Should you add a Forum to your Site?
ADVERTISEMENTSA forum is a good place to discuss stuff and make friends. Having a sucessful forum on your site can help you both in getting traffic as well as in earning a good revenue. One of the things you should look for before starting a forum is traffic.
Without good traffic on your site, there is no use in starting one. Is traffic enough to start a successful forum? Well no, you need to work hard, post quality content and make the forum active.
Once you succeed in getting a few active members to your forum, you can take rest while it generates both traffic and revenue.
Yaro of Entrepreneur’s Journey has written on some of the benefits of a successful forum and some reason why your forum could become a failure.
I recommend you read it if you are interested in starting a forum on your site.
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Posted on June 14th, 2006 | Category: Internet |
CypherHackz
June 14, 2006 at 3:34 pm
As for me, I don’t think a personal site should run a forum. Because a forum is a place where people come to discuss or chat. Unless the personal site have projects that involving their site visitors to participate in their projects or submit feedbacks.
johntp
June 14, 2006 at 4:01 pm
I have always wanted to add a forum here on johntp.com. Though my domain name might make it sound like a personal one, you will not find much personal stuff.
I am waiting for good traffic to start a forum here
basu
June 14, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Maybe it might be a good idea to hold a poll and ask readers if they want a forum. After all they’re the people who will use it and so there’s not much point starting one if no one wants it.
johntp
June 14, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Basu I agree with you but it is better I put up a poll on that topic after I start getting good traffic. I have seen a few forums that was unsuccessful in the past and I don’t want that to happen here.
I am looking forward to start one soon.
Keith Dsouza
June 15, 2006 at 12:18 am
As CypherHackz already said that forums and personal sites don’t go hand in hand, I would like to add that forum’s and maybe blogging too probably don’t go hand in hand.
Unless ofcourse the blogs you have, have topics that needs a broadly discussed area.
Nevertheless a blog is already a forum in itself with the commenting system, like we here are already discussing whether a blog should have a forum or not.
Having said that I would like to have a forum with a wider base of user’s but it’s already hectic with my blogging sites so I would prefer a different domain for running that.
BTW your site is overlapping in Flock which i used earlier in the day to access your site.
johntp
June 15, 2006 at 3:32 am
There are differences between blogs and forums. In blogs, it is the author that starts the discussion. While on a forum anyone can start a discussion.
A blog may die when the author stops posting while on a sucessful forum the author can stay inactive for weeks to months without the forum dying. The moderators will take care of the forum.