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    24

    Forum Marketing Tips – Have You Forgotten Where Your Posts Go?

    Okay, enough is enough. Every morning when I wake up, one of the first things I do is check out my favorite forum so I can see what the latest topics of discussion are. No sooner do I head on over, what do you think I find? Thread upon thread that says “moved.” These are all threads that have been posted in the WRONG sub forum. So I have to ask. Can we not read? Are we so dense that we can’t figure out that PPC goes in the PPC sub forum and JV requests go in the JV sub forum?

    Okay, you’re probably going to ask, “What does it matter?” I knew that was coming, so…I am going to explain to you the three main reasons why it matters. Hopefully, after you are done reading these, you will understand.

    At the top of the list is something very simple and easy to understand. It matters because, if the forum owner didn’t want certain subjects discussed in certain areas, he wouldn’t have created those areas. Do you think he did this for his health? No, he didn’t. He did this because he doesn’t want a whole ton of unrelated topics all in one place. Okay, but why?

    Here is where we get to reason number two…and it’s another very simple one. When you have a forum the size of some of these, like the one I frequent, you get tons of threads started in a very short period of time. You can start a thread at 10 AM and it can be off page one in 30 minutes depending on how busy the forum is at the time.

    Now, imagine compounding that by starting threads that don’t belong on that part of the forum. The people who need help with a particular problem are never going to get that help because their threads are going to disappear so fast, nobody will ever see them. By splitting up the threads between various sub forums, threads stay on page one longer and get more responses.

    Finally, and this is a reason that a lot of people won’t get because they’re not forum owners, it doesn’t look good for a forum when there are many sub forums and only one or two of them see any traffic. It gives a bad impression on the forum. It makes it appear that it isn’t a very good one, at least in the eyes of new people.

    It is for these reasons that you really need to confine your posts to the area of the forum where they belong.

    This ends my rant on this subject.

    To YOUR Success,

    Steven Wagenheim

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