Hi guys, This is my new forum, http://www.home-business-forum.com Yes, you're NOT wrong. It's really hundreds of threads and thousands of posts and members. I've just created it last week. Let me know what you think, and if you have any suggestions or comments. Alan,
That Instadigi works good huh? Yeah, I know. You are not fooling anyone around here friend. The first clue was when you had to try to point out that you have so many posts and such. It's fine if that is true, but forums? They don't grow overnight. Nice try though.
yeah, when i point out that my forum has such many posts within 7 days, obviously, i'm telling people that i'm doing something abnormal to my forum. I'm here to listen to what people say about it. In my own opinion, I think that it's a good starting point. Forum needs posts as content for people to see. But the big issue I'm having is that how I'm going to keep the visitors once they came to my forum. Hope to receive some good suggestions here.
I have no doubt with the layout; very nice and I love it, but how you get this: Threads: 971, Posts: 4,714, Members: 3,158 in single week?
the way to get people to stay is quality content, specific niche forum related topics and a ton of market research on other forums that you are trying to compete again.
No doubt. Nobody is putting you down. Fact is, we all know what you did and it's cool. Has to be done. Thing is you went and defended it out of the gate. Around here people are hip to your hop, know what I mean? We all do it, we have all done it. I do it. No problem. Let me tell you WHY I do it. I don't give two-farts about forums anymore. Most of them are a pain in the butt to manage, you make no money on them, and getting people interested in forums with the likes of Twitter and Facebook around is like growing a new leg if someone cut it off. People just don't dig forums that much anymore. The good forums (like DP) started in a time when forums were the main "social" websites on the Internet. They built a good following and it builds on itself over time. Here is why I have a forum and I post whatever in it using bots. Ready? Google and the search engines CRAWL THE CRAP out of forums! Every Single Day! I use it for SEO and that's it. If people want to join, more power to you, but I could care less. My organic search stats climb every day because I have that stupid forum. They usually crawl my main site every 7 days, but they are on that forum all day and all night. So, that is what I do. I tried for years to get a good music forum going, nobody cares. It didn't matter how good it looked or how great the topics were, it didn't matter that I paid 200 bucks to have people post on it to get it started... They just didn't care! Maybe they hate me personally, who knows. But one day I noticed on my "Who's Online" stats that Google, Yahoo, MSN/Bing, and every other spider on the planet was there night and day. So I said... "Hey, why not use this for more search results... And it works! So look, friend... I hope and wish the very best for you. I want a gazillion people to come over and love up and down and click your ads and make you rich, I really do. But if that ever happens it won't be tomorrow and it won't be in a week. And NOBODY around here is fooled by a forum with that many members that is a week old. Know what I mean?
As a friend above mentioned about the Instadigi, there are also many other softwares to help new forum to do this job Thanks, i will keep this advice as reference
Of course there is. Instadigi is about the best out there for the price. The posts actually make sense and look real. A lot of those things are pretty cheesy. I tried one and got the guy to give me double my money back... Real creepy posting process. Anyway... But hey, I didn't invent the process, I just use the product. So... Good luck with that forum.
BadBoyzStudioZ, thanks for the time that you've spent to write to me such an useful guide. I've read every single word over and over. Actually, I've spent alot of time to do research on starting a forum. Almost all webmasters agreed that forum is one of the hardest types of website to start and maintain. I also have learned that a new forum usually takes 6 months to a year to start receiving users. The forum owner will have to find ways to reply to every single post from users and hopefully that will keep users coming back. I know all that before starting my forum, but would like to give it a try. About making money from forum, assuming we're talking about adsense, it really depends on many different aspects such as your forum niche, your keyword cost per click, your ads placement and so on. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I think I've heard someone said that DP is one of the top 10 forums that making money from adsense. Forums do earn alot of money for the owner. It's just the matter of how we use it. Thanks again BadBoyzStudioZ. Hope to receive more suggestions from DP users.
Don't quote me on this, but I believe that even DP has had its ups and downs with revenue generation. I may be wrong. But I may be right. I want you to be as successful as you can be. I always wanted a good forum, don't know why, I guess for the company it provides. My niche is burned out on forums and I am in the music business for keeps. I merged with a large corporation and we are launching some pretty interesting things, but my job right now is to make that radio station shift from all artists to actual music fans. It's a tough job, but I have a plan. So far... It's building a little momentum. I have had this radio station for three years. The only reason I built it was to attract a large company to merge with, and it did that job twice! Very nicely, I might add. So now I have to make a paradigm shift. I want the forum to be a part of it, but my experience has been that it is just not likely to happen. For you, I want that forum to be a powerhouse! I don't know how you're gonna do it, but I would put my money on you to win! That's a fact! Go get 'em!