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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Nov 4, 2026

Nov 4, 2026
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Community Superusers: How to Find Them and Keep Them

A few days ago, I added a quiz question to the Jatra community. It asks what share of members create most of a community’s original content. So far, exactly two members have played it. One got the right answer in 1.735 seconds, and the other...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Nov 2, 2026

Nov 2, 2026
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How to do SEO yourself - without costly tools

The expert SEO advice on the Internet revolves around costly tools for keyword research. Ahrefs, Semrush and similar tools are good; but they can burn your pocket quickly. I've been a student of SEO for nearly 20 years. I built and grew my first online...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Nov 2, 2026

Nov 2, 2026
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How to Build a Slack Community: Setup, Growth and Its Limits

Back in 2004, I used to communicate with my colleagues using Yahoo Messenger. Many of you may not even know about it - but back then, it was rage! Then Slack came along and official communication switched from Yahoo Messenger to Slack. Whether you liked...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Oct 13, 2026

Oct 13, 2026
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Community Gamification: The Right and Wrong Expectations

As we prepare to roll out gamification for all Jatra-powered communities, I want to share my learnings from 20 years of community building. I believe most community managers and builders have the wrong expectations of the gamification system built into a platform. Let’s talk about...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Oct 16, 2026

Oct 16, 2026
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11 Solid Reasons Your Business Should Build an Online Community

The number of businesses adopting community-led growth is rising every day. Having an engaged online community for your business is now a necessity. It drives compounding growth, higher retention, lowers support costs, builds trust among your customers and future-proofs your business. In this article, you...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Oct 16, 2026

Oct 16, 2026
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Get Your Community Cited by AI - The Community AEO Guide

The most-cited source in AI answers about your category is a forum you do not own. Peec AI analysed 30 million sources across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews. Reddit came on top, followed by YouTube and LinkedIn (Ref: Ai Search Engines...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Oct 3, 2026

Oct 3, 2026
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The Role of AI in Community Building: Why It's a Boon, Not a Threat

Poll: Is AI a Boon or a Threat for Community Builders?

I built my first community in 2005. I started it on an open source community platform called phpBB. Over the next ten years it grew into Asia's largest engineering community, with more than 400,000 members. We used no ads (frankly, we didn't have the money...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Sep 29, 2026

Sep 29, 2026
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How to Choose a Forum Software in 5 Minutes by Scanning Public Page

Typically, a vendor demo will show you the logged-in view of the forum software. However, that is not the first view your visitors will have when they visit the forum. The view you want is the one shown to a person who's typed a query...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Sep 12, 2026

Sep 12, 2026
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Image SEO - Optimizing Images for Search Engines and AI

CrazyEngineers, the engineering community I started in 2005, gets about 149000 visits/year only from Image Search. I did not write any content, did anything special or even ran any advertising campaign. It's all 100% organic traffic. The traffic came from images indexed by Google that...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Sep 11, 2026

Sep 11, 2026
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WhatsApp Community Growth and Engagement Guide - 2026

In this guide, you will learn the proven techniques to grow your WhatsApp community and boost engagement. As someone who has been building online communities for over 20 years; I have seen the good, bad and the ugly of community building. Before we begin: My...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Aug 22, 2026

Aug 22, 2026
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Subdomain vs Subfolder for Your Community - It Just Doesn't Matter

If you do not have the time and can trust someone who's spent nearly 20 years building online communities and experimenting with SEO, here's the TL;DR version: Both subdomain and subdirectory are equally good for SEO. Your community will attract organic traffic irrespective of its...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Aug 17, 2026

Aug 17, 2026
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Are Online Forums Dead?

TL;DR: No, online forums are not dead. Despite what many believe, online forums still exist - and they are evolving. In fact, more communities and businesses are returning to forums in 2025 for better content organization, search visibility and ownership.Forums aren’t dead - they have...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Aug 17, 2026

Aug 17, 2026
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21 Top Skills for Community Building and Engagement

In this article, I will share a list of 21 must have skills for any professional community builder.Now, even with almost 20 years of community building experience, I don’t claim to have mastered all the skills I’ve mentioned below.But that’s okay! No one is perfect.Even...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Aug 17, 2026

Aug 17, 2026
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The Ultimate Guide to Community Engagement and Retention in 2026

In this guide, you will learn some of the most advanced and time-tested strategies and activities to boost community engagement and retention. The world of communities has evolved a lot in the last 10 years. It was bit easy to spark engagement. People would compete...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Jul 15, 2026

Jul 15, 2026
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Jatra - A Powerful Discourse Alternative for Communities

It’s been 20 years since I started managing online communities.Back in 2005, I created my first community on phpBB - a popular platform at the time. Over the next two decades, I switched platforms multiple times:phpBB → vBulletin → xenForo → custom solution → Jatra.Along...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Jul 6, 2026

Jul 6, 2026
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What is a White Label Community Platform? Meaning, Benefits and How it Works

Building a community platform is a complex process. It requires a lot of maintenance, updates and monitoring. This is why businesses do not build their own community platform. They run their customer communities on a platform someone else built. However, they wrap it with their...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Jun 30, 2026

Jun 30, 2026
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How to Build a SaaS Community in 2026

Building a community for your SaaS is the highest RoI growth hack you'll ever implement. It's like building a system that acquires new users for you on autopilot and also engages them. A properly managed community even turns your customers into brand evangelists.Too good to...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Jun 30, 2026

Jun 30, 2026
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How to Build a SaaS Community Effortlessly

In this guide, I’ll teach you how to build a successful SaaS community effortlessly. I’d like you to follow the playbook I’ve built over the last 18 years of my experience as a founder and community-builder.We’ll leverage SEO, organic growth-hacking techniques and content techniques to...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Jun 25, 2026

Jun 25, 2026
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Why Product Feedback, Changelog, and Roadmap Should Live Inside Your Community

Where Should Product Feedback Live? Inside Your Community, Not a Separate Tool I've operated in the SaaS world for almost a decade. There was a time when SaaS companies kept three separate sections on their website: Product feedback: a widget or a form for customers...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Jun 24, 2026

Jun 24, 2026
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What Is a Reliable Community Engagement Platform? (Know Before You Commit)

A reliable community engagement platform is software that hosts your member discussions and content with three guarantees: your data stays yours and you can export it anytime, your content remains accessible for years (including to search engines), and the vendor's business doesn't depend on locking...

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