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Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by GaryWellman, May 15, 2010.

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    I was wondering if anyone would be willing to offer any suggestions for my forum as far as what I should do to increase traffic.

    Thanks
     
    GaryWellman, May 15, 2010 IP
  2. events

    events Active Member

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    Pay per click can drive traffic to your forum
     
    events, May 15, 2010 IP
  3. MyInterest

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    Hi dear

    I think content should be impressive and targeted to the users. Also you should provide backlinks and publicize your website in a positive way to increase the traffic.

    Thanks and regards
     
    MyInterest, May 15, 2010 IP
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    What is your forum about?
     
    joel007, May 15, 2010 IP
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    Hey there,
    give us some more info please. Say, what's the current situ in terms of rankings? Where is your traffic coming from right now? What are you trying to rank for? etc.

    Cheers
     
    soneat, May 15, 2010 IP
  6. Michael_W

    Michael_W Guest

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    Install VBseo if you are using VBulletin to get your forum more exposed on search engines.
     
    Michael_W, May 15, 2010 IP
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    Just 2 methods: Free & Paid

    Free like Article Marketing, SEO ...

    Paid like PPC, CPV, Social ...
     
    mtmjohn, May 15, 2010 IP
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    I agree with what others have recommended. There are many ways to help increase traffic to a site and in your case your forum. You also have to consider your forum niche... AS someone already said the are free and paid marketing methods. Among the free methods are some of the tactics used in SEO. You also need to send out email marketing campaigns to people who have opted in and that are within your forum niche.
     
    advertise, May 15, 2010 IP
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    look for good internet marketers to market your website, it will increase the traffic to your web. Note: if you have no content in your web, increasing traffic to your web will make no difference.
     
    dannyocean72, May 15, 2010 IP
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    For forums, it's very easy to get traffic, but it is not easy to foster growth in your community without motivation to post. This could be a thread that grabs the interest of your user and sparks a response in them, to a prize giveaway for posting / referring users to your message board.
     
    TYPELiFE, May 15, 2010 IP
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    Interesting you ask that, I just wrote a piece on 5 ways I get traffic to my websites (all of them). You can take a look at my signature and read the article, its the one at the top.
     
    jump32, May 15, 2010 IP
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    ashishsarda99 Greenhorn

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    Create Traffic generation campaigns, check webeserve.com
    Ask people to submit your site to some quality forums, directory listings, to social networking site.
    Create promotions. Of course it will take some time, but do choose the kind of traffic you want and then start promoting for your site.
     
    ashishsarda99, May 20, 2010 IP
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    Learn PPV and build a list. Then send that list to your website.
     
    JHybrid, May 20, 2010 IP
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    Well this might help you when you are choosing keywords, take a keyword and type it into google.com, click on the first site that comes up and copy the url. Now use any link checker to see how many back links that website has from other sites. If this site has alot of backlinks it might be hard to rank high in the search engines for that keyword.
     
    kotaspain, May 21, 2010 IP
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    bigcashtactics Greenhorn

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    One way to increase traffic to your website is to advertise it on related sites such as blogs, relating to the same niche, or even relevant forums.
     
    bigcashtactics, May 22, 2010 IP
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    Update and add orginal content of your website on a regular basis is one of the effective ways.
     
    Richard Zhang, May 22, 2010 IP
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    Submit your forum to directories if its warez then there is a katz phaze like site which drive great traffic to your forum
     
    gamejump, May 22, 2010 IP
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    You can write articles on your blog or blogging in general. Submit them to distributes for release. You are able to start branding with articles. Be sure to include you URL in the resource box.
    Also, make a video about your site and post it in Yourtube and other sites. use tubemogul.com to help you distribute.
     
    tholcomb, May 22, 2010 IP
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    Another free way to increase traffic is to re-purpose existing content and syndicate it. Turn your articles into videos, podcasts, PPT's, pdf's etc.
     
    abuhakim, May 23, 2010 IP