Forums For Better Generation of Targeted Traffic:Part III

What Not to Do in Your Forum

Keep in mind these 'not to do' things in your forum in order to multiply your targeted traffic. These are simple, yet very effective tips for accentuating and aggravating the interest of the visitors.

If you start with many topics at one go, it will be like sailing in more than one boats. The result is but obvious. You will lose your balance and fall down. Begin with the area that you are quite confident about and comfortable with. As time passes and your forum gains momentum, experts in different fields might start joining your forum and then you can add some more threads with the existing ones.

Never ever leave any posts unanswered. That would be height of irresponibility, carelessness, and casual attitude towards your forum. You have to respect the time, and views of the participants and community members by responding to their queries or thoughts regularly. Otherwise your forum will collapse as fast as it gained momentum.

It wouldn't help to have several accounts of your own created simply to show people that your community already exists. There is no need to indulge in this as it will be detected soon to dash all your hopes and put an end to all your efforts made till now. The reason being that these kind of posts are deleted and that means a tarnished reputation for you.

You can try using hint promotion where while answering others' questions, you place links to your site and to some posts on your forum. The benefit of this would be that if the posts on your forum are of some help to your posts on other forums, you may be able to attract some targeted traffic.

To conclude this series on forums, I would like to add that a forum is like a well planned, well kept, and well managed garden that provides the visitors with comfort, refreshed air, and a beautiful ambience-something that they are looking for in a garden. Similarly your forum should attract the visitors with its interesting, informative, and relevant content to generate targeted traffic.

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