The 10 things to do to get your forum loads of traffic without (loads) of money …
Posted on September 23, 2006
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These are 10 things I highly recommend to follow if you plan to start a online-community:
- find a niche topic that does attract you and others
- find a couple (lets say three) persons who agree to help on the project
- offer incentives to users who do actively participate / e.g. post rank /access to restricted areas
- create badges, e-mail footers and forum signatures to market your forum and get back-links
- enter the website into as many directories as possible to create direct traffic and yupp again back-links
- be real! Don’t use the Username admin and a Dilbert avatar, instead use a real picture and your name
- be active in other forums and add value to them – people reading your posts are likely to click your signature >>
- do competitions and you will be amazed how much people are willing to do for a 20$ gadget
- send a newsletter /at least/ every month
- don’t be too strict with guidelines / rules / your community should really like hanging out at your spot
- give the project & community 2 to 4 years to develop
There is way more to know and obviously many other things you can try ….
Software? I would go for vbulletin
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