SEO Advisory Service - Advice For Forum Owners.
As I said in my previous post, we would be starting a free SEO advisory service. Well here is the first question from Scott Nicol.
Hi, I am a student and website owner. I own The Seven Forums.com which is now running on fully paid for servers since around August last year and IPB, which put me back £75 about 1 month ago.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to really get the site to take off. Do you think you could help me out, and give some suggestions? The site is based around the upcoming Windows release Windows Seven, which has been rumoured to be coming out the 2nd half of 2009.
Thanks,
Scott Nicol
Hi Scott, thanks for your email.
Forum's are very hard to get off the ground.
You need to create interaction with your users. Posting on other related forum's and having your site in your signature is one way to attract people to your forum.
You can also employ paid posters to make your forum look busy which may encourage people to join in. They dont cost much and are always good to kick start a new forum.
You also need to work on SEO by generating back links from related sites to get your forum listed high in Google. This can bring a lot of traffic if done well. If you dont have the time to do your own SEO, you could outsource the work to an SEO Services company.
You can also promote your forum in Google or Yahoo groups.
Forum's are all about community, likeminded people discussing things that they all have a common interest in. You need to find those people and give them a reason to come to your forum.
Its not easy, but if you do manage to build a successful forum it can be worth a lot of money, and give you a lot of satisfaction.
I hope that this information has been of some help to you.
Best of luck with it.
Regards
Mike.
Hi, I am a student and website owner. I own The Seven Forums.com which is now running on fully paid for servers since around August last year and IPB, which put me back £75 about 1 month ago.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to really get the site to take off. Do you think you could help me out, and give some suggestions? The site is based around the upcoming Windows release Windows Seven, which has been rumoured to be coming out the 2nd half of 2009.
Thanks,
Scott Nicol
Hi Scott, thanks for your email.
Forum's are very hard to get off the ground.
You need to create interaction with your users. Posting on other related forum's and having your site in your signature is one way to attract people to your forum.
You can also employ paid posters to make your forum look busy which may encourage people to join in. They dont cost much and are always good to kick start a new forum.
You also need to work on SEO by generating back links from related sites to get your forum listed high in Google. This can bring a lot of traffic if done well. If you dont have the time to do your own SEO, you could outsource the work to an SEO Services company.
You can also promote your forum in Google or Yahoo groups.
Forum's are all about community, likeminded people discussing things that they all have a common interest in. You need to find those people and give them a reason to come to your forum.
Its not easy, but if you do manage to build a successful forum it can be worth a lot of money, and give you a lot of satisfaction.
I hope that this information has been of some help to you.
Best of luck with it.
Regards
Mike.
posted by By Mike Carter at
12:22 PM
2 Comments:
Yes I agree forums are pretty hard work getting them off the ground. Attracting new members and optimizing the site at the same time seems an endless task. I recently started my own forum, so I know how you feel.
Good Luck.
An SEO advisory service would be an amazing option to have. Getting started with a forum or blog is a very hard task and receiving advice from someone who has been in the same position holds much value.
Thanks for a fine read.
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