Forum VS Directory VS Calculator

[Alexander301]

Hi,
What has been more successful lately? And able to keep getting traffic consistently with AI content supporting the main page and adding topical authority?

I am planning to enter another small niche which seems to have a bunch of forums dominate the traffic so far and was wondering if there's a benefit to adding a 'pre-made' forum.

Also, are there any tools that allow for a 'pre-made' forum that looks real with AI posts, comments, etc., dating back to a few years to seem like a real forum?

 

[Alexander301]

creating a "pre-made" forum with AI-generated posts and comments can be hard. it could backfire on you in the long term

But why? I wonder if any one has experimented with this? Quora has the AI overviews and having a 10s of realistic AI agents trying to self populate the forum to make it look like organic growth could potentially work?

 

[Funiki]

What you mean with "pre-made" forums? You can install forums CMS in CPanel using Softaculous , but a clean forum version you must add the posts and everything else.

This way you can install MyBB, phpBB3 forums and if I remember well you can install also SMF .

I've managed each one of them, and without the use of plugins phpBB3 ranks pretty well itself.

 

[Alexander301]

What you mean with "pre-made" forums?

One that is already populated with AI posts, users, so it looks like an established forum (or warm up over time).