With my drumming forum, articles on the front might be the best idea with them highly showcasing samples as with my Patreon. Anyway, how is your forum setup? Well, with some discussion forums, a setup with the forum in front could be a good choice.
The front of the site to be a blog or forum?
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In recent years I've tended to have just the forum list visible along with a little customization as the landing page. I have tried other approaches but no matter how dynamic the content, members generally seem to bookmark the actual forum.
One thing I do know and I'm sure the majority of owners have found the same, static landing pages are never seen more than once.
One thing I do know and I'm sure the majority of owners have found the same, static landing pages are never seen more than once.
I agree with you, I have tried this on a few sites, most members that I have asked have said they just bypass the homepage and bookmark the forums.
With the music lesson niche, it would be better to have what I mentioned, because that's the main thing people want. Those people searching for lessons via the forum is a turnoff.
The homepage for sure would work better for you promoting music, for a general discussion board not so much unless I was selling products on it.
I say that homepages need to offer more than just blogs. Needs to offer everything, feeds from Forums or in our cases just statistics 🙂 Many FOurms related sites nowadays do not have a homepage and yet they have their boards/forums as the main page. Good idea to get traffic or maybe not, all I know is he's called the stig.
I say first impressions are very important 🙂 having an amazing and eye-catching page that makes people go DAMNnnnn that cool and I like that and this and I join. Well, they join and see it's dead and leave again 🙁 that's life.
I say first impressions are very important 🙂 having an amazing and eye-catching page that makes people go DAMNnnnn that cool and I like that and this and I join. Well, they join and see it's dead and leave again 🙁 that's life.
It really depends on the content of your site. A front page also serves for a nice visual and makes it a bit more professional as well as gives good bits of information for new members.(depending on what you have on the front page)
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Whichever one is more active I say go for it. Forums for most people I'd say are active because of more user input. Blogs are for people who just want something from 1 or 2 main users that can write content in a continuous stream.
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You should have whatever you're selling as the front page. If your whole deal is articles then they need to be front and center, a forum is not relevant to your content offer and likely pointless.
It depends on the domain name.
For example, having "forums" in the domain. You MUST have forums front and center, otherwise you'll alienate the community.
They didn't come to your site for a blog as a front, so... don't do it. I've seen people use blogs as the main page of the forums. I always shake my head in disbelief. A Call of Duty Forum was purchased, and was converted into a blog as front page, the forum in background. Idiot. Threw $20k or whatever they purchased it for... OUT of the window.
However, having said that, it can work, but it needs marketing. I have a gaming site with blog as front, and forum as background.
The issue is what are you using the domain for...?
For example, having "forums" in the domain. You MUST have forums front and center, otherwise you'll alienate the community.
They didn't come to your site for a blog as a front, so... don't do it. I've seen people use blogs as the main page of the forums. I always shake my head in disbelief. A Call of Duty Forum was purchased, and was converted into a blog as front page, the forum in background. Idiot. Threw $20k or whatever they purchased it for... OUT of the window.
However, having said that, it can work, but it needs marketing. I have a gaming site with blog as front, and forum as background.
The issue is what are you using the domain for...?
I have a blog at the front but my site is Tech Observed so we focus on all technology content not just the forums, I do agree if you have “boards” or “forums” in the domain then you must have the forums as the index.
If you ahve good amount of traffic going to your home page then it's worth the while🙂
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I hate having blogs on forums. It dilutes the content so much.
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