Acquiring your forum competition

[Shawn Gossman]

One way to beat your forum competition is to buy your competition out.

Has anyone here ever done this before? If yes, what was the ending result like?

Was acquiring your competition a good idea?

If you've not bought out your competition if you had the chance to, would you consider doing it?

 

[Dilip]

No, I do not believe in merging databases. It is not a good thing SEO-wise. My opinion though.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

No, I do not believe in merging databases. It is not a good thing SEO-wise. My opinion though.

When I gave AAF to TAZ, the owner at the time would slowly release topics from AAF onto TAZ. Not everything all at once.

I wonder if that's ultimately the best move for that situation.

 

[Dilip]

If Google indexed the source content, believe me, no strategy is going to work.

I believe you sold AAF before the semantic indexing was even introduced by Google.

 

[Tracy]

Depends on what you call "buying out" is... if a friendlier environment.. then yep... have gotten them from other sites (one of which got butt-hurt by me posting my site in my sig) to Reddit users.