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		<title>Forum Hosting &#8211; as popular as ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years we&#8217;ve seen many trends, from AOL communities to MySpace pages to Facebook groups, but none of these trends have diminished the power of the Forum. For when it comes down to it, people who are interested in, let&#8217;s say sailing in the Great Lakes, like to gather together in a forum about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice way to drive traffic to your forum, chat or blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our chat and forum customers recently gained over 100 members to their brand new site within a month, so we asked him what his primary method was. It turns out he simply did a search on YouTube.com for people with similar interests to his chat and forum, and then told them about his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting max upload size for your SMF Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By default the Simple Machines forums are set to allow only very small attachments, and the max folder size is set very low as well. If you ever get an error that the upload file is full, you can increase the max upload size per post and max folder size (that holds all the uploads) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice anti-bot feature for SMF Forums</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone with a popular forum has seen their share of spam-bots registering to post their silly links. We found a nice forum mod that helps stop such annoyances. It&#8217;s called the &#8220;Are You Human&#8221; mod which is added to the registration page, you can download it here. Download the Mod by right-clicking the .zip link [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to change Forum Name in SMF</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can change the Forum Name in Admin -> Server Settings (on the left under Configuration) Scroll down and you&#8217;ll see &#8220;Forum Title&#8221; where you can change the name be sure not to change anything else as some of those settings can disable the forum.]]></description>
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		<title>How to archive posts in SMF</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;d rather archive old forum posts than delete them (instead of deleting them permanently) then yu can create a special archive board and move old topics there. First in Admin -&#62; Boards you create a new board called &#8220;Archive&#8221; and unclick the appropriate boxes to make it viewable only by Administrators. Then to move [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to add Mods in SMF Forum Hosting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mods, or modifications, are forum add-ons that can being more functionality of fun to your forum. There are plenty of mods available at the the official SMF mod site here: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/ First download the Mod you want by right-clicking the .zip link on the mod&#8217;s page and choose &#8220;Save Target As&#8230;&#8221; or &#8220;Save Link As&#8230;&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Tips for a Successful (and profitable) Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Choose a niche for your Forum, in our experience forums with too broad of a topic don&#8217;t take off as well as targeted a topic for a specific group of people. 2. Choose good forum software, that has a whole community of people helping with update, like Simple Machines (SMF). 3. Choose a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to show recent posts on forum index page in SMF</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a setting in Simple Machines Forums (the forum software we host) that will allow you to also show the most recent topics (posts) on the opening page. It won&#8217;t show every single topic posted (otherwise there would be too many when the forum grew to 1000 posts) but it will let you display [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get email notifications for new forum posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a Mod (or Modification) Simple Machines Forums called the Board Notification Mod that allows Members to activate email notification for new messages. After installing the Mod (or asking us to install it for you if you are a Forum Hosting follow these customer) instructions: Members shoud click the Profile tab, then click &#8216;Notifications and [...]]]></description>
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