A Forum On Your Website? Make Sure You Are Serious About It!
If you have a website then adding a forum to it increases traffic and the popularity of your site. If your site is about a specialist hobby for example, on which you are an expert, it can be useful to put up a forum so that your visitors can ask questions, and benefit not only from your knowledge, but also from that of other visitors.
When you first add a forum to your site you cannot expect to attract many members, and at first you may get disillusioned. But give it time, and you will find your forum should start to take off and begin to buzz. Be prepared to wait 6 months or more!
But what happens when it eventually takes off? Well, here is the crunch. The more successful your forum, the more work you will have to do!
Firstly, you need to vet and monitor who is joining your forum. You will be amazed at the number of people who try to join simply to advertise another website and believe me, unless you are running a pharmaceutical site or giving sex advice most of these websites will be totally inappropriate for your forum. Especially if it is a hobby site and you are attracting teenagers...