Can We Boost Our Blogs By Creating Forums?
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I have read many posts on the net about boosting your blog by posting on forums that were created by other people. But what if we create our own forum? Can’t we benefit from our own forum? Will it help to boost our blogs? Lets find out…
Actually, this is a small idea which haunted my mind for several months. But dude to less time, I tried to forget about it. Recently, when I think about it again I found out that it might be very useful!
Why will it be useful?
- Links : We can put links in our forum pointing to the blog in order to build back-links
- Traffic : It will help us to bring more traffic to our blogs. For example : When posts in our forum get indexed by the search engines, it will bring more search engine traffic to both our blog and the forum. (to benefit mostly from this, we need to put our forum in the same domain as our blog)
- More Post Ideas : Think about it this way. In forums, people ask questions. So, we can convert those questions into posts right? (We can answer some of those questions by writing blog posts)
So, considering the above facts, I started working on a new forum. Actually, its not that hard to build a forum. Like we use WordPress for blogs, we can use PHPBB or BBPress to create forums. BBPress is based on WordPress, but it seems to be a bit immature, so I went for PHPBB which is one of the famous forum systems.
In about 4 days, I was able to finish setting up the Tech Hamlet Forum! Now, its time to test whether my 3 theories will work or not.
What do you think? Will it work?
Now, I need your help to make this forum a success! Try to get the maximum use of it. Resolve your problems, discuss about new inventive ideas and also try to help others by resolving their problems! So, will you help us? If so, go to our forum : http://forums.techhamlet.com/and register today! :D
TechHamlet Forums : http://forums.techhamlet.com/
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I have thought about this before also, but unless you have a really solid community and quite a large amount of subscribers, it is going to take a lot of effort to get a forum off the ground.
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Hhehe… yeah bro.. That means i need to put a lot of effort! but i think we can do it! (of course we need your help too! :D)
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That’s surely a good idea mate, but for success you have to be very active in forum. And I am agreed with Tom too, community has to be very strong for forums.
Best luck for the future dude, I am sure you can make it a successful story too :)
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Your right bro, i need to work very hard for it! and im ready for it :D
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Dear Pubudu,
I agree with you when you say forums helps to promote a blog and the link backs from there are pretty useful. But I am afraid, it would take much more effort to promote and make a forum usable. Its rather easier to find readers to your blog and would be fruitful but finding members for forum (for new and unestablished forums) is very hard and time consuming. I suppose it requires at least 3 to 7 people to manage and promote a forum when only one person is great for a blog.
Anyway, if forum became popular and people start using it genuinely it is more profitable than blog. For a blog you need to be equally active all the time but for a forum members will contribute to the greatest level leaving you the job of just moderating.
Think it again, would you spend your lot of time to establish a forum or keep growing your already great blog. I doubt you will continue your forum. A forum to help blog is rather opposite thought. Better A blog to promote forum would be advisable.
I respect if you disagree to my thoughts.
Thanks for your valuable advice bro! Your right, it will be harder to promote the forum. But my plan is that, at the initial stage, i won’t do much to promote it. In all my posts, i will put a link for users to answer any questions through the forum, so when they post, i’ll answer! like that i’ll leave the forum to develop by itself in the background! After several months, im expecting some members to join my team… after that i’ll concentrate more on the forum! :D
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I agree with what Suresh says.
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Yes, We Can….
More Forums =More Discussions =Ultimately More Traffic and Rich Content
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Hehe… and we will bro! :D
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Of course a great move. As said by Suresh Khanal, I think a Forum initially required lot of effort to make it a success. I wish you a great success.
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yup,a forum required a lot of efforts.
best of luck for feature dude.:)
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Thanks bro…… :D
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I think its a great move. But you should built a community of bloggers who are ready to take part in the forums.
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Don’t worry bro… i will make a community slowly! :D
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Hey bro…
nice move to start a forum ..
But i cant register in your forum, i tried more that 20+ times …
It is showing error in captacha code..??? wat to do ?
Bro, it works perfectly no…. did you enter the captcha correctly? the capital letters in capital? capital letters in capital?
Pubudu Kodikara´s last blog ..Ubuntu : How to Change the Profile Picture and Password
Glad to see that you have launched a forum section here. Will check it soon.
All the best :D
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Thanks bro…. hope you’ll love it :D
Pubudu Kodikara´s last blog ..Ubuntu : How to Change the Profile Picture and Password
Forums are great to build a community and drive more traffic. But the only thing that has prevented me from creating a forum is time. Forums does require time and effort to maintain.
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Your right bro, time is the problem that we all have! Wish i had a time machine :P
Pubudu Kodikara´s last blog ..Ubuntu : How to Change the Profile Picture and Password
If you have a large number of readers in your blog, then you will surely get good number of members in your forums. I too started forums in my site 2-3 months back. Still I have only 20 members. If you can, please join my forums…
I sure will bro! but im having a problem logging into your site! it keeps loading and after that says connection time out! can’t connect to your server!
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Its working fine at my end. Please try visiting again.
Still not working my friend! even the pings fail! but when i browse through a proxy (like http://www.pagewash.com) it works! did you reset your DNS recently?
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Ok my friend, i finally managed to register in your forum through the proxy! :D and posted several posts! :D you got a great forum out there bro! keep it up! :D i will surely help you to improve your forum :D
PS : Hope you will fix your site soon :D
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I didn’t do anything, maybe my host did. Can you please explain me what the problem is? I’ll try sorting it out with my host.
Bro, the problem is, when i go to your site, my browser says, connecting and nothing happens!
When i ping to your site, it says, request timed out!
When i go through the proxy, (pagewash.com) it loads perfectly!
Normally, this happens when your dns settings have been changed or reset by your host! so it will take some time for the DNS to be propagated! got it? the best way is to ask your host! :D
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Okay! Thanks for the information and help. Hope Ill solve this problem soon.
:D good luck bro :D
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Your right mate……. :D
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Oh, thats great. Let me learn more about it. :)
hehe…. great! learn by using bro :D
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I am participating in a website creation competition. can u recommend the best subject on which i can create website?
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Hmm… i don’t know bro…. but can give you a small advice! Don’t try to make a normal site like, forums, blogs a company web site…. try to make something new! Something useful and new! :D
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good idea…bro..:)
:D… thanks mate :D
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you must know how to use those social networks properly. you can also use dofollow forums to get quality backlinks. – using different webmaster tools – some knowledge about search … in that time,i added new posts even twice in a day,joined social networks and forums.and after 2 months,i got a pagerank of 3 for my blog.note that my blog shown in …
Pubudu! Considering the fact that you have been running a forum section of TechHamlet for some time now, why don’t you write a follow up post sharing your own experience? :)
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