Comments on: Ten Tips To Ramp Up The Success Of Your Online Forum

By: Larafellows2011

Larafellows2011 — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:09:00 +0000

Great Tips thank you

By: Dave Lurrows

Dave Lurrows — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:00:30 +0000

Thanks for the grest tips, given me so excellent ideas

By: Lauren123

Lauren123 — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:00:07 +0000

Thanks for the great advise definitely going to optimise our forums landing page

By: IT contractors

IT contractors — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:52:10 +0000

I’d say the 2 key things to bear in mind before setting up a forum are:

a) Do you really have enough traffic to make the forum work… so many sites have completely inactive forums.

b) If you do have enough visitors, are you prepared to dedicate time each day to oversee the postings + moderation?

By: john

john — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:12:22 +0000

I’m not too sure what the purpose of this would be. I personally like to see contests and polls within forums – gives the feeling of a “friendly neighborhood” when allowing members to participate in more than just the same old forum.

John

Thanks

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By: Time Management

Time Management — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:24:51 +0000

hey Yaro, thanks for such a useful information about forum, forum is very confusing, atleast for me. Every forum site has their own criteria which very different from each site, but these ideas will help me when posting massage in forum. Thanks again!

By: Legitimate Work From Home Jobs

Legitimate Work From Home Jobs — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:34:39 +0000

A landing page for a forum? I guess I’m not too sure what the purpose of this would be. I personally like to see contests and polls within forums – gives the feeling of a “friendly neighborhood” when allowing members to participate in more than just the same old forum.

By: Legitimate Work From Home Jobs

Legitimate Work From Home Jobs — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:42:34 +0000

A sense of community is very important – it’s what keeps me coming back to the forums in which I participate. I recently joined a forum where the top contributors were rewarded with “best answer” status. Makes one feel good when their advice and/or knowledge helped others.

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By: The Niche Think Tank

The Niche Think Tank — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:49:12 +0000

thanks for this article, I am really thinking that you are me mentors from now on Yaro.
Larry

By: Are You Destined to be Blogger?

Are You Destined to be Blogger? — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:05:37 +0000

Yeah, another good post from Yaro,
I was mesmerised with how you can reach 35.000 of Alexa rank while my first blog is still fighting to get 1.000.000 in Alexa rank. And as far as i know, build a forum is the hardest thing to do in internet.

Daniel Likin

By: Make Quick Money

Make Quick Money — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:58:39 +0000

Hey all, forums are really good place to learn a lot. I participate in lot of forums but recently I had my account at DP suspended. They never told me why.

I am not sure what happened, I dont spam or anything. Even my signature is clear

I hate it when they dont tell you what you did wrong.

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By: Volksphone

Volksphone — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:46:44 +0000

You will see it is a nice expand The earnings and your pageviews and visitors will always increase. These are the experience I made by many blogs including a forum.

Cheers,
Volksphone!

By: used tires

used tires — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:53:29 +0000

Yeah the first time they visit it is the best way to do it. Perhaps code so that once an IP address has visited the website, then every time thereafter, the video’s default setting on auto-play is set to off. Off course it is easier said than done. Perhaps a better alternative would be a cookie that could track their first visit, and visits thereafter the video will not autoplay.

Till then,

Jean

By: Poze Nunta

Poze Nunta — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:56:30 +0000

Hey Yaro,

I agree that a forum is a way to expand your earnings and also traffic. Beeing at the begining i didnt arrange myself to do a forum but soon i will start working to have one. Thanks for the usfel information.

By: Volksphone

Volksphone — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:23:02 +0000

A few days ago i have set up a forum in combo to my blog, too. The reaction from the users were all positive because they can better communicate via a forum. This setup has result to an increase of pageviews in the blog. So if you have the chance to set up a forum, do it!

Cheers,
Volksphone!

By: Ravi Kuwadia

Ravi Kuwadia — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:37:28 +0000

Leslie glad to have another informative post from you. Forum integration is really a important factor which definitely encourages the readers feel that they are listened to. You can estimate the joy from the fact that it make me to visit some forums very frequently because I got my queries answered within 5 hrs… and a add-on that the warm welcome on logging in. Its just awesome.

I am going to be a member at .CaliStyle101.

By: Rod Macbeth

Rod Macbeth — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:00:33 +0000

Super article.

I’ve never seen, or thought of, a landing page for a forum. Nice idea.

Not sure I’d ever start a forum from scratch but who knows. Seems to me you’d need a successful site to feed it to have any chance of success.

Cheers,
Rod

By: Leslie, The Freebie Guy

Leslie, The Freebie Guy — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:52:24 +0000

Thanks Jean. You know what? I usually REALLY HATE pop up videos myself, lol. But when I found that type, I fell in love with it. I do get tired of seeing myself pop up in a bubble though, lol. I’m gonna have to find away for it to only show up the first time someone visits and NEVER again, because if I get tired of it, I’m sure others do too.

