Build Fake Forum with AI Discussions

[SaulCode]

Has anyone here tried building a fake forum with AI-made discussions? Thinking about testing it for SEO and traffic but not sure if it works in the long run. Would like to know if anyone has built one and what results you got.

 

[steviem1]

It’s easy enough, but the question is, what’s the point of a forum like that. It wont gain real visitors or subscribers, nor would Google rank it anywhere, so it’s essentially pointless.
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[Noah3]

It's possible even easy i've done it as a little side project, but I highly doubt it's useful for SEO ...

 

[AriaAstrologer]

Has anyone here tried building a fake forum with AI-made discussions? Thinking about testing it for SEO and traffic but not sure if it works in the long run. Would like to know if anyone has built one and what results you got.

Building a forum whose threads are generated by AI can be an intriguing experiment, especially if you’re looking to boost SEO and attract traffic quickly. Below are some key points to consider, drawn from what’s been observed in the broader community and from the way search engines evaluate content.

Why People Try AI‑Generated Forums​

1. Speed of Content Production
   AI can spin up dozens of “discussion threads” in a matter of minutes—something that would take a human team weeks or months. This can fill a site with a lot of indexed pages fast, which sometimes yields an early traffic spike.
2. Keyword Coverage
   By prompting the model around specific long‑tail keywords, you can create niche‑focused discussions that target very specific queries. That can help capture traffic that would otherwise be hard to rank for.
3. Testing Ideas
   An AI‑generated forum can serve as a sandbox to test whether certain topics generate interest before investing in real community moderation or original content creation.

 

[CyHead]

I dabbled it a bit with a forum like phpbb, but I didn't automate it. It can be helpful for SEO purposes but it requires re-working the content to humanize it.

I'd use it for seeding content into a forum, but if you're trying to automate engagement people would probably pick up replies to their posts are fake.

 

[MrPep]

I'm thinking of doing something similar, but my goal is for people to arrive and join the forum because they find it valuable. If the idea is simply to monetize the incoming traffic with ads, I encourage you to go beyond that and find good niches with topics that can engage different types of people.

 

[Steptoe]

Has anyone here tried building a fake forum with AI-made discussions? Thinking about testing it for SEO and traffic but not sure if it works in the long run. Would like to know if anyone has built one and what results you got.

Yeah I run some forum-style AI autogen sites. They're basically just taking the PAA site structure a bit further and giving multiple answers as multiple posts. As they are fake forums I just use a simple database and some php to output pages, the register functions look real but do not function.

I generate the content with prompts that tell the LLM to use simple language (limit the number of syllables used etc) that a highschool graduate would understand, insert some bad formatting and typos with a simple script, add the occasional "that's cool!", "following", "nice!" type poster, and a few 'know-it-all' responses (pretty much standard ChatGPT outout). I use some rules like this for generating usernames: https://perchance.org/reddit-username#edit

Traffic and revenue wise, they probably perform a bit better than my autogen/paraphrased news sites, but are a lot more painful to get running and bulk up. Deindexing rate is around the same ~40% after a few months.

 

[Play ON]

I've experimented with it. Short-term, you might see some initial indexing and long-tail keyword traffic. Long-term, it's a major risk. Google's algorithms are getting scarily good at identifying low-value, AI-generated content. You'll likely get hit by a helpful content update, and the forum will lack the real user engagement that makes a forum truly valuable and sticky.

 

[CampData]

Yeah I run some forum-style AI autogen sites. They're basically just taking the PAA site structure a bit further and giving multiple answers as multiple posts. As they are fake forums I just use a simple database and some php to output pages, the register functions look real but do not function.

I generate the content with prompts that tell the LLM to use simple language (limit the number of syllables used etc) that a highschool graduate would understand, insert some bad formatting and typos with a simple script, add the occasional "that's cool!", "following", "nice!" type poster, and a few 'know-it-all' responses (pretty much standard ChatGPT outout). I use some rules like this for generating usernames: https://perchance.org/reddit-username#edit

Traffic and revenue wise, they probably perform a bit better than my autogen/paraphrased news sites, but are a lot more painful to get running and bulk up. Deindexing rate is around the same ~40% after a few months.

This sounds awesome.
Do you use them as a PBN as well? Forum links have good value in the eyes of Google

 

[Steptoe]

This sounds awesome.
Do you use them as a PBN as well? Forum links have good value in the eyes of Google

Occasionally I'll leverage them for links to my sites, or sell links on them.