How to promote a webmaster forum?

[thevirus]

Forums typically generate revenue through adsense and other affiliate programs. I personally find it hard to promote a webmaster forum though.

I have tried writing articles and submitting them to article directories, posting in similar subject forums, commenting on relevant blogs, submitting to directories, and submitting to social bookmarking services.

I feel that is a pretty good mix of promotion techniques all free. I have also done some forum post trades and that is where most of my posts have come from.

Besides that I am just receiving spam posts that I have to delete. Just wondering if you guys could suggest any other promotional techniques.

Anyways here is the link: http://www.awebmasterforum.com

[karthikeyan]

yes you cannot promote your Forum by writing articles you want to advertise or you have to SEO then your forum gets popular

[Arch3r25]

Lmao.

Nice domain name :P

I find that social bookmarking is the best technique. I have paid people to social bookmark dozens at a time, and I am getting a lot of traffic now.

[stackhacks]

1. Make a Myspace account
2. Add LOTS and LOTS of friends
3. Post bulletins
4. Unstoppable Traffic

[Arch3r25]

MySpace is bad for advertising.

You get bad traffic that doesn't convert and it isn't worth it.

[karthikeyan]

Must find a good PR5 directories and to advertise on high traffic sites so you can get good traffic !

[bizwiz]

Social bookmarking sites are very good places to promote your sites.

[jijigren]

One of the best way to promote a webmaster forum is by offering free software or ebooks that only can be earn if we make for xx amount of posts. The freebies should be irresistible to other webmaster

[bizops]

Have you considered sponsoring Wordpress, directory, proxy, and forum themes? This can be a great way to get some additional backlinks, though you don't have alot of control on what sites they will be on.

This method can also be "free" - for example you could buy a blog template, sell a couple of sponsor links on it and place a link to your forum as the designer. You should make enough money on selling the sponsor links to pay for the template you purchased in the first place.

[frendz]

I would though reffer you social networkign sites..
you can get heaps of traffic from there..
even me too got from there...

[Domainate]

The FREE Factor(Give Away)
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Yes man this is a strong factor to get traffic to ur forum.Have some stuffs with give away rights.simply offer these services free to ur forum members.These stuffs should have some price value(i.e >0$).For example u can offer free domains,webhosting,ebooks,PLR or any info products.Simply put a FREEBEE section in ur forum n daily update this section.People love this term 'FREE'.U ll see the traffic flow to ur forum.:)

[Arch3r25]

I agree with Domainate. If you have something free to give away, then make them make forum posts for it, and you'll get a quickly dedicated community.

[Captain Tycoon]

It isn't easy starting a webmaster forum since the market is so saturated and since there are plenty of large webmaster forums that people can just go to. You would need something unique now a days to attract people.

[0lgi]

Well personally i believe that if you offer some good incentives (Get Paid To Register or Get Paid To Refer) a webmaster forum can become popular ! Of course it will not be as big as NamePros but maybe 5 % of it :)