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Promoting Your Forums
Posted by admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 20-03-2008
There are many ways to promote your forum and each might work different for everyone. You also need to watch how you use the promotion techniques. I am only going to list ten ways but I am sure that each will pay off.
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The first and most important thing to do when promoting a forum is to know who your target audience is
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Another very important technique would be Search Engine Optimization (SEO). I will be talking about this in a later post but I will touch lightly on it right now. If you optimize your forum with the proper keywords and description then it could rank well in search engines.
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Submit your forum to various directories and search engines, this should bring in members who most likely enjoy your forums topic.
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Place the Url of your forum into your signature at other forums.
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Join post exchange sites such as forumgrowers.com. I will post a full list on a later date.
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Off-line advertising, if you have enough money to run an ad in the local newspaper or if you have time to print up flyer, do it!
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Social bookmarking: great for blogs and great for forums as well! If there are posts on your forum that you think would pull people in then use digg, stumbleupon and any other social bookmarking sites you may use.
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Online advertising, if you know Google Adwords, it could be very helpful. But you don’t have to, more and more people are turning to alternatives such as Project Wonderful. With PW, you get to choose which sites to show your ad on. You can also sell advertising using Project Wonderful.
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Leave comments on blogs, with your forums url on the Url section that most blogs have.
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Never send out an email to people you don’t know asking them to join your forum. That will just turn them off and give your forum a bad name.
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