Anyone here run a christian forum. Is it hard to get a lot of traffic? Ive been thinking of starting one someday but what concerns me is I will wind up putting time into it with no financial return. I don't want to run a charity, cause there is plenty of forums out there, so I want it to make some money at least if Im gonna take the time to build one. For me, usually forums give you serps = organice se traffic and thats how i get all my traffic to my other forums, but im not sure if i would get much from a christian forum cause i don't think people will be searching google for those relevant topics. do you get what im saying? Anyone have experience running christian or other religious types of forums and are you have good or bad experience with traffic from search engines? You earning much money with adsense on them?
Well, I have got the opportunity to make regular posts on a christian forums. But after few weeks I found active members vanishing. Within one months time, the member counts remain stagnant. Ofcourse, this may be a negative feedback to you but having said this, I encourage you to start a forum since there is some thing always stored for every people, in this world. It all depends on not where you are but in what direction you are going. Try to target those people who want to sincerely participate in the forum and forget the rest, as far as your target is concerned. I hope you got my point.
I understand what you are saying. And you make a good point and I think you are right, I think I will build one someday because I have a strong faith and feel all these new websites I make is worthless in the end(even though im making a lot of money on them) if I don't do at least one for my beliefs. Yeah, it definitely is hard to keep peoples attention in such type of forums. Im already running one forum(unrelated to religion) its tough to keep it going and that is why i was just wondering how hard it is to get traffic to christian forums because maintaing forums are quite an undertaking. A search on google shows A LOT of christian websites, so the internet may be too saturated for new site.
Well, it would really depend on your affiliates. You could pitch your forums to your church or any other christian groups you are in, that should bring in some traffic. Personally, I think that the goal of running a christian-based website is not to make money, the returns would be spiritual in nature.
I agree - You can not have any success with a Fourm if you don't have a fourm.... sounds obvious but it is not a field of dreams - just because you build does not mean that anyone will show up. It is like trying to start up a dating site that has no members.... you almost have to have a strong local connection or a very strong pre-launch to get a few thousand people pre-registered. IF you don't have an existing venue to draw from - i would HIGHLY recommend starting out with church advertising for people to sign up for a new forum to come.... Wait will you have a few thousand people before opening it up =- you can do drip marketing in the interim while you build your list - the problem is that if you pull the trigger too soon you will loose everyone that you do have when nobody is there to answer the posts or keep in contact with new posts. Best of luck with your endeavor!!!! Hope this advice helps...
If you ever get this going contact me it's a perfect market for me. I've seen a few that were successful but most aren't. Maybe you should pre promote by contacting some churches district offices and some of the bigger churches with websites that have a classified section.
Hello, domainer. I have no experience with Christian forums, but I do have a Christian website (1st signature link below). There is plenty of traffic to such sites if your content is what people are searching for. The site in sig link #1 below is nonprofit and receives over 50,000 unique visitors a month. So yes, there is an audience out there for faith-related topics. Whether that audience would relate as well to a forum, I can't say. I know that personally as a believer I stay away from Christian forums. Too much arguing. That's the reason I avoid Digital Point's Politics and Religion forum. Lots of controversy, anger, and heels dug in over opposite beliefs. I don't need that kind of disquieting of my spirit.
Hi Jim. Yes I've seen you around the forums, glad to see you stop by. I agree that there is a lot of bickering arguing and it can get frustrating with all the disagreements. On the net its hard to not get frustrated. Thats another reason why im hesitant to start a forum.