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Please comment: using separate forum site to drive traffic to other sites

by Canuckystan
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Hi all,

I have an exact match url .com for a term that gets 8000 exact searches per month for people searching for a forum.

I was thinking of developing a forum only on that .com, and then have banners and ads directing people to my other sites.

That way, the forum doesn't appear directly linked to my sales sites (and in fact will be its own site).

Has anyone tried this? How hard is it to get forums moving with posters and content? Is 8000/month sufficient for an active forum? Thoughts?
#comment #drive #forum #separate #site #sites #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author WebRank1
    Forums can be VERY hard to popularize. You might try to pay some workers to post on your forum the first month to make it seems active and thus creating social proof.
    I have seen NUMEROUS amounts of to be forums fail because the owners could not make them active.
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  • Profile picture of the author Victor Edson
    I've ran a forum before. And I use a similar strategy now... only with a blog intended to drive traffic to a sales page of mine.

    8k searches is good, if it's the exact searches. Getting people to start conversing will be the first task. You could hire people to post questions/answers for about .01 per post on sites like Mechanical Turk.

    I used to offer a bonus(free report) to people who posted 10 quality posts. If they made crappy one liner posts, I'd delete them and let them know they only have X amount of posts left until their free report. The niche I was in went nuts for it.
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