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It takes a lot of time and effort to get a forum started.
Make sure you’re posting good content first. Get friends to post good content there too.
You’re going to see a huge ratio of lurkers to participants on any forum. CAP has almost 700 members I think, but if you count the number of folks who actually make posts in a given week, I’d imagine it’s a pretty small percentage of that. That doesn’t mean people aren’t visiting regularly and reading what’s going on at the forum.
Be sure to visit some other poker forums, legitimately participate there, and keep a link to your forum in your signature. Don’t actively promote your forum on another forum unless you use their billboard section, but do particpate intelligently in the discussion there and people will start to trickle over.
Hope that helps–good luck with your new forum!
I had a gambling forum in the past – chipsforfree (for a few month Matt was a forum admin), and for a few years I was a forum moderator (for one russian gambling forum). At 20k page views/day I don’t have any essential profit from it – only problems.
I tend to agree. I have front page rankings on Google for several gambling forum related terms, but have yet to see any real revenue from the forum.
I have decided some time ago that it makes little sense to open a forum unless you make it some targeted, extremely specialized community that is not already in existance.
There are too many forums already and of those only the well established ones continue on.
I get so many invitations to post in/moderate forums that I end up never getting around to any of it.
I wish you all the luck, but getting a forum started is quite difficult. The only way to success I can see anymore is if a number of well established sites with good traffic all share a forum. And that is being done quite a bit also.
I have one website where I targeting Texas Hold’em player,
only baners to pokersites. So I wanted to have a link on that site
to my Texas Hold’me forum if they don’t want to click an my
poker banners. I want to hold my surfers as long time that I can
at my own sites.But It looks like I don’t going to promote my forum by PPC if the return is so bad.
stage a hold up at an internet cafe and force everyone to login and post ???
Ive got a very good domain (IMHO) and started up a forum – its not doing anything! Was fortunate enough to have a few kind CAP members visit and post, but the majority havent stuck around for the “building process” …
I reckon a link exchange campaign and some ppc traffic might bring in some posters . I hate to start spamming other boards (troll / nonsense post) just to get my sig line seen, but if it will work I might have to try … :rollover:
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We opened our poker forum 1 1/2 years ago, now we have 1280+ members, of which only 300 or so are active members. It took a longgggggggggg time and a LOT OF $$$$$$$$$ to get it going.
There’s no trick to it really, just trial and error, it’s very hard to get going, we were just about to give up when we had a few hundred members then all of a sudden google and yahoo decided they loved us and a few weeks later we had a few hundred more etc.
I will tell you now that most forums fail. And we’re just now starting to make money off of it. Most poker forum goers are freeroll hunters and bonus hunters so you have to target those guys, get exclusive freerolls going, eventually you’ll start to pick up the real money players, but over time.People like to talk about poker.
I’m playing poker right now with my friends from CAP.
