Top Tips for Promoting a forum!
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JayJACKEL!
Paragon
You're welcome guys, enjoy 😀
Those tips are a tad old for most current websites. They aren't going to get you traffic if you just follow them one by one. The biggest flaw is not including SMO, ie. social networking, bookmarking and getting your link through web 2.0 sources.
JayJACKEL!
Paragon
Many people dont know of even the most basic techniques and get caught up trying to be too modern.
So practicing some of the older methods means your audience is more targetted as less people seem to follow suit and try the same methods!
So practicing some of the older methods means your audience is more targetted as less people seem to follow suit and try the same methods!
mYst said:
I would like to see some statistical evidence to support your claim that "many people don't even know of the basic techniques" and that the techniques I proposed are "too modern". In actual fact, web 2.0 came during 2004-5 and so it's becoming an old method now.
Practicing older methods does not necessarily mean you will get a more targeted audience; because I use old methods, it does not mean I will get targeted audiences. I have not really seen a big site that does not use web 2.0 advertising today.
Web 2.0 makes the user interface much more user friendly; surely you'd want that over "Invite Experts". A genuine expert will most likely go on and say "use web 2.0 advertising" to promote your site.
fantanoice
Madly Diligent
I'm sure I've read this before... and seen it posted here before...
Nice tips, but I don't completely agree with all::
Be Unique -
Not nessisarily - look at a lot of the new forums/promotion forums that come out. Many are almost a complete rip of various sites ideas yet they get members and can become active (If you need, PM me and I'll give you an example)
Discuss Hot Topics -
"Hot topics" Why not discuss things that other forums arn't discussing? Chances are if a new Apple IPod 8 comes out that almost every forum with a technology or off topic forum will be talking about it.
Create a Blog -
Why?
Send out Reminders -
Spam peoples Emails? Flood their PM boxes? Many find this a turn off.
Be Unique -
Not nessisarily - look at a lot of the new forums/promotion forums that come out. Many are almost a complete rip of various sites ideas yet they get members and can become active (If you need, PM me and I'll give you an example)
Discuss Hot Topics -
"Hot topics" Why not discuss things that other forums arn't discussing? Chances are if a new Apple IPod 8 comes out that almost every forum with a technology or off topic forum will be talking about it.
Create a Blog -
Why?
Send out Reminders -
Spam peoples Emails? Flood their PM boxes? Many find this a turn off.
When someone talks about Web 2.0, they are referring to the user interacting with the web and thus each other, in the most simplest terms. When someone talks about Web 2.0 Advertising, they are referring to how they can promote/advertise/market on the web by interacting with the web. A simple for of Web 2.0 advertising is the use of Twitter as a marketing/promotion tool, or Facebook, but something as simple as RSS Feeds are all Web 2.0 advertising.Panik said:
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