The building process of Guangzhou forum

Process

At the end of 2005, I made a big decision in my life: I'm going to be a forum for the region.

Because people in Guangzhou, so I preferred to do the forum in Guangzhou.

The site is for people to serve, of course, the first decision to serve the crowd. I scribble on draft paper and list several target groups that can be referenced.

First of all, this crowd has the ability to consume, so that the development of the forum-advertising, or selling things, doing activities, or at least can afford.

This crowd is a wider range, set too narrow, the circle of people have been less, will be on your forum less, not conducive to long-term development. In the end, I targeted the office workers in Guangzhou.

Work people have enough of it, there are people who work can be called office workers, hehe.

Do the people in the office have the financial ability?

Having selected the crowd, I set the name of the site--nine to five.

I do the website, in the domain name choice is very fastidious, because a good domain name may let the person remember a lifetime, a difference domain name lets the person remember a minute to be difficult.

Now 4, 5 letters and the combination of numbers can think of the basic is a note, according to my domain name, the simplest is z9w5, this domain name should be no note, but I do not want to use this.

I think from another point of view: Nine to five is a day of 9 to 5 points, so it is easy to remember it? Why not call it day95? Well remember and can remind people of the meaning of the site. In this way, a domain name Www.day95.com was born.

Note The domain name, I in Baidu and Google investigated a competitor. Fortunately, no one is dedicated to Guangzhou office workers.

Then the work is not detailed, we also know, looking for space, procedures, fixed sections ..., very lucky, discuz just at that time free, I just took over to use, hehe.

The forum has just been built up impoverished. No members, no content. How do you attract popularity?
The general practice is to note Bailai vest, and then their own posts. I was very stupid, I do not know how to change the membership number of the forum to a large number, had to use a mass of software, to my own forum to note more than 1000 vests, and then manually Tim Bailai posts.
Because I was in a large portal site to do site updates, secretly in this pr=7 Web site to do a link, day95 incredibly in a short span of two or three months pr=5. This is a surprise to me.

The use of PR high advantage, I and a lot of PR value of the site made a link. This direct benefit is to make my forum occupy several good keyword rank, such as "Guangzhou Forum" has been a long time in Baidu, Google's first. (now the second one) by these keywords, quickly brought me a lot of traffic.

I was hot, built for the Forum blog, Mall and other channels, and quickly set up 6 forums bound QQ Group.

Some people say that QQ group will disperse the popularity of the forum, I began to think so. But consider it from the depths, forum and QQ Group are you, how to operate popular in their hands, as long as in the QQ group to mention their own forum, or send a forum some good article links, will let people remember: The original QQ group also has a base camp!

Day95 was optimized in the first half of 2006, and the people who came from the search engine every day stabilized around 1500. Halfway out of the space a few problems, the loss of some users, but because of the search engine stable traffic, and quickly rose up.
Therefore, it is very important to do web search engines, even the forum is no exception.

In the second half of 2006, DAY95 has accumulated more than 10,000 members. But after I was not satisfied, because I found that although more members, but the popularity is not ideal.

Analysis of the reasons, mainly because the majority of visitors from the search over, often find the information they want to stop a return visit, the forum's viscosity is not enough.

Found the reason, it seems that the development of loyal members is the first task!

I use a salary please moderator, Offline activities, award-winning survey of these means began to engage in the forum popularity. Emperor not negative, the popularity finally slowly come up.

Keeping the old and developing new is a lasting way of popularity. I also use a way to learn from someone who is behind the fall. In the Guangzhou forum to turn some of the good stickers, and then send him a text message that his post has been reproduced in my forum, in order to retain his copyright, help him in the Forum on the account number, please him to XX address to see. Such a method is very effective.

After a year of building, now my forum has finally slightly become:

And several big websites have cooperated; met a few good member friends most importantly, after a few ads, although only hundreds of pieces of one months of that kind, money is not much, but see their efforts have finally been rewarded, the kind of happy only holding the full of rice farmers uncle can realize ...