A Question on Forum Promoting
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Topic: A Question on Forum Promoting
Posted By: Vamun Tianshu
Subject: A Question on Forum Promoting
Date Posted: 29-Aug-2005 at 21:41
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I need to ask a serious question,to those who have successful forums,forums with many activities and such,and possibly your answers can help people who don't have a successful forum and who can't simply market a forum because of budget or anything else,people like me.How can you successfully market a forum,or promote,to make it appeal to a certain type of person,without bothering any other forums with consistent advertising spam and endless partnerships where no one is essentially interested.And how to market it for free,or submit it search engines for free,or anything like that. ------------- 
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Posted By: baracuda
Date Posted: 30-Aug-2005 at 23:56
I and a couple of friends of mine have 3 forums,
(the last one is the one I advertized here a while back, was interested in amount of people that would take a look..  '2' which is funny, but I expected that much)
Old rule, sex, warez and rock'n'roll are the ones that get the real attention on the internet. SO having a 'history' forum basically it comes down to advertizing, just about anyplace you can, friends, etc.. and on boards you visit then eventually you will build up a comunity. It also helps if there is couple people working at it not one. But before all that you need some content, that means something worth being in your forum for, so 200-500 posts made with just 'bla bla' and headings isnt going to interest anyone. a last note, if you advertize in warez forums, as a rule of thumb, only about 0.1%-0.01% of the whole public there will be interested in anything other than warez. ------------- |
Posted By: Imperator Invictus
Date Posted: 31-Aug-2005 at 01:15
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For AE today, I think the most important source of traffic is the
search engine. I would guess that most of the searches come to the
forum through the AE main site. I think the main site has been very
important in brining the traffic to AE. In the early days, advertisment was the most important. More specifically, AE grew out of Heavengames history forum, and most of the early members were drawn from that place. ------------- |