How to make a successful forum?

Hey guys!

I have made my first official forum ever.

Can you give me tips and points to remember on how to make it a successful one?

It's a community site that centralizes Philippines and The Cebu Region per se.

http://www.hangout-cebu.com/forum

This is not a review! and this is certainly ain't advertising. Don't click or visit the site if you think I'm doing so.

I just wanted to hear other people's tips and strategic points about this matter.

Thanks!

 

fill your forum with quality and unique content so that search engines would crawl them and as soon as you get listed in the search engine you will start getting users and then try to open some thread asking people to comment on that and win a prize or something and most give honestly you promise it can be a script a article a domain or anything you desire...

as people start building interests in your forum so make some more useful threads... this way you can make a successful forum

hope it helps...

 

Yea I can't seem to attract people to my forum and my site gets over 2,000 uniques a day which has a link to it

 

Read this, Why most forums fail within first year of their existence

 

^That was very helpful. Thanks so much.
+Rep

And now i feel happy because i started a forum for one of the "right & good" reasons & i don't shove ads everywhere possible.

 

Yeah it was pretty informative and helpful! Thanks! I kinda know what to do now..
+rep for ya!

 

Content
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You need to adopt various web marketing strategies and start to implement them.

 

Check the Forum Management Section. You will get some idea.

 

This is key!

You need a large content base of useful posts, good traffic and moderators.

 

Can't go wrong with some boobs...

 

Patience. Forums require alot of patience, and alot of effort, with time and money.

 

Yeah, patience is really something with forums especially that you have to have. If you don't, be patient

 

Good topics are the start to making a successful forum. Then, I suggest paying some posters to post on your forum and then waiting. Patience will make it alive. All forums start this way IMHO

 

*writes things down*

Paid poster? How does that thing work?

 

go the services - content creation section

start a thread hiring forum posters

most forum posters charge 10 cents per post

so for 10 posts you pay a poster $1

 

I see thanks for the info.
I never thought that starting a forum would this be expensive

Thanks anyways.

 

not only expensive, dedication and patience is required in forum business

 

I personally feel...
that a new forum should have less categories..
which should be increased with the increase in traffic.

 

well i have visit your forum its looking nice unique skin and you have good categories now i think you need some mod's and workers who will update your forum daily and impotent thing you need members
make someone mod or co-admin they will help you!