PDA

View Full Version : Lesson learnt...

eXe_
10-22-2006, 03:35 AM
It's kind of suicidal to start just a forum with no other content on the site, without having any traffic sources to fuel discussion. It'll be very difficult to attract members & keep discussion going. iWebtool & digitalpoint work because they offer free tools which attract visitors to the site in the first place.

My strategy henceforth is going to be to tap into existing traffic sources to start a forum. For example if I wanted to start a metal forum, it'll be more profitable (adsense) and attract more targetted members if I started up 10 unofficial well seo'd band websites & promoted the newly launched metal forum on all of them they'd continously get fresh targetted traffic.

What do you think
Lurker
10-22-2006, 09:32 AM
People normally start a forum because of an interest in a particular topic and have friends/coworkers with the same interests. Some will take off, others will fail.

Your idea appears to need a lot of work and SEO prior to even launching a forum. Do you really need a forum if your goal is money from adsense? :confused:
eXe_
10-22-2006, 10:59 AM
People normally start a forum because of an interest in a particular topic and have friends/coworkers with the same interests. Some will take off, others will fail.

Your idea appears to need a lot of work and SEO prior to even launching a forum. Do you really need a forum if your goal is money from adsense? :confused:

No..those band sites will provide targetted traffic to the forum & the life the forum won't have to rely on friends and coworkers! Adsense is a great way to monetize those 10 example websites. By the way I'm talking each band site receiving more than 20,000 unique visitors/month. With the right domain name and link building it's very easy to make a site rank on the first serp in google & yahoo as band website "niches" are usually uncompetitive and other unofficial & fan pages don't usually seo their sites. So that's aproximately 200,000 uniques per month, enough to kickstart a forum:) And the traffic will be purely targetted.
Willdex
11-08-2006, 05:15 PM
What I'd like to do is setup a student forum that would focus on different high school and college courses, and users could help each other out by replying to problems others face. It would also include college evaluations and campus ratings, What do you guys think about this?