Whats involved in running an online forum?
The first step is to get a url or domain name, then getting the right forum web host, getting the best forum software, then changing the style of teh software and then doing any custom coiding that is wanted. Then the forum has to have a lot of posts and content added to populate it (whoc likes an empty forum?). It is then important to recruit the right staff or moderators as they will help mold and shape the forum, and will be important contributors to the community and help police the forum as it grows. Forum nonense and spam, especially vBulletin spam, is becoming a big problem.
Then SEO comes in to it so that the rank of the forum is higher in the search engines. You need to submit the forums to forum directories and social bookmarking sites. You can also send your forum RSS feed to Twitter to get traffic from there,.
Once you have the initial content and posts in place and some good traffic and visitors, these visitors then need to be converted to members, then the members need to be converted to regular posters.
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