How to start a forum - Part 2
In the 2nd part of this article I’ll explain you how to promote your forum, attract members, good posters and everything else that I haven’t mentioned in the 1st part.
So, now that you have know about how to choose a domain and about the scripting part, let’s move further with tips on promoting your forum to attract more members. To be honest, the number one priority of any forum administrator is to get maximum traffic to their forum, so that they can capitalize and get more advertising dollars. There are different ways in which you can achieve this goal.
The best way to seek attention of others is to provide good quality information. Of course, there may be other forum sites, which might be more popular than yours and probably that has more traffic than yours, but remember, “where there’s Quality, there’s crowd”. If your forum has good quality information, you may gradually get more and more traffic through word of mouth publicity, and more and more people would come to your site to complete their quest of information.
Also, while deciding the forum guidelines, please remember to keep it simple and straight. Do not over censor and use ambiguous statements, which may confuse the members. Treat every member in the same way and make guidelines that you think are morally correct and fair to everyone on your forum. While selecting moderators for your forum web site make sure that their primary motive is to help the community, and not financial gain.
If you have a budget for giving away incentives and rewards to your members for contributing good quality information, do it. Incentives and rewards can provide great boost to the members, to provide more top quality posts on your forum, which will in return get more traffic to your forum web site. You can inform your moderators to select one or two members who have contributed immensely to your forum, or you can create some kind of contest and reward members who start the best or most active threads.
Another way to get in more members on your forum web site is through the posters. It does not sound convincing, but it works. The overall look of your forum web site, posters, and easy options provided to the members can really give your forum site a competitive edge. Always remember that to make your forum site attractive and popular, you have to keep it organized to draw in more visitors.
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