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« on: August 16, 2005, 06:28:55 pm » |
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Running on online community, I believe, takes ALOT of work. Just to get one started, to get topics and postings. It's almost as much work as advertising your new website. Well, it IS advertising your new website. Having found the exchangerforums has brought a few posters to our new http://wehost4u.net/forums. But I can see it will take alot of work to get the word out that the forums are there! |
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« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2005, 10:00:49 pm » |
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I doubt he wants self promotion so I wont post my url. I concur that it is a lot of hard work but rewarding once you start seeing results. I look forward to the time mine can be self independant.
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« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2005, 06:34:47 am » |
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Actually, I don't have a problem with people posting links to their own sites. I know a lot of people are very touchy about that, but I'm pretty flexible.
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« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2005, 11:09:25 am » |
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mutex, it pays off to be flexible in all aspects of life.  anyway, on topic, it does take a lot of work to run a forum. with a strong team, determination, and advertising you'll do great and it will pay off. you do have to work though. it doesn't happen by itself. |
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« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2005, 05:16:15 pm » |
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Running forums looks like a lot of work. What makes you do it?
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« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2005, 03:12:42 pm » |
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Running forums looks like a lot of work. What makes you do it?
It takes a lot of effort, but there aren't many other ways to create content collaboratively. It does take a lot of effort and time, but you can really create a lot of content if you manage right. |
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« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2005, 03:51:39 pm » |
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I'm also flexible at http://www.massdebation.com. In fact, there's an area for just that! I personally think it's better for SE's to encounter sites that feed them more (working) links than "dead-end" sites that have no outbound links at all. But that's just my personal opinion...  |
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« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2005, 07:30:43 pm » |
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I think you're right that search engines do factor in the quality of a site's outbound links as well as their inbound ones. Can't prove it, though. A lot of forums out there are very very against posting links to home pages or other sites in sigs, etc. Part of the reason people hit forums is to advertise their own site, so it seems like a win all the way around.
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« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2005, 08:52:47 pm » |
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I think you're right that search engines do factor in the quality of a site's outbound links as well as their inbound ones. Can't prove it, though. A lot of forums out there are very very against posting links to home pages or other sites in sigs, etc. Part of the reason people hit forums is to advertise their own site, so it seems like a win all the way around.
Two of my forums make sig links visible to SE and the other two make sig links invisible to SE. I'm kind of experimenting. |
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« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2005, 08:28:06 pm » |
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Yeah, I'm thinking of actually doing the same. Too many irrelevant links can make you look like a link-farm! And google doesn't appreciate link farms much! Probably better to rather have say 2 good outbound links per page to relevant sites.  |
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« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2005, 10:01:44 pm » |
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that hell ov a work!! remember, forums automatically get to life when they are populated with different topics |
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« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2005, 10:10:04 pm » |
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Yeah, but you still have to find people who want to read those threads...
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« Reply #12 on: December 03, 2005, 09:32:46 am » |
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i agree that fourms take time to grow and the more u can offer the better i think it will grow
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« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2005, 08:44:58 pm » |
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True, it takes a lot to make forums running. However if you have got nearly 5 moderators who post and 2 or 3 users posting regularly then every newbie seems to jump in and it all goes well.
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« Reply #14 on: December 03, 2005, 08:46:25 pm » |
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I don't have that luxury yet  Still pretty small here. |
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