help with forum

Discussion in 'Forum Management' started by coolspot, Mar 6, 2011.

  1. #1
    please check my forum,
    i need to know if i have categorised it well, or what im missing. seems that organising topics is the hardest and time consuming.

    site: http://www.makingmoneyguides.co.uk/

    thanks
     
    coolspot, Mar 6, 2011 IP
  2. dscurlock

    dscurlock Prominent Member

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    #2
    right off the bat you are running into many unrelated topics-

    Making Money
    Credit / Finance (This is not making money, this is a debt category)
    Stock Market

    I do not think you really know what you want to do..

    you appear to be running this in multiple directions.
     
    dscurlock, Mar 6, 2011 IP
  3. coolspot

    coolspot Member

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    #3


    yes i think youre right, i may remove the credit and finance area. but what about the budgetting and pensions? should they stay. i just feel that my forum is looking abit thin in terms of topics??
     
    coolspot, Mar 7, 2011 IP
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    snooks Well-Known Member

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    #4
    It may be a bit thin in topics.....but no use having lots more because there is no posts. Its virtually a case of add extra forums as and when required. Until then, well, people dont like seeing a huge amount of empty forums.

    I would also remove the adsense until the forum is very active, its not going to earn anything anyway, so removing it removes distractions and it looks neater.

    Just my thoughts :)
     
    snooks, Mar 7, 2011 IP
  5. coolspot

    coolspot Member

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    #5

    ok agreed on the ads..
    the forum is only a few weeks old so had no real traffic yet. hopefully people will post when the traffic increases.. might take a year or two!!
     
    coolspot, Mar 8, 2011 IP
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    rain21 Active Member

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    #6
    your forum is ok, but its empty now, try to fill the categories with useful threads
     
    rain21, Mar 10, 2011 IP
  7. dscurlock

    dscurlock Prominent Member

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    #7
    You say 2 years.

    I say 3-5 if you are seriously active in getting your forum out there, and
    this could be a bit of an underestimate.

    This isnt the good old days where you were the first forum.

    you have many, many other forums to compete with.

    looks, style, what you are offering, everything you do at
    this point can lead to a success/fail factor at this point.

    and to this day, I see forums with million+ posts that are dead....

    there are certainly better ways to make money out there if this is your intentions....
     
    dscurlock, Mar 10, 2011 IP
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