How to advertise my forum?

How to Advertise a Forum on the Web

• Answer:

  To get a forum hopping with plenty of traffic, people first have to find out about it. If you employ a multi-faceted online advertising approach, you can draw in forum members from many different places on the Web. Once people start to join, they will stay to chat. With enough people chatting, word of mouth will bring in still more new members. Difficulty: Moderately Easy Instructions Go to other forums that are about the same, or similar, topics as your own forum. Tell the other members about your forums. It's important to do this periodically while also posting informative items about the topic, of you might find yourself banned from the forum for spamming it. You can also put a link to your forum in your forum signature. This will make the link appear at the bottom of all of your posts. Join TextLinkAds or a similar site that sells large ads that appear on websites. These ads are large enough to include a picture and some text copy about your forum. Most ad companies allow you to choose the popularity of the site that you will advertise on. The higher the readership of the site, the higher your ad prices will be. Sign up with Google AdWords to advertise your site with Google Adsense. This will put your ads on the same page as the results people get when they search for something through Google. If you choose, it will also place ads on various sites, forums and blogs that use your chosen keywords. Start a blog that is about the same topic as your forum. You can use the blog to draw in readers who are interested in your topic and then direct them to the forum with links in to it in the blog posts. Also place a link to the forum to one side of the blog so that it is easy to find.