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The best way to market a forum?

by gdwebs
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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.
#forum #market
  • Profile picture of the author JPaston
    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!
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  • Profile picture of the author gdwebs
    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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  • Profile picture of the author Jim Pearson
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave777
    Study everything these guys do and feed off of each other...
    http://www.thepoultrysite.com/

    Listen to the following Warriors! Just spin the ideas into the poultry industry and the many other micro-niche possibilities...
    Instant Forum Profits

    Dave
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  • Profile picture of the author gdwebs
    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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  • Profile picture of the author TimRobinson
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author gdwebs
    200 uniques a day is the gerrard site, www.poultrypages.com is slightly better at 300-400 uniques a day
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author gdwebs
    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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