Yes it is. For months, my web hosting board, which I did NO efforts to optimize it for SE, ranks well for its most important keywords.
According to Google Webmasters, here are some rankings:
| 1 | 41% | web hosting talk | 7 |
| 2 | 19% | webhosting talk | 7 |
| 3 | 10% | appraisal forum | 7 |
| 4 | 6% | web host talk | 5 |
| 5 | 3% | google anlytics | 14 |
| 6 | 3% | google discussions | 6 |
| 7 | 2% | install psybnc | 8 |
| 8 | 2% | how to install psybnc | 7 |
| 9 | 2% | hosting talk | 10 |
Keywords like “hosting talk”, “appraisal forum” are pretty attractive.
I remind you, I did mostly no work on that forum from a SEO point of view. Google is weird.
