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casinobonusguy wrote:I have my own forum with 300 members that I abandoned ,maybe 2-3 of them stopped by each week but it really killed me on the time.Even when i had 3 of my firends and myself making about 30 posts a day mostly talking to eachother it didnt really get any new blood going.Now i just give it up to the existing forums and buy ads from them lol
If you build your site successfully enough, that the forum is a place ppl are drawn to, you can lease that space out for additional revenue. Let another webmaster run it, and place their banners there, and moderate it, etc.
i find my own blog enough for me and now got a MYSPACE .
If I were you I would be very careful in myspace, that is the most watched place on the net by big brother and myspace will give your info if asked.
Is big brother the tax man? I am not american so right now anything i do is legal. (notice I said right now lol).Also MYSPACE is just a traffic generator and I always put the free money offers there , the free spins from microgaming are great ,I hope somebody else picks that promo up soon.
I am new to this industry and was wearing blinders until about a month ago lol.I had no idea people paid posters in forums until I seen the ads posted in other webmaster forums.That is sneaky to the people buying the adspace on the forums. Now i count the different poster accounts before i buy the ads LOL
Back when I had my original site, before I got into casinos… I grew a forum from nothing to 1000s of posts per day with 10,000+ members. It received more that 90% of posts on the web that related to the website topic, taking most of the traffic away from all of the existing forums.
Some of the key elements for growing the forum were likely:
1. Having the top Google ranking under the three most related Google search terms, and getting most of the new traffic2. Having a superior message board format, including both message board type and forum selections
3. Timing… the largest forum from before the days of my website went under. The posters from that forum knew about my forum.
4. Having a few very high quality posters that were not on other forums including industry reps and retired former workers in the industry (the latter had much more interesting and informative posts)
5. Having more interesting discussions as a whole, many of which were started by me in the early days
6. Having more relaxed forum rules than elsewhere
Having said that the forum was an incredible about of work, and not particularly rewarding. I have not added a forum to my casino sites because of this.
forums are time consuming – my best advice is to close the forum and make some good usefull content instead. Don’t go to war if you don’t have a chance of winning. The big gambling forums are way ahead of you.
A forum with no posts is really not the best way to make your site appealing to users – if your site have a forum with no posts the general user will think that your entire site sucks and leave.
If you really must have a forum – don’t start out with making 30 different forum catagories – start with one or two forum catagories….
If these two catagories at one point starts getting too many posts for the new topics to stay on the first page – then make a new catagory.
That is how the big forums grow I am sure.To start a succesfull forum think of ways to diversify yourself from other forums – what do your forum have to offer that can not be found on 1000 other forums?
On my former site we had a very very sucessfull forum – sure it adds stickiness to a site and also generates a lot of free usefull content. However running a forum is so much work that I will not do it ever again.
Good luck
I think for the time it requires you can make more money on other things lol.Kudos to those who have a successful forum .
Forums are very time consuming. Best bet is to get a bunch of idiots to do all the work for you then set back and reap all the rewards.
Forums are very time consuming. Best bet is to get a bunch of idiots to do all the work for you then set back and reap all the rewards.
We have mods that have been with us from the start up and we would not have anything if it was not for them girls, they make the contest, chase the spam away and run the site for us basically and I would never consider calling them idiots! If your staff will be running your forum I would suggest to NOT take on this attitude!
Only idiots have idiot staff.
Forums are a hit or miss item it seems, Ive had very good luck, Ive seen others fail quickly with no real reason. Best advise is to give it a shot and see what happens, and it is a bit of work as people will want resoponses in a timely manner.
Thanks for all the replies.. I see that you say I have to much competition, but I have a Norwegian poker forum and its only a couple of norwegian gambling forums out there so I think I may have a chance..
misterDH wrote:Thanks for all the replies.. I see that you say I have to much competition, but I have a Norwegian poker forum and its only a couple of norwegian gambling forums out there so I think I may have a chance..a nich market albeit small can be the most profitable market of all.
Make it something you enjoy – I run a poker league in my forum that I participate in and it’s on it’s fifth season now, I really look forward to the games and chatting about it.
I saw this thing on another forum…
THey give away $200 each month to the member who “stood out” the most… But that would be a waste of money now since I dont have any members yet, but I might concider it when I get some members… :turn:
