Help with my business / entrepreneur forum business

OK, well i own www.EntrepreneurForum.co.uk - been up 1 year now, and its getting steady traffic, each day, its hitting around 2000k Uniques a month, and on average around 100 +/- a day.

It's a PR 2 atm, and i'm hoping that to rise to a PR 3/4 on the next update, but what i want to know is how i can get more visitors to my site, i'm 3rd in google.com for the result ''entrepreneur forum'' and first on the google.co.uk engine, so my positioning is alright, i need to tackle the key words ''business forum'' which i'm unsure on how to go about that to be honest, i've put it in my meta tags etc.

What i would like to know is how i can get more visitors to my site, from 100 a day to 200 for example, and how to maximize my revenue earnings from the site, at the moment al i have is bidvertiser and there payout is poor, so some suggestions on that would be helpful also.

Also i would like any suggestions of some side websites i can link from the forum business related etc.

Thanks for your time.

 

I'd remove the advertising altogether, until you build up decent traffic. You can try and rank for the keyword "business forum" by buying backlinks and using that as the anchor text, as well as making sure "business forum" appears a few times on your index page.

 

Well I dont know if I can be a ton of help as I run a successful webmaster forum hitting 1300 members.

But Maybe exchanging links or banners with a few sites like mine could help us all grow?

 

I think you should hire some forum posters to make it more active.

 

This is a good idea, and also linking to other similar sites.

 

I agree with KingofKings and techlady, buy some links in other related sites with more than 1000 visits (per day) and hire some active members for posting day to day.

 

whats its hitting around 2000k Uniques a month mean? do you mean 2 million or what?

 

2000k a month (thousand)

 

That would be 2k a month

 

yes lol sorry, i've come up with an Idea as an addon to keep people attracted to my forum is a side site, similar to killerstartups.com and i was going to get it implemented with vbulletin a Digg like system (pligg) but can't find the pluggin

 

Pligg is at pligg.com and thats a great idea! I did that a while back with my forum as well!

 

lol i hav to say sumthing bout his '2000k' traffic LOL. Dude as sumone said, if u didnt know, k mean one thousand. So 2000k is 2000000 :O

Go to the services bit of this forum and buy bog posts. Ine these target the keywords u wish. (I advise dont just target the one go for 3 dif ones.)

 

i've always typed it like that, in monatry terms) i don't know why i just have and every1 i know havn't commented on it.

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did you manage to integrate it with vbulletin?

 

No, I dont think it can be since the DB url structure is completely different.

 

My 2 cents:
- I agree that ads should be something you add later when you have a lot more traction (critical mass).
- I've used paid posters before and they're ok for more general forums, but I think it would be VERY difficult to find paid posters that will add worthwhile content to your forum so personally I'd pass on that idea.
- Like websites, entrepreneurs come in all shapes, sizes, and colors.... What type of entrepreneur are you targeting? Online entrepreneurs? Woman entrepreneurs? Wanna be entrepreneurs? Targeting ALL entrepreneurs is a huge task and building a critical mass of entrepreneurs in your community will be very difficult.

Having said that, perhaps try offering experienced entrepreneurs free advertising/links on your site in return for their being available to answer some questions posted by other wanna be's and less experienced entrepreneurs.

This would provide a valuable service to the questioners and guarantee some quality content thanks to the experienced entrepreneurs.

Best of success!

 

that sounds like a good idea to me, will take this up

 

Yes also that's a very good idea, linking to relevant sites is very important.

 

What form of web 2.0 are you doing right now? ie youtube, podcasting, social book marking ,myspace

What about quizzes , free viral reports , interviews with successful ep's .

 

Hey mate, PR doesnt matter. a lot of people place too much time into getting a high page rank. its positions within the search engine results pages you should be working on!

 

i'm working on that now, with zoints SEO

and Colgate: i need to find these successful entrepreneurs, i know many who have a running successful business Amiestreet////com i might ask if they could share there views.