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Build your BRAND on the forums
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
There is no need for us to discuss about the importance of being present online and about the fact many forums in your niche are an excellent place for you to get noticed. We don’t talk about SEO friendly links to your signatures (since most forums have nofollow on them), but we can get some excellent TARGETED traffic, not to mention a good possibility to BE NOTICED.
For many years I have build my own “brand” in the online communities and till this day a good part of my traffic and even some excellent deals have come from these forums. What have I done to establish myself in these forums?
1. Have the SAME USERNAME in all of them.
Yes, in order for the people to recognize you, we need a name they would see over and over again. In time this name will make them thing about “quality, intelligence, tact etc.”, all the things we are careful about when trying to establish that brand.
Forum under attack .. how to survive?
Friday, March 7th, 2008Few days ago one of my members on the Romanian Webmaster Forums Invatam.Net complained that he had some serious issues with a person who tried to spam the forums and got banned. The problem was also that my member lost his temper too and after kicking the spammer out made the bad decision of cursing him.
The spammer got mad too and threatened to attack the forums in all possible ways (spam bots and also hacking attempts). As you can imagine my member is shocked now to see what he got into. I responded to his question on the forums too, I think it would be a good idea to also mention my ideas to you here too, in case any of you might face something similar.
So .. The forum is under attack .. HOW CAN WE SURVIVE?
What is more important for a forum: the skin or the content?
Friday, March 7th, 2008I think my fingers got numb for the tens of times I had to write the same thing regarding this ongoing battle: content or theme. In any site’s case, people start realising a good layout is very important, but still many forum owners have a problem understanding the obvious: A GOOD THEME is important too.
Why do we have to chose? Chose what? Why do you people think that ONLY content is what you need? You start a forum because you have ideas for content and the forums stays open because of that content. If you’re not able to keep the content updated and interesting, then do something else and stop working on a forum that would stand no chance. Any forum lives on content, that’s something we all know and should respect in the end.
