Hello SSWT! Which site to backlink?

[Lynn Terry]

Okay - gotcha.

Yes, ideally you would host your own blog & forums, instead of using free hosted options. But you can also create a redirect from the domain since it's hosted at HostGator.

So to make motocrosshideout.com/forums point to your free hosted forum, you create a redirect file and name it index.html or index.php and put it in a directory named "forums" on that account. Then when someone clicks that link it redirects them to the forum you have on the other site.

Honestly, I would go ahead and set up the blog & forum on your own hosting account before you get too much further with the project. You need to own the properties and the content, especially if it goes big.

[Clay Franklin]

Thank you for your service Christian.
When I checked out the site most of the graphics has x
For SEO: linking from each page to another page provides good internal linking and improves SEO. so when writing posts include links to pther posts or products for sale pages.

Lynn,
For a forum for Christian's site or my site is simplepress ok our should we consider vbulletin like used here at sswt?

[Lynn Terry]

I haven't used simplepress so I can't comment on that one. I did use PHPBB for 6+ years and loved it. It's free & open source so there are tons of mods and add-ons available (also free). vBulletin is a great platform, but I switched mainly for the paid subscription option because I was handling that manually on PHPBB and needed something more automated.

[christianwins]

You don't see it on that site, testing on another site, but using Fantastico in the Hostgator Cpanel it was amazingly simple to install both the phpBB forums as well as a wordpress blog which solved both these issues. Yay, another small victory on the way. Glad I asked here.

[Lynn Terry]

Congrats - glad to hear it! I use the Fantastico features through HostGator a lot. Very simple to install & set up just about anything you could want on a website.