If there's a forum marketing tool, what features would you like to have?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by dejaone, Apr 13, 2014.

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    For a tool to manage daily forum posting activities, what features would you like to have?

    1) find right threads across many forum sites
    2) track participation
    3) change signature files across forum sites
    4) find right forums.

    Or there's no need for such a tool at all?
     
    dejaone, Apr 13, 2014 IP
  2. Chriswrighto

    Chriswrighto Peon

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    It's not that there is no use for a tool...

    It's just that people don't want a robot posting for them.

    Now a helpful tool would be a program which browses forums and picks out threads with specific titles.

    I'm a copywriter... So I'd love to find anything with copywriting in the title.

    Know what I mean?
     
    Chriswrighto, Apr 14, 2014 IP
  3. ArchieI91B

    ArchieI91B Active Member

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    If you look forum writing I noticed that places such as odesk and Freelances have people who will do the posting in forums. I'm not sure how this works because surly they are putting down their own opinions.
     
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  4. qwikad.com

    qwikad.com Illustrious Member Affiliate Manager

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    Are forums becoming what blogs used to be (except now instead of guest posts, they do signature posts on multiple forums)?

    The thing is if that becomes excessive Google will swoop down like a hawk and penalize forums for allowing signatures. Can happen.

    So, definitely not "change signature files across forum sites".
     
    qwikad.com, Apr 14, 2014 IP
  5. dejaone

    dejaone Well-Known Member

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    Would it work better if a tool finds all recent threads about "copywriting" and place all threads on one page so you can easily see which ones you'll be interested. There're tens and usually hundreds of forums related to any giver keyword, it is unpractical to browse.

    But those are very basic features, the tool we've built http://www.soengaging.com/ does much more.
     
    dejaone, Apr 14, 2014 IP
  6. dejaone

    dejaone Well-Known Member

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    Forum signature links doesn't offer much or any SEO value even before guest posting gets popular. A signature link is like a business card in online world. They do generate traffic sometimes.

    So a tool around SEO is probably a not a good idea.
     
    dejaone, Apr 14, 2014 IP
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    agmccall Active Member

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    I would not like to see a Forum Marketing Tool. From the first day that some self appointed Guru taught about forum marketing, most forums have been inundated with a lot of junk posts, Software like that would take forum use from difficult to unbearable

    al
     
    agmccall, Apr 15, 2014 IP
  8. dejaone

    dejaone Well-Known Member

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    But a tool that helps forum users do a better job and save time would help, right? Automation is a bad idea. I totally agree.

     
    dejaone, Apr 16, 2014 IP