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Originally Posted by morgwnshaw  Great idea! There's a rule of thumb for creating communities around a forum such as this, but basically you have to assume that only 1-2% of people will actually post to it. The irony being that if few people post, there's little content and little push for future users to post as well. It starts to look like a an inactive forum and people just take what they like or is relevant and leave. |
Thats one area I never really got into, optimising forums and seeding a brand new forum.
I am guessing like anything its going to be a good deal of hard work.
I like the way Flying Solo did theirs, they had an active readership that was instantly converted to an online forum taking a percentage of the hard work away.
The biggest incentive of all to attract people is good information.
I would possibly try:
http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5s...eprograms.com/
which is a fantastic forum for affiliate marketing, which involves you paying people to attract visitors / conversions
For organic search results, you will not go past this forum for really good information:
http://www.highrankings.com/forum/
And I have an
internet marketing video which skirts round the edges of some stuff that may help