Forum advice

[ws6owner]

I just launched a new forum yesterday in my city that will be a place for the locals to go and discuss events and goings on around the area.

My question is, how do you take a forum and build it up to something big that people go to on a daily basis? I've never built a forum from the ground up before and any advice would be appreciated. We are using facebook mainly to advertise by the way.

www.ashevilleforums.com

 

[Floorist]

Get your friends on there and encourage them to get their friends and so on. I have a Facebook forum about my hometown that has about 800 members. That's how I started.

 

[Nick]

Add as many meta tags as you can .

 

[ws6owner]

Good advice fellas. I guess it's like a snowball. Once it starts rolling well, it will pick up more and more.

Nick, are you talking about tagging the posts, or is there a specific place in vbulletin to add tags?

 

[Nick]

Login into your Admin Panel > Click on "Forums & Moderators" in the side-menu > Now select "Add New Forum".

Then just fill in your info. If you want to have the forum under a tag you just press the "Parent Forum" drop down list and select your forum... Parent Forum = Tag.

If you want to CREATE a Tag you just do the same thing but in the settings you just select "NO" where it says "Act as Forum", then you will get a new tag.

The Bots pick up on the metatags and bring up your site for a person looking for a certain thing .

 

[ws6owner]

Thanks for letting me know that. I've only ever ran WordPress sites so vbulletin is a whole new game for me.

 

[Nick]

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[Floorist]

You can try this.
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/index.php

You can also find a user's manual on line for VB.

 

[Nick]

That's a good site . I was going to post the manual earlier .

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/thread_tagging