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You will not be able to monitor forums directly from Big-Boards, but it will
point you to a lot of potential trapping areas.
Yuku
Yuku (yuku.com) is not a board posting search engine. Instead it inds the
forums themselves. It's up to you to go to them and decide what you want to
monitor, but Yuku does provide a lot of information for you.
Use general to slightly-less-general search words—think of Yahoo Direc-
tory's top level categories and then maybe a category or so more speciic
than that. If you get too many results, carefully get more speciic. I ind it's
way too easy to end up with nothing. Your search results are very informa-
tive—you get the name of the forum, description, total visits, total posts,
average daily visits, and average daily posts. hat should give you enough
information to decide if you want to monitor the forum.
What you ind when you decide to visit a forum will vary a lot. Some forums
require membership to even view posts. Some forums require membership
to post, which means you can monitor them without having to have a mem-
bership to the board. he Search Results page for a forum search looks like
Figure 9.15.
Figure 9.15
38 average daily posts?
You can handle that.
167? You may want to
watch speciic board
sections with a page
monitor.
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