The five key elements of forum-type website operation

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(a) The forum should highlight its own characteristics

Often see some people to do the so-called forum, it seems that the beginning of the plan to do no more than the end of the door, columns of the n more, what all have, but in this way, often do not come out of their own characteristics, features are the vitality of the Forum development, in the beginning of the forum, we need to clear the direction of the forum Column is not more in the refined, no longer miscellaneous and in the specialized; a forum that has no characteristics, involves too much, too wide or only repeats the content of others, it is very difficult to have the future of development. And those successful forum, for example, the biggest feature of the outdated forum is to provide technical exchanges, Chinaz community's biggest feature is the dazzling source code, ADMIN5 forum is characterized by hot web site transactions, and the portal community in the free space services have the advantage of others can not compare, and so on. In short, if you do a forum, even if you do not know the forum to focus on which aspect, mainly to do what, then such a forum can be imagined.

(ii) The forum should be kept updated on a daily basis

New forum, if you as a forum administrator or moderator, not yet gathered to how much popularity, their daily to update the release of some posts is necessary to do. First of all, an empty forum without content is no one is willing to stay, of course, not to register, and secondly, if they are not bothered to post, then members see in the eyes, of course, they will not go to post. But in the early stages of supplemental content, in addition to the need to paste directly from other places to copy some articles, some of their own appropriate original articles or false original some articles to publish the effect will be better, a forum to develop, if there is no own things are difficult to do, content is always the first, this point has no doubt.

(c) to seriously treat and respect each member

Personally, I have always believed that this is a good forum to pay attention to, because the forum is not to do their own to see, but to do to others to see, for others to communicate or discuss issues, the forum can be developed, by the Forum is also every member, so, every member to the forum, whether he is a rookie or not, Old birds, to the ad or to the irrigation, as a forum manager,

We should all go to the serious honest and treat them with the attitude of friends.

For a newly established forum, the early accumulation of members, especially the accumulation of active members is particularly important. In due course, we should be able to effectively put this part of the people together, such as this time we can build a QQ group, inviting those active members to come in, regular communication with them, understand each of their ideas, seriously treat each of their views and suggestions, and, in addition, We can give them some of the forum's permissions, such as promotion to the forum moderator, so that not only can continue to drive the forum's active, but also very good stability of these members. For those Members who have become moderators or managers, we can also give them regular rewards to encourage and affirm their work. For example, the portal Webmaster community, every active member of the community can apply to become a moderator, jury or community volunteers, and the community each month for each of them to issue a certain amount of community points, advertising and renminbi awards, I think this is very good very user-friendly, very effective.

In addition to maintaining the existing active members will not be lost, how to stimulate the new registered members to become active members? How to increase the number of users to browse? This is also a daily issue that many forum managers are considering and the hardest step to make. I personally believe that these two aspects can be implemented as follows:

1. The forum must have the perfect integral system and the reward system

Integration System, we can according to different columns to set different points system, such as your community is mainly to do the source code release and download,

Then we need to strengthen the source Exchange section of the integral reward strength, suppose the forum if there is a leisure area, the leisure area each issue a theme posted reward is two points, then the source Exchange column can be set to four or five points, and so on; Of course, these points must be useful, and should not become useless virtual numbers; For example, points can be used to buy forum props, Exchange forum advertising, such as portals to the webmaster community points in addition to the Exchange forum advertising, but also can exchange the site domain name, and so on, so that the effect is very good; if you have the conditions, we can also buy some t-shirts or U disk and other small souvenirs for members to exchange.

2. Can be appropriate to add a few restricted sections or columns

For a new forum, it is impossible to start with a closed registration method that is outdated or chinaz, unless you have very scarce resources available, otherwise, openness will be a necessary choice for the new forum. But the full open forum has a problem, that is, many people come not to treat you as a forum, but when the information station treatment, find their own needs, read the withdrawal, lazy to register. This time, we have to find ways to convert these browsing users to registered users, for example, the forum is to do the source code or tools released, then we are best not to post the download address directly, but directly to the form of attachment to the forum, so that if the ordinary visitors need this source or tool, but he can not download, Then he will naturally register. And for some good theme articles, we can also use to respond to the visible way, so that only registered members can see. If there is a chance, we might as well go to publish some controversial popular posts, can cause people to discuss those posts, if browsing users can not help but want to insert a sentence, then he will naturally take the initiative to register.

(iv) To manage the day-to-day affairs of the Forum

Almost all forums, in the bottom of the establishment of a station affairs or version of such columns, used to publish a number of activities or rules in the station, such as the description, dealing with a number of offending members and members of the dispute, answer some members of the questions and suggestions, and so on. This plate requires a moderator or administrator often to manage and answer, if someone raised a problem and no management staff to pay attention to, someone reported that the offending members do not have management staff to deal with, and so on, so long after the time, will be the members of the psychological cause very negative impact.

(five) to do a good job in the Forum promotion and SEO work

We all understand that it is necessary for the website to develop and promote publicity. and on how to promote the topic of the Internet there are a lot of Baidu, the overwhelming is, summed up, basically has the following several ways:

Forum Promotion: Find the same type of website to exchange links, or to other well-known forums and websites to write soft text propaganda or posting propaganda.

Alliance Promotion: We can add their own forum to join the well-known nets or alliances, so that their forum has the opportunity to allow more people to contact.

Question and answer platform promotion: for example, you can go to Baidu know, Baidu Post bar, Yahoo Knowledge Hall and other portals of the question and answer platform propaganda. But in the Baidu product publicity when we must pay attention to methods, because Baidu is too mjj, so publicity to pay attention to skills, advertising not too obvious, otherwise be Baidu K will not be zoned.

Blog Promotion: We can in addition to the well-known blog station to open several blog posts with links to promote their own web site, but also to some other people's well-known blog to leave their own links.

Mail and QQ Group promotion: This is also a lot of people in the use of the method, although the mass mail seems to be very bad now do, many times are treated as spam directly, but as long as we provide a practical value of things, send a certain method of mail, or will have effect. QQ Group and the promotion is also to pay attention to methods, you go directly to send a URL link is no one will go to point, only you release some hot or interesting things, and then attach with content links, may also be interested in someone.

Web site Promotion: We can give some Web site navigation station, category directory to submit their own forums, or in some of the more well-known network favorites to add their own community address, which also has a certain effect, because the navigation of the site at present in the domestic number is very large, the audience is very wide, although like hao123, 265, 5566 Such navigation station we do not spend money will not be included in our forum, but there are many navigation stations available for us to choose from.

Of course there are a lot of other free promotion methods, here is not one of the detailed.

In addition to constantly adhere to the promotion of their own forums, for their own optimization of the forum itself is also particularly important things. It's no exaggeration to say that search engine optimization is almost the most basic, most important, and most effective way to get traffic from each website at present. So we do at the beginning of the forum, we should be in the title, Description and column settings and content of the release to do enough consideration.

In short, to do a good forum is not an easy thing, not three days can be developed, it takes time to running-in, step-by-step accumulation, the need is the spirit of our perseverance. If a forum has a good positioning and development direction, there are good content and often keep updating, coupled with their unremitting publicity and promotion, there is a good management model and perfect forum system, when to a certain extent, it will naturally develop.