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Originally Posted by mm99
I feel that starting and marketing a good forum is one of the hardest things to do for most site owners. Many webmasters want to add a forum to their thinking that everything will go great if it's just there. "Build it and they will come" simply does not work.
It's a cart before the horse situation more often than not. If the forum is built out of a need for one and you have regular visitors, than it just might work. It's the visitors you already have that will make a diff. Most of the forums I come across seem to lack a good base and have few posts. Marketing a forum...hummm
peace...Paul
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All very true. And although it is a sad commentary upon our populace, forums that are serious in nature and have valuable content are mostly ignored in favor of those that are pure drivel , deal with sex, porn, dating, other types of fooling around and those which seem to offer suggestions and chit chat about an easy way out of serious situations.
Very few of the good forums that deal with serious problems ever have very much traffic.
Same thing with the chat rooms. They get no publicity at all but are filled with naked women on web cams, people shouting insults at each other and all manner of outrageous conduct.
I was in a chat room last night for senior citizens seeking help on serious matters and they are having a hard time even chatting amongst themselves because of about half a dozen or so messages that kept getting repeated over and over about how "You just gotta come
se me play with myself on my webcam" and when you went to see what they were doing it was $4 a minute charged to your telephone through a 900 number.
And the chat room was supposed to be for seniors 60 years or more of age!!! Unbelieveable!
But the whole point is that forums that deal with hard problems in a realistic way are very hard to promote and the junk don't seem to need promoting. It propagates itself with little or no help.
The old "Nero" syndrome I guess. (LOL)