Learn how to best develop your forums
Let's give birth to this baby
Getting a forum from an inactive status to a lot of posts is not easy. We won't come to promise you we can make your forum a success, just by our own effort. It would be unreal, unless we'll post in there for the next 2 years. We can do this, but it's better to try and maximize the results as fast as we can. We need you to be an important part too. Don't sit back and relax, not now. We all need to work and make this forum a hit.
As a forum manager myself with a 5+ years experience, here are some tips you can learn:
- Use a serious posting plan and maybe repeat this. No, we are not trying to sell our services in such a exaggerated manner, but it's a proven thing: 30 posts from us won't do miracles. Of course this will help the community (our excellent topics, aimed to making your members discuss more, will work; the informative replies will establish your forums as a good informational resource), but we cannot expect miracles only with this.
- Promote this community as much as you can and make it look astonishing. We all have to understand that a forum, even with excellent content (our job) cannot make it ONLY with this. While we are busy creating content you need to promote and also sustain the increased activity.
- Got friends? Use them. Don't just rely on our members, since your forums need as many posting people as possible. Tell your friends about it and have them reply to some topics, maybe do some post exchanges too. These will bring in some quantity in your activity plan, we give you both quantity and quality.
The most important thing you need to understand as a forum administrator is that paid posting is a good way to start a forum or bring in some activity, but you have to make the forum work "naturally" too .. use this added activity to increase your membership and develop the forums.
Let's read some articles
As I have aleady mentioned I own 14 forums and have written articles about forum management the last 2-3 years. You can read them and they would help you even more with making your community a success
Community management articles and tips on Wtricks.com is a category gathering specialized forum articles. Here are the ones posted so far:
- 3 wrong reasons to start a forum
- Email account activation - the types and how to use this
- How to behave on forums
- Banned members that just won't go away?
- How to create activity in a ZERO posts forum?
- Time saving tips for creating a community
- Tips and tricks for a good post exchange
- From empty forums to a real community
- Some of my tricks to increase activity in a forum
The forum management category on the webmaster blog at wtricks.com has also got some articles to help you:
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