Several people have asked me about setting up a forum on their website recently, so I thought it might be helpful to cover this topic for the benefit of all my readers.
But before I explain how to set up a forum, let me cover some of the reasons as to why you might want a forum in the first place…
For those that don’t know, a forum is simply a web page which allows visitors to interact with each other by leaving messages and responding to messages made by other users. To see a superb 
example of this, check out my own forum at: http://www.traderonlineforum.com
Ok, so why might you want to put a forum on your website?
1. A forum helps to build a sense of community. People, by their very nature, like to be a part of something and if your website makes them feel like this, then they will come back time and time again and of course, the more times someone comes back, the more chance there is that they
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If you have a website about a topic you enjoy, you can make money from discussion forums. Talk, post links to your site, get traffic. Traffic means money, right? If not, try different affiliate programs or Google Adwords. The worst sites should get a couple cents per visitor. Now here’s how to talk and make money.
Search “forum” plus the topic of your site on Google or Alta Vista. For my first site, I searched “backpacking + forum” and in the pages of results I found several good forums. I also searched related topics like “hiking” too. You can also
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�Forum Writing� is single must effective way to drive the most targeted traffic to your site and to your products. There are literally thousands of forums on the internet covering every topic imaginable.
However, forum writing can be extremely time consuming so you want to make sure you know what you are doing.
Here are some important tips about forum writing:
1. To start, do a simple Google search for your niche and then just add the word “forum” to the end. For example, �Teaching Forums� brought me to several teaching forums that I now post in on a regular basis to help promote my ebook on teaching strategies.
2. When you enter these forums don�t waste your time with forums that are not very active. You want to find forums that many people are posting in many times a day. A quick look through a good forum and you�ll know right away how often people are posting by simply looking and the # of views per posts and when the last post was. Remember, you do not want to waste your
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