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How to grow / promote a forum website?

by joliett89
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I've just made a forum for people working in the adult niche. Adult webmasters, adult models, adult movie production, adult photography production, adult retail and wholesale distribution, strip clubs, escorts / massage / outcall dancers, supporting services.

The Adult webmaster section is the most important one, it has the most categories, and it is placed on the top of the site.

There is one big website in this niche (adult webmaster forum), and it receives around 32500 visitors a day. There is quite a lot of the other ones, people know them, but they are not very popular, as far as traffic, overall.

I understand that it will, at least 2 or 3 years to get it going, especially when I don't have time to work on it now, but maybe you could give some ideas, on how I could get the website to grow.

I am trying to add posts on a daily basis, to keep it fresh for the search engines, and I am also planning to work on adding long articles to the site (tutorials, things like that). I also try to reply to most of the post.

Thank you.
#forum #grow #promote #website
  • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
    You have a task on your hands. Not an impossible one, though.

    I'm sure you know the theory of growing a forum, having set one up yourself, so I won't touch on that. Instead, let me give you some specific advice.

    1. You need "name" posters; well-known webmasters.

    2. You need a reason for them to post, and a reason for non-names to post.

    3. Approach an adult affiliate and work out a deal so they promote you to their webmasters.

    Getting the well-known webmasters is pretty much essential. This kind of forum is as much about networking as education; perhaps more so really. The non-names will want to network with the names. How to get the names? Connections help. Otherwise, just try to get one big name first, some of the rest will follow. Failing that, do it all backwards. Work out a traffic deal with an adult affiliate network. Once your site has a little traffic, your names may come. And once the names come, some others will follow. Overall, if you're not well-known yourself, you may struggle. There is a lot of resistance to move from forum to forum. If you take WF, for example, getting old-time posters to move to a new location would require a lot. Same for an adult webmaster forum, perhaps more, since the community is more close-knit, and you're competing with some old boards.

    GRM

    P.S : I'm not in the adult niche. But I am familiar with it, since I have friends who work in it.
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