Starting a forum.

I was wondering, when starting a forum (for those of you who have experience with this) which paid to post companies have proven best for you?

I may be looking into this in order to get a forum jump started.

Forum has to do with SEO & Webmaster related things.

Thanks,
J Fontestad

 

I have been doing forum before. setup is not a big program.

But maintance and get the people using it is a huge task, and very time consuming.

If you already have a group of people, then may be better. It takes a lot of time.

 

Instead of paid to post, first make some ids for you and do some poss. Invite your friends to hava go at it..

Now you can try some emails sent some news groups / do advertisements in adwords.

This may be a time consuming one, but I feel in the eye of Google, the site is growing as usual..

 

... In the eye of Google, I agree 100%

 

well , the key is the same .Member and good content are the two KPS.

One of my experience is you need to invite all your friends to register to your forum first .

 

I agree 100%. I've used several different "paid to post" companies but the quality just wasn't there. However, when I had employees and friends participate I was quite happy with the results.

 

Ditto on what's been said so far.
If you do decide to use paid posters, make sure you have a significant enough of real visitors(friends) to mix in

 

Thanks for all of the advice.

I'll be sure to take all of this into consideration.

 

if you're registered over at sitepoint you can usually get some really cheap posts (quality varies) by posting an offer (e.g. $0.05 per post) in the form of a thread with some length/quality requirements.

i would guess you could probably find some posters here too (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=60)

 

so why not we form a team to help other members to grow their forum....especially in the initial stage? at least register and post 5-10 post...

 

The question is why would people visit your forum instead of digitalpoint, sitepoint, etc? You need to offer something they dont.

 

It would start just as the DP forum started.
As support for the tools provided on my website. There will also be the main categories as well such as SEO Forum | Search Engines Forum and what not.
Then I would hope it can grow from there.