How to find general discussion forum posters
- Thread starter Jason76
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Unless you're already a big forum, I think it's hard these days for general discussion forums to compete with social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. You should find an interesting discussion niche and go with it instead IMO.
General discussion boards are the hardest to sustain. The ones that do well are niche based. If your forum is based on a specific topic it’ll be easier to find your audience, advertise to them and bring them in. People don’t really look to forums for chit chat anymore, there’s endless places to do that now.
But if you're good in SEO, Try to make useful and interesting posts and apply SEO on it. I've had a General forum discussion before and most of them found my site on google and registered because they likes my funny quotes and jokes. Most of them post their jokes and quotes as well. Then I made friends with them.
Right, too serious won't work, though, it's good on the side.
I affiliate with other boards, not on a posting package but go there to join in, and i get members that way and have a good posting community. It is hard to get going,i don't stick to one kind of genre board, it works for me and we all reciprocate with our posting on each others boards.
I agree to that. However, you can still get some posters from Facebook if you make your marketing appropriate. Get one popular friend whose posts regularly get a hundred reactions, either likes or comments. You can use that popular friend as an attraction to your forum since general discussion is very similar to Facebook. And maybe conducting a contest with nice prizes can attract Facebook users into your forum. Just my thoughts.
Social media is useful to draw people in - as long as the focus isn't on social media, but the destination. However, a Facebook community, not a page, can become a beehive itself, and that's not what you want.
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Paid posting is a temporary solution. It doesn't help that much in the long run
Way to darn hard. I been running for three years and still not even 5K posts and the high amount of traffic.
I seen websites open and close in a short space of time, I have no idea how I can able to keep BAysideGAmers open for over 3 years
Again, a regular job, even fast food, and cash is the answer. That's the only way to get progress.
Might get postloop going by buying points
Sometimes there are enough forums to earn your points (but you have to get approved as a writer). However, a lot of times the topics aren't so easy.
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