Selling advertising space on your forum
Written on 25 Jan, 2010 at 20:01 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Monetization | viewed 1,096 views times | 0 Comments
There are many options to monetize a forum, from Google Adsense, to affiliates such as eBay and Amazon. The direct selling of advertising space is another option. This requires more active work than the more passive methods such as Adsense... (Continue reading)
Monetizing a Forum
Written on 10 Jan, 2010 at 1:40 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Monetization | viewed 4,269 views times | 2 Comments
Forums cost money to run and they take time to run (see a day in the life of a forum admin). If you are in it just for the passion or the money, there are a number of ways to... (Continue reading)
Redirect the non-www to the www url?
Written on 4 Jan, 2010 at 18:47 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 868 views times | 0 Comments
Should you redirect the non-www url to the www url for your site? For example http://www.forumdr.com tends to be treated as a different site to http://forumdr.com by the search engines. This sort of handling of domains by the search engines may... (Continue reading)
Consider editing the ‘instant email notification of new post’ email
Written on 1 Jan, 2010 at 16:37 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 25,260 views times | 0 Comments
I always make sure that the Default Thread Subscription Mode is set to Instant email notification (this is the vBulletin terminology, but the principle is the same for other forum software). This means that when a reply is made in... (Continue reading)
Beware of the dog!
Written on 21 Dec, 2009 at 19:09 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Security and Spam | viewed 7,142 views times | 0 Comments
In my RSS reader this morning was a blog post: My “Beware Of Dog” Don’t Spam Me Sign from Danny Sullivan. He was getting frustrated about the idiocy of the spam attempts on his blog. It struck a chord with... (Continue reading)
Twitter Analytics
Written on 20 Dec, 2009 at 14:13 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 564 views times | 0 Comments
For those who use Twitter to promote your forum might be interested in a new service from Ad.ly who provide some metrics data on your twitter account and your followers. Some data is free. More comprehensive data can be purchased.... (Continue reading)
Should a visitor always need to register to post on a forum?
Written on 19 Dec, 2009 at 4:29 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Member Management | viewed 40,409 views times | 0 Comments
Is it always desirable that you have to be a registered member of a forum to post a message? In most circumstances we want visitors to join as members (see converting the visitor into a member); we want them to... (Continue reading)
Bounce Rates and Forums
The bounce rate is one metric that can be used to analyze what is happening on your forum. It is defined as the percentage of visits to a single page on your site and they leave your site from that... (Continue reading)
Books as a competition prize and revenue generator
Written on 13 Dec, 2009 at 22:20 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 822 views times | 0 Comments
Do you run competitions on your forum? (its all part of the convert members to posters plan). What do you offer as a prize? Try this as an idea: Keep an eye out for any new books that are published relevant to your... (Continue reading)
Converting the member into a poster
Written on 5 Dec, 2009 at 6:41 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 1,238 views times | 0 Comments
As part of the 90 9 1 theory of forum participation, getting visitors to convert to being a registered member (the 90) is one thing; once a visitor has registered then the challenge is to convert them from being a... (Continue reading)
Converting the visitor into a member
Written on 29 Nov, 2009 at 3:43 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion | viewed 1,530 views times | 0 Comments
As part of the 90 9 1 principle or theory of forum participation, one of the strategies is to convert the visitor to the site into a member (ie convert them to the 90). Getting the visitor by a variety... (Continue reading)
The Welcome Committee to engage the newbie’s
Written on 25 Nov, 2009 at 19:23 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 621 views times | 0 Comments
On the forums I admin, all new members get an automated welcome email and a welcome PM (private message). As part of that, they are encouraged to stop by the Introductions Forum to introduce themselves and make their first post... (Continue reading)
Reading for beginners
Written on 24 Nov, 2009 at 16:52 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 569 views times | 0 Comments
I have had a couple of emails about some background reading on running forums for beginners. I suggest everyone starts out with Patrick O’Keefe’s Managing Online Communities. You can browse our Table of Content’s for information. For a free read on search... (Continue reading)
Monetizing your forum with eBay
Written on 1 Nov, 2009 at 23:56 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Monetization | viewed 2,142 views times | 3 Comments
The eBay Partner Network (EPN) affiliate program offer another potential revenue stream for forums. It is especially useful to get some feeds of eBay auctions that are relevant to the niche of your forum. There are several ways to integrate eBay... (Continue reading)
Keeping on top of ideas for new threads
Written on 30 Oct, 2009 at 15:36 in 101 Tips and Ideas | viewed 389 views times | 0 Comments
Visitors keep coming back if the latest information for your niche is on your site. If they like what they see, they will join as a member. What methods can be used to find content and to get the breaking... (Continue reading)
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