Ranking a forum topic

[kevinbp]

We can rank a e-commerce product page,
http://moz.com/blog/building-deep-links-into-ecommerce-pages

Q: But how do we rank a forum topic?
For example i want to rank this page, http://moz.com/community/q/does-a-link-in-facebook-count-as-a-backlinkHow do i go about doing it? Is it similar to ranking a website?

[Ray-pp]

Is it similar to ranking a website?

Yep, you would go about it the same way you're trying to rank a website. You jsut want to make sure to keep it targeted to your long-tail keyword(s) for that page, get authority backlinks, and do some internal linking to try and get it raised higher in the SERPs.

[grobro]

For more competitive keywords it's quite hard to rank with forum posts. I am running some quite successful forums and all the traffic I get is from long tail keyword searches. Basically, you have to do the same optimizing as for other websites.

Are you talking about a specific forum post or forum posts in general?