How to Market a Forum?

Ken · 10-26-2009, 03:37 PM

A close friend has asked for my advice on marketing his
health related forum. Though I've had experience in marketing
other types of sites, I've never been involved it for a forum.

I would appreciate any advice you can give.

Ken

MikeWest · 10-26-2009, 03:46 PM

Many of the usual, general marketing methods should work:

Article marketing
SEO / backlinking
social bookmarking
youtube/videomarketing

tommen · 10-26-2009, 03:46 PM

Join other health related forums, participate in them, and have a link to your forum in the sig-file?

SeanSupplee · 10-26-2009, 03:49 PM

You need quality post to start driving traffic to your forum pretty much thing of it as a social blog when you first start out. There are plugins etc you can buy to input on your form that will index your postings better to drive traffic to your forum. Be sure to remove any spammers right away. If its not quality content DELETE IT the worse thing you could do is have a spam fest on your hands where people visiting your site see pure crap and have no reason to sign up.

Ken · 10-26-2009, 04:00 PM

Sean, I'm aware of plugins for WordPress sites but this is not a blog, I'm not aware of any specifically for forums. Can you enlighten me. Ken

Quote:

Originally Posted by SeanSupplee

You need quality post to start driving traffic to your forum pretty much thing of it as a social blog when you first start out. There are plugins etc you can buy to input on your form that will index your postings better to drive traffic to your forum. Be sure to remove any spammers right away. If its not quality content DELETE IT the worse thing you could do is have a spam fest on your hands where people visiting your site see pure crap and have no reason to sign up.

Michael Mayo · 10-30-2009, 08:35 PM

Hi Ken,

Here is a list of 101 forums.

101 Best Forums For People Looking to Money Making Online | Talkgold.com's Online Money Making Blog

You could reverse engineer their matrix and determine how they are receiving
their new members.

There is also an product out there I beta tested a while back called
Forum Post Robot that will add posts to the forum. It was not like most
post robots that just post garbage. This product actually posted questions
from ... Out of respect for the Warrior that allowed me to beta test it, I'll
stop there for now. Here is the link, http://www.forumpostrobot.com/

Good Luck,
Have a Great Day!
Michael

Travelingboy · 10-30-2009, 08:57 PM

Try joining Target niches in Orkut.com Groups. This has worked well for my past forums. The orkut community is very talkative. Hope this helps.

Ken · 10-30-2009, 09:44 PM

This is something I'm working on at the moment.

Thanks

Ken

Quote:

Originally Posted by dropshippingforums

Hi there, How about RSS Feeds going from well written press release sites and having feeds going to the forum ?

I have just started this with my forum as you can see below. some people say that this is very good for SEO rankings . what do you think ?

Ken · 10-30-2009, 09:46 PM

Michael, Thanks. I wasn't aware of this program. It looks useful.

Ken

Quote:

Originally Posted by There is also an product out there I beta tested a while back called
Forum Post Robot that will add posts to the forum. It was not like most
post robots that just post garbage. This product actually posted questions
from ... Out of respect for the Warrior that allowed me to beta test it, I'll
stop there for now. Here is the link, [url=http://www.forumpostrobot.com

Forum Post Robot --- Populate Your Forum Automatically![/url]/

Good Luck,
Have a Great Day!
Michael

Ken · 10-30-2009, 09:52 PM

Thanks Travelingboy. At this time, social networking is not an area I'm comfortable with.

Ken

Quote:

Originally Posted by Travelingboy

Try joining Target niches in Orkut.com Groups. This has worked well for my past forums. The orkut community is very talkative. Hope this helps.

Razer Rage · 10-30-2009, 09:54 PM

Market it in other forums.

Also, social networking sites, like facebook, are also a good place.

If it's a new forum, then he needs to have posts in ALL open boards. You also need to get some members before you start marketing (contacting people via private messaging can work well, or you can hire people to do it for you).

ryxin · 10-31-2009, 01:57 AM

Thanks this information. Actually,i have also a site forum i promote now which is about of love and relationship forum and i want i have more members of that forum.Please suggest me what can i do.

JAIDEEP2959 · 10-31-2009, 04:59 AM

You can participate in other health forums' discussion including link of your health forum in Signature.

You can post answers in Yahoo answers for relevant question and putting your forum's link in the resource box.

You can post messages including your forum's link in Yahoo, Google, Myspace and Facebook groups.

Good luck.

chukwuma · 10-31-2009, 05:33 AM

Seo
PPC
Press realease
Article marketing
Using affiliate

10-26-2009, 03:37 PM	#1
Ken HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Posts: 114 Thanks: 109 Thanked 105 Times in 17 Posts	How to Market a Forum? A close friend has asked for my advice on marketing his health related forum. Though I've had experience in marketing other types of sites, I've never been involved it for a forum. I would appreciate any advice you can give. Ken

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