By: used tires

used tires — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:37:54 +0000

I am really impressed with Leslie’s Freebie website, normally I don’t like when videos auto-play on websites, but on Leslie’s website I really loved it! The website feels so professional =D

As far as contests you are right, I’ve been holding contests on a forum that I am a part of, and the website has seen a growth as a result of contest, and the great thing is, the prize is not that expensive, so it definitely has been a huge gain for the forum by having the contests.

Till then,

Jean

By: Jared P Little

Jared P Little — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:36:04 +0000

Leslie,
Awesome job landing a great guest post here. Lot’s of good advice I will bookmark this. Small world I had to double check as you just thought the your name before, you just left your 1st comment on my site yesterday on the Keller interview. Now I find you on posting some real value on one of my favorite blogs.

Looks like like I going to have to add your site to my RSS list. Looking quickly I like what I see. Track everything great tip and people really do like audio and video I plan on doing a lot more it really helps people get to know and trust you.

By: Chase Sagum

Chase Sagum — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:18:09 +0000

I like the idea of using something like bbPress to integrate a forum into my WordPress blogs. That to me seems like a forum worth setting up? But a forum all on it’s own, not enough time on the old schedule!

By: Prostate Problems

Prostate Problems — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:41:57 +0000

Social media tools definitely add value to employee communications. They can help build relationships, increase collaboration, improve productivity, reduce silos, and build engagement. They also offer an excellent means to share ideas and gather qualitative feedback.
So why is social media sometimes so hard to implement as an internal communications tool?????

By: Prostate Problems

Prostate Problems — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:32:58 +0000

Any administrator of a forum has 2 main goals usually. Attract traffic to their site so that they can capitalize and rake in those advertising dollars, and to keep things orderly, and moderated in a fast reliable way. Over the years of runnign web forums I have come up with 3 good ways to achieve the first of those two goals faster then one normally would.

#1 Reward Top Forum Contributors.
By giving away either cash, electronics, or something related to the topic your forum is based around, you will create a nice incentive for members to contribute to your forum with relevant top quality information. One way to set up the incentive giveaways is to manually have your moderator and admin team choose a member or two every month who went above and beyond the others to contribute and help out the rest of your member base. Other ways is to create contests which will reward members for the best answer to a certain question. Either way, your members will get excited about the possibility of a reward, and check back often to see if they may have won.

#2 Provide more information then the others.
Even if your forum isn’t as busy as other competing sites, you can make it better. Quantity isn’t always quality. Provide insightful original essays, studies, or information that your forum members will both find useful, as well as possibly link to and send to other internet users.

#3 Be fair, do not over censor, and clearly state your forum guidelines.
More often then not, forums have very sketchy guidelines. If members do not know the rules, it is impossibly for them to follow them. Also make sure your moderating and administrator team is fair and even keeled. You will always have members challenging a moderators actions, but remember you can not please everyone. Do what you think is morally correct. If you treat one members in a certain way, good or bad, than you must treat every other member in the exact same way. Do not make exceptions. Be organized in your actions, so that members know what to expect. Make sure the moderators that you assign do not have motives outside of simply helping the community. I have see moderators abuse their power for their own financial gain, and it is not pretty, as the blame will usually come back to the administrator for appointing the bad apple.

By: Prostate Problems

Prostate Problems — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:26:13 +0000

Unfortunately, having a forum addition to a website does not guarantee its success and usefulness in gathering the hypothesized attention and attractiveness. A new forum with no content, no members or no active discussion is like an empty hall. Anyone who steps into such an empty room would most definitely get the creeps and run away as fast as they can. Similarly, your forum can quickly lose its purported usefulness if it is empty and bare.

By: Prostate Problems

Prostate Problems — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:22:13 +0000

Forums equally play a significant role in bringing more traffic at your website. However, surveys have proven that forum visitors are generally pro-active information seekers as well as engaged users. Hence, forum visitors coming to your site are worth more than average visitors.

By: Prostate Problems

Prostate Problems — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:18:29 +0000

Forums are perfect opportunities to allow full personal expression by potential consumers. It also allows you to interact with consumers in a way that provides an opportunity to explain issues that may be difficult to accept at first read

By: Prostate Problems

Prostate Problems — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:06:26 +0000

Outsourcing is not as easy as they all say… what you say is not always what they hear….

By: Leslie, The Freebie Guy

Leslie, The Freebie Guy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:09:15 +0000

That’s why it’s a great idea to team up with other companies/websites that have some traffic. If you plan it well, you can have multiple sources of traffic, all leading to your forum, which can help give it a jump start. Also, by using some of the tips that I mentioned, you are really setting it up for a good start.