5 Responses

1. Christoph

   January 11th, 2007 at 7:57 pm

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   You can’t start a forum doing it that way. Register yourself under 10-20 different user names and “talk to yourself”. Make the forum look active. You need at least 20 postings a day over a period of a month. Hire a forum posting service maybe. But all your marketing efforts will vaporize if you do not make the forum look active every single day.

   Good Luck.

   Christoph

2. Marc

   January 11th, 2007 at 9:37 pm

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   I have to disagree with Christoph. You will gain traffic over time. A new forum that grows organically will take a long time to really get humming. This is a young domain and site. Eventually SEs will send a lot more traffic. Grow it as fast as you can, but I think it’s a waste of money to pay for forum posting services and I think rather than spending time talking to yourself, you should spend time writng articles on some of your other sites. However, I do think it’s good to write an article that refers to a forum post. If you make a nice big juicy forum post then talk about the same subject on one of your blogs and point to that post. Keep the text of the blog post and forum post unique. It’s an easy way to produce twice the content and give yourself great relevant links. Plus it should be fairly easy to write the same kind of info phrased differently or from a different perspective.

   Glad to see you had a good $$$ day after the game the other day. I think your sports network is beginning to take shape. I like to call a network of related sites like this ‘a constellation’, but that’s my own little visualization of each site as star linking to the others and collectively reinforcing the whole picture.

   I think things are going well, just continue to pump out the content, get users to generate more of it where you can and continue to interlink between sites on related content.

   Right now you’re still laying foundations. Once you have a little more inertia, in the form of content, things should begin to roll on their own with less pushing.

   One last thing I think you should do on GatorEnvy is to rewrite those thread URLs to something SE friendly and relevant.

   All of this is my opinion of course, but I’m motivated to give it since I really enjoy your blog more than the other internet entrepreneurs with blogs. Keep up the directory submission by the way, that should increase external linkage to your constellation.

3. Jacob

   January 11th, 2007 at 11:57 pm

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   I was thinking about how you might give Gator Envy a little boost and I thought about your site, Rookie Spot. Why not write a post about a new aspiring rookie that played for Florida this year? If you did that and then made a post at Gator Envy about the same thing and linked to it from that blog, you might get people to create accounts so that they can post their opinions. If you did that once a week with a different rookie, you might see an increase in membership and things of that nature.

4. David Lithman

   January 12th, 2007 at 3:38 pm

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   Thanks for all the advice guys. I know forums are extremely hard work. I remember the days when I first launched historum. It was brutal. I’m just going to keep pluggin along and filling up all my sites with as much content as I can.

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