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   <title>Realistic free forum marketing</title>
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   <description>If you read only one article about free forum marketing, this should be it.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/4vI2Hra7x0U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Developing a new forum through differentiation</title>
   <link>http://www.sparkbb.com/free-forum-articles/developing-a-new-forum-through-differentiation.php</link>
   <description>What makes your forum different than the other forums competing for the same users? If you can't list at least 3 ways your forum is unique, it isn't.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/dqos-Y9iTLQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Marketing your forum through PR</title>
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   <description>Are you taking full advantage of what PR has to offer? Follow these few concepts and get the media on your side.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/ArpK_ypjJ5s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Study: Why do people join forums?</title>
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   <description>A study conducted by sparkBB.com of 6,317 members on 12 independent forums outlining why they join forums.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/7eikZxqO9_M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>7 tips for forum rule compliance</title>
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   <description>7 simple steps you can take to have your forum rules be well received.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/iJVD_6YSmKM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Cons of forum activity percentages</title>
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   <description>Your efforts to encourage top posters may be doing just the opposite.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/nywuL8eLqcc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>How to affiliate with more forums</title>
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   <description>A psychological approach to securing more forum affiliations.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/YXXkxYt3PA4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Dealing with forum confrontations</title>
   <link>http://www.sparkbb.com/free-forum-articles/dealing-with-forum-confrontations.php</link>
   <description>Addressing forum confrontations before things get out of hand.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/oNvhHpDf2bg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>61 percent more forum registrations</title>
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   <description>What one word can you use to increase your forum registration rate by as much as 61 percent?&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/tFPz8OIrvj0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Let Google handle your forum SEO</title>
   <link>http://www.sparkbb.com/free-forum-articles/let-google-handle-your-forum-seo.php</link>
   <description>Some things are better left to the professionals. Why you should let Google do what Google does best.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/OW3fQwTGoZ0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Jump starting your forum with unique content</title>
   <link>http://www.sparkbb.com/free-forum-articles/jump-starting-your-forum-with-unique-content.php</link>
   <description>One of the most understood but underutilized ways of generating quality traffic.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/1Eco5Xvf4aY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Un-motivate your unhappy users</title>
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   <description>Motivation is bad when it is fueling negative comments about your forum. Un-motivate your unhappy users and protect your reputation.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/5wcLfR4ykac" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Broadening your forum line through synergies</title>
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   <description>The healthiest way to expand the breadth of your forum line is through forum synergies.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/T5p7BmmQ7DA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Why Joe the Hacker is not a concern</title>
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   <description>Are you losing sleep over hacking threats? This article serves to correct common misconceptions about forum hacking.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/Ll5nSlmOE_s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Top 10 ways to kill a forum</title>
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   <description>Avoid these ten deadly forum situations and your forum will thrive.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/B4LI7y6RxJ0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Forum admins need vacations too</title>
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   <description>Steps you can take to vacation-proof your forum.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/yiiS48Y0nDM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Quick tip to increase forum activity</title>
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   <description>How to utilize topic notifications to drive more traffic to your forum.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/V_75SATWpg0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>Forum terminology</title>
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   <description>Common words one may hear while using forums and their meaning.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/jZSHjXwz67c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <title>INTERVIEW: The Consumer Action Group</title>
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   <description>Interview with Marc Gander about the success of The Consumer Action Group forum.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/tispWnQr6Ts" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <description>Interview with M. Thorn about the success of JLA FORUMS.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/EqByYwb3yUk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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   <description>Interview with Patrick O'Keefe about the success of the iFroggy Network.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/free-forum-articles/~4/wXWwcw7ZpxE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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