Why You Should Add Forum at Your Website
If you have a website then adding a forum to it increases
traffic and the popularity of your site. If your site is about
a specialist hobby for example, on which you are an expert, it
can be useful to put up a forum so that your visitors can ask
questions, and benefit not only from your knowledge, but also
from that of other visitors.
When you first add a forum to your site you cannot expect to
attract many members, and at first you may get disillusioned.
But give it time, and you will find your forum should start to
take off and begin to buzz. Be prepared to wait 6 months or
more!
But what happens when it eventually takes off? Well, here is
the crunch. The more successful your forum, the more work you
will have to do!
Firstly, you need to vet and monitor who is joining your forum.
You will be amazed at the number of people who try to join
simply to advertise another website and believe me, unless
you are running a pharmaceutical site or giving sex advice most
of these websites will be totally inappropriate for your forum.
Especially if it is a hobby site and you are attracting
teenagers to the conversations. So, the answer is that you will
have to vet and approve each person who joins. TIP: Forum
software, such as that provided with the Vodahost package
(click link below for more information) can be altered so that
people cannot add a website when they join your forum. Another
tip is to add a question on registration asking 'are you
human?'. Bots will ignore this question, and you can prevent
registration if this happens.
Secondly you will need to moderate all the comments on your
forum and reading through and checking for language etc. will
take quite a bit of your time. You may find yourself settling
down to add a new page to your site, and then find you've spent
the whole evening catching up on all the new posts on your
forum, and answering them as well. What is the danger of not
doing this? You need to keep on top of your posts as spammers
will try and infiltrate the forum again, particularly
important if you have young people posting. Although you may
have followed the tip above and stopped people entering a
website when they register, they can easily put one on in a
post!
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traffic and the popularity of your site. If your site is about
a specialist hobby for example, on which you are an expert, it
can be useful to put up a forum so that your visitors can ask
questions, and benefit not only from your knowledge, but also
from that of other visitors.
When you first add a forum to your site you cannot expect to
attract many members, and at first you may get disillusioned.
But give it time, and you will find your forum should start to
take off and begin to buzz. Be prepared to wait 6 months or
more!
But what happens when it eventually takes off? Well, here is
the crunch. The more successful your forum, the more work you
will have to do!
Firstly, you need to vet and monitor who is joining your forum.
You will be amazed at the number of people who try to join
simply to advertise another website and believe me, unless
you are running a pharmaceutical site or giving sex advice most
of these websites will be totally inappropriate for your forum.
Especially if it is a hobby site and you are attracting
teenagers to the conversations. So, the answer is that you will
have to vet and approve each person who joins. TIP: Forum
software, such as that provided with the Vodahost package
(click link below for more information) can be altered so that
people cannot add a website when they join your forum. Another
tip is to add a question on registration asking 'are you
human?'. Bots will ignore this question, and you can prevent
registration if this happens.
Secondly you will need to moderate all the comments on your
forum and reading through and checking for language etc. will
take quite a bit of your time. You may find yourself settling
down to add a new page to your site, and then find you've spent
the whole evening catching up on all the new posts on your
forum, and answering them as well. What is the danger of not
doing this? You need to keep on top of your posts as spammers
will try and infiltrate the forum again, particularly
important if you have young people posting. Although you may
have followed the tip above and stopped people entering a
website when they register, they can easily put one on in a
post!
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