Logician
BANNED
- Apr 4, 2013
- 584
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Goal: Create a successful forum in a technical niche.
**This journey is to keep track of my progress and hopefully gain some tips from those who have had success in the past with building forums.
The beginning:
I started working on this forum a few weeks ago. Originally I set the forum up using Phpbb, and messed around with it for about a week. Some of the issues I had was with the mods. Many of the mods that I wanted to use were outdated, so I started looking at Vbulletin and Xeforo. After a little bit of research I went with Xenforo.
At the time I got Xenforo I had already made over 100 posts on Phpbb. I was worried that the migration would be difficult and I might lose all my posts, but was able to successfully switch everything over in less then an hour. It switched all my posts, and members over without any problems, it did require all passwords to be reset. after that I purchased a nice looking style, and a rating system add-on. I set them up pretty quick, and if I compared Xenforo to Phpbb, I would say Xenforo is a lot easier to use.
Game Plan:
- Generating posts. My understanding is I have to have a lot of posts in the beginning to make the forum look active. I'm mainly doing everything manually, but also using post loop. I started off with 1000 points on my post loop account, and haven't set up any rules to encourage the maximum number of users to come and post on my forum. So far post loop has not been very successful. I've only received about 50 posts using it, and I'm not sure if it's because my forum is too technical or if post loop is not very active.
- Keywords. I researched keywords for a few days using NF and Google's keyword planner. It was hard to find keywords in this niche that had over 5000ms and was not extremely competitive. So instead I have about 300 keywords that are between 50-3000ms that are low competitive.
-Backlinks. Since this is a long term project I want to keep it white has as much as possible, so right now I haven't done anything in this area, and open to suggestions.
Stats:
**This journey is to keep track of my progress and hopefully gain some tips from those who have had success in the past with building forums.
The beginning:
I started working on this forum a few weeks ago. Originally I set the forum up using Phpbb, and messed around with it for about a week. Some of the issues I had was with the mods. Many of the mods that I wanted to use were outdated, so I started looking at Vbulletin and Xeforo. After a little bit of research I went with Xenforo.
At the time I got Xenforo I had already made over 100 posts on Phpbb. I was worried that the migration would be difficult and I might lose all my posts, but was able to successfully switch everything over in less then an hour. It switched all my posts, and members over without any problems, it did require all passwords to be reset. after that I purchased a nice looking style, and a rating system add-on. I set them up pretty quick, and if I compared Xenforo to Phpbb, I would say Xenforo is a lot easier to use.
Game Plan:
- Generating posts. My understanding is I have to have a lot of posts in the beginning to make the forum look active. I'm mainly doing everything manually, but also using post loop. I started off with 1000 points on my post loop account, and haven't set up any rules to encourage the maximum number of users to come and post on my forum. So far post loop has not been very successful. I've only received about 50 posts using it, and I'm not sure if it's because my forum is too technical or if post loop is not very active.
- Keywords. I researched keywords for a few days using NF and Google's keyword planner. It was hard to find keywords in this niche that had over 5000ms and was not extremely competitive. So instead I have about 300 keywords that are between 50-3000ms that are low competitive.
-Backlinks. Since this is a long term project I want to keep it white has as much as possible, so right now I haven't done anything in this area, and open to suggestions.
Stats:
