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How do you Build a Popular Forum Community?

  • peter73 Level 1
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    How do you Build a Popular Forum Community?

    Hi all,

    I'm planing to set up a forum, but building a popular forum is no easy task and requires patience and dedication. What's your advice on this? Where should I start? Lessons learnt!

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    benlovesjane

    benlovesjane

    Have some good subforums and some excellent content and people will want to go to your forum.
    10 years ago
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    Lillian

    Lillian

    Start with a good staff, including an experienced admin. Especially good if you don't already have forum management experience. I learned all that the hard way.
    10 years ago
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    Marlin

    Marlin

    Pick a niche that not too many other forums are specializing in or find a new sub-sub niche of an already massively popular forum niche that will allow you to draw out members from other forums to your own without directly competing against the larger forums.
    10 years ago
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    peter73

    peter73

    Thanks all for great tips

    Do you have any recommondations regarding what forum plattforms to choose for WP?
    10 years ago
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    Topseoservice

    Topseoservice

    Forum platforms including vBulletin, Xenforo, bbpress (for WP) is quite good.
    10 years ago
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    Corzhens

    Corzhens

    My take on this is to form a task force of maybe 6 to 10 supporters before launching the forum. The task force will provide the initial posts so the forum will have a semblance of a beehive. After a day or 2, you can start promoting your forum in the social media and hope to catch fire among your online friends. But your task force has to continue posting for a month. After that time, you can make an assessment whether to continue with your forum or not.
    7 years ago
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