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I just launched my own forum site that I would like to make part of a larger collection of revenue generating sites. I’ll be following this series of articles closely for tips.

http://www.fbappdevelopers.com

Thanks,
Justin

Adie, now I can say that I know much about building forums but a statement like:

“Now all I need is visitors to fill my Forum and help build content.”

…makes me wonder. Is it possible to have anyone post in an empty forum? Or do you plan to fill it with relevant posts… kinda like a adding post to a blog but instead just doing it to a forum?

The easies and most effective way to start a forum is when you already have a blog/website. You can just write a post announcing your new forum or mention it in your newsletter.

If however, you do not have a website, you have several options:
1. Start posting on the forum yourself but don’t just write news, tutorials etc. These are boring and won’t create much interaction between your users. What you should do is start posting questions. Chances are that if someone reads your questions and knows the answers, she/he will reply. So you might even create several accounts and start replying to your own questions, just to get things started.
2. Hire a company to do the posting for you. I don’t really recommend this method because it’s pretty expensive and you won’t get much of a quality.
3. Use a scrapping software, that will take questions and answers from yahoo answers, google answers etc and put them on your forum. As I mentioned before, posting questions is one of the best method to make users interact. If you do use such a software, I strongly recommend you modify each post, otherwise your forum may get penalized by the search engines for duplicate content.

Now this is what I’m talking about, Aide please please oh please have more posts like this about really making money with solid ideas, not about “capturing attention” or whatever.

Good luck with your latest venture. I hate to say it, but I can only see this ending in failure. Everything about the site and the forum is poor, and you will never build a community with the site as it currently stands.

You need to generate content and work hard at building a community. In its current condition, you are only building a forum that is destined to fail.

I only hope you can prove me wrong.

- Martin Reed

My first site is a mini site, however I find it difficult to build anything around it if it’s just affiliate based with a few pages.
It seems one needed forums and blogs to tie up with minisites nowadays

What a great idea Vumpost. I had never thought of posting questions but you are absolutely right. Whenever I come across a post that I know the answer to I feel like I HAVE to answer the question.

I do pretty well with my mini-sites. If i put some time into them i could earn a bunch. Maybe this break ill have some time.

Hello Martin,

This comment is rather empty with no substance –

I hate to say it, but I can only see this ending in failure. Everything about the site and the forum is poor, and you will never build a community with the site as it currently stands.

I have only just started it…as of yesterday. It takes time to make it aesthetically pleasing, build content and to start marketing etc, etc…

That comment would have mean’t something if this project was over a month or two old…

You must remember, I’m also doing this for the benefit of my readers not just for me.

Agreed – my comment wasn’t particularly constructive and I apologise for that. I look forward to seeing how this develops; it just doesn’t look particularly promising at this stage.

- Martin Reed

Not to rain on your parade but I believe FB already have an official forum for developers here:

http://forum.developers.facebook.com/

However that’s not to say yours won’t be a success either.

You’re right, there is an official forum, in fact that is where I am trying to poach some traffic from. However, I believe that the market is big enough to support multiple developer oriented sites. Also I intend to bring OpenSocial developers into the mix too as there will be alot of overlapping issues between the communities. I hope to make this a differetiator that imparts a unique value on my site. In fact I have a similiar domain opensocialappdevelopers.com too that I intend to point to this forum as well and eventually making the header graphics vary depending on the url you arrived via.

Thanks for your comments!

Adie,

FYI, the link to your forum in your blog post is misspelled. The link tries to take you to oapinsire instead of oapinsure.

Regards,
J

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