For Our Forum Fans
Forum Fans
If you are interested in learning monetization of forums, this blog discusses content and topics for forums to generate profit. Wealthy Affiliate is a forum in the sense of the resource group active in networking. Many upbeat forums are Google crawled frequently to keep high rank because of frequent updating of content with discussions.
Topics Which Are Popularly Debated
Technical related forums are getting high engangement and gaining popularity. Forbes magazine has top Forums and broadcasts in an article with the main reasons why bloggers may be interested in joining or hosting the forum structured resource group. The best reason to belong to top forums in your niche is to make a position of authority within your niche, ultimately driving more quality visitors to your website.
The niche markets investigated for this episode of Nurse Becca Research are Linked In Resource Group, Law Forum, snd Reddit. Reddit is one of the most popular, worth a couple billion bucks.
Most forums make nil but the increased innovation in technology will make tech forums in every niche a possible gold mine. Speaking of gold, Reddit gold meberships generate a healthy source of profit for one of their income streams.
Blog Workshop Table of Contents:
This will be a quick walkthrough with specific Steps and considerations regarding making forums. Many experts of online entrepreneurship recommend being a member of 2 forums to be known for the value which you can contribute within that niche.
1) My Trial Forum, Nurse Becca's Case Study
2) Content Selection
3) Banners and ad blindness
4) Sticky Subjects
5) Paid memberships
6) Affiliate links
7) Backlinks of back in the day
8) Research: Learn from the best
9) Plugins
10) Abstract Summary
My Trial Forum
On your website dashboard: Go to menu, scroll down to Click on plugins, type in "forums" and browse for one you like. I tried out the one with the honey comb as the forum, the members as cute little bees and the content as the honey!
The Site Rubix platform is one way to try out a forum in a sandbox that is not set in stone. You can mix and match themes and practice posts to see if the functionality is easy to navigate. This is a good test to ensure compatibility between your host, theme and plugin.
When missing out on Jay's leveraging Quora for clout Video, I started researching forums and decided to find out how to initiate a forum topic. First, I found one which did the whole honey bee boogey with the cute icons. I created a topic then requested comments to see if anyone had stimulating ideas.
Content Selection
Decide what kinds of honey will be sweet enough for your hive. You can take a look at what is trending in topics according to your niche. Niel Patel suggests gaining authority by registering as a source on press sites. This can be an inside view to new topics before the market is cornered. Research into the trending forum posts can prevent duplication in order to not appear or feel as though an imposter.
Banners and Ad Blindness
Ad blindness is a phenomenon in which people are bombarded with advertisements to the point of numbness. Forums which are profitable often adopt a minimalist approach to banner ads and are more effective with this technique. There is an etiquette to posting in any group, kindly respecting the other members to not try to feed them full of spammimg, phishing or other intrusive messages.
Sticky Subjects
Topics that interest a large crowd can be hard to come by and quickly saturated. The other sticky wicket about forums is you need content to get followers and probably 15 to 20 people to start with committing ongoing posts that are engaging. You need traffic to make any money and you need content to get traffic which you need to make the content. Many people have sat perplexed at this juxtaposition.
Imagine this is why I gave making a forum a trial just to get the mechanics of the operation down.
Paid Memberships
Some of the discussion threads charge mebership commensurate with the value they provide. People are willing to pay for rich content which solves problems, and expect a standard level of service and support for the price.
Affiliate Links
Wealthy Affiliate is one commission type which can be lucrative. In forum mebership, group attendees may get new affiliate opportunities to consider investing, and may enjoy having expert opinion. The wisdom and knowledge combined with brainstorming fellowship of your networking team can help you make the right strategy to promote affiliate programs in line with your brand.
These are also a source to look for backlinking to be progressive with SEO- the search engine optimization that drives the internet community to your website by making your content discoverable. These opportunities are worthwhile to investigate.
Backlinks of Back in the Day
Backlinking is a tactic to get more visitors and grow trust for your website. Back in the day, actually just a few years ago, Sites could get quality traffic from baclinks to other websites. It is an area of debate whether this strategy is quite as relevant since a few short years can mark a magnitude of change in technical advances.
Backlinking to authority sites and paying attention to 404 or content not found codes, can generate visitors and help build your brand. This works for forums as well as websites.
The idea is to use sensible plans which are sensitive to the users on a website.
Research& Learn from the Best
The biggest take home for figuring out forums is research and learning from the best. Just as Wealthy Affiliates learn to curate websites, it is completely possible to create success within forums using the techniques in the training provided as a premium member.
What is different about a blog is the work is crammed in and then they can run without as much ongoing work and the basic maintenance and timely posts are enough to keep a successful blog in Google's nice list.
Google's naughty list is just a dwindling rank, that means far fewer potential customers. It may be less work to keep a blog productive and relevant after the initial work than keeping up with a niche forum. If you are a big forum fan, dedicate to learning what you need from resources who are experts with the experience of success and enthusiasm for mentoring.
