How do you promote your forum?
- Thread starter Jason76
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I just do the main dot points and keep on doing it. Results are very slow progress/
1. social media, keep on posting out there
2. FP, you know what FP is like..
3. YouTube, add Links in anything you see and do
4. tell people about it
5. advertisement putting banners out there
6. email once a week to all members or once an month
7. find new ways, use them if you do
8. post content all the time
1. social media, keep on posting out there
2. FP, you know what FP is like..
3. YouTube, add Links in anything you see and do
4. tell people about it
5. advertisement putting banners out there
6. email once a week to all members or once an month
7. find new ways, use them if you do
8. post content all the time
For Open Carnage, the only success we've had has come from SEO, our direct competitors, running regular community livestreams, and word of mouth. For the past 4 years we've tried promotion through social media and ForumPromotion, with no significant results.
The real determiner of promotional platform is your target audience, which on social media is often very hard to pin without paid advertising, and FP's community is from an entirely different Universe than ours.
The real determiner of promotional platform is your target audience, which on social media is often very hard to pin without paid advertising, and FP's community is from an entirely different Universe than ours.
Social media can be tough because with Facebook pages at least, you have to pay to reach your followers. However, good content can sometimes reach a Facebook group audience for free.
However, I'm not sure about it. For instance, let's say your advertising on someone else's FB group. IT could be a case where the owner pays to boost every post. Note, in the case of my music lesson websites, I've gotten good traffic from other people's Facebook groups, and I don't know if the FB owner is boosting the posts or not.
True, giving away free samples or word of mouth praise for premium work could be the best advertisements.
addisoncave
Familiar Face
really, thanks for sharing with us. Mozz
i tried my best and it took a few months but now my kpop forum shows up on the first page on google when searching for one which is good
the fb page i created awhile back is going ok too, my kpop posts often get at least 600+ people reached and a lot of times 1000+ as well
almost 500 likes/followers
have not paid for ads and never will, fb owner is already rich enough as it is lol
the twitter acc is going slow compared to that though but maybe thats because its different compared to fb and you have to be really active in different ways to get followers on there
i am advertising it here as well on other forums but its not like it is getting me a lot, just SEO wise it helps etc
certain this place for example, has not gotten me a lot of new kpop fans, probably none lol
because yeah kpop fans do not come here probably, maybe there are some but i have to be lucky they spot it anyways
the fb page i created awhile back is going ok too, my kpop posts often get at least 600+ people reached and a lot of times 1000+ as well
almost 500 likes/followers
have not paid for ads and never will, fb owner is already rich enough as it is lol
the twitter acc is going slow compared to that though but maybe thats because its different compared to fb and you have to be really active in different ways to get followers on there
i am advertising it here as well on other forums but its not like it is getting me a lot, just SEO wise it helps etc
certain this place for example, has not gotten me a lot of new kpop fans, probably none lol
because yeah kpop fans do not come here probably, maybe there are some but i have to be lucky they spot it anyways
Posters who know a little can be a help, but some posts need to be by experts. The amateur posters can give a forum a feel that relates to ordinary people who might be interested in your niche, but the experts give the forum credibility. The expert posters obviously might cost more but might worth the price.
david hong
Familiar Face
Getting contributors to a new forum is not easy. You can't just put up a forum and expect it to work. A forum with few members or few items is self defeating, people will visit see nothing and go away probably never to return. You have to attract them on that first visit so they want to come back.
What kind of competition does your forum have? It takes a lot to attract people from existing forums that are working well, not many want to belong to many forums, especially on the same subject.
Expecting Google or any other search engine to feed people to you just is not going to happen.
Therefore it is hard work, ideally you need three or four helpers who will post items, and reply to them, in my experience an article that has had a few visitors will get more, an article showing only one or two visitors often never takes off.
There should be some community of interest that you can address and use other means, word of mouth, advertising emails (be sure to stay withing the spam regulations for your country) and get the people to visit.
Be prepared to ensure that when they post they get replies, and good replies, preferably from more than one person.
I have set up many forums for myself and for friends/clients, some take off some just die. You have to reach that intertia point quickly where the forum is self sustaining.
You have to think what is the purpose of your fourm and why they would want to join your forum, then find a way to target that audience with the information it is available.
Don't expect everyone to be active, there are more passive observers to a forum than there are active contributors. Typically you will only get a few % of your joined up subscribers actually making any contribution.
In sort a lot of hard work is needed to get it moving, go out and find those first few contributors that will act as the core to get things moving. You can try and do it on your own using several user names, but that is not easy and many would frown on it.
What kind of competition does your forum have? It takes a lot to attract people from existing forums that are working well, not many want to belong to many forums, especially on the same subject.
Expecting Google or any other search engine to feed people to you just is not going to happen.
Therefore it is hard work, ideally you need three or four helpers who will post items, and reply to them, in my experience an article that has had a few visitors will get more, an article showing only one or two visitors often never takes off.
There should be some community of interest that you can address and use other means, word of mouth, advertising emails (be sure to stay withing the spam regulations for your country) and get the people to visit.
Be prepared to ensure that when they post they get replies, and good replies, preferably from more than one person.
I have set up many forums for myself and for friends/clients, some take off some just die. You have to reach that intertia point quickly where the forum is self sustaining.
You have to think what is the purpose of your fourm and why they would want to join your forum, then find a way to target that audience with the information it is available.
Don't expect everyone to be active, there are more passive observers to a forum than there are active contributors. Typically you will only get a few % of your joined up subscribers actually making any contribution.
In sort a lot of hard work is needed to get it moving, go out and find those first few contributors that will act as the core to get things moving. You can try and do it on your own using several user names, but that is not easy and many would frown on it.
Khanh Nguyen Duy
Familiar Face
i think so
Just to share, this is about a political forum for a senatorial candidate that was handled by a friend. I had a big laugh when I learned that they launched the forum by giving away flyers to passers by in the street. Getting good advice from the veterans, they immediately went on a paradigm shift by focusing on social media - Facebook and Twitter. But what made the forum a beehive were the intriguing threads and the photos of the candidate in the campaign. I'd say interesting enough and not exactly a makeup for the candidate. It's just like reading a "neutral" magazine.
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