blogs :). Take a look at the placement of social buttons on their blog posts and track them on various social network in order to see how they promote blog posts. Also there are lots of posts and videos related to social networks on this site, so give search button some love. As for being worried about people stealing your content, don't be. Produce quality content, share it and interact with your visitors. If somebody happens to steal your content, be cool to them, kindly ask for back-link and offer a guest post. Make friends not enemies, after all if they are stealing your content, it must be really good. Kind regards Bojan

Don't forget the Pininterest - if you have good images, incredible SEO potential there. Also, find relevant websites who might find your images interesting - not difficult if your pics are unique and not-so-common. You can allow them to use it if they link to you.

You should be looking for traffic to your site, the amount of people pinning and commenting on your pins and the amount of new followers your getting.

You can create it, but it is better to use a currently trending one unless you have access to a very authoritative twitter account. If you have an event or conference then yes you would need to register it, other than that I would just watch the trends with ideas in pocket with a few different scenarios of good content you have to distribute.

Good for you to be able to create such shareable content! I have one post I wrote that occasionally gets a boost of virality and I'll tell you what I did (but I am by no means an expert on how to make the best use of viral traffic.) -I put links in that article to other interesting/related articles on my site. -I encourage people to share or link to this article if they have found it helpful.  (If you're not already doing it, you may consider adding a block of code to show people how to link to the article, for those who are not html savvy.) Another thing you can do is use this article to look for linkbuilding opportunities.  If that many people are willing to share and read your stuff then you should have people who want to link to it.  Depending on the content you can look for other websites that are linking to this kind of stuff and then suggest your site as a resource to link to.  Similarly, you can do broken link building.  Find sites that link to your kind of content, then search for broken links (I use the chrome check-my-links extension).  Then, you can send them an email saying, "Hey, I found some broken links on your site.  I was wondering who I could report them to...and by the way, you may find this article of mine worth linking to.) Care to share your tips on how you make an article attract so much attention?

Ryan is correct. You should not worry about it - if worry about it then you will naturally try to alter the ratio to something that is NOT natural. My guess is that there is a flag in googles algorithm when it see's a ratio of dofollow to nofollow that is well above the norm. SEO's concentrate on dofollow links, therefore it is an indication of possible manipulative tactics if you see a very high ratio (one that would not occur naturally).

Loren, it's my pleasure. I love SEO and I try to learn from any professional and any problem I meet on my way. Yesterday, just after our phone talk I signed up for Market Motive's Social Media Optimization course. This will definitely benefit our undertaking. Thank you again Loren. -Slava

We just made a change that should make this list a little more clear. If you tweet something and mention yourself in the tweet, it will show up in this list. For example, if someone on the @SEOmoz account tweeted, "Broken Link Building Guide: From Noob to Novice - http://mz.cm/w0FdTQ - New YouMoz on @SEOmoz" then the application considers you as someone who has mentioned your account. I hope that answers your question. Let me know if you have any more! Thanks!

Great.  Thanks for the link, also.

My main readership is moms, so they are very active on pintrest. They repin a lot of my content, and spend time looking at other pages on the site once there.  However, they know what they are getting before they come to the site. Like the others have said, it really just depends on what sort of audience your site has.  For me, it's been good (I actually want to step up my boards, and make them a bit more organized...) but may not be for you.  Also remember it's invite only at this point, so even though there are a lot of people on it, not every one is. So you'll have to decide if it's worth your time at this point.

Hi Bob Working on the same thing! still to Implement but reading up on these at the moment. If you sort it before me please let me know. http://www.bigskyphotography.ca/design/tutorial-facebook-like-virtuemart/ http://forum.virtuemart.net/archive/index.php?topic=82536.10;wap2

Blogging contests will only be successful if they are promoted well, have good prizes and have very rigid and well defined rules. As Tom mentioned you'll get extra content for your site but you need to maximise the number of links you will receive too. For Example: If you are an e-commerce website you could invite bloggers to imagine they have $500 and for them to write a blog post on their site about the products they'd buy with this money and many will link to the products. The prize could then be the $500? You want to make sure that if the blogger is going to write a guest article for your site that they also write an article on their blog promoting the blogging competition. You can give out extra prizes based on social measures such as the article that gets the most  FB shares, +1's or Tweets that the article receives.