Part 2: Tips on Starting a Successful Forum

Make sure to read Part 1 before starting.

Forum Software - Choosing the right forum software can be a great time and money saver in the long run. I can testify from personal experience. It’s really a pain in the ass for you AND the members to go through a forum software switch. It screws [...]

Part 1: Tips on Starting a Successful Forum

In this post, I will explain exactly what I did to establish a successful forum. If you are lazy, have little or no motivation, and/or have no time, you are not fit for a forum. Out of all type of sites you can start, forums are widely accepted by many web masters as ‘the hardest’ [...]

Page Titles Are Important to Forums

Page titles, most importantly the index page title, are crucial to how your website will rank in the search engines. Poor page titles can also turn away potential visitors. When a person is searching in Google for a ‘computer help forum’, they may find that the first 4 results have the following page titles: Computer [...]

vBulletin vs phpBB

The age old question in forum management. Which forum software is better? vBulletin or phpBB? To answer this question, I’ll run through a quick comparison chart between the two products.
vBulletin
Cost: $160 (owned), $85 (leased)
Installation: vBulletin is very easy to install. You upload the files, create your database and then follow the steps for the rest. [...]

Basic Traffic Building Tips for Forums

Forums, just like all other websites, thrive on new traffic to survive. You must drive visitors to your forum is you want to be successful. There are many ways to increase traffic to your forum. Some are free, and some require money. Below are a few basic tips for driving traffic to your forum. Note [...]

Get Members From MySpace - Part 2

In Part I we discussed the beginning process of how to get members from MySpace. We talked about the importance of not targetting just any Joe on MySpace. It’s important to find a niche group of people. Converting them will be much easier. In Part II, I will go over several methods on how to [...]

Why Own a Forum?

Forums provide something special that a normal content driven site does not. Interaction. Forums offer visitors and members on a website a place to communicate, share ideas, and get help from other members. Whether you forum stands alone, or is an addition to a website, it is a valuable asset.
Forums Are Fun
If you own a [...]

Get Members from MySpace - Part 1

Forum members are hard to come by, especially for a new forum that doesn’t rank at the top of search engines just yet. Forums at the top of the SERPs will get more traffic, and thus more members, naturally. For those struggling to find members, you have to look no further then the internet’s largest [...]