The best way to market a forum?

gdwebs · 11-27-2008, 09:34 AM

Hey all,

I understand that first of all the forum needs to be good in a niche.

The niche i'm in here is poultry, mainly to do with breeding and the site recieves around 10,000 uniques and 30,000 pageviews per month.

I want to try and build and sustain this traffic and hoping that a forum running off the site might do this for me.

The site is www.poultrypages.com and obviously i don't expect to gain all my sign ups through current traffic, so i'm looking at ways to market for the forum.

Any advice appreciated.

JPaston · 11-27-2008, 10:15 AM

Good idea, I use forums to get daily visitors coming back time and time again, and it works well where the niche provides for it, especially hobbies.

I guess poultry breeding is a hobby, as well as a business, so you should do well.

You need to kick start the forum with a bit of advertising, making it known in newsletters, ezines and periodicals. Once you have members posting daily you'll find you receive a lot of Search Engine love!

gdwebs · 11-27-2008, 08:25 PM

I've signed up with forumpromotion.net wish you post on and get points so basically every post on there equates to a post on my forum when its up and running aswell as some thread starts.

Also have one other webmaster who is willing to do a post for post exchange.

Will be nice to get a good list then i can start promoting Amazon products and the like.

Do you think the likes of www.stevengerrard.info will get enough coverage to build a community too?

It gets about 200+ uniques a day

Jim Pearson · 11-28-2008, 02:10 AM

Checked you site out.

Forum are a good way to go. You might want to think about adding a blog to your website as well, where you could survey and build a relationship with the visitors. A blog is also a great place to find out what problems your visitors are having...and then create products to solve these problems.

To your success.

Dave777 · 11-28-2008, 03:46 AM

Study everything these guys do and feed off of each other...

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/

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gdwebs · 11-28-2008, 03:57 AM

Can i thank everyone for their input - i think the Gerrard site i'll leave for now and set up at a later stage - hopefully have the poultrypages site online within a few days!

TimRobinson · 11-28-2008, 04:13 AM

With 200 uniques a day simply start posting questions and information yourself and I'm pretty sure you'll get a forum going in no time.

Keep posting yourself at the start, don't expect people to start for you (nobody likes to post on an empty forum).

and put a nice big link on the front page/menubar

gdwebs · 11-28-2008, 02:18 PM

200 uniques a day is the gerrard site, www.poultrypages.com is slightly better at 300-400 uniques a day

Danny Cutts · 11-28-2008, 02:24 PM

Hiya,

I myself do pretty well from forums, its a great way to promote and generate income, my plastering site is becoming a bit of an authority site...lol

its taken over a year to build it up but its now busy I am getting 2k a week in uniques.

Forums are good fun tooo

good luck

Danny

gdwebs · 12-02-2008, 05:16 AM

Thanks for the input!

I've spoke to a few people about posting exchange, so its not me speaking to myself all the time

I will check out other forum layouts tonight and see how they are structuring it.

Hopefully the 10k uniques and a nice banner will get me some members from my main site.

If anyone has a forum and wants to do post exchange - let me know!

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gdwebs HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 108 Thanks: 6 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: The best way to market a forum? I've signed up with forumpromotion.net wish you post on and get points so basically every post on there equates to a post on my forum when its up and running aswell as some thread starts. Also have one other webmaster who is willing to do a post for post exchange. Will be nice to get a good list then i can start promoting Amazon products and the like. Do you think the likes of www.stevengerrard.info will get enough coverage to build a community too? It gets about 200+ uniques a day
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gdwebs HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 108 Thanks: 6 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: The best way to market a forum? Can i thank everyone for their input - i think the Gerrard site i'll leave for now and set up at a later stage - hopefully have the poultrypages site online within a few days!
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12-02-2008, 05:16 AM	#10
gdwebs HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 108 Thanks: 6 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: The best way to market a forum? Thanks for the input! I've spoke to a few people about posting exchange, so its not me speaking to myself all the time I will check out other forum layouts tonight and see how they are structuring it. Hopefully the 10k uniques and a nice banner will get me some members from my main site. If anyone has a forum and wants to do post exchange - let me know!
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