How to promote online forum?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by kalseo, Feb 2, 2014.

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  1. #1
    Hi DP friends,

    I am trying to build some action at my online forum for a while and it seems that I am failing.
    The forum is part of social network, there are good number of active members, though activity is very low.
    The other components of my social network seems to perform quite well, for example blogging platform.

    Any idea, how to boost activity of my forum?

    Cheers
    Kal
     
    kalseo, Feb 2, 2014 IP
  2. Iceware

    Iceware Member

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    One of the reasons many people are not active is that:
    A. Your site is a better blogging platform... You can not be everything to everyone

    B. They don't see other people being active on the site... People don't want to be the first, they follow the crowd hence why facebook and other social networks are successful.

    If I were you I would probably drop the forums and enhance what they are actually using.. Hope this helps :)
     
    Iceware, Feb 3, 2014 IP
  3. sodabrain

    sodabrain Greenhorn

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    There's a site called PostLoop that lets you get active forum users. You can also try reaching out to people in your niche and offering them something like a signature link in exchange for posts. Good luck.
     
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  4. kalseo

    kalseo Active Member

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    PostLoop is a good website, though it wont work in this case as nor blog or forum scripts are supported.
     
    kalseo, Feb 3, 2014 IP
  5. Dionne Taylor

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    Promote your forum to members of other forums in your niche.
     
    Dionne Taylor, Feb 3, 2014 IP
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    You need to drive lots of targeted traffic to your forum, here are some ideas for getting traffic to your forum:

    - PPC (like google adwords, but there are lots of other PPC services) - paid traffic
    - Video Marketing (especially via YouTube)
    - here at Yahoo! Answers
    - submit articles about your forum
    - Squidoo and Hubpages
    - Blog commenting
    - Craigslist
    - email marketing
    - Ad Swaps / Solo Ads - paid traffic
    - you can also hire experts from SEOclerks who can help you in promoting your forum at cheap rates.
     
    wennykev, Jul 16, 2014 IP
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    Cloudcandy Host Member

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    Promote your Forums on Social Networking websites, submit articles , make use of PPC, get traffic from blog commenting, etc.
     
    Cloudcandy Host, Jul 17, 2014 IP
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    Engage your forum with useful posts. Make attractive and useful posts there so that it engage many people.
    Promote your forum on face book and also upload some youtube videos for it as it will help you get traffic from there.
     
    DatingExpert, Jul 17, 2014 IP