Tips For Forum Owners

[Jani]

These tips are based on my personal experience.

1. Don't announce your forum until it is 100% ready, incomplete categories, 404 pages and spelling mistakes make the first impression very bad.

2. Don't announce your forum on other forums wherein you have -50 posts at least, you should have good no. of posts so that people can trust you and should give your forum a look, otherwise they will treat you as spammer.

3. You shouldn't wait for others to come and put content in there, in the initial stage of your forum you will have to put the content yourself.

4. Don't make posts like "How old are you", "How many forums do you use"....etc, forums are already filled with such questions, you need to post informative content because if people don't join or post in your forum they should come back to read a new and informative post.

5. Be patient. Forums are really not easy to make famous but it is also not impossible, if you put quality content you should see the results in a few months.

6. Do not post your content on other forums, this way when users come to your forum they will find a new information which they have not read on other forums. Some of them will copy-paste it on other forum and few of them will give you a link back too.

7. Do not try to popular your forum overnight, it doesn't work like that. You need to wait and keep the forum grow on its own.

Hope these tips will be useful for you

If you want to add any tip(s), you are welcome.

[loco]

8. Don't just hire the cheapest person you can find to do any work to your forum, you get what you pay for. I've seen many get scammed by going with the cheapest offer

[TonyCap]

Good tips, but unfortunately, one of my forums is still failing - even after trying for so many years.

[Rhiannon]

Thanks Jani, excellent pointers

[GordyMac]

Deffinatley some excellent tips and pointers for us to follow there!!

GordyMac added 0 Minutes and 26 Seconds later...

Good tips, but unfortunately, one of my forums is still failing - even after trying for so many years.

What kind of forum is it Tony?

[Purple Rain]

6. Do not post your content on other forums, this way when users come to your forum they will find a new information which they have not read on other forums. Some of them will copy-paste it on other forum and few of them will give you a link back too.

Jani You broke one of your own rules

[Jani]

I know, but I wanted to give my best advice to everyone out there

And my forum already have some informative posts so sharing one post will not do anything bad to my forum.

[Dumi]

Good tips I would also say to use social networking sites to pump traffic.

[Menthol]

Some useful advice for those yet to taste the delights of forum ownership.

[Chuman]

4. Don't make posts like "How old are you", "How many forums do you use"....etc, forums are already filled with such questions, you need to post informative content because if people don't join or post in your forum they should come back to read a new and informative post.

This one makes a good sense

[womanizer]

Thank Jani, I am forum owner myself and all your tips are very useful for me!

[micksss]

Great advice! I wish that I had followed some of these

[mpstrategies]

Nice tip, i like the one about not to over popular, the best forum last long because everyone keeps going back to it