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Forums - Traffic Builders

by Lynn Little

Adding a forum to your website can be an effective way to drive more traffic your way. Although starting a forum will take a lot of work, the pay off is well worth it.

An active forum takes time and patience. Before beginning make sure you can promote some people to post on your forums like friends or family. There are services where you can pay someone to post on your forum to make it look active since a lot of people will not spend any time at a forum that has very few posts. It’s best to try that as a last resort as you really want to have folks around who will answer questions and become more part of the community.

There are a few good free forum software programs that you can install on your domain like phpBB or Yabb. Others like vBulletin might cost money, but have a lot of functionality and can be a lot of fun to the forum community.

Starting a forum can be a daunting task. Do your research for what type of forum you want to open and see what places already exist. Make sure your forum adds something that those don’t so it will be appealing for people to sign up.

While setting up and maintaining a forum can be demanding, the rewards can be worth it. The increased visitors will help establish to your website on the Internet as an authority in your subject matter.

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Posted in General on July 17th, 2007

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  2. Lelsoppoldtep Says:
    October 25th, 2007 at 11:15 am

    Hi everyone,

    I’m just starting here. And it seems like a sweet place.

    I just wanted to give a friendly hello to all of you here.

    :)

    -Taylor

  3. Dymnemenuetle Says:
    October 26th, 2007 at 4:08 am

    Hello!
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  4. xztheericzx Says:
    November 5th, 2007 at 4:24 am

    i’m eric. joining a couple boards and looking
    forward to participating. hehe unless i get
    too distracted!

    eric

  5. seonewbieJay Says:
    November 25th, 2007 at 12:51 am

    To get high rankings in Yahoo and MSN is all about links? I can get ranked easier in Google with links,
    but the other two I have no clue.

  6. oOgerryOo Says:
    December 15th, 2007 at 8:29 am

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  7. oOgerryOo Says:
    December 15th, 2007 at 11:54 pm

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