Tips For Forum Owners

These tips are based on my personal experience.

1. Don't announce your forum until it is 100% ready, incomplete categories, 404 pages and spelling mistakes make the first impression very bad.

2. Don't announce your forum on other forums wherein you have -50 posts at least, you should have good no. of posts so that people can trust you and should give your forum a look, otherwise they will treat you as spammer.

3. You shouldn't wait for others to come and put content in there, in the initial stage of your forum you will have to put the content yourself.

4. Don't make posts like "How old are you", "How many forums do you use"....etc, forums are already filled with such questions, you need to post informative content because if people don't join or post in your forum they should come back to read a new and informative post.

5. Be patient. Forums are really not easy to make famous but it is also not impossible, if you put quality content you should see the results in a few months.

6. Do not post your content on other forums, this way when users come to your forum they will find a new information which they have not read on other forums. Some of them will copy-paste it on other forum and few of them will give you a link back too.

7. Do not try to popular your forum overnight, it doesn't work like that. You need to wait and keep the forum grow on its own.

Hope these tips will be useful for you

If you want to add any tip(s), you are welcome.

 

some great tips, especially for me because i've just launched my forum: PlayStation Heads Forum.

Do you think its ok to use some content from my own blog (PlayStation Heads) like tutorials on the froum to start with?

 

Yes, go ahead. There is nothing wrong in posting content from your blog.

Even I have selected some of my best posts from my forum and posted them on my blog.

 

thanks! I'll get too it then!

 

8.) don't put up google adsense until you have at least 100 posts/day.
It's just not worth it and will make it less likely that people register.

 

Some great tips there, forums are really hard way to make money online, you do not want to add adverts until you at least have 50 active users/day.

 

Good tips for forums.

I was thinking of starting my own... but maybe once my blog get's better.

 

I could not agree with you anymore.. I started my forum www.g1tricks.com about a month ago and I have 205 members so far... It is not easy to maintain a forum you really need to do your homework to post informative stuff on. I am getting about 2000-3000 hits a day which is not bad I think.

 

Thanks for these great tips. I am about to launch my new forum and looking all over DP for tips like this. Really helpful. Rep added.

 

ok... but even though there haven't been any members (yet) i've had a few random clicks.

i guess i should still take them off, though.... just to get those members in.

thanks

 

Nice tips. Thanks very much.

 

Hey jani, looks like you gaining good experience maintaining decent forums.
Good going dude!

 

Great tips man, very helpful. Ill try to remember this on my new forum

 

This is a great tips.

I'm thinking of having my own forum.

 

Good tips, one thing i would suggest as well, is competitions, regular competitions get people coming back often to see if there is any new competitions..

 

Patience is the key. If there are already some established forums for the particular niche then you have to try to be slightly different then the ones that do exist.

Great content and backlinks are as usual always helpful.

 

Thanks for the tips guys!

 

thank you for the tips !

 

Thanks for sharing needed info.

 

obviously when you have a good base traffic on your main site OR a good number of participating forum members