My site currently receives very little traffic, and im currently reviewing many things i can do to try and improove.

One of these options is changing the Site name. The name of my forums does little, well, nothing to reflect what my site is about. I know, this was a elementary error when i first set the site up.The site is a generic chat forum, with games, galleries, blogs etc.

I dont want to change the url, but what implications would i have if i changed the Site/forum name.

Am i right in thinking the whole site would need to be reindexed by google?

And by changing forum name to something more approproate for my site content, would that be benefical ?

yes and yes, it could

I would suggest removing the forum title from all pages but the forumhome anyways
I was trying to find the thread around here with the code you look for, but didn't see it.. I'll keep searching

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idk if it's posted here but i think this is the edits you are talking about Brandon

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Thanks for the link Chase! Very cool info.

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Interesting question - I once referred to my Forum as JPiC Forum For Writers. I still do - but I changed the title within vBulletin to Poetry in Color Forum. Within 2 months my forum was on page 2 of google for keyphrase "poetry forum" --- I'd say a lot of it had to do with changing the title in vBulletin.

Interestingly enough - I just checked what page for "forum for writers" and we're on page 1 = AWESOME!

One great secret = vBSEO ;)

Jacquii.

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Hi MsJac

Ive been on your site, very nice.

What implications should i be aware off by changing the Title, if any?

regards

hmmm - interesting question. I think mainly you want to make sure that the "motif" is still the same - Also with changing the name of the forum internally within vbulletin - you may want to make sure that your meta keywords and meta description may still have the changed phrase within, so there is at least some sort of connection and you will still have the original title at least linked in some way with the new forum name.

BTW - I'm glad you like JPiC - what's your Forum url please?

Jacquii.

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Thank you brandon and caddyman, Ive had the forum name removed from other pages for a while, but hasnt seemed to have any effect for me.

Ive been talking to Dave, one of the setup team members, and will likely seek his help soon, but am trying to "Help myself" more if i can first.

So any ideas and tips more than welcome

The forum is, wait for it, a Generic forum.

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the skin is a little dark and plain for me, and the logo could use some work. if you like the skin you like it, and that is fine, everyone is different.

the logo is a good concept just a little choppy. i could maybe take a shot at cleaning it up, maybe sundya, im off to the beach today :P

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Caddy, i competeley agree about the Logo.

Graphically, my skills are zero, so if you feel you could do something with it, great.

Though, i am in process of changing the site name. The way the name came about, has nothing to do with "Hunting", it came about because i was always "Hunting for fun stuff" online. I thought at the time it was a good name, but in hindsight, how wrong i was lol.

Have a great day at the beach