Promotion

[Jasonp]

Im seeing alot of people add a promotion forum on there website's such as gaming forums etc where i think its not valid personally

what do you think?

 

[inpaqt]

I think if you have a Chat forum you can add a small sub forum for web promotion. I know what you mean, some people dedicate a whole section to promotion when it goes totally off topic.

 

[Mike]

I dont like them, a lot of members just join, advertise and leave, if theres a post restriction they will get to it, advertise, and leave, and you probably wont see them again.

 

[FWhite]

I dont like them, a lot of members just join, advertise and leave, if theres a post restriction they will get to it, advertise, and leave, and you probably wont see them again.

Kind of a double edged sword here. One edge is what you describe, the other edge of it can show some kind of activity.

 

[StickyXD]

It can show activity but activity that lasts until they have advertised.

 

[FWhite]

It can show activity but activity that lasts until they have advertised.

This is true, but I am sure the search engines would love it all. XD

 

[ℓєσ gнσѕт]

I think its a waste of space really. They have their signatures for a reason, why not just add a link there? Few people look in those forums anyway, I do from time to time just because im cool like that, but few others do. Its a good idea for webmaster forums and such, but not gaming, humor, world talk and such.

 

[Agent 86]

Maybe there is too many advertising forums?

 

[CyberFreak]

Many people just add it as they know that it is a good way to get a few extra posts and get a few more people to sign up.

 

[ℓєσ gнσѕт]

I guess so. Most new forums dont care how they get the posts, as long as they do. I still dont like it though. Just a waste of space to me. I can see it on a general chat forum though, as a show off your site type thing.

 

[Callum93]

I agree with you jason, too many forums have promotion sections now. Maybe adding one when the forum is quite active is Ok, but it's not a great idea when starting out IMO.

 

[Agent 86]

Weird thing is that you lose members that way, if a member sees a better forum, they won't be on the forum that linked to the forum.