Conversation Starters For Your Forum
Some example topics that are great conversation starters: Post a funny or interesting youtube video, embed the video right into your topic so that people can respond. Post about a recent news headline that is relevant to you community. Post an excerpt from an interesting blog post or forum simi ...
- How can I get my forum on Google, or other search engines?
The answer: With time. Search engines send out bots, often called "spiders" to various parts of the web all the time to gather content of new sites and on existing sites to help with ranking and other such tasks within their search engine. Adding relevant, good and creative content to your site ...
- Setting up your forum for success
Setting up your forum is one of the most important steps. No matter how good your promotion techniques are, if you don't have a good forum no one will join. Before you launch your forum lets look at a few important ideas: Set your appearance Whether you like it or not, people will judge your fo ...
- Building an active forum: Activity creates activity
When was the last time you wanted to participate in a dead forum? While some forum users may enjoy talking to themselves, the majority don't. Activity creates activity. In order to get active members, you need to already have an active forum. Here are some successful methods to jump-start activi ...
- Getting free traffic to your forum
Once your forum is setup for success, it's time for the most important part of running a forum: attracting members. This can be the most time consuming part, but with hard work and dedication you can get an active forum in no time! Below are a few ideas for bringing in free members: Activity cr ...
- What are the Bots on my forum and what do they do?
Bots are automated scripts (usually referred to as spiders) which crawl the web and index content, sites, and forums for various search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. They do not represent any harm to your forum, and should generally be left alone as they can help bring in users to yo ...
- How to create value and keep forum members interested
There's literally millions of forums on the Internet, some of them are huge. So how can you compete? By adding value and keeping members interested: Utilize Forum Features FreeForums.org is both #1 in service and features. We spend 20 hours a day making your forums better, so you should take a ...
