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Help the TFP: Use relevant titles!
Relevant titles are good for the TFP! I'll make this easy for you to understand and then I'll get into the nitty gritty.
Simply: Put the key words that your thread is about in the title of your thread. If your thread is about Chihuahuas, title it "Chihuahuas are cool" instead of "These dogs are cool." If your thread is about a yeast infection, title it "Yeast Infection - What do I do?" not "What do I do?"
When you create a thread, you might notice that the thread's title gets used in the URL of the thread. For example the thread titled "Traffic Ticket: Court or Traffic School?" has the following URL: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/general-discussion/138598-traffic-ticket-court-traffic-school.html
Not only that, you'll notice that the title of the thread also appears in the title bar of your browser when you're viewing the thread.
What you're witnessing are 2 of the 3 basic qualifications of a search engine optimized page. The third qualification is the description of the page, which is comprised of the first 150 characters of the original post. If you use the same keywords in your first sentence, you're doing good. If all 3 of these elements (the URL, title and description) contain the same key words, then search engines like Google will rank them favorably in the search results when someone searches for those key words.
That means the TFP gets more traffic and recognition. We live to fight another day.
What I've just described are basic strategies in SEO (search engine optimization) which is the method of getting your website ranked higher in search engines like Google or Yahoo. The effects of ranking higher are, obviously, more traffic from searches.
So, the simple act of creating threads with relevant titles is adding value to the TFP and attracting more potential members. Please help out!
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