This forum/fellowship type of community adventure needs ongoing focus and action to catalyze success.
It is good news though, Google rewards forums by frequently crawling due to the nature of people constantly updating content.
Plugins
{Free plugins can be a way to try out forums and through the practice, you can gauge whether it is a good investment or a needed enhancement to pay for a forum feature.
The free plugin tools exist for websites in many platforms:
- WordPress
- Wix
- Weebly
- GoDaddy
{Paid Plans are another choice for people who have a need for the specific features or want the support.
A paid plugin is one method of providing a forum for your guests. There are software platforms made for a variety of options as well. Also, free and paid plugins are not the only option.
Forums can be sold like websites, once they generate a sustainable and worthwhile business. People do review software, hosting and other digital services for forums, and podcasts are more frequently having discussion threads in the forum form. If you have bui loo t a profitable gorum, it may be worth the investment to purchase a plugin or software for enhanced features.
Abstract Summary
My quick case study with a forum, I had a handful of comments by community credits, and transformed it into a blog post. It was an effort to ensure the Forum members were responded to.
The list of comments after update is only available under site comments or the dashboard when the plugin is removed from the site. It pulls up a 404 code because a volunteer admin took the plugin off my site. When the most successful nurse bloggers suggest helpful changes and provide feedback, I very much consider the input valuable.
In short, Entrepreneurs can invest in researching forums pretaining to their niche, as well as consider the Wealthy Affiliate team input as a great strength.
Thank you kindly for reading the underdiscussed and overlooked idea of forum marketing.
Awaiting a Wealthy Affiliate Fellowship input, and please advise. Your thoughts and comments are welcome!
Recent Comments
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Awesome post, lots of great information and ton of value.
Thank you so much for sharing! :)
You delivered great valuable content from beginning to end
your business takes root and grows like a tree,
Plant the seed,
add your forum plugin,
build content,
content creates conversation,
Google loves conversation and social interaction, engagement
conversation builds rankings and trust,
watch it take root,
watch it grow,
flourish, bloom and blossom,
I really like your affiliate program design because you are giving your members an opportunity to put your content into areas that you may not be aware of or may not have the access to.
Let's take for example the bee hive for honey - your members may have the resources to get access to that hive or vise versa.
That is why an affiliate program would be a good investment, because you are gaining access to more people which will give you the opportunity for growth and expansion.
I think you have great points and I reward yoi with killer enchilada recipe ah lah nurse becca💝🤠✌💟🙏 thank you so much. I am totally fixing up the recipe for you in Canva right now. Bless your sweet heart for kindness and encouragement.
You are very welcome :):) It always makes me feel so good to read your quality work, you provide so much value to others!:) and I thank you for that!:)
Is there a certain question? I don't want you to feel confused. This just goes over investigation on forums. I wanted to know how they operate, how much money they can make as well as, I just like writing.
Great from start to finish,
And that's how you have a successful online business
Thanks for sharing
As always,
Janet
I try the forums but for now it doesn't really bear these fruits. I prefer to try other methods. It's not really my thing, but you give lots of good ideas, I keep them in a corner of my head and I may start again later.
Cheers!
Ingrid
Hi Ingrid,
Yes me too! I did have fun with it and can see how it could be a great adventure but I do not have the interest in moving forward to manage my own. I tried the whole thing out of curiosity and to encourage any forum fans who are thinking about starting one that they are not too difficult to start.
If you need 15-20 people to make it grow, you can buy comments here which is nice, but it is not a guarantee you will get people who have authority on the topic.
It was worth trying out and a good learning experience. It is not my thing either, but what if this one blog encouraged the next giant forum like the law forums or others that pull in huge revenue. You just never know, so I had to write it.
Thank you for reading it even though you're not a fan I feel flattered for that🙂🙏💝
I eat pure and local honey(most of the times haha). I have got some backlinks on some forums. One got me banned because it said I was spamming. Some need like 5 posts to be able to post links.
I haven't seen sites here (when I comment) that have any forums yet. Most have email lists.
P.S: Now the bees want some action!:
https://youtu.be/-rdmG0k8S8k
Pure local honey is good for you! There is hive on the property and one day a big bee family migrated to my front yard. In a flash, they had a new hive bigger than a basketball! A friend put the hive in his car and drove it back to the edge where the beekeepers can keep track of it. I thought how brave or stupid, but he didnt even get stung. Go figure. I was just glad i found that thing before the kids.
My comment has nothing to do with forums but I’m a beekeeper and agree nothing is better than raw honey straight from a hive!!
I am glad someone is interested! I didn't think a lot of people would read or comment on this post but the funny thing is we all belong to a forum here. I am wondering how much profit WA has earned altogether. It is probably a lot.
My attempt at forum was fun. Not a lot of the popular bloggers really recommend forums, but if you have a passion for it I believe it could be very profitable and help a lot of people. Thank you for reading and commenting!:)💝
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Huge amount of useful training! Thank you for sharing this.
Brian McCown
You are quite welcome dearheart 🙂🙂🙂