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Honestly, I keep the copyright in tact. I’d rather keep my money and invest it in other things that are more important & vital to my community. The removal of the copyright isn’t something that bothers me that much.

There are many free hosting providers where you can set up your own website, blog or forum, but what platforms are your go platforms for setting up a new website or blog? How about a forum? Do you prefer to use neocities, wix, wordpress or blogger? What are your go to free forum hosting providers? Are there any platforms that you refuse to use?

It’s going to be an issue until they figure out how to actually send traffic back to the webmasters. Perplexity does this well as they link back to the sites that they provide in their answers as does Chatgpt. The key is that the sources need to be front and center of the answers. However, diversifying your traffic sources is one thing that webmasters need to also focus on. You can’t keep all your eggs in one basket.

Volunteer work is often a great way to gain experience in community management, especially for those interested in learning how to manage a forum, moderate discussions, and engage with a community. It can also build transferable skills for other online communities or even professional roles. I actually started as a volunteer moderator myself 22 years ago, so I personally don’t see nothing wrong with forum owners seeking volunteer moderators, it’s a stepping stone that can lead to more advanced roles later on. Many of us who now run communities or work in online moderation started the same way. The OP already clarified that this is a volunteer role, not a paid position. So, the incentive is really about gaining experience, building relationships, and contributing to a community. For some, that’s fulfilling in itself, while for others, it can be a stepping stone toward future paid roles in community management.

Yes, but top rankings won’t happen without backlinks. Backlinks are the main backbone behind that, especially if they’re from high quality sites and relevant. Even though Matt Cutts isn’t around anymore on Google, pagerank is still apart of Google’s main system.

It takes time for your pages to be fully indexed. Google won’t magically index them and rank them. You’ll need ranking power, which comes in the form of “backlinks”. The more backlinks that your site has, the better chances it’ll have to be indexed as google will deem your site as an authoritative one. They’ll crawl and index your site much faster if you spend time building backlinks, which can come in the form of directory links, reddit links, links from tumblr, forum signature links, profile links, blog comments, etc. You’ll also need to use link anchors with your site name while building links. With more backlinks, google will be able to find your pages a lot faster and index them correctly. It does take time for a new site to get indexed and rank compared to an older site, but generally this doesn’t last too long as long as you build links. You could also promote your blog on social media to help build the visibility, which in turn will help Google and the other search engines see that your content is being visible & seen. If your posts get reposted & liked, it’ll also have a slight impact on your rankings as well.

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There are a wide variety of wordpress plugins that you can use to enhance your wordpress blog and improve it, but which plugins do you use that you swear by? Are there any particular plugins that you feel are highly important and should be used by anyone that runs a wordpress blog? If so, which plugins are they? Are there any plugins that you feel aren’t so important?

The internet contains various online communities with many forums that cover a wide variety of topics and discussions, but what are some of your favorite forums? Are there any non admin/promotion forums that you like to visit or tech related forums that you lean towards? I recently discovered a new forum that has a lot of hidden gems: https://discourse.32bit.cafe/ What about you? You can use this thread to share some cool forums that you’ve recently discovered as well!

I don’t have any plans, but I’ll be watching movies and relaxing. What about you?

I’d say bring it and let’s battle it out. But, honestly, I’d double down on what made my forum popular in the first place and continue to do what we do best. I’d also step up my marketing tactics and work on driving in new members. That way, the competition wouldn’t have an advantage over my forum. The key is to provide things that your competitor doesn’t.

These days, a lot of website owners and creators out source their social media accounts to managers to run their accounts, so they don’t have to manage their social media accounts on their own. But do you think it’s worth it or would you rather run your own social media accounts?

Are you using hashtags on Bluesky? This usually helps you reach more people. I don’t use Mastodon, so I’m not too familiar with their network. I receive a decent amount of traffic from Bluesky though and have managed to gain some new members from promoting on there.

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Reddit is introducing some new features for posts that should make it easier to know if your post meets a subreddit’s rules and if it’s for the appropriate community, according to a blog post. The new Rules Check will flag a potential issue as you’re writing the post. As shown in a GIF of the mobile app, you’ll see a red notification badge above your keyboard on a little magic wand icon, and if you tap that, the app will display a pop-up showing rules that your post might be breaking. This feature will be tested first on iOS and Android. If your post is removed for breaking the rules, Reddit will show a prompt suggesting that you try instead to post it to a different subreddit. The new Community Suggestions feature will offer recommendations on which subreddit a post might be a fit for. And the Clear Community Info tool you might see before posting will let you know a subreddit’s specific posting requirements. Reddit is also offering insights on your posts, including “views, upvotes, shares, and more,” per the blog post. Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/625038/reddit-posts-features-rules-check-subreddit-recommendations

Chatbots from companies like OpenAI and Google appear to be sucking up much-needed traffic to websites and massively screwing publishers over in the process. As Forbes reports, new data from the content licensing platform TollBit shows that AI chatbots send a whopping 96 percent less traffic to publishers' websites than traditional search engines — even as companies like OpenAI and Perplexity promise tangible gains to media companies that partner with them. When looking at metrics for 160 news and blogging publishers, TollBit found that AI companies' bots scraped those sites an average of two million times during the fourth quarter of 2024. Each page was scraped around seven times on average — a click-stealing scheme, if you will, that results in zero ad revenue for the publishers involved, since bot clicks don't generate any money for advertisers. "We are seeing an influx of bots that are hammering these sites every time a user asks a question," explained Toshit Panigrahi, TollBit's CEO, in an interview with Forbes. "The amount of demand for publisher content is nontrivial." Though chatbots do include links to original source sites when spitting out answers to questions that would otherwise be posed to a traditional search engine, these AI services also summarize the information scraped from those sites. As such, there's no reason for users to visit the links because the answer is already right there. Some publishers, like the textbook marketplace-turned-edtech company Chegg, are already feeling — and fighting — the financial burn from its work being repurposed as AI results. In a newly filed lawsuit, Chegg alleges that Google has "profoundly" harmed the publisher's ad revenue by including its content in the search giant's AI Overview feature. During a recent earnings call, Chegg CEO Nathan Schultz admitted that the damage to the publisher's bottom line is so severe, the company is considering going private or being acquired. "Unfortunately, traffic is being blocked from ever coming to Chegg," Schultz said during the call, "because of Google’s AIO and their use of Chegg’s content to keep visitors on their own platform." Along with hiring Goldman Sachs to conduct a "strategic review" of just how many hundreds of millions of dollars the company has lost, Chegg also retained the Susman Godfrey law firm for its suit against Google — and according to Ian Crosby, a partner at that practice, Google's AI Overviews are a "threat to the internet." Source: https://futurism.com/openai-google-hurting-publishers

I don’t see over-engagement as desperation at all , I see it as a sign that the owner is passionate about their project and genuinely enjoys being part of the community. When a forum owner is actively contributing and leading by example, it sets the tone for the whole community. That kind of involvement can actually motivate other members to step up and participate more because they see the owner isn’t just managing from the sidelines, they’re right there in the trenches with everyone else. At the end of the day, a forum is a reflection of its leadership. If the owner is having fun and engaging with the content, that energy becomes contagious.

In order to expand your audience, you’ll have to tap into the market and see where else your audience is hanging out at. This includes social media, other forums and blogs. You’ll have to engage with these users and try to attract them to your forum. Partnering up with related forums and offering exclusive deals could also work.

This is why it’s important that your DKIM email authentication is set up correctly, so your emails aren’t set to spam. If it’s not properly set up, the forum will have an issue with all emails being set to spam.

You can also set up a client side meta redirect, but it’s not the same as a server side 301. It doesn’t pass over the same value of a server side 301. But it will still point your old domain to the new one. <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://newsite.com"> The meta code needs to be placed in your main file.

Google has become so integral to online navigation that its name became a verb, meaning "to find things on the Internet." Soon, Google might just tell you what's on the Internet instead of showing you. The company has announced an expansion of its AI search features, powered by Gemini 2.0. Everyone will soon see more AI Overviews at the top of the results page, but Google is also testing a more substantial change in the form of AI Mode. This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode. This marks the debut of Gemini 2.0 in Google search. Google announced the first Gemini 2.0 models in December 2024, beginning with the streamlined Gemini 2.0 Flash. The heavier versions of Gemini 2.0 are still in testing, but Google says it has tuned AI Overviews with this model to offer help with harder questions in the areas of math, coding, and multimodal queries. With this update, you will begin seeing AI Overviews on more results pages, and minors with Google accounts will see AI results for the first time. In fact, even logged out users will see AI Overviews soon. This is a big change, but it's only the start of Google's plans for AI search. Gemini 2.0 also powers the new AI Mode for search. It's launching as an opt-in feature via Google's Search Labs, offering a totally new alternative to search as we know it. This custom version of the Gemini large language model (LLM) skips the standard web links that have been part of every Google search thus far. The model uses "advanced reasoning, thinking, and multimodal capabilities" to build a response to your search, which can include web summaries, Knowledge Graph content, and shopping data. It's essentially a bigger, more complex AI Overview. As Google has previously pointed out, many searches are questions rather than a string of keywords. For those kinds of queries, an AI response could theoreticallyprovide an answer more quickly than a list of 10 blue links. However, that relies on the AI response being useful and accurate, something that often still eludes generative AI systems like Gemini. Google insists this is not the end of web search, saying that helping people discover content online "remains central" to its approach. Indeed, the examples Google shows include links and citations from around the web similar to AI Overviews. However, you can't just scroll down in AI Mode to see organic results. Instead, AI Mode is designed to operate in a conversational way, allowing you to refine your search or ask follow-up questions. If this sounds like something you absolutely do not want, you can safely ignore it for now. The experimental feature is only available for Google One AI Premium subscribers, who pay $20 per month for access to Google's best LLMs. This could be an indication that generating these search pages is extremely costly even for a company that gives away so much AI processing for free. Still, Google's AI efforts move fast, and you could find yourself confronted with AI Mode soon. It only took a few months for the Search Generative Experience to graduate from Labs as AI Overviews. Google notes that it still has a lot of work to do before AI Mode is ready for prime time—it's a dramatic departure for a core part of the Google experience, after all. Google says the AI-only searches might not always be able to offer a good rundown. In those instances, it will fall back to showing you traditional links to websites that can answer your questions. AI Mode may also appear to take on a persona or form an opinion like a chatbot while it's still in development. The feedback from the public test will help Google address AI Mode's shortcomings and make rapid changes to the experience. If you want to check out AI Mode, you can join the waitlist in Search Labs. If not, it's probably only a matter of time before you have no choice. No one was exactly clamoring for AI Overviews, but that hasn't stopped Google from pushing it to ever more searches. Source: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/google-is-expanding-ai-overviews-and-testing-ai-only-search-results/

Did this money come out of your bank account or a different card? I would have filed a charge back and got my money back through my bank. A bank generally refunds scam transactions as they’re customer first and they side with their customer over anyone else. It usually takes 7-31 days for them to refund you though.

I’d rather go to the beach and drink a few beers while relaxing by the ocean. I’ve never been near mountains. I don’t think I’d want to be close to snakes and coyotes nor bears.😅

I’d like to request 50 posts for Virtualpetlist along with 5 threads. Thank